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Rich_cb wrote:
The Greens are also keen on attracting that particular demographic. https://www.thejc.com/news/politics/at-least-three-green-party-candidates-dropped-over-inappropriate-comments-amid-antisemitism-row-a3otuqoh%5B/quote%5DIf by “keen” you mean immediately dropping those candidates and not letting them stand for the Greens, then sure, they’re really aiming to attract them.
Meanwhile, we have the Tories doing stuff like this: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/18/tory-candidate-accused-of-dog-whistle-tactics-against-rival-with-indian-name
[quote]A Conservative candidate has been criticised for sending letters to British-Pakistani voters allegedly insinuating they should vote for him instead of his Labour rival because of her Indian surname.
Marco Longhi, the Tory candidate fighting for re-election in Dudley North against Sonia Kumar, has been accused of using dog-whistle politics and attempting to “alienate British Hindus”.
In a letter to “voters of the British Pakistani/Kashmiri community in Dudley”, Longhi asked if the Labour candidate would speak for Kashmir in parliament. Kumar’s name was in bold, capitalised and underlined.
Rishi Sunak has been called to withdraw his support for Longhi and condemn the letter.
https://boingboing.net/2024/06/16/pet-cow-named-clementina-is-jealous-of-her-moms-boyfriend.html
Pet cow named Clementina is jealous of her mom’s boyfriend
Footage shared with the BBC shows a cow running loose on the streets of Surrey, and later getting to its feet after being struck by a police car.Surrey Police said in a statement that after attempts to safely capture the cow “over a period of a number of hours” failed, “the decision was made to stop it using a police car”.
The cow was hit twice by a marked vehicle which the RSPCA said “appears disproportionate”.
The force released a statement saying that the cow’s owner had been located and its injuries assessed by a vet, who was overseeing its continued treatment and recovery.
It also said it would refer itself to the police complaints watchdog.
Meanwhile,
Surrey police have been widely criticised this morning after footage emerged of a number of their officers laughing and joking with a white cow, before returning it to its field with a comfortable ride in the back of a van.The video was released shortly after another CCTV recording showed a disturbing incident in which a black cow was repeatedly rammed by a police vehicle, despite having broken no laws.
We laugh at them now, but what happens if these people actually start winning elections and getting into Parliament?They’ll first start by destroying democracy and ensuring that only older people will vote by introducing voter IDs on the premise that it’ll prevent voter fraud (which isn’t actually an issue).
Then they’ll probably pick an out-group to blame everything on and will try to send them packing on planes to Rwanda or something.
Is is this what allegedly is killing the Conservative Party?I think the Tories and Reform both want the racist voters
Drone photos reveal scale of lorry’s canal crash in rural Wiltshirehttps://www.wiltshire999s.co.uk/drone-photos-lorry-crash-burbage/
https://www.wiltshire999s.co.uk/lorry-careers-canal-wiltshire-road-closed/
Remember to keep your lorry’s water bowl topped up in hot weather – they get very thirsty
I keep finding these things,
I keep finding these things, so I’ll leave this one here too:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cw880334dgyo
I could weep now, every time I pick up a British newspaper and read the latest about the state of the UK. No doubt, Enoch Powell would be doing the same if he was alive. My solution … vote BNP!
chrisonabike wrote:
Has the revolution started? I missed the announcement… first horses charging though the streets, now cows. (Loose beasts all immediately lose against the horsepower and bull-bars of their replacements).
Footage shared with the BBC
Footage shared with the BBC shows a cow running loose on the streets of Surrey, and later getting to its feet after being struck by a police car.
Surrey Police said in a statement that after attempts to safely capture the cow “over a period of a number of hours” failed, “the decision was made to stop it using a police car”.
The cow was hit twice by a marked vehicle which the RSPCA said “appears disproportionate”.
The force released a statement saying that the cow’s owner had been located and its injuries assessed by a vet, who was overseeing its continued treatment and recovery.
It also said it would refer itself to the police complaints watchdog.
Oh God, another helmet evangelist. I haven’t seen the video, so far it’s light on any detail of what happened.Helmets are fine for overhanging branches and brambles, and that off you suffer from that patch of wet leaves/ loose gravel. Not going to help you much if there’s a car involved.
Fortuntate for him that he can afford to go to the emergency room.
There’s no mention of another vehicle, so I reckon it might well have been some loose gravel. Even so, there’s other lessons rather than just “wear a helmet”, but that’s what the MSM wants to publish. (“Listen Gordon, you might want to tell people about fast descents on unknown roads, but we’re only going to print it if you make it about helmets instead”)
I recently added Mariposa Vitamina CL (a powder) to my tubeless sealant. The difference is amazing, the tires hold pressure far better than before, just like a tube. (Of course, that begs the question, why is this powder not already added to the sealant by the manufacturer ?)For a minute, I thought you’d been adding Vitamin C powder to your tyres so that you’d get a refreshing orangey smell when you punctured. Then I remembered that I was looking at that stuff the other day and wondering if it was worthwhile.
I don’t think they can add it to their sealant as it’d block the valve and so it needs to be mixed inside the tyre.
I’ve now ordered some (Swinnerton Cycles) to try it out myself.
Drivers angry about e-scooter and bike bays in Southampton“Having had a car written off after a driver crashed into his vehicle while it was parked, and claiming drivers speed down the road at 50mph, he felt the bay was also an accident waiting to happen.
He said: “Not only do we all struggle to park on Priory Road but we have seen people travel up to 50 miles per hour – they will go straight into those bollards.””
https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/24380839.drivers-angry-e-scooter-bike-bays-southampton/
That’s motonormativity right there. Complain about the bollards (All Praise The Mighty Bollard!) rather than the drivers speeding down the road. Personally, I’d rather that roads have more hazards if they can help reduce driver speeds and get them to pay more attention.
I’ve had no problems with
I’ve had no problems with GP5000s and Caffélatex sealant, although I do find that the sealant needs topping up every few months to replace any that’s dried.
I have had a couple of tricky punctures where there was some glass or debris still stuck in the tyre. It’d seal whilst riding, but would then make itself known when pumping the tyre up to over 70psi, but then seal again with a little persuasion such as spinning the wheel.
I’ll just leave this here:
I’ll just leave this here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjmmrwexv4ko
A Reform UK candidate claimed the country would be “far better” if it had “taken Hitler up on his offer of neutrality” instead of fighting the Nazis in World War Two.Ian Gribbin, the party’s candidate in Bexhill and Battle, also wrote online that women were the “sponging gender” and should be “deprived of health care”.
In posts from 2022 on the Unherd magazine website, seen by the BBC, he said Winston Churchill was “abysmal” and praised Russian President Vladimir Putin.
A Reform spokesman said the comments were not “endorsements” but “written with an eye to inconvenient perspectives and truths”, while his remarks about women were “tongue in cheek”.
Mr Gribbin declined to comment.
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/silly-season-cornwall-kicks-car-9331305
The unofficial start of Cornwall’s tourist season has kicked off. Not with the sun breaking through the clouds, but with the annual tradition of a vehicle getting stuck on a sandy beach.
A silver Subaru Forester that found itself lodged in the soft sands of Constantine Beach near Padstow, despite its all-wheel drive capabilities.