we can disagree by all means, but I'd rather you disagreed with what I wrote than with what I didn't write
Ok, well let's take a look at what you wrote. You wrote this:
Jeremy Vine is a pompous geranium and he could have done the simple thing and pull over in to the gap between the two cars. He didn't because he wanted to make a point, and, whatever the merits of the point he wanted to make, it makes him look a monkey. A grown up would have gone to the kerb, shrugged his shoulders and got on with his day. If he was really out to improve the world he could have caught her at the junction, smiled sweetly and given her a little wave.
I'm bound to say that I think he was looking for a youtube clip. He succeeded, but, in succeeding he's just added to the general fund of ill-feeling.
"Jeremy Vine is a pompous geranium and he could have done the simple thing and pull over in to the gap between the two cars."
To which Milkfloat responded:
why should he be bullied off a road he is entirely entitled to be on?
Looks like a response to 'what you wrote' to me.
The rest of your post looks to me like a set of your assumptions. That 'he wanted to make a point'. That he 'was looking for a youtube clip'. Maybe he was, and maybe he wasn't - you don't know, any more than we do. Milkfloat didn't respond to them. But insofar as he continued:
This ignores the use of the horn and dangerous driving before he stopped. I think he was quite justified in doing what he did, I see no reasonable defence for her at all.
...I for one have no problem with it.
I cannot see any grounds whatsoever for 'going against the grain' here. This was exactly what it looked like: a vicious and unwarranted bit of aggressive and dangerous bullying, accompanied by verbal abuse and a physical assault, by someone in control of a ton and a half of metal. I, like you, would probably have pulled over, rolled my eyes, and got on with my day. But not everyone on two wheels is as confident as you and me. People like that could do that to one of my daughters, and at best it would scare the shoot out of them.
There is no excuse for that kind of behaviour. None. Anyone who drives like that - anyone who behaves like that - has no place behind the wheel of a car. If I had my druthers, she'd have a 12 month ban, a six month suspended sentence, and her car crushed in front of her eyes.
