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    • Was told today by TJGP (not a doctor) that if you want a referral, that they can only be done on a Monday and a Thursday.  This means that you can only book a consultation for that purpose on those days.  I sincerely hope this information is incorrect.  Has anyone heard this before?  
    • Back to the nonsense that is going on at the moment.  Rumbles of discontent in the Tory party as many MPs fear annihilation.   No bounce from increasingly desperate measures; the manufactured culture wars in particular 'ending the war on motorists' having virtuyally no impact.  Most wont switch their votes due to LTNs, 20mph and ULEZ, and many who do will go to Reform and split the right wing vote.  I'd love a major party that would make the environment one of its central pledges.  LTNs of course were a Johnson initiative, one of the few things that I agree with him on. The pity is that they wont go now, and will leave scorched earth for Labour to inherit late in the year.  The most pathetic example is the ads encouraging drivers not to hog the middle lane.  One of the least of the frustrations in terms of poor motoring, and not a patch on poor urban driving which kills and seriously injures far more.  Badged as National Highways rather than the 'desperate party'.   www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/new-campaign-targets-middle-lane-hogging-and-tailgating.  What a shame Starmer didn't take a stronger line following Uxbridge.  Well if those people prefer air pollution compared to improving health then stuff them.  Or even better this was a decision for our elected mayor, and stuff Uxbridge, it's hardly a target seat.
    • Does anyone have one they no longer need please?
    • Earl, the devil is always in the detail and the detail very much suggests it is not disingenuous nonsense - what is disingenuous are some of the headlines concocted by the pro-cycle lobby to present a good news story.  More often than not a lot of the pro-cycle headlines have been "selectively plucked" to create a story and you highlight a very real example of that.   We have discussed previously the claim that there are now more cyclists in the City/Square Mile than motorists (which was always a correct but slightly misleading headline as cars never really returned to the City after the bomb checkpoints were put in decades ago) - it is also important to note that walking is still the main mode of transport within the Square Mile by a country mile (although at the time of the report at 80% of pre-pandemic levels). And the claim of a "massive jump" in cycling - look at the figures - even in the City (which has become the poster-child for the pro-cycle lobby on the basis of that more cycles than cars headline) the very report that gave that selectively plucked headline showed a very different story that cycling was at 102% of pre-pandemic figures. https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2023/03/01/cyclists-now-outnumber-motorists-in-city-of-london/   Attached are the actual numbers from the report presented to the City of London Corporation which tells a very different story from the headlines. You can find it here: https://democracy.cityoflondon.gov.uk/documents/s182959/Appendix 6 Transport Trends Graphs and Charts.pdf  But yes, cyclists do now outnumber motorists in the City of London that is correct but for all of the investment in cycling infrastructure and sacrifices made to bus lanes etc would one have not expected a bigger jump in cycling in the City? Often the headlines are written by the pro-cycle lobby to distract people from the fact that the boom in cycling (as a proportion of all journeys) is just not materialising despite the huge amount of investment to make the cycling revolution happen.  
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