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"Out of the frying pan and into the fire" as the old saying has it. .

Their job is to surround and therefore potentially take the hit, be it from missile or torpedo. Though in fact that wouldn't happen, since the retaliation would be far more severe than it's worth to sink a frigate. It's an effective strategy, but costly. .

The infamous General de Gaulle emphatic "Non!" again. :D Seriously that could easily happen since an aircraft carrier is only a distant locations attack weapon. It has no use here since the land of Britain is effectively the aircraft carrier for home waters. .

EU laws and regulations stated to be mandatory do take precedence over any member country ones. Like all member countries we've signed up to that repeatedly through all the treaties with the EU. But not all things are mandatory. For example, the Two and Three Wheel Type Approval regulation...

There is a mention Tommie and Danidl, in the Executive Summary. They've used the names rather than all the numbers of the type approval laws: "In addition proposed new EAPC (Construction and Use) Regulations will set out the construction requirements for these cycles and will align these...

Yes, I understand that. Perhaps the best action would be for the bike shops to get together to mount a legal challenge to this anomally. .

I agree, and it would be important for a defendant to ask for the case to be transferred to a higher court, while making it clear that an adverse magistrate's decision would be challenged by an appeal. That could well focus the mind of the clerk of court who is responsible for the court's...

Indeed, and by treaty all EU member countries' courts have to give precedence to EU law. .

L1e-A, formerly called the Low Powered Moped class. Limited to 15.5 mph assist speed but power of up to 1000 watts rating permitted. .

Indeed, this means freedom of movement in UK waters for French frigates. :) .

David, with repect to the BA and RSVRD, I think they are misreading the law. Consider the following: On 9th May 2003 the EU issued the Two and Three Wheel type approval regulation 2002/24/EC to all member countries. Accompanying that was the mandatory order that it had to be implemented...

I believe so, especially since the EU order 2002/24/EC applied to all member countries without exception. Even non-member Norway has to comply with those pedelec regulations in order to trade with the EU. Since then that order 2002/24/EC has been incorporated into an inclusive order...

In that case EU regulation 2002/24/EC came into force on 10th November 2003, and that includes this exception from being included as a motor vehicle: (h) pedal cycles with pedal assistance which are equipped with an auxiliary electric motor having a maximum continuous rated power of less than...

I replaced it to make clear the possibility that there was no law in existence, unlikely but possible as I've posted. However, EU law overrules national law for all EU member countries, without exception. .

This depends on whether N.I. had a legislature on 9th May 2003 or whether it was directly ruled from Westminster then. Whichever it was would have received an EU order on that day which had to be implemented, enforcing EU pedelec rules from 10th November 2003. Therefore in theory the EU rules...

Sturmey Archer have taken up this baton with their own version: http://www.sturmey-archer.com/en/products/detail/cs-rk3-silver The restricted 177% range of the hub indicates the internal gearing is probably tougher than the usual 200% for 3 speed IGHs, different gear sizes. .

The politicians overwhelmingly were on the side of Remain, so if Brexit produces a failed economy, most of the individual politicians can show they were undeniably in the right. Public venom will have to be confined to the minority of politicians who fought for Brexit, people like Boris Johnson...

I think that was true at the time of the referendum, emotion being a better driver to action than logic. But no longer. Brexit is producing uncertainties that make that voting intention somewhat less secure. Conversely, the intense anger about the result among Remainers will be a very...

They are as ever self-serving. If they vote against Brexit, everything that goes wrong with the economy subsequently could and often would be blamed on them. On the other hand, a failed economy after Brexit would be the public's fault for that decision. .

From Wikipedia: "Sectarianism is a form of bigotry, discrimination, or hatred arising from attaching relations of inferiority and superiority to differences between subdivisions within a group." The marches are about that superiority, are they not? Celebrating "We won, you lost" etc. .