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Hah- current perspective on life:

On the way back

Yeah, I think not treating everything as a culture war wedge issue would solve a lot of problems quite quickly.

Based on my anecdata, yes.

Look at it this way, we need 48 by-elections caused by grift, incompetence, uncovering of a Nazi past etc etc for the LD’s to become the opposition.

Russian social media game is very strong.

Or, just putting this out there, having died since the last election.

If you look at the Reform vote share (being aware that correlation is not causation, but…) it tallies with the % of the populace who have secondary education as their maximum level of educational attainment.

I’m going to be concerned when they manage to break out of that group.

The Reform voters I’m talking too have all abruptly decided that PR is now something that we should adopt.

^^That’s interesting though - Blair being seen by many as Centre Right, shows where the modern Tory voter has drifted.

Isn’t being an MP going to inconvenience Farage in supporting Trump during the US election, also?

Will the 13 for Reform cement the belief amongst the Tories that they have to go further to the right, making them unelectable to their previous Centre-Right voters?

If the Tories and Reform squabble over (say) 20% of the electorate then that’s not great, but it likely keeps them out of power.

One chap on the car forum is predicting that it’s going to be a referendum level shocker as everyone he’s spoken to has voted Reform. Lots of far right types in the Lakes it appears.

€450 for the full service on fork and shock, €150 on postage. Ouch.

I’m scarpering before it votes in the fash

I had a Comencal Fury DH bike for a morning here in Les Deux Alpes. 27.5 wheels and XL frame. Felt tiny- like my jump bike, and not in a good way. Bars were really low in comparison to my enduro bike, just not a fan.

The corners are ok, it’s the approach.

I wish I had my DH bike here to test, I think the extra travel and more heavily damped tyres would be handy.

They have the new folding DH22 and 34 in the shops here- have they made it to the UK?

One ride in the UK and then riding every day in the Alps for three weeks.

He’s going to be on some cash salary plus bonus and options scheme that would see him on over a million a year I’m sure.

Of course, you can ignore 50% of a demographic if you intend on repealing women’s rights and making them property of their menfolk.

Yeah, there’s a huge M/F split in younger people - huge focus on Incel culture and the likes of the Tate brothers, Proud Boys etc working the misogynist+far-right angle.

There have been a few analysis pieces written on the growing divergence between young men and young women recently that I’ve seen - I think the Economist recently?

The chap in the shop tutted at my carbon bars.

I wonder if fast rebound, some high speed compression paired with slightly lower main chamber pressure but slightly higher ramp up chamber might work.

From my recent conversations with right wing people it’s central to their (bluntly facist) self image that they are the True Conservatives- and despite their strongly held views on Muslims they’re Centre-Right.

She’s singing to the demographic which she is part of.

Ok, so what in hearing here is that no one has any idea how to optimise suspension for the terrain I am riding this week.

On which note, L2A blues are almost wholly braking bumps this year. Morzine was a lot better

We got the “Nazis were socialists” post from the Tommy Robinson fan yesterday evening.