Dan Richardson

Leisure can fill the hole that consumption left if we provide time & facilities to enable it What we discovered during & post Covid is that we dont have provision. We have millions of shops but not enough pools. Millions of miles of road but not enough accessible trails

@Timpani74 @LDNcabbieTXE Defo says Keep Clear on the road

@DangleSpanners @LDNcabbieTXE From old Marylebone road 90ft to the right they are both doing the appropriate speed of 20mph or slightly less and have to go 70ft past the stop line to enter the frame so the light will have changed to red around 7-8 seconds after they crossed the line, nice try but irrelevant

Cyclist pulls out of side street wrong way into oncoming traffic, causes a collision and cycles off…

@Timpani74 @LDNcabbieTXE And if it had been a pedestrian? Or a dog? If you drive into the back of something who's fault is it?

@DangleSpanners @LDNcabbieTXE If the cyclist had been a car then they would have been equally 100% responsible for the chain of events they created, but it wasn’t it was a line bike being ridden illegally

@Timpani74 @LDNcabbieTXE If the lights are green 4 the bike & car filming where is the van car on the right coming from?

@DangleSpanners @LDNcabbieTXE Actually I double checked, cosway street is one way! The female cyclist on the lime bike rides the wrong way out of a one way street, into the path of the vehicles turning

@Timpani74 @LDNcabbieTXE So if I drive into the back of your cab its not my fault Tim?

@DangleSpanners @LDNcabbieTXE The cyclist who jumped the red light and turned left into the path of the vehicles turning right from the right of frame caused this, how is anyone else other than that cyclist responsible for the people carrier braking to avoid them?

@Priest_of_Ramen @LDNcabbieTXE Both drivers coming from the right were sitting in keep clear area trying to slip in as they'd got stuck after going through regained or amber lights

@DangleSpanners @LDNcabbieTXE Not the cyclist in front, the cyclist to the left. I was confused initially too.

@Mrs_Tek @LDNcabbieTXE See that keep clear written on the road? Drivers were trying to squeeze in as they got caught between lights

@DangleSpanners @LDNcabbieTXE You ain’t seeing that clearly, the cyclist pulls out right in front of the driver 🤷‍♀️

@Equilan @but_cyclists Yes im agreeing with you

@DangleSpanners @but_cyclists I ride a bike, I'd pull over too. It's the car driver I was saying is a prat not the bike riders. They did the right thing all the way. The problem with some of these drivers is they want to ride faster than the bike...it diminishes their "manhood" if they can't.

A motorist encounters a group of cyclists

@UnionJackOilplc @KathrynPorter26 @DaleVince @KemiBadenoch Exactly! Hence why burn the stuff Glad to see you supporting renewables

Wouldn't it be fantastic if all our power needs were provided by wind and solar and not oil or gas. What you seem to be missing is that wind turbines require approximately 80-120 gallons EACH per annum. To date, there are 12000 wind turbines operating in the UK. We need fuel for cars, shipping, aviation, petrochemicals (plastics, fertilizers), manufacturing (machinery lubricants), construction (asphalt), and energy production. Oil serves as a primary raw material for pharmaceuticals, synthetic textiles, and daily consumer goods. It's absolutely ridiculous for anyone to to believe the world can exist without fossil fuels, ever! 

.@KemiBadenoch displays her total lack of understanding of the energy sector. She argues for more drilling in the North Sea to protect us from this energy crisis - seemingly oblivious to two very important facts. The first is we don't set the price of our north sea oil and gas - we let global markets do that. So in a crisis where global prices sky rocket, how can the answer can be to produce more globally priced oil here - it’s (energy market) illiterate to say so. The answer is to take control of our own energy pricing, starting with our own North Sea, as we have already with retail energy bills. Impose a price and profit cap. If we do this as part of an entire sector move - capping all wholesale prices, then we can combat this crisis and those that are coming next. The second very important fact Kemi seems unaware of is that it will take up to five years to produce anything new from our North Sea. So even if that could help us, it can’t help us with anything soon. And it won’t help us for long because our North Sea is all but empty, there’s 10% left. Our North Sea has been in decline for 30 years, shedding jobs and production capacity - because it’s running out - this has been going on for far longer than green energy has been a thing - to blame green energy for the decline of the North Sea is ignorant (of the facts). And Global markets have been filling the gap between what we make and what we use for decades now - Kemi seems not to know this either. As for energy bills, Badenoch seems unaware that the ‘green taxes’ we have on our energy bills were added by previous Tory governments. She seems also unaware that we spend vast sums subsiding fossils fuels - £17 billion a year at the last count. She operates in a fantasy environment, or would have us do - where green taxes have ruined the country and our oil and gas industry and all we need to do is drill more - it’s delusional. It’s straight out of the mouth of Trump.

