The 5 year long Labour HQ gas leak continues as Starmer decides that posting fancams of Labour destroying people's bikes in a crusher for literally no reason will win them votes
First Keith came for the noble art of shinobi and I said nothing, because I didn't own a ninja sword
Then Keith came for the dirtbike riders and there were no ninjas left to speak up for me
Maybe he thinks that if he bans everything sick he can cut the NHS more
Leave it to the ninjas to stay silent.
I see we're doing "I should be allowed to do donuts in front of the tenements at 2am and also practice my drums at 4am in my apartment with paper thin walls because I am a member of the proletariat unlike my bourgeois neighbours" discourse again.
We live in a society
Every car on earth must be crushed and then immolated before we so much as consider scratching the paint of a single dirtbike
If you use the dirtbike to commute then it's fine. If you are riding the dirtbike in dirt for fun it's fine.
But comparing a dirtbike that you ride for fun in an urban environment for some reason, to a mode of transportation that's necessary for you to feed yourself, is silly (hint: I also think it's silly to drive a car for fun, especially in an urban environment). Dirt bikes also make a lot more noise than a car. Cars are bad and carcentric infrastructure is bad, but that doesn't suddenly mean you're allowed to be an asshat.
Politics is about punishing people you don't like
controlled opposition sure looks weird in the uk
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To be fair, some people definitely needs to get their motors crushed, i seen this few times in various places in Poland, shitbags riding in circles for fun on their motors with faulty engines getting REALLY FUCKING LOUD (and i don't mean those giant harleys or hondas, just ordinary motorbikes). Those weren't the dirtbikes though.
I hate the average ordinary car commuter far, far more than I hate hooligans tooling around on their loud motorbikes for fun
The worst thing a biker has ever done to me is be loud. Car drivers constantly try to remove me from the planet for the grand crime of crossing a road. Car drivers need to be crushed inside their car
Cars have run into me on three separate occasions, motorbikes have done me no harm greater than momentary annoyance
Is this really a national issue in the UK? I know some people in Philly are real concerned with ATVs, I think 150 got impounded recently, but I can't imagine anyone other than a mayor even considering running on this. Embarrassing.
What most people think of (dirt bikers riding around countryside being loud and ripping up public paths) isn't a major problem for most people. It will probably get support from rural or retired folks who don't have anything else to complain about (i.e. Tory voters). What is an increasing problem is the rise of twist and go "e bikes" that are essentially motorbikes. These are becoming a problem in city centres and pedestrianised zones where they're not allowed. You also see a lot of teenagers riding them on roads at night, all black clothes, no lights, no helmets. Bit of a nuisance and if you asked the average person in UK I bet they'd have a negative attitude towards it. Maybe this is what Labour are trying to capitalise on? If you ask me we should be making them bike lanes and embracing it but whatever.
I don't understand capitalism when it's all "buy these things" them capitalisms leaders are like "I'm gonna ban these things and you can't buy them anywhere"
I guess it's just part of putting us in a smaller and smaller box every year
Ban them, and everyone gets rid of them, then lift the ban a few years later. Congratulations you've created a new market!
Good point. I guess I'm just puzzled because I grew up around dirt bikes and two tracks, and I live somewhere where you see a lot of them.
Wonder if the next Tory leader will do another “hug a hoodie” campaign.
On that note, have Labour said they’ll ban hoodies yet?
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Literally a party of hall monitors.
LAW AND ORDER!
"Antisocial vehicles"
The UK's "Antisocial" actual literal Orwell-Ian bullshit is kind of an amazing end-run around any concept of rule of law.
Cars are far more antisocial than dirtbikes
objectively the worst country in the world
I don’t know about UK, but in the States there is a growing problem of people riding dirt bikes all over the road, essentially shutting down traffic while they do donuts in busy intersections etc. I assume this is the antisocial behavior that Labour is referencing.
It's the type of antisocial behaviour they'd like to conjure to mind, it's not the type Britain has a "problem" with, because that's just straight illegal. Antisocial behaviour is basically anything that annoys someone but isn't a crime, like children playing ball games in the street, or teens meeting up in groups.