Why is an ebike better than a bike? Cheaper, with the subsidy? No. Greener? No. Better for fitness? No. Safer for pedestrians? No. It's a scheme to provide toys for rich pensioners, in fact well off people of all ages, whizzing around, clogging up the roads for us poor car drivers. If you're into toy subsidies, why not Lego kits for the kids?
And has anyone asked the overworked GPs and their surgery staff? Who will have to hire staff to run the bike rental department. And need to use their (probably non-existent) capital to buy the bikes to rent them. Given the age profile of people I see at my surgery, I imagine the take up would be very close to zero. But, good news if you were given an ebike for Christmas and don't know what to do with it; you can sell it to the NHS!
Is it April Fool's Day? On the face of it this is the most bonkers idea from a government led by a PM addicted to throwing crazy ideas around to see which ones stick. Maybe this is what Cummings' "weirdos and misfits" have come up with.
In other news today - more accurately perhaps gossip or rumour (which of course is why I read the papers, since the real news is so dire) - the Premier League is thinking of using the Women's Premier League as a pilot for allowing limited spectators (that's just a few of them, not people of limited intelligence) into football stadiums. So there, it doesn't matter if female football fans get the virus and in any case not many people go to watch women playing soccer anyway. Are you mad, Premier League? Did you furlough your PR department?
Of course the Times could just be making it all up. But hey, it's more entertaining than watching Matt Hancock. Or getting stuck in Spain.
Oh I forgot, I said I wasn't going to be political or controversial in the blog. Sometimes I can't resist a dig.
That’s football for you, if you can’t bore the women to death just kill them off, and then the government can repurpose their bikes and give them to the ones who’ve had them nicked, and here’s a thought, give the ebikes to the coppers to help them catch the tea leaves.
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