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Coronavirus cycling boom makes a good bike hard to find

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/may/09/coronavirus-cycling-boom-makes-a-good-bike-hard-to-find

Amnesty time, how many bikes are you hoarding? Just the 2 for me.

Shapp promises to double cycling rate by 2025

Aims to.

Or will at least make a jolly good try of cooking the figures to show that he might of met his target.

The £2 billion is not new funding, it is part of the £5 billion in new
funding announced for cycling and buses in February. However, the
language used by Shapps in the briefing, as well as a raft of
unexpected announcements, are very much novel.

https://twitter.com/carltonreid/status/1259144913515696135

Google is convinced I should be interested in 'Sealegs',
'Ultimate Amphibious Boats'.

NSFW Jamaican swears from Boris:

https://twitter.com/Ffs_OMG/status/1259790240778199041

sexcellent.

there you go richard
amazing how you can find the odd half a billion if you look down the back of your sofa hard enough , now the tax payer doesn't have to bail you out you scrounging little shit

it's like real business people of yore who didn't go cap in hand to the government everytime you have a little set back

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52596273

" Sir Richard Branson is selling a stake in Virgin Galactic to raise $500m to prop up his other businesses including Virgin Atlantic.

The billionaire has been criticised for seeking financial help from the taxpayer for the airline.

Sir Richard will now sell a share of his space tourism business. "

Yeah funny how that's suddenly a possibility.

Apparently the "alert" in "stay alert" was meant to be an acronym, but they didn't get that part signed off before Boris recorded his speech.

What could the acronym be? I suppose that the "RT" might be "reduce transmission", but I'm a bit stuck on the others.

Stay

At
Lhome
Ebut
Rpay
Taxes

Ailing Lothario Etonian's retransmission tactics.

Alert
Lert
Elert
Relert
T'lert

Advise Lower Echelon Reduce Thinking

All Little Englanders Rejoice Thoroughly.

Activate Lizards Emergency Rocket Transporter

Always
Lunatics,
Every
Racist
Tory.

Always-
Low
Expectations
Repeatedly
Tested

Stay Control
Save Alert
The Virus Lives

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Illuminati confirmed?

It's probably a recursive acronym. All the cool kids do them.

Stay

Alert
Lecherous
Exfoliated
Raptorial
Taphephobic

Always-

Low
Expectations
Repeatedly
Tested

I think this one is winning at the moment

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/16/piers-corbyn-among-those-held-in-coronavirus-lockdown-protests

Eh? Is this like Peter / Christopher Hitchins? A tale of two brothers with huge difference in political and other views?

About a dozen idiot protestors in Belfast. Psni took lots of videos no doubt they've spotted a few rotters already on their watchlists.