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I really hope Dorries and Johnson Snr don’t get their ‘honours’. I suspect there would be a by-election anyway as she might quit in anger.

 

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58 minutes ago, Spockydog said:

It's way past time to legislate these fucking things off the road. Or at least, make the riders subject to the same laws as everyone else driving motorised vehicles at 50mph.

‘The nicest lad’: family pay tribute to Salford boy who died in e-bike crash

 

I’m pretty sure they’re illegal to use anywjere except private land. They’re illegal on pavements and not registered for thr road. Unless there’s a loophole with sone of the bikes that also have a pedal facility. 

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Ah, shit. This is my MP. He's a top, top bloke, so this is very disappointing.

 

 

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2 hours ago, Derfel Cadarn said:

I’m pretty sure they’re illegal to use anywjere except private land. They’re illegal on pavements and not registered for thr road. Unless there’s a loophole with sone of the bikes that also have a pedal facility. 

I thought that e-bikes (the pedal ones, not scooters) usually had a limiter fitted.

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8 hours ago, Derfel Cadarn said:

I really hope Dorries and Johnson Snr don’t get their ‘honours’. I suspect there would be a by-election anyway as she might quit in anger.

 

The oracle has spoken! As predicted, Dorries did not take the news wel - dummy spat out, toys flung all over the ground. She’s fucking off, triggering a by-election out of spite.

Which means even if Sunak was just deferring it until after the general election, she can forget it now.

https://news.sky.com/story/nadine-dorries-standing-down-as-mp-with-immediate-effect-triggering-by-election-12899516

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1 hour ago, Maltaran said:

I thought that e-bikes (the pedal ones, not scooters) usually had a limiter fitted.

I’m not sure what the law says anout the pedal ones.

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His resignation statement is entertaining reading, if you like bitter whinging.

I like that he's insisting not only that 'I did not lie' but that 'I believe that in their hearts the committee know it'. He's not angry with them, just disappointed. I can almost see him sighing and tutting. How could the committee not know in their hearts that the most mendacious fibber in the whole country wasn't lying this time?

 

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3 hours ago, Derfel Cadarn said:

Johnson’s quit too as an MP!

 

I guess we know now why Nadine Dorries resigned.

2 hours ago, BigFatCoward said:

Good day for the good guys. Maybe Putin can cut his head off in a tragic shaving accident to complete the trilogy. 

I think tragically falling out of a window is the Russian equivalent.

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23 minutes ago, polishgenius said:




That's a front page with new highs in dishonesty. I mean, they can say technically they weren't lying, Boris did say those things. But come on.

That’s weird, I thought he did say those things. I must be wrong.

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Weird, you must have missed the part where I said they can use him saying those things to defend themselves.


But you know as well as I do that them presenting his words like that with no pushback or context is meant to make them seem justified.

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1 minute ago, polishgenius said:

Weird, you must have missed the part where I said they can use him saying those things to defend themselves.


But you know as well as I do that them presenting his words like that with no pushback or context is meant to make them seem justified.

I mean you described it as a new high in dishonesty, with a tweet that describes it as one of the most insidious front pages ever.. except they haven’t lied or said anything incorrect, they have reported what Boris has said.

Now maybe there are a handful of people who take things that Boris said as truth but there aren’t many, and that front page isn’t agreeing with him either, not directly.

So …hyperbole much?

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