The Climate Change Con

[Notty]

The Welsh Government want to close the last coal mine ,. the only one in Europe that produces a quality coal used by a huge steel works in South Wales - coal is not PC anymore - the steelworks employs some 6000 people directly and indirectly . so they close the mine and the steel works which produces 25% of Co2 solution in Wales remains and they will import their coal from Oz or India . - the same government bought an airport and pumped £55 Million pounds to support it during covid-The same government fined a farmer £15,000 for planting trees on his own land in the wrong place-the same government that is going to give everyone in Wales a tree to plant - the same government that now refuses to build any new roads.FFS
F.....ng Politicians - oh and they want to double the numbers of the government because they cant cope - another £25,000,000

Rant over

[Globalrider]

Ditto here Notty - Our Phuckwit PM is a joke and the government - if you can call it that! - is a bunch of incompetent fudge packing tree hugging greenies

[Kiwifruit]

Our PM likes him !! Birds of a feather fly together.
Yes Notty we export high quality coal but have never imported more crap coal from Indonesia I think......to power the electric cars and bicycles.
Cycle ways are the thing of the future, traffic congestion aided by new pedestrian traffic lights is what they are working on now in the hope of blindsided us into getting out of our cars.

That's my last post on this subject I'm showing my pissed off side here on a bike forum......its a lovely day.

[froudy]

That was a good and valid rant @Notty

Drakeford is an old doddering incompetent idiot

He killed off Circuit of Wales in the Rhondda and the M4 Newport bypass

[KiwiCol]

Col, the thing with these cycle lanes etc is, where are they?   On the road, yeah? now who pays for the road? motorists in cars, trucks & bikes, we all pay for the roads in the huge tax take the government rakes in.  So the motorist paid for these cycleways!  We get 'less' road now than we had before & the cyclists get a FREE section of road!  They don't pay to use the road, same as EV's they don't pay to use the road either!  We motorists are just getting ripped.


Notty, good rant! How do these assholes get into power?  Surely there must be someone better there to govern.    Could be worse I suppose, imagine if you had Gretta there as PM!  Mass exodus from Wales!

[GSXKING]

I enjoy the occasional cycle as some mild fitness & to enjoy the great outdoors 👍
I own 4 motor vehicles & pay 4 registrations including road levy 😁
I think I'm contributing 🧐

[Batkwaka]

Col, the thing with these cycle lanes etc is, where are they?   On the road, yeah? now who pays for the road? motorists in cars, trucks & bikes, we all pay for the roads in the huge tax take the government rakes in.  So the motorist paid for these cycleways!  We get 'less' road now than we had before & the cyclists get a FREE section of road!  They don't pay to use the road, same as EV's they don't pay to use the road either!  We motorists are just getting ripped.


Notty, good rant! How do these assholes get into power?  Surely there must be someone better there to govern.    Could be worse I suppose, imagine if you had Gretta there as PM!  Mass exodus from Wales!

I don't know about NZ but in Australia the "Carriageway, Cycleway and Footpath" combined constitute the "Road". If there is no Cycleway, well a push bike has a carriage so it belongs on the Carriageway. I don't ride push bikes (I have managed a fleet of push bikes though) but have no qualms paying for Cycle lanes to seperate them from traffic that wants to move faster. I don't have children either but I don't mind my taxes being spent to educate other peoples children (except private schools).

[KiwiCol]

Gentlemen, those of you who are cyclists, how much have you paid directly (as a cyclist) to cycle on the roads?

[grog]

My only wish for cyclists is some sort of ID, makes them accountable.Red light cameras would get a few.

[Irish in Oz]

I bought a lovely mountain type bike before I departed Oz about 5 years ago, it has disc brakes, suspension and about 16 forward gears and I think 4 reverse.
Never had it out but my son stole it and brought it back with flat spots on the tyres, he told me it was a brilliant bike, I went off my head at him put it back in the shed with a paddock on it.
It hasn't been used since ( I think), just remembered he has the keys.

[GSXKING]

I bought a lovely mountain type bike before I departed Oz about 5 years ago, it has disc brakes, suspension and about 16 forward gears and I think 4 reverse.
Never had it out but my son stole it and brought it back with flat spots on the tyres, he told me it was a brilliant bike, I went off my head at him put it back in the shed with a paddock on it.
It hasn't been used since ( I think), just remembered he has the keys.

Has it really been 5 years ?? 

[Kiwifruit]

Bloody hard to cycle with a paddock attached to it 

[Irish in Oz]

@GSXKING
It's almost 4 years and probably won't be back for another 4.

@Kiwifruit
The paddock has a lock on it.

[grog]

I was waiting for paddock pick up