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@sewer-rat: Bravo

@enduroNZ: Just shown this to my lass, she did not find it sexist or offensive. BTW she is chubby and wears glasses and told me to say that. Your move.

@sewer-rat: The voting says you're winning this one, we must all be some sort of cist.

Are you guys made of giggly rubber?

Awesome video, makes me ashamed to lust after a new bike when my perfectly good (under ridden) 6 yr old 26" am bike probably brings me the same joy and freedom from riding as a new one, now gonna ride it till it or me dies (probably me).

@thewho07: It is estimated and widely reported that at least 64% of people classed as working class voted leave. I do think that maybe the the people over 65 are the ones who have the most experience of before and after joining the EU and that this experience should not be taken lightly, also remember most people of that age are parents and grandparents which would have been a factor in their thinking.

@thewho07: Have you considered this angle So I read again that the causes of a voting majority of people to leave the European Union were false promises, for example, millions to the NHS and simply people being racist. There was a voting contingency in all of this that nobody within the Remain campaign seemed neither interested, unaware or simply not bothered to address. It appeared to me that this traditionally Labour voting section of the community was assumed to vote to remain in the EU because they would blindly follow the way their political party and/or trade union wished them to vote. This is the portion of society that generally works long unsociable hours in low pay positions in which the most of us would not even contemplate, they dont have the luxury of a profession let alone a vocation, their labour is classed as unskilled yet ironically many professionals would be incapable of it, the unskilled rise out of their bed, the aches and pains of repetitive labour reminds them of the days, months and years ahead of them but they have to press on, rent, electricity, gas, food and the many other bills have to be paid. Some have worked in industries where at one point their skills were valued and rewarded, not handsomely, but adequately, then it happened. The Labour government at the time thought it would be beneficial for this country to be an early adopter of free movement along with two other countries within the EU, they thought it would create a wealth for this country and in part it did, but the cost for the unskilled was to put it frankly, unfair, fierce competition from a motivated foreign workforce (mainly from poor pay EU countries which explains the motivation) for their lower paid jobs, their lower cost housing, their local schooling and local healthcare due to disproportionate numbers arriving in these areas, those sort of numbers did not arrive in the mid/higher jobs market nor the mid/higher cost housing areas. The Press appeared to single out people usually from poorer white communities, looking for comments from a young disadvantaged teen struggling to get work which implied racism or sounded racist which is more born from being maybe a little bit less inarticulate than plain old racism, this was debunked in a way when the results of the referendum were broken down, many of the heavily Asian communities in the Midlands and Yorkshire also voted leave but whatever damage the press intended to do had already been done by then. Remain supporters did not ask, why does this section of society have this point of view? They just pushed out the racism/uneducated/geriatric rhetoric and it appeared none of the people in the paygrades above the unskilled were really that interested in what they had to say, all they saw was things may become more difficult if you fancy going somewhere in Europe, roaming charges, or prices of something going up, they had their like minded social media groups and stuck to them, they saw that they had a really reliable window cleaner, car washer, gardener, etc and the unskilled could not possibly affect the vote but they did. The cause for this vote to me was disproportionate affectation in the poorer areas. The mistake was assuming that they had nothing of use to say when if the better educated/more fortunate had, just for a second, taken off their PC correctness headphones they maybe would have heard the social imbalances that have been magnified due to the disproportionate affectation, that these people are actually concerned about rapid change and alienation within what was not long ago their own community, a 45+ hours a week on nightshift at minimum wage is not uncommon these days in some areas and shift allowance has basically disappeared, many positions are offered by agencies as ongoing work with no true job security, because employers know there is a proliferation of motivated non unionised labour from the EU, the evidence is there on any jobsite. Would Remain supporters have voted to remain if there had been a massive influx in English speaking office/professional workers willing to work longer hours for the same or in some instances less money, competing for the same housing, schoolplaces, healthcare etc. To be classed as racist and unwelcoming is a total injustice when many of the people posting these accusations will not have been disproportionaly affected and frankly would have no way of knowing what it is like to be in the unskilled's position. The unskilled work, live and socialise amongst people from all over the world, quite possibly having a more diverse social and cultural education than most people in the payscales above could ever dream of, but because they dont have a real voice which is actually listened to, who would ever know...?

@G-A-R-Y: Was recommended to do that blue trail by a local lass who lives here in Leeds, definitately the best laugh I had all weekend.