soaysheep wrote:... Still the nasty party and getting ever nastier.
So the bicycle is still a symbol of working class liberation, eh?
soaysheep wrote:... Still the nasty party and getting ever nastier.
soaysheep wrote:Johnson is a horror. How would you feel if your dad/wife/son or daughter came home from a daily commute in a body bag with what knows terrible injuries? And to make political capital out of it. He has absolutely no shame.
Despicable.
soaysheep wrote:It's not a world view we differ in, it's moral sensibilities. It's obvious to anyone with ears his sympathies lie with a motoring and hauliers lobby. His 'cycling friendly' facade is that and nothing more.
soaysheep wrote:If you buy the rhetoric, then more fool you.
soaysheep wrote:He's on the side of the motoring and hauliers lobby. If you can't see a voracious, power crazed, conniving capitalist for what it is, you have my sympathies. Still the nasty party and getting ever nastier.
soaysheep wrote:He gives himself away with this recent, frankly contemptible outburst - a brutal, machiavellian arch self publicist with no care for *ordinary citizens.
If you buy the rhetoric, then more fool you.
soaysheep wrote:It's not a world view we differ in, it's moral sensibilities. It's obvious to anyone with ears his sympathies lie with a motoring and hauliers lobby. His 'cycling friendly' facade is that and nothing more.
mrjemm wrote:Lest we forget that the 'Boris Bikes' were actually from Ken.
JimL wrote:Is 10% of the London transport budget spent on cycling? (it seems a lot to me and well in excess of any other region of UK I suspect).
JimL wrote:Is 10% of the London transport budget spent on cycling? (it seems a lot to me and well in excess of any other region of UK I suspect).
bates51 wrote:Th statistics speak for themselves - as per, Boris talks a good game but it's all about Boris. It's the same in Glasgow, they witter away freely about encouraging cycling then spend 50 Bob trying to make it happen. The recent TV campaigns in Scotland were disgraceful.
Blame the cyclist, blame the roads, blame helmet use - in short blame anyone rather than take responsibility and sort the problems.
Is it any wonder no one votes nowadays.