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You are wrong, it is not merely my view, it was always the intention of the EU to become one country. Like many you are referring to previous bodies such as the European Iron and Steel Community, the Common Market etc. that previously existed when we signed up to the latter in the 1970s. But...

I did answer your previous request for an answer to it, but you appear to have ignored my answer. To repeat, it's inextricably linked in the express case of the EU, since the EU intention is to become one country called Europe. And countries have free internal movement of their citizens as a...

:D. Lancias needed no help to rust away, they had that ability built in! .

I'm not believing anyone's opinions on the outcome of Brexit, I don't know what it will be. Based on our history and some other facts I have an opinion that it is a worse option economically than remaining. But it's just that, an opinion formed from known factors, but with no assumption of the...

I expected exactly this common defective answer. In no way did I imply a superior knowledge or even any knowledge of economics, nor do I claim any now. Read my post, I judged the outcomes, not the means, and as a recipient of the outcomes I am entitled to do that. For whatever reason...

The government did decide long ago, and so did parliament, lower and upper house. The decision was to be in the EU and stay in the EU. Only one party with a single MP disagreed with that. The idiot Cameron decided to ignore that overwhelming will and ask an ill-informed electorate instead...

Regarding the attitude of those cycle trade trade elements who regard e-biking as not true cycling, I draw this parallel with the motor trade. Imagine if the motor trade in 1939/40 rejected the first automatic cars as not "true" driving but "cheating", and refused to sell automatics. That...

No blinkers here, I simply have a low opinion of Patrick Minford's opinions and abilities, based on his record. He's repeatedly shown himself to be unthinkingly Europhobic, automatically opposed to anything emanating from that direction. He was a strong supporter of the discredited Poll Tax...

Yes always. Less wear and higher efficiency, the chain not having to turn so tightly around small sprockets. .

Your chainwheel is quite small, very small by my standards, forcing you to the smaller freewheel socket to get high enough gearing. Hence the spinning out too early you report. If you change the chainwheel to one with many more teeth you'll be able to use the larger rear sprockets much more...

Yes. There's still a widespread element in the cycle trade who are disapproving of any electric assist on bicycle, considering it not true cycling. This is the same attitude that one gets from those cyclists and others who say e-biking is "cheating". They are all yesterday's people though...

I don't buy that, Elon Musk has a huge commercial bias shaping his views. If it was purely financial the makers of the hugely expensive luxury end cars would do different, but they don't. The fact is I know from all my motor industry connected years that the makers would love to get rid of the...

It certainly does, that's why we still start our vehicles with fundamentally two century old technology. So much for all the "great leaps forward" meanwhile, they've all involved problematic compromises. I've been watching the snail's pace of battery progress for many decades and I haven't got...

That followed carbon nano tubes, which also got nowhere. Announcements of battery advances are like political manifestos, full of promise never to be realised. .

This doesn't surprise me Tom, and I don't think it's connected with the education system. As convenient as the metric system is to work with, its great failing is not being related to human scale. Take 5'6" and 168 cm. The comparison I draw is this. If I throw 168 identical items onto the...

We did that in the UK government's 1980 act which removed legal standing from Imperial measures. It did contain one concession, imperial measures could be used in traditional descriptions, for example 32" TV and 5' Christmas Tree, while not implying any actionable quantity. .

International humanitarian supplies and peacekeeping are UN functions. They should be co-ordinating member nations efforts. Complication is that the mainland EU nations and Britain are on the wrong side and the other side are also UN members. .

It's very difficult to say with certainty, since London is such an anomaly. We have the highest immigration effect with well over half the population not white British born, yet we have the highest satisfaction about immigration and voted solidly to remain in the EU with its immigration...

Luck works both ways. Lewis only won the championship a few years ago by luck. Felipe Massa had long been leading the championship and on the last race was in first place several points ahead nearing the close of the last race. He did a "splash and dash", to leave him still way ahead, but...

It was really just an expression of my belief and practice, not directed, but inherently that can infer disapproval of course. .