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They are cushioned in two ways, one by being big, the other due to their car business being so much bigger than the bike side that it can easily carry it through rough spots. .

Why should I be ashamed of saying something that is unarguably true? That you can neither understand or accept the truth is immaterial, I've nothing to be ashamed of in this respect. The Leavers fundamental was to be separate from the peoples of the other 27 countries. That is either...

Normal bike sales have suffered a sudden dip in the last year and the increase in pedelec sales is nowhere sufficient to compensate. Independent bike dealers rarely have sufficient financial cushioning to survive these events. We might have hit a ceiling now. Our Olympics and Tour de France...

And my answer was purely factual, demonstrating how all those who voted Leave were expressing some degree of racism. From the totality of the bigot's desire for separation to the accidental institutional racism of the others expressing a preference for their own people over others, whether...

Which is essentially the same thing as the commuting I mentioned as only likely to have a small gain. Bikes aren't the answer to much other car use, such as running the kids around to schools, friends and functions, longer journeys to relatives and friends, carrying recycling stuff to the...

But that's very much less likely, since the Remainers expressed a desire to stay with the other 27 peoples of the EU and also gladly accept their free movement anywhere into the UK, even as their neighbours. The Leavers were either deliberately or accidentally expressing the opposite desires...

I can't see a subsidy for pedelecs happening, once the government examine the situation. The main reason for the subsidy on e-cars is to avoid the harm done by ic engine emissions, this to help meet international anti-pollution requirements. So it doesn't matter whether an e-car is used for...

Yes, four years would have been much more realistic. Setting up multiple trade agreements has proved to be very time consuming, no matter who between, and that's never more true than when it's with the EU. .

Now that is cloud cuckoo land. A Swiss style trade deal within a two year transition period? That will only just begin the bargaining, look how long we've been in the Brexit negotiations with them only now starting seriously after months of no progress. .

Agreed, and I didn't say it did, just referring to it as another issue in reference to some countries. I've closely followed the reasons for the failures of all the weaker EU countries and know the euro plays a miniscule part in their problems and not the major part some seem to believe. The...

Diversion again and irrelevant to the point made about irresponsible spending. It's still irresponsible no matter where the money came from or where it's spent. .

I agree and have posted exactly the same earlier in this thread. But it's not only a euro issue or even a euro issue, it's more an issue of the irresponsibility and corruuption of the weaker countries. Greece and Ireland spent recklessly and unsuitably often on easily borrowed money and...

How many times must I make it clear? I am not commenting on how they normally trade, or the way they feel about that and I'm not disagreeing witn you on that. I am commenting on their active opposition to the reduction in the number of currencies they can trade due to the euro. They...

Flatliners Still trying to avoid any real signs of success. There's 28 countries in the EU, not just the very few struggling, often with self inflicted harm not in any way caused by the EU. I could just as easily select a group of northern members to claim how successful the EU is. But...

A big subsidy on all those e-bikes bought for leisure use? It could bring cheap electric jet skis a bit closer! ;) They'd be a handy sideline for e-bike suppliers. .

I don't know why you bothered to post this, once again an article rendered useless by biased rabbiting on about the weaker, chiefly southern, EU members without a mention of the northern members other than Germany. Just like some in here do. .

Yet again, not the point I made, which was that combining the pound into the euro when the oppportunity arose would have resulted in a stronger euro. That would have been inevitable. There's no doubt that the UK not joining the euro undermined the euro's status, thus weakening it. .

None of which affected my point, that combining the pound into the euro would have resulted in a very much stronger euro. .

Oh yes they do hate currencies being combined, the more they are combined the smaller the number of possibilities to manipulate one against another. Never run away with the idea that they only trade opportunities that happen to crop up, they manipulate currencies one against another to create...

A completely false basis for a conclusion, I'd have expected better from you. If the UK had joined the euro, throwing in the strength of the pound, the euro would have had a very different and far more successful future. And that isn't solely based on the combined strength. The currency...