Campaigners hail “historic” EU cycling declaration

More woke nonsense. So glad we got our country back.

Supporting cycling and making it a democratic, affordable and reliable means of transport. Yeah, really woke that, whatever that means.

Well in that case be glad we are no longer run by unelected bureaucrats in Berlin and Brussels and are free to forge our own world-beatingly world-class path.

By an unelected PM.

He is as "elected" as any of them were. It will be interesting to see if he lasts until the next GE though.

I guess you think scones are woke.

Scones or scon(e)s?

Chambers suggest it comes from the Dutch "schoon", so arguably with an "e". The "oo" sounds something like the "o" in the English "drone" or "woke".

Please define "woke".
No one can give me an answer that makes any sense.

(adj.) A state of awareness only achieved by those dumb enough to find injustice in everything except their own behaviour.

And abolition of discrimination on the basis of grammar. If a noun feels it is an adjective, then that is what it is.

Woke is an adjective derived from African-American Vernacular English meaning "alert to racial prejudice and discrimination". Beginning in the 2010s, it came to encompass a broader awareness of social inequalities such as racial injustice, sexism, and denial of LGBT rights.
Source Wikipedia.
 

Derek Williams, 65, has called for a national boycott of the Transpennine Express railway network for shamelessly pandering to the Liberal woke mob.

“It’s ridiculous; why are they constantly making us think about trans people all day every day? What was wrong with the Pennine Express? Oh, I suppose that’s quite close to Penis Express, isn’t it?”

Can I have my country back?

Why do you hate democracy? We voted Leave. It's about sovrinty.

I love democracy, this just appears not to be my kind of democracy though! I want Offa's Dyke rebuilt and the ditch filled with water so we can stop the boats!

Flawed though it is, it's a fair bit better than the "democracy" a lot of the world has to suffer. I'm fairly confident the Tories will be gone for a long time after the next GE.

Don't harp on about democracy; that vote was about as democratic as Putin's return to the Kremlin.
The nation voted to leave purely on the back of a pack of Boris and Dominic's blatant lies all of which have subsequently been exposed. Now that we are in posession of all the facts, can we go again please?

Don't forget the russian money. Somehow he thinks he posts with humour.

That's a ridiculous claim. There were opposition candidates, and people were allowed to vote for them. The situation in the UK is nothing like that in Russia.

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More woke nonsense. So glad we got our country back.

I want my country back from the eejits in London, who have done far more damage than the EU could ever dream of.

Can we ban Mr Smith?

I'm fed up of hearing heavy mouth breathing.

And yet people complain about e.g. the Germans having no sense of humour.

I'm confident that Mr Smith is a traditional troll, that is, offering a controversial position to generate discussion rather than the modern day troll who simply spreads bile and hate. If you read his posts, they are so absurd that it appears to be parody of a leave voter, I see similar characteristics from another right whinger, who I'm starting to think is actually a left wing plant to ridicule right whingers given that the supporting evidence, reports and graphs do not stand up to scrutiny or factual accuracy, all they support is the gullibility and lack of critical thinking of right whingers.

My above comments (or at least most of them) were indeed a joke. I didn't think anyone would take them seriously. I wouldn't consider myself a "troll" in any sense, as it wasn't my intention to derail the thread.

I'd say that traditional trolling is nothing, really, negative. Probably annoying, but definitely not malicious. I may have been guilty of this once or twice.

I think it usually implies you are hiding your intentions though.

Which is an admission of posting genuine beliefs, which are so absurd, that they have to be supportive of the oppositon views. A true believer would proffer believable posts, not absurdaties. 🤔 It's a conumdrum.