@the500mphtorto1 @peterrhague Euro elections were the lowest of low hanging fruit - & UKIPs win was only played up by some Turn outs were tiny

@DangleSpanners @peterrhague I dunno, ukip had done pretty well in the european elections earlier and it wasnt exactly a blow out. Wouldnt take much for a loss or coalition

I’ve see people suggest Kier Starmer is a worse PM than Boris Johnson. Not even slightly. Starmer is just mediocre, a deer caught in the headlights of multiple crises. Johnson was actively malevolent. He tore apart the social fabric of this country in order to depress your wages.

@Equilan @but_cyclists They pull over cos they know they have a psycho behind them. That road is full of feral goats & sheep aswell as walkers & other leisure users You'd be mad to ride or drive down there fast

@but_cyclists So he's whinging and then at the end he cuts it as the cyclists move over to let him pass.

Absolute Sociopaths behind the wheel #cheddar gorge is a major tourist attraction & leisure area. There are flocks of feral goats & sheep as well as walkers on this road. I've seen convoys of Minis & mopeds coming down slower than this Selfish idiots @CheddarGorge_

@but_cyclists Psychos Also don't know the difference between driving up & down

@DrNeenaJha @LizWebsterSBF Didn't you just get back to back pay rises after years of Tory austerity? Some people are never happy

I’ve been an NHS doctor for over 15 years I can sit here and confidently tell you that the NHS is worse today than it has ever been Streeting’s NHS funding cuts, doctor replacement, referral refusals have led to astronomical hospital wait lists & GPs on the brink of collapse

@vannin1885788 @GSpellchecker Compare no of cars at different Universities Mostky only the rich being their cars

@DangleSpanners @GSpellchecker Loads of students have placement etc

You'd be amazed how many endless feuds this causes with neighbours in Britain. There are two types of people. Those who just park where there is space. And those that think they own the bit of public road closest to their house and make life hell for everyone else.

@phyddeaux @peterrhague Agreed Political hegemony is rarely really threatened & when it is, like with Corbyn, the entire weight of the establishment will get thrown at preventing any risk. 'If voting changed anything they'd ban it' as someone once said

@DangleSpanners @peterrhague I think I'd have been better to say that the establishment can wear a Tory-themed face or a Labour-themed face. You are 100% correct about Reform.

@LordBertie2 @BoveFromAbove @ZiaYusufUK Talk TV BBC News Talk Radio Times Radio LBC

@BoveFromAbove @ZiaYusufUK Labour under Starmer are a huge danger to our democracy. They want everything shut down where it doesn't coincide with their opinions. They have plummeted in the polls and will sink to any depths to reverse that. GBNews is the only right of centre broadcast media in the UK.

🚨 This is a dark day for Britain. Reform receives a large, perfectly lawful donation from a British Citizen, and Labour responds by rushing through a new law to prohibit him from making such a donation again. Rycroft even refers to British citizens as “malign actors” in his report. This is how fast the machinery of government moves when it wants to protect itself. When it comes to securing our borders? Nothing can be done for years at all apparently. This Starmer regime is authoritarian. Cancelling elections, choking off legal funding for its main rival, surveilling speech. Make no mistake, if Reform do not win the next general election, this country is toast.

@ZiaYusufUK Go on then Zia Let's see the comparative figures

Very important point

@CharlotteCGill Who funds people like you? Does the cost of GBNEWS & talk tv cost count as Reform funding?

I haven’t read the government’s foreign interference report yet. But how does it make sense that funding from Brits abroad should be capped at £300k… meanwhile George Soros has given millions to left-wing activist groups like Best for Britain? The left gets huge foreign funds!

@AveryDaye He's against racially motived violence & hate & believes in the rule of law How's that a problem?

Something is deeply wrong with Keir Starmer. He is compromised. Idk if he’s been bought, is being blackmailed, threatened, I’m not sure exactly what, but something very very sinister is happening here.