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  1. Wicky

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    "the rate of immigration in some parts of the country has been WAY above what the local area can effectively integrate - way way WAY too high. And those localities feel it." So why is socially deprived benefits hotspot Clacton-on-Sea with UKIP's only MP, have a white ethnicity of 97.3% (88.3%...
  2. Wicky

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I'd hazard a guess that fair proportion voted Brexit just because Remain was fronted by Tory leader and PM Cameron to be contary / protest at him / the establishment. Little did they realise that in a short space of time they would end up with May (Theresa May speech on staying in EU (25Apr16))...
  3. Wicky

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    meanwhile... Parents and MPs sent warning on school cuts This is effecting an infant school (5–7 yo) where I'm a governor with an increasing intake / class sizes - and the headteacher has a choice between laying staff off or working herself into an early grave by taking on more responsibilities.
  4. Wicky

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Following the budget : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39215405 "The UK is on course for an unprecedented 15 years of spending cuts and lost pay growth the Resolution Foundation said. It will leave the poorest third of households worse off than in the years after the financial crisis, it...
  5. Wicky

    eMTB owners photo and ride thread.

    On Tues I went out on the KTM eRace to a place in Colchester called hilly fields - then lo and behold in the paper the next day...
  6. Wicky

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Good news after the House of Lords vote is that Farage is spitting feathers!
  7. Wicky

    Exciting Job Opportunity

    Could be a sequel to Adrian Mole. Self publishing is easy nowadays but without the debauched joy a proper book advance brings. Funnily enough an old biker / hippy friend, not much at school, worked as a lorry driver / kitchen fitter but into motorbikes - a few years back won a few quid on deal...
  8. Wicky

    Non-legal mountain e-bike with good torque and top speed that is under 1500 quid?

    Police a few years clamped down on widespread nuisance illegal mini-motos - seizing and crushing them with abandon. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/4502212.stm Wether you agree or not simply change mini-moto to s-pedelec in this press release http://www.dianajohnson.co.uk/node/314 to...
  9. Wicky

    Non-legal mountain e-bike with good torque and top speed that is under 1500 quid?

    Okay you want cheap & fast - do you want to go up hills as well? Ride on cycle-ways / shared cycle-paths?
  10. Wicky

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    "My mummy says you hate foreigners": Little girl's remark on TV puts Nigel Farage in awkward spot o_O
  11. Wicky

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I guess we'll see an increase in planting oak trees to prepare for Brexit, so sometime in the future we can rebuild our navy and begin the resurgence of our Empire across the world, beginning with a glorious morale boosting naval battles with the Spanish followed by liberating our old colonies...
  12. Wicky

    Head lamp lense purchased

    Contact the Fun2ride dealer > info@greenelectricbikes.co.uk
  13. Wicky

    Am I autistic is SW sociopathic?

    Every Village Needs One...
  14. Wicky

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Farage in his role as a political analyst should fit in nicely on Pro Trump Fox News... http://www.dn.se/nyheter/varlden/fake-sweden-expert-on-fox-news-has-criminal-convictions-in-us-no-connection-to-swedish-security/
  15. Wicky

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Well the chancellor will have to keep pulling rabbits of out his hat for 2, 5 10 years, to keep buying folk off till things get 'better' and that's on top of the austerity programme from 2010 to whenever, cuts in NHS & schools and more referalls to food banks - and at some point there'll have...
  16. Wicky

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Are your sure of that, Farage has bailed and is openly trying to cash in in the wake of the discord he has sown. And if potential common Kipper folk struggle to even pay party membership fees due to lack of cash in their back pocket due to the economy tanking, higher taxes to keep the wealthy...
  17. Wicky

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    'Man of the people' NIGEL Farage has said he is living like a 'virtual prisoner' and is 'frightened' to leave his home because of the way the media has 'demonised' him and given him a bad name... so seeks sanctuary in Golden Towers and joins Fox News and whored himself for the publicity in the...
  18. Wicky

    How to secure your e-bike

    Put it in the loft...
  19. Wicky

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    :)
  20. Wicky

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    "If the management of the NHS got their heads out of their backsides" Nursing place numbers and funding are a govt thing - and folk are not filling up what places are on offer. Bursaries are being cut as govt tries to get Nurses degree qualified (to do more Doctors jobs) and get HCAs (Health...