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A thread about useful online bits and pieces for people interested in Active Travel. 1/n
Matt Wardman - @mattwardman.bsky.social retweeted
Britain. 🇬🇧
Some leftist activists who were having a meeting in a church weren't happy when a Catholic man paid them a visit & dropped a few truth bombs while he was there.
(Video sourced from Nick Tenconi on YouTube)👇👇👇
Matt Wardman - @mattwardman.bsky.social retweeted
People cry 'harassed lone female driver'—yet if the same driver crashed into kids at a crossing, would sex matter? The sex of a driver is irrelevant. Children don't have a voice against toxic idling outside their schools, so we must be their voice to make them do the right thing
This happens here too.
People report dangerous illegal parking on zig-zags outside schools using video evidence.
The response of the people doing the parking can be to pretend the video-makers are recording children for "nonce" reasons & it is a "safeguarding" question.
School run safety logic: A car blocking the road and driving dangerously outside an infant school? Totally fine. A camera pointing at it? A threat to children's safety.
@PiotrSterkowski is probably associated with @ealingmps. They both have the same mind set
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The viewpoint of a disabled activist.
Consider that one political party - Reform UK - intend to take away all equality rights (outside the workplace) from disabled people by ending the Equality Act 2010 as they have a bee in their bonnet about "trans" & "the European Court".
#AssistedSuicide As a disabled person with 11 conditions listed on their Universal Credit claim, I anticipate being offered the death service at medical appointments if this bill becomes law. I mean they pestered me 6 times about having a DNAR at the start of C19 so seems entirely likely. It’s motivated by eugenics, not is what in my best interests and will destroy my last bit of trust in healthcare. The system sees me as ‘circling the drain’, the bean counters will push for me to opt into washing myself down the plug hole. It fills me with dread.
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For more detail, here are some of the things that change would erase:
diversityscotland.co.uk/post…
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I have the answer why all these Fighting-in-Pubs-Aged-Men paraded through Dover in black.
Isn't black supposed to make you look slimmer?
Here are some of the well-paunched chaps on parade in their Black Shorts - like Spode in Bertie Wooster - in Worcs back in July.
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It's a trick that Albert Speer used to pull with Gauleiters marching to his Nuremburg rallies in the 1930s.
They were all such fatties that he made them parade in the dark with flaming torches, so no one noticed.
rarehistoricalphotos.com/naz…
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Matt Wardman - @mattwardman.bsky.social retweeted
well, that was embarrassing for both the Times and the Telegraph, extremely revealing about @JLPartnersPolls' ethics, incriminating about @jtworr and Dan Jukes and dreadful about Nigel Farage. Pretty brilliant piece of journalism.
Exclusive: Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donations
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation.
🔗 Read the exclusive story on Substack:
channel4news.substack.com/p/…
By the look of it 5 Darwin Awards, and Irish roads are a little safer than yesterday.
Five teenage boys in a car driving the wrong way along a motorway.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce8l…
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Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s message to young people in Britain youtube.com/shorts/LLPiQdKis… via @YouTube
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Matt Wardman - @mattwardman.bsky.social retweeted
York operator First Bus apologises to disabled passenger
A disabled journalist said he felt "humiliated" during a fact-finding visit to York when a bus driver tried to prevent him boarding with a powered wheelchair attachment yorkpress.co.uk/news/2641911…
Tice repeating a rage-bait headline that does not reflect reality, which is that vulnerable people - disabled, Blue Badge holders, medical needs etc - on a social tariff are exempt.
I wonder if Little Richard read the actual article?
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@flickhwilliams
Nottingham Walking and Cycling Bridge.
Council project page (worth a look): transportnottingham.com/proj…
Short 10 min video by Youtuber - Good but not that informed on accessibility. A bit stirry.
youtube.com/watch?v=ttN0uWVK…
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PS. I think you need to consider capacity periods. Nottm has 2 big football grounds plus Test there, so Saturday PMs it will be crammed, whatever.
And here is a 4 minute vid of the Dutch putting a walking/cycling bridge in in ~2020. It is 7m wide.
youtube.com/watch?v=h9VMvpFk…
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Fizzy Lizzy explaining why Labour are panicking and Reform are surging in the Makerfield by-election.
A minor classic.
Labour PANICKING as Reform Surges in Makerfield By-Election | The Liz Truss Show with June Slater (@juneslater17)
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A weird one: went out for a drive to "clear her mind", then drove off a mountain road and careered 100m down a Welsh valley.
I wish the lady well, of course, but who on earth thinks it is OK to drive without a clear mind?
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g4…
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