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Watch out - This thread will likely be subject to a demolition order because the contributions range more widely than discussing narrow e-bike issues. In my view when these -'off topic' complaints come in it is really because viewpoints about societal matters which lie behind the thread were...

The post was explaining why the regulations on e-bikes are not changing in response to the needs of the citizens, and it mentioned other issues ignored by government which are caused by the same thing. If you want solutions, you won't find them in two sentence sound bites. The perceptions and...

The total Luddite hooliganism of Trump's proposed budget cuts to NASA. Dozens of already heavily invested programs to be slashed and dumped. Is this a bung to billionaires like Musk and Bezos? If so, what does Trump get out of it? I think the destruction set in train here is a nightmare to...

China seems a rather patient great power to my mind, but they are not going to let themselves be preached at and pushed around by lesser powers or the United States. How they run their own society is their business - not ours, yet we often see the rather pathetic scene of paltry, unimportant UK...

I have HB100 cable hydraulic brakes on my Argos folder. They are vastly better than the original brakes that came with it, but fall well short of the proper hydraulics I have on the other bike. Most of the issue is caused by cable drag which wastes hand pressure, but they have worked ok. I have...

I had a stuck on magnet on the brake of my Bafang conversion. It works fine until the magnet gets knocked off . That happened to me one day when I was riding along and the power suddenly cut out. I fiddled about looking at cables for about five minutes before i got logical and spotted what was...

I made an error in this post when i said that the lion's share of £65Bn was spent on working age disability benefits. All of that is spent on them.

The savings you put into pension provision ARE tax exempt.

Half of CGT take if not more is just taxing people on inflation. Our CGT system is largely taxing people on notional gains which in some cases have not even covered the losses through inflation. The left usually has a profound dislike for what they call, unearned income - ie not actual...

The poor are always much worse off than the rich. It is built into the very genes of our being. Some people are clever, and some are not. Some people work hard and are creative and some do not, and are not. Long gone are the days when clever hard working people in what we used to call, 'the...

Good idea.

Your lover has it wrong. https://uk.news.yahoo.com/key-events-brought-angela-rayner-150330854.html

Rayner is probably on the hook for stamp duty of around £40,000 plus penalties and maybe also second homes council tax.

I note as usual - you ignore the main issue. The main issue here is whether she ought to resign (as she demanded Zahawi resign) over a mistake. In his case, he had established a company 25 years before which over time became very successful. He had given founder's shares to his father at that...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-64344963

In the previous case, her neighbours said she was not living there. She was not living there. The house she sold was not her main residence and was subject to CGT. In this new case - the very woman who piously demanded Nadim Zawari resign over tax issues now admits that she did not pay tax...

Tax avoidance is absolutely legitimate. It means you abide by the reliefs allowed in the rules. Examples are allowances for ISAs, payment of income into pensions and many other examples. It is evasion - lying and sneaking around with false accounting or simply hiding cash payments which is...

I she had been a Conservative, or Reform politician - what would you be saying right now. Come on - honestly - What would you be saying at this?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/crm4mxrg40pt Ha ha ha - this would be funny, if it wasn't the first time she'd sailed close to the wind on this kind of thing. She did it before when she sold her council house I think. I'll be surprised if she can weather this. She didn't really sail close to...

Congratulations.