Wednesday, 1 July 2020

FDR's Fairy Scooter


Fairy Liquid - why is there a baby on the logo instead of a fairy?


E-scooters are to be legal for use on the road, but limited to 15 MPH and only if hired from a rental company with a licence. Sorry to be pedantic, but the range of some e-scooters is as little as 11 miles, so if it runs out of juice after 44 minutes (11 miles)  and you have to walk for 16 minutes at 2.5 MPH (to achieve the hour implicit in MPH), you're only averaging 11.6 MPH. not 15 MPH.

I wonder why the scheme applies only to scooters rented from licenced companies? The blurb suggests it's to stop a flood of poor quality scooters flooding the market, but that doesn't make sense, as that means one will never be able to own and use one on the road. Perhaps one of Boris' mates owns an e-scooter emporium. Nothing would surprise me when it comes to Boris.

Did we learn anything from Boris Johnson's speech yesterday? Yes - he's ditched the Churchill tribute act in favour of a low-budget FDR tribute act, with most of the money coming from commitments he already promised in his election manifesto and with just over half a percent of the annual GDP percentage FDR spent on his New Deal. More Old Deal to hoodwink the Red Wall than New Deal, but par for the course for Johnson.

In another story, Boris appoints someone with no expertise whatsoever in security to the position of National Security Adviser. When you sacrifice competence and talent on the altar of ideology and dogma, incompetence is the only logical consequence. Once more, par for the course for Boris the Blagger.


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