Early Day Motion - please contact your MP

[u9ge]

http://road.cc/content/news/14810-victory-safety-campaigners-police-hgv-safety-unit-reinstated

See above link then please get your MP to sign up.

ta.

 

[Theseus]

If it wasn't so localised to London I would support it. A good idea for Londoners agreed, but this needs to have a national body rather than be a parochial measure.

 

[swee'pea99]

Done.

And thanks for raising it.

 

[Origamist]

http://road.cc/content/news/14810-victory-safety-campaigners-police-hgv-safety-unit-reinstated

See above link then please get your MP to sign up.

ta.

This EDM is posted here:

http://www.cyclechat.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=53367

but thanks for raising the issue again.

If it wasn't so localised to London I would support it. A good idea for Londoners agreed, but this needs to have a national body rather than be a parochial measure.

Eh? It's not about improving the lot of London cyclists, but all of this country's cyclists. The examples may focus on London, but any measures that are taken will be rolled out nationwide.

 

[Theseus]

Eh? It's not about improving the lot of London cyclists, but all of this country's cyclists. The examples may focus on London, but any measures that are taken will be rolled out nationwide.

Mea Culpa. I followed the link in the OP and it was all about LCC this and Met Police that and Boris the other. The EDM itself starts off being London Centric. However on re-reading it and allowing for the usual bias in the South East to ignore the rest of the country I can see that it may make some difference and will be contacting my MP.

 

[Theseus]

Just had a letter back from my MP and he has signed the EDM.

 

[hackbike 666]

Mea Culpa. I followed the link in the OP and it was all about LCC this and Met Police that and Boris the other. The EDM itself starts off being London Centric. However on re-reading it and allowing for the usual bias in the South East to ignore the rest of the country I can see that it may make some difference and will be contacting my MP.

Strange comment am I missing something here?

 

[Theseus]

Strange comment am I missing something here?

If you ever spent any time outside the South East and London you will notice that there is a bias in the media, sports, government etc ... to put the concerns of the home counties before the rest of the country.

When I lived in the home counties I did not see this, but after living in Scotland for the last 20 years it is very apparent.

Either that or I have a massive chip on my shoulder.

 

[hackbike 666]

I apologise for living in London for most of my life.

I tell you what though if I won the lottery there is no way I would stay here.

If you ever spent any time outside the South East and London you will notice that there is a bias in the media, sports, government etc ... to put the concerns of the home counties before the rest of the country.

When I lived in the home counties I did not see this, but after living in Scotland for the last 20 years it is very apparent.

Either that or I have a massive chip on my shoulder.

That actually strikes me as a very nasty bias comment including the fact you haven't actually got a clue on where I have lived during my lifetime.

 

[Tynan]

what proportion of the country lives in the SE?

(never mind what proportion of employment and weath)

 

[hackbike 666]

No word of a lie Touche if I wasn't stuck in a job that I had been doing for so long then I would be offski...If I had the money to do it I mean.I do not consider London to be the centre of the universe.

 

[Theseus]

That actually strikes me as a very nasty bias comment including the fact you haven't actually got a clue on where I have lived during my lifetime.

True I do not know where you have lived in your past, but the fact that you do not even recognise that a bias exists as evidenced in the following ...

Strange comment am I missing something here?

... is a pretty clear indication that you have spent most of your life in the home counties.

If that is wrong then I apologise, but as I stated previously, when I was living in the home counties I could see no bias either. It was only after I have been up in Scotland for a few years that it became so apparent.

 

[Theseus]

what proportion of the country lives in the SE?

(never mind what proportion of employment and weath)

I have no idea ... and this excuses any bias in what way?

 

[hackbike 666]

True I do not know where you have lived in your past, but the fact that you do not even recognise that a bias exists as evidenced in the following ...



... is a pretty clear indication that you have spent most of your life in the home counties.

If that is wrong then I apologise, but as I stated previously, when I was living in the home counties I could see no bias either. It was only after I have been up in Scotland for a few years that it became so apparent.

I see plenty of bias.

 

[brokenbetty]

what proportion of the country lives in the SE?

(never mind what proportion of employment and weath)

Going by the 2001 census figures about 22% of the UK population lives in London or the SE (http://www.statistics.gov.uk/census2001/pyramids/pages/uk.asp)