I also think some people just can't imagine that someone would mock motorists.

It is too far outside their frame of reference

But also this is people

The silver lining is, we now have the attack line:

'More from the geniuses that brought us BREXIT '

Which is quite an effective setup.

eg 'More from the geniuses that brought us BREXIT, lets not pay for the equipment that harvest free energy.'

masterful :-)

My understanding is that on 6% of people use more than 2k.

The budget is already overseen by the employer.

The total saving from this change will be enough to buy 1 military helicopter.

a graphic featuring the Wheels for Wellbeing logo above a title reading 'Have you used the Cycle to Work Scheme'. Vectors of a cyclist on a bike and another on a recumbent and a person on a laptop.

We are concerned about recent talk about cuts to the Cycle to Work Scheme. Though the scheme has some limits, where other forms of transport present barriers to Disabled people, cycling can for some be a method of independent travel that is supported through the Cycle To Work Scheme.

it is pretty quick to use an AI to write a letter of complaint, and submit one on the bbc website. Took less than a minute.

Apparently 6% of cycle to work scheme users spend over the £2k and the total amount it will save is £43m or about the same as 1 military helicopter. It's not serious policy. Especially if you strip out adapted cycles and cycles set up for transporting kids.

actually though, if they were going to put fuel duty up, I'd say fair enough we all have tighten our belts and live with it
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i also love the idea that above all else tax money should never ever be spent on anything that could bring a middle income earner joy.

'No, no little cash cow, you shut the fuck up and just pay for everything' :-)

The thing I also love about this is the idea that, the most offensive thing about the cycle to work scheme is that they might be subserdizing something middle earners enjoy :-)

no, no, unless you are dirt poor, you have had enough enjoyment. (tax cow)

may a thousand flowers bloom :-)

It is also just corruption.

The Royal family explicitly is corruption and nepotism.

It is just fucking nonsense. :-)

no i've heard this idea of 'disposable people' I can't un-see it.

The idea that once you have industrial production you have areas of production, distribution and disposal. Everyone in those places is collateral, for the area fo consumption.

They are the nations brood parasites.

They Televise their weddings so we feel like we know them.

It is a very early example of a parasocial relationship

MPs urged to confront royal family over Prince Andrew’s Epstein links Calls grow for parliamentary rule changes to strip Andrew of titles and ask questions of royals

While the Queen was on the throne, it was a different matter.

With her passing it's time to ask - perfectly reasonably - who the institution of monarchy serves and whether this one family should rule over us all in perpetuity... with almost zero accountability

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Zack Polanski,
"How do you expect people to integrate when you've taken away their services?"

"We need to make sure that all politicians are speaking about migration in a positive sense"

YouTube video by 4K Remasters “Are We the Baddies?” — That Mitchell and Webb Look

youtu.be/h242eDB84zY?...

if we talked about the underlying problems we would have to talk about the solutions. Then the party would be over for some people. Some things you don't talk about because they will work.

I'm wondering if they would have arrested her if the sing said: ‘I do not support the proscription of Pellostein Acton’

She was arrested for holding a sign reading:

“I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action”

How that would warrant arrest is very unclear. I wonder if the police here even understand the boundaries of the bizarre law they’ve been forced to enforce.

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I think these guys need to be met with pity not contempt.

Just imagine what kind of mental criss you have to be going through to want to put up your national flag various places.

Thought for the day:

Your 20's are a decade to find yourself. Your 40s are a decade to find the optimal arrangement of selves in heavily debt financed building you own.

What is going on in the USA ? Why are they even out on the street there ?

What the fuck is going on in the USA ?

Spending a decade watching a dedicated high speed railway between several of the UK's largest cities get repeatedly downgraded to what can now be described as an "electrified link" (currently being delivered on the existing line and delayed since the early 1990s) is radicalising.

they don't give a shit H&S

I have no idea who made this (or why) but I'm very impressed.