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Mike Rutherford is just a nutjob!

Just a brainless hack troll.
 
He's upset that people on bikes are faster than Important Magnate Business Man Lord Sir Alan of Sugar. Well, we can pay all the road tax and insurance you want, we'd still be faster than that beard face barrow boy absurdly self-important cockney trouser cough. Paying road tax doesn't make you cycle slower Rutherford, and The Living Years was rubbish.
 

Hip Priest

Veteran
The thing is, I completely understand why motorists are frustrated. Congestion is horrendous, and driving in any major UK city is stressful and exhausting, and it's getting worse. But congestion isn't caused by the government, the council, the police, cyclists, bus lanes, traffic calming, or any of the other bogeymen that the likes of Rutherford point the finger at. It's caused by the fact that there are too many cars on the road. Nothing is going to change unless the number of journeys made by car is reduced. A good way of achieving this is to get people riding bikes. Other ways are to encourage home-working, car-sharing and public transport use. The days of 'the freedom of the open road' are pretty much over.
 
He's upset that people on bikes are faster than Important Magnate Business Man Lord Sir Alan of Sugar. Well, we can pay all the road tax and insurance you want, we'd still be faster than that beard face barrow boy absurdly self-important cockney trouser cough. Paying road tax doesn't make you cycle slower Rutherford, and The Living Years was rubbish.

I agree with everything you say apart from the living years , that was good

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGDA0Hecw1k
 
Doesn't the idiot realise that for everyone cycling on the roads it is One Less Car clogging up the streets.

Not just that. Who or what does he think is responsible for these?

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Bollox, I gave him a clue. NOBBER
 

Spinney

Bimbleur extraordinaire
Location
Back up north
I read the first couple of dozen comments, and was gobsmacked to find most of them were sensible and on the side of the cyclists! Express readers obviously not quite as bad as the Daily Wail lot.
 
I read that article and thought is was lifted from the mashup or some such publication. Do the Express seriously not check the facts of the things they are publishing?
 

classic33

Leg End Member
He's upset that people on bikes are faster than Important Magnate Business Man Lord Sir Alan of Sugar. Well, we can pay all the road tax and insurance you want, we'd still be faster than that beard face barrow boy absurdly self-important cockney trouser cough. Paying road tax doesn't make you cycle slower Rutherford, and The Living Years was rubbish.
You pay a tax that doesn't exist!!
Sounds like a scam to me.
 

Chris1983

Senior Member
The old "road tax" argument.

Next time I see a ved exempt car I'm going to shout "get off the road you self-gratification artist and pay some road tax"

Although saying that if I've had a curry the night before the emissions coming from my bike would rival that of any VW so perhaps on reflection I should be made to pay a high emissions tax for cycling.
 
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