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Hold on, fake news! Jeremy has only lost one general election, the 2017 snap election called by TheresaMay. He only won the post of Labour leader on 8th May 2015, the day after Ed Miliband lost the 2015 general election on the 7th. If you carry on like this the Daily Mail will be offering...

If an independent Scotland is in the EU and England is not, effectively there's no other option after a while as the economies and policies diverge. That's something Ireland may have to face too. But such borders could be technologically protected with random spot checks and very heavy...

Afraid not. Posit is derived from Postulate, not Positive. .

It should have been recycled. Here I can't agree for two main reasons. The first is that she heads the Scottish National Party, the word national giving the clue. It's always been for independent home rule so she has no option but to continue with that party policy or resign. The second...

Same with our recent outer South London tram system. We tried to get cycle lanes included but economy won in the end and a golden opportunity was missed. Indeed. As a car driver I'm entirely content to be held up by lights as our trams very frequently cross roads or run along them. They are...

Agreed. I'm a car owner who uses the car in the fringe of South London and beyond into the outer counties. But when I had need to travel into Central London a few times a while ago, I used public transport, five stages in all. Bus, tram, mainline train, underground, walk. Most of those...

Just as well it's not used too much, since it's wrong. The word is posits. .

Nothing to do with arrogance, it stood to reason that if people are asked "would you like to pay to drive", they will answer no. So asking is daft when there is a need for something that can be initially unpopular. I'm glad we weren't asked, given all the huge benefits that followed. Still...

Each vote had to be verified by a response to an email sent after voting, before being added to the total. Your call centre would struggle to do that. .

I'm trying to illustrate that a start has to be made somewhere, not just saying No to solutions. And your comparisons are just plain wrong. Only the very centre of London is so densely populated that car ownership becomes somewhat difficult but not impossible. London covers 400 square...

There's a link between cycling, public transport and the congestion charge in this. Our congestion charge brought a huge increase in both cycling and public transport. For example, our bus fleet which had declined like that in the rest of the country, to a low of 4500, has now reached double...

Politically very difficult though. Nationally there's well over 30 million drivers, almost all driving frequently. There's only 2 million claiming to cycle regularly, and most don't cycle anywhere near as regularly as drivers drive. It has begun to happen in London in a small way with one...

To acknowledge our democratic electoral impotence? .

Hull is a long way from Surrey. .

Good to learn and I hope the rapid progress continues. That's very quick to lose the crutches. Of course it had to be the right one, showing the same disdain for the left. ;) .

Yup, I think I'm the oldest member, as well as being the first pedelecs member ever to join. I was a mere seventy year old youngster then. .

The rear of seatpost eZee Li-ion battery is still the same on some newer Ezee models so Greentech will have them. As a matter of interest the Torq 1 was first launched in 2005 and then and to mid 2006 only had NiMh batteries. Torq 1 bikes got first and second places two years running at the...

Helps, but without coal, oil and all their products, we'd never have the population expansion we've had. Far less transport, travel and communication, no plastics and electronics, far fewer medicines and antiseptics, probably no widespread electricity. The more one digs into this, the more...

Wouldn't matter, as I posted, a much smaller population. Without coal and oil and all their many products, we'd never have got to today's 7.5 billions, as the very slow population growth of earlier centuries shows. .

To stop it picking unripe raspberries and snails? .