John Chivers

EV driver since 2014 and EV biker since 2016. Advanced motorcyclist, drummer, linguist. First electric motorbike End-to-Ender.

[John Chivers @jtchivers]

The story of recreating my 2017 electric motorcycle trip from Land's End to John O'Groats to Skaw, but this time with @KateFantom, on a pair of DC rapid-charging Energica EVA Ribelle bikes. Nearly 2000 all-electric miles. #lejogskaw

https://t.co/iUM8BGcgMB

[John Chivers @jtchivers]

I've been living with this "uncomfortable truth" of cheaper ongoing motoring, no breakdowns, and never having run out of "fuel" since 2014.

First EV (a pre-owned, low mileage generation 1.5 LEAF) was £16,500. Handed on to my daughter who only sold it earlier this year, after 12 years of trouble -free motoring.

Can't say not having to think about paying for engine oil and oil filters, spark plugs, timing belts, engine air filters, fuel filters, exhaust pipes and silencers, catalytic converters or DPFs, AdBlue fluid, clutches and dual-mass flywheels, gearbox fluid, and engine coolant flushes… has been much of an uncomfortable truth.

Buy what you want but stop pretending that synthetic fuels or hydrogen (which have apparently been on the cusp of availability for years) are a reality now, or indeed telling a young person that they have to spend £45,000 on an electric Kia.

That is just silly.

Buy electric or don't, but stop making such ridiculous straw men arguments when thousands of people now have years of EV experience behind them and know the reality for themselves.

But happy to let the market decide. Let us know how you get on with your synthetic fuel or hydrogen fuel cell car, Richard, and the ongoing costs.

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

Oh dear … here’s Precious Andy explaining in 2016 that the free movement of people has destroyed jobs in the UK…

He’ll say anything for power. But you must know that by now.

It’s just a race to the bottom hey Andy?

[John Chivers @jtchivers]

@GuyMan1237 @Paulie_Cashews Precisely what do you mean by "expanding privatisation"?

Do you mean removing state control of industry and selling it off to private owners and shareholders, in a free market context, which is what privatisation means?

[John Chivers @jtchivers]

@GuyMan1237 @Paulie_Cashews What are the core tenets of Nazism, outside the racial supremacy bullshit?

[Skiddersmusic @skiddersmusic]

It's here at last! Select the video link below to be all set for the Premiere next Saturday, 7pm - it had to be Halloween!
Huge debt of gratitude and many thanks for the help and collaboration from @jtchivers Andrew James @oxtunes (Paul Hogg)
https://t.co/sCytDUR0CP

[John Chivers @jtchivers]

Naturally, having picked the naughty side during World War 2, Oswald Mosley fought to keep his megalomaniac dreams alive how exactly? Oh yes, by being a leading advocate of a European Union of states.

Still, I'm sure there aren't many people around today who share such fascist views.

[John Chivers @jtchivers]

It seems like nobody has any idea what socialism actually means. It's not the preserve of Marxist Socialists or National Socialists.

But both are socialists.

Probably the best explanation I've ever seen done on this is by this chap, and unusually, he provides references rather than just spouts his own opinion.

Former lefty too, and, you know, that's the classic sign of someone who starts off low information but then educates themselves.

You almost certainly don't have the patience to watch it all, which is a shame, because it's good and accurate.

The jury's out on Hitler's early involvement in Communism, despite him attending Kurt Eisener's funeral and wearing a mourning armband, but Mussolini (a fascist, not a Nazi; they are different) was a leading member of the Italian Socialist Party (a lefty) and of course the leader of the British Union Fascists, Oswald Mosley, had been a Labour Party minister before he adopted the revived, all-black uniform of the far left.

Left and right aren't especially helpful labels in that regard. The fact was that both the far left and far right shared more in common that either like to admit (despite the cozy Molotov-Ribbentrop pact) and Hitler's and Stalin's love-in until Barbarossa:

rejection of liberal democracy; anti-capitalism; statism and state control; economic planning; anti-individualism; one-party dictatorship; press control; propaganda; political terror and secret police; abolition of independent trade unions, replaced with state syndicalism.

https://t.co/aN93Dm2QPu

[John Chivers @jtchivers]

Ahh, the CRS are far more restrained than they used to be back in the day.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Graphic footage, with little narration, from major French TV channel of the appalling violence, destruction, anarchy in the centre of Paris last Saturday. Worth watching from beginning to end.
The French Left/Unions demanding resignations at the channel because it only depicts violence and doesn’t provide ‘context’!

[Sunday Sport @thesundaysport]

'Everyone should be able to communicate'

[John Chivers @jtchivers]

Got it. Don't believe our own lying eyes, right?

Are you seeing something the rest of us aren't seeing or do you think we buy into the view that the native French look remarkably similar to people from the Middle East and Africa and just happen to carry the flags of these places for the bants?

Have you no shame? And people elected you? Keep lying to yourself, by all means, but this is just a ridiculous claim and the replies should tell you that we all see the emperor has no clothes.

[John Chivers @jtchivers]

@robeuropean @TerryReintke Talking of predictable responses…

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Wow, massive numbers for UK & Spain!

[John Chivers @jtchivers]

That really is projection. Your fellow travellers and Third World client voters are bringing their cultural enrichment to France while Reform have been warning about this for years.

We won't look the other way, because you'd rather we didn't notice.

Just because you lefties don't understand that the world doesn't share your world view doesn't mean the rest of us have to be so willingly dense.

Best avoid doctors or you'll probably accuse them of wishing you dead for any advice on preventative measures.

[John Chivers @jtchivers]

You're kind, but I just find it amusing to hear people STILL claiming that parliament wasn't aware of the government commitment to respect the choice of the electorate in the referendum… when everyone else was aware of it.

"Oh, well, nobody mentioned it in parliament." is pathetic, when the average Joe understood the commitment of the Conservative Party going into the 2015 election, and many would have voted with that specific commitment in mind.

It's quite sad really to think they've spent the last ten years still bemoaning a decision made by the people and ratified (no matter how reluctantly) by parliament.

[John Chivers @jtchivers]

I know that certain MPs may be detached from the world and Angela Rayner struggles with primary school level English, but

“We will honour the result of the referendum, whatever the outcome.” was in the Conservative Party manifesto on which the party won the May 2015 election.

Cameron repeated the commitment in his Chatham House speech in November 2015.

Oh, and then of course, the nice, pro EU, biased leaflet we all (including MPs) received and paid for by taxpayers (you're welcome) made the same commitment.

Royal Assent happened, so it cleared the parliament stages, in December 2015.

Apparently you decade-on whiners missed all that.

Or is your suggestion that ALL political business must be confined exclusively to the Houses of Parliament?

[John Chivers @jtchivers]

No, you can look into it yourself if you're sincerely that bothered. I still have to work for a living between engaging on here.

According to you, they've already "wrecked the nation" by having the foolishness to allow common people to override the desire of their political class to join the EU.

[John Chivers @jtchivers]

@Hairyloon @andrewhesselden No, the government had already openly stated in advance of the passing of the Referendum Act that it would honour the outcome of the vote.

Parliament ratified both decisions, so your decade-old whinings are immaterial.

Carry on with the straw-clutching.