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On the note of being proud to be from the UK/ Live in the UK.
In 2013 The FCO filmed this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyTnEhRBTeI
A British born Palestinian proud of the freedoms she felt here.
The same cannot be said now. I share this feeling, and I am a Caucasian looking, cis-male, middle-class dickhead. I cannot imagine how that feeling feels across other diasporic groups, be they Jewish, African, Caribbean, Asian, etc., especially when the arrest rates still highlight demographic inequality, amongst other factors.
Unrelated:
A few days ago when we were deep in the Johnson Vote of Inevitability I composed posts and deleted them, suggesting the use of a totally insubstantial threat to allow the press and the people to feel that they had some input into the running of the government, whilst subtler legislation was passed stripping them of their true freedoms, limiting the future, and forging ahead in this isolationist doctrine, that given the economic forecast should cause everyone to be concerned.
Nothing this government does is without very careful planning. Dissemble, distract, deny.
Unrelated:
Allow me a significant tangent as this is hopefully my last post here.
This forums demographics have shifted, inevitably, as some of us have been here for-frankly- far too long. With the demographic shift comes tensions, our united passion for stupid bikes with one gear that can't help but make you smile when you ride them not enough to sustain the differences. More so with the size and scale of this fantastic resource- anonymity and distance have encroached into what was familiar, small. What would once have passed for friendly mockery, now just looks like the sinister face of bullying, cabal-like and intrinsically differentiating.
Though inevitable, it has changed the feeling of the forum, and that has had a devastating effect, and it remains unacceptable in a sport that is definitively challenged in its acceptance of diversity. I find my time on the forum tinged with sadness, not with nostalgic happiness, and I need a bit less of that in my life.
And with that I think I've said my piece.
I'll forward the spare kit onto Velocio or whoever they chose to nominate for that role.
Thanks @Velocio for creating somewhere that has been my sanctuary in some real low points, and look forward to riding with many of you in the future.