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    Advice/suggestions for an appropriate bike

    for your distance, any e-bike will do, gravelled paths are no problem, all bikes can do that. Your state of health means that you should get a bike with enough power to get you home on throttle alone. Also, you need lights, mudguards and rack. You also need puncture proof tyres. I would...
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    E-Bikeshop.co.uk

    bike without pedals weighs less. Marketing people love it, the shops love it too.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    immigration may be the biggest issue for Brexiters but not the majority in the most recent poll, behind the economy, the NHS and personal income. current bookies' probability: remain: 69% leave: 31%
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    French system is based on two-round runoff system. It seems to deliver the right result. The downside is higher cost. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-round_system
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    France is more eurosceptic and polarized than the UK. I always thought that the EU elite (I don't mean eurocrates, I mean people who enjoy being European, are happy to be EU citizens and wider world citizens) get a far better deal than the lower income classes.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    they like the manifesto promises and forget to shout.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    the minimum qualifying period is 7 years in Germany but was as short as 3 in some other countries (Belgium used to be the quickest to give citizenship). In the UK, it's 5 years - that's now the norm. The most difficult to get in is Greece (10 years). There is also some loophole with regard to...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Farage suggested that these immigrants will be given very soon German passports and the right to come to the UK. The EU gains about 5 millions new citizens a year. They all theoretically have the right to come and settle here. You are either happy to be an EU citizen or not. Farage is obviously...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Farage knows how to mobilize his troops. The challenge is for remain to tackle the fear that has been there since the last referendum in 75. Avoiding it gives credence to Farage's solution.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I agree with you Tillson. That's the measure of his politics.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    what do you call this poster if not far right?
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    if leave distance themselves now from the far right and accept that they are willing to pay the economic cost in higher taxes then the choice will come down to between self governance and being EU citizens.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Leave started on the backfoot, I guess it's a case of 'the enemy of my enemy is my friend'. My question is: can Leave ever win without the far right (UKIP, BNP. EDL)?
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Farage seems to be proven correct in predicting last month that if voting does not achieve anything then violence on the streets is the next step.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    there is one obvious reason why Brexit will fail. Even if Johnson is the next PM, labour Brexit MPs will not support conservative Brexit MPs for their objectives have little in common. They'll have to call fresh elections even before they can start on article 50.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I am not sure that facts and figures would ever cut it with the Brexiters. Most of them vote to leave because they want to shout at the establishment for refusing to deal with immigration since 75. It's a variation of 1381 peasants' revolt. They'd rather listen to that siren Boris, trusting that...
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    GSM mid drive strange noise

    that grease should be good. There is no plastic part inside the gearbox except the rubber seals on the ballbearings.
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    GSM mid drive strange noise

    if you want to grease the GSM motor, download the guide: http://wooshbikes.co.uk/manuals/GSM-Greasing.pdf All the woosh manuals are on this link: http://wooshbikes.co.uk/?manuals
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    @BrendanJ Stuart is the Chair person of the official Vote Leave or haven't you noticed? Why do I have the impression that it's Boris that we hear and not her?
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    the differences between a Brexiter like Gisela Stuart and Boris Johnson should be a warning to what kind of government after Brexit we are going to get. Stuart's argument is sound, Johnson's not. Under PM Johnson, immigrants are needed only when and where he's needing them. Needless to say that...