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We initiated the pedelec assist speed limits with it set at 12 mph back in the 1970s. The EU later followed Japanese law with 25 kph (15.5 mph). We then harmonised by upping ours grudgingly to 15 mph in 1983, and finally conceded the extra bit to 15.5 mph in 2015. In this it's the UK which...

How I wish that had been true. It was actually said in 1973 that more laws had been passed in Britain between 1945 and 1973 than all of previous British history. We didn't need to learn that from the equally prolific EU. But I fully agree with you about their unnecessary scope. .

I don't understand your response, the EU imposes a 25 kph (15.5mph) assist speed limit on pedelecs, and that would also have applied in N.I. if the assembly had been sitting at the time the EU imposed that. In fact it does apply there now in law, it's just being ignored and not being enforced...

There are two sensible ways to administer law: 1) The German model, making the laws fit the needs of the population with their interests at heart, then expecting full compliance at all times. 2) The Italian model, accept all the laws but not necessarily expect compliance, only punishing when...

As long as you control the pump you can. You just have to good at mental arithmetic and know all the conversions. I do and also keep tabs on consumption on my vehicles in mpg, for example, one of mine has used 241 gallons of petrol in it's life with me to date, averaging 28.2 mpg. But there...

As I said, the worst laws., i.e. those that make no sense. Common weights and measures with those we trade with make sense in a land like the UK which imports so much of its needs. But where a law makes no sense or obviously needs to be subject to interpretation, it should be ignored when...

Perhaps showing how sensible they are? Our trouble in the UK is our widespread excessive obedience to even the worst laws. Servile obedience is fine if one has a government with the people's interests at heart like that in Germany, but not with a UK government only looking after it's own...

Definitely not, the EU migrants here expressed their dismay immediately the referendum result was announced, with many already saying they felt unwelcome and probably wouldn't stay. Neither Brexiters or Remainers comments brought that about, it was the unexpected result that shocked them. .

Not so, most of the laws I quoted were obeyed because there was no other option. For example, registering assisted bikes because they had to display their rear number plate and tax disc. From 1983 the 200 watts and 12 mph assist limit because they were the only e-bikes available and not...

Don't be too confident. Originally in UK law we had assisted bicycles dealt with as motorcycles, with all the legal implications. That persisted for 38 years until the EAPC regulations recognising e-bikes as something different. Then we made our own pedelec laws, but instituted a rigid 200...

Of course, it's what I've just said, but those are only to achieve the union because it's necessary. Once achieved they won't exist. .

Yes it was, from the outset the European project was about unification of any element it was to cover. As soon as any form of economic standardisation is imposed that's obvious, so I knew that when I voted in 1972. I agree our UK dishonest politicians didn't make that clear but if our...

But as I've posted as number of times a future unified country called either Europe, USE or whatever will have our form of democracy, voted for representation at all levels. The indirectly voted for elements of the EU like the Commission are only there to facilitate achieving the union, they...

Possibly, but we can't sure with both Chinese and Russian interfering influences driving any dissatisfacted element towards communism, Korea for example, a mess to this day. Vietnam could still have tumbled into communism, it was after all Vietnamese forces that took over the country when the...

And long, long before, for the whole of the 20th century in fact. In the first part of the century they drove the Spanish out of their colonies by warfare, such places as the Phillippines for example. The Americans have two phobias, Colonialism and Communism, and will go to any lengths to wipe...

Easily, because you edited your post after I posted the Disagree. I posted that when all you'd posted was "BS", no figures included. Now you've added figures I've removed the Disagree since those figures are factual. However I still disagree with your opposing stance on this matter since...

I didn't say they didn't. But you are still discounting the US pressure that made us reluctantly lose the colonial rule. The French and de Gaulle in particular were made of tougher stuff, always opposing US intervention in what they regarded as their business. However, at least once the...

We didn't realise anything of the sort and grimly hung on to the overseas possessions to the bitter end. It was the USA's determination to end all colonialism, as they'd already ended Spain's pre war, that meant we were forced to comply in order to get post war aid. Even after that we still...

Being in the motor trade I never learnt to drive or had any instruction. My driving just evolved into being and I'd driven to varying extents years before I took the driving test at 18. This is what I took the test in:

I know, they even allow cyclists in Eire to be motorised without a driving licence and m/c crash helmet, dreadful. .