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It's Simon, yeah?
@coldwarcliff.bsky.social
Drinking beer, riding bikes and fixing stuff.

Post about active travel, music and a bit of tech and politics. And riding bikes. And drinking beer.
Mis-programmed temporary lights?
November 29, 2025 at 9:43 AM
And this couple who downsized to a home worth over £2m. And who is presumably going to inherit a large chunk of her mother’s £2m+ home as well.

On the breadline basically. Can’t afford to contribute a penny more to society.
November 28, 2025 at 9:03 PM
My flat has dropped in value by 17% since Labour came in.

Has he murdered someone in it? None of the statistics suggest prices have fallen at all. Even the one and the same Telegraph piece.
November 28, 2025 at 9:03 PM
This is also great “are your dreams my nightmares I hope they all come true”

Despite my memory being that The Second Coming was a big disappointment I still knew every word to this song must have listened to it a lot regardless.
How Do You Sleep? (Remastered 2010)
YouTube video by John Lennon - Topic
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November 28, 2025 at 8:28 PM
But only pedestrians being inconvenienced. and they're not organised enough, nor have the financial resources, to mount a legal challenge.

I bet if these were in the road at, say, 12mph inconveniencing drivers:
1) the local authorities wouldn't have said yes
2) if they did there would have been
November 28, 2025 at 6:38 PM
"politically easy" - there would still be massive backlash against any increase in IHT. But there should be a far greater one about the fact that there is effectively a tax on those who are paying for their own care to subsidise capped council payments now.
November 28, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I went down the same route. That very much seems to cover vehicles being used on the road as well. These would need specific permission (like mobility scooters) to be legally used on the pavement. I bet they don't have it.

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Interesting that these delivery robots are being used on the pavement. I can't find any type approval or permissions.

I did find a 2022 Cambridge Council doc that says the DfT advised as yet no legal definition but they were likely motor vehicles and not permitted on pavement.
November 28, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Given that the legal status of e-scooters has been repeatedly kicked into the long grass I'd be amazed if this has been sorted (and can find no evidence it has)

So these presumably have the same status as illegal electric scooters - only legal on private land with owners permission...
November 28, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Looking further here's some stuff from a trial in Cambridge.

By my reading the DfT have said theres no legal basis for these to be on the pavement but the council went ahead anyway.
November 28, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Can you point out the relevant sections? because what you've linked to appears to be all about "on road" trials. Whereas these are being used on the pavement.

I'm assuming you did actually read the thing you've linked to and didn't just posted the first link that appeared in google?
November 28, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Other issue was Johnson plan was expensive and unfunded.

Using increased IHT to fund social care would be a logical link. We don’t hypothecate taxes but doing both in one budget to net out would be politically easy (and not be generational transfer - boomers would actually pay for boomers for once
November 28, 2025 at 3:12 PM
It’s a vehicle with a motor.

Mobility scooters have an approval type and a specific exemption that permits their use in the pavement.

What rules allow these robot motor vehicles?
November 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Guess the track! (answer at the end of @wrongtom.bsky.social thread)
November 28, 2025 at 1:22 PM
“In a nutshell it's a remix of a cover of a remix of a bootleg of song recorded for an advert for a diet supplement which was a remake of a gospel-funk track

But then not forgetting the bootleg also used a backing track which was a rework of a demo which was partly based on an Italo disco record 😵‍💫”
November 28, 2025 at 1:21 PM