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    Horse Meat Scandal - The Outcome

    Most will remember the horse meat scandal when horse meat was passed off as beef throughout Europe. At last many years later, the French man who made millions by processing 500 tonnes of horse meat as beef was finally sentenced. He got just six months imprisonment. Two Dutch men in league...
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    Should I avoid "in frame' Batteries?

    I'd say always be very wary. You are not only tied to the supplier but to what they want to charge for a battery. And in one notorious case from a major e-bike supplier, the replacement battery wasn't even available after one year and with nothing else suitable. .
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Ouch, you can't say that, it's as bad as Benjamin's comment. No-one is ever worthy of rape. People like Benjamin and "Robinson" need to either get out of politics or accept that political life comes with loss of liberal freedom of speech in today's world. Today even Winston Churchill would...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    It undoubtedly was, but an unpleasant joke about raping a woman is beyond bad taste, it's totally unacceptable. .
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    Short circuit between phase wires? Fix?

    RS Components have them in stock, in bulk, singles or pairs: Link to item .
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    Inter-tube confusion

    Yes, there's lots of 700 x 40 tubes available. Even some stretchy ones that reach to 47. But most have fixed valves. The Tyre size comparison table on this page will answer your questions on that subject. .
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Depends on when the next GE is. If it's soon to resolve this Brexit issue, I don't see the anger subsiding as quickly as you do. If it's at the end of the five year term, you could be right, but perhaps not if the trade talks have committed us to large annual payments into the EU, which is...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I think it's important not to discount the anger that Leavers feel with Theresa May and the Tories. A huge proportion of them wanted No Deal from the outset, and quickly. But what May delivered was nothing like it and it's taken forever in their view. I think in a new national election the...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I think you are too heavily discounting the conservative Leave voters anger at getting a Brino brexit. I don't see them trooping back into the fold so readily. .
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Once again the politicians and their policies are to blame. Long ago it appeared that the necessarily secret policy was to move to two or more layers of policing like that in so many other countries. For examples: Local police plus FBI/National Guard in the USA. Local Agents du Police and...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    We don't know, hence my saying possibly in my post. But with such serious implications and the seniority of the Home Office and Foreign Office who should both be well up to speed on this issue, I find it difficult to believe their dire warnings, if made, would have been ignored. We in pedelecs...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    With the very close referendum result we had, her red lines were always ridiculous. Democratically the result dictated an openly negotiated agreement with the EU with no hard line prior positions. Her stupidity, and Cameron's in having the referendum, was the prior failure to even be aware of...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    No chance with Corbyn leading Labour and so many Labour MPs being Remainers. No Deal is permanently out of the question. .
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Indeed, and for a long time and long before the media saw it, I've been saying Remain would easily win a fresh referendum with a handsome margin. .
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    With parliament totally ruling ot no deal, that can never happen. .
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    May has foolishly always taken far too hard a line with Brexit means Brexit. The referendum result was far too marginal to be that emphatic, so now she's paying the price. Corbyn wanted to reflect the close result democratically as he saw it, with a very soft Brexit. For a long time that...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    After Tory and Labour probably agree on May's deal plus a form of Customs Union, put it back to the people as the Deal or Remain, and Remain would win. The people can now clearly see there is no advantage in leaving with such a deal, which is Brino. Not a true exit, still tied to the EU and it...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Democracy is now Remain as all the polls clearly show. Remain now has a far greater lead margin than there was in the referendum for Leave, now people know so much more about the subject. A very clear majority no longer want Brexit. .
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    You must be watching the wrong media, I've known all about it from the beginning some while ago via BBC TV and Radio 4 news and programs. .
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Yes, I've known about this and the similar attitudes in Hungary for some while. But both Poland and Hungary are economically very dependent on manufacturing other EU countries products, giving the EU a whip hand if necessary. .