UKIP policies on bikes...

I think the Monster Raving Loonie Party has more credibility than UKIP. It's certainly got a better track record politically.

YES. UKIP have got something right. 100% agree to all of this (with some exception to 10.9)

[[[[[ Cretins! Fuckwits! Shitforbrains! Moronic Arseholes! Look, the problem with "strong" language is that it's actually weak language. It's boring, juvenile and unedifying....could you abusive types (you know who you are) perhaps swop email addresses and insult each other privately? Or meet behind the bike-sheds after school for a rumble?
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[[[[[[ Er...that looks a bit rough, dunnit. Peace and love to you all.
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I actually find farage quite a funny bloke. Its great watching him twitch and fidget when he's asked any sort of question that doesn't involve his racist policies on Europe cos he doesn't have a clue.

The best part of it all though is that the great unwashed that think he's great and will vote for him seem to forget that if we get rid of "immigrants" who do all the menial and unsavoury jobs that the "Great British" public think are below them it will fall to the great unwashed to fill these jobs, oh the irony of it all

The poster way above who objected to some one objecting to swearing really does need to think a bit. In no case is swearing in public acceptable.
Full stop, no exceptions.
This is an open forum and young people do read it. Your opinion (and mine) is subservient to normal rules of social behaviour . And Swearing doesn't fit socially acceptable behaviour no matter how common it may become.
para 10.2 is correct. Cyclists must become more responsible and law abiding. anyone who breaks the law is wrong. NO questions there. Rude and offensive riding is wrong.
No where above is the stupid and dangerous driving of motor vehicles mentioned so there is no place for this thread to have comments on that!

There's a telling analysis of UKIP supporters in the Grauniad: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/may/14/ukip-poll-fans-farage-mo...

I've just declined a request to pilot a tandem towing a banner with Nigel Farage as stoker.

I hate Nigel Farage for his smoking, beery, car driving, posh boy mentality and his party's approach to cycling in the UK. I will however be voting UKIP in the upcoming elections because I hate the Tory/Labour/Lib Dem oligarchy even more.

'happen to think there are more important things than a party's position on cycling... '

well, quite. Like, are they complete racist mentalists or not.

Oh dear, the usual "racist" slurs... yawn. As someone who will be voting for UKIP in the euro elections, I don't agree with their cycling "policies" (if indeed they are such) but happen to think there are more important things than a party's position on cycling...

This is a shame, because I am a racist but I am also a cyclist. NOW who do I vote for?

UKIP are to the UK what the Tea Party is to the US. They thrive on small-minded, little-England, NIMBY fears and profess bold solutions regardless of long-term social damage. Worst still, they don't actually need to gain power in order to disrupt progress - the fear of their popularity is drawing a centrist Tory party ever rightward.
The coalition doesn't have many fans because consensus politics requires small steps and negotiated progress, but the only sustainable way we can move away from a two party Punch and Judy stalemate will be through local, national and international consensus.
Im not a huge fan of Stewart Lee, but his recent gag about UKIP as a protest vote hits the nail on the head http://pic.twitter.com/5UKWxE9MGu

wow, their caveman like ideas are scary. they are literally a party from the dark ages

Just to add "cyclists Dismount" signs are advisory, not mandatory anyway, so there cant be any enforcement.

Just to add "cyclists Dismount" signs are advisory, not mandatory anyway, so there cant be any enforcement.

"cycle training" is made up of moving off, stopping, steering round a traffic cone, and making sure you can stick your arm out without wobbling - how thats going to stop people getting flattened by trucks I don't know.
When I did it, we were actually shouted at for taking the lane, and even for riding more than about a metre from the curb.

Most of this policy doesn't really deserve response. They are policy made by a disconnected few who are obviously right despite knowing nothing.

Interestingly, I found out that the old cycling proficiency test that kids take at 12 still going. Isn't this effectively the training of which they speak?? Granted that is very young but it was pitched at that she for a reason.
I don't have a great issue with the idea of a level of training but frankly where does it stop? Should people walking require a license?? I mean they can be dangerous and just cross roads with paying due attention at times.
At the end of the day, all the training and licenses in the world are useless if the roads aren't going to be policed.

What we need is a campaign for EU legislation, before the European Parliament, imposing licensing and identification plates etc on cyclists.

That way, UKIP would be bound to have to change their policy so that they could vote against the proposal.

Revealing thread this has turned out to be - but actually I quite like that. Assuming we're all keen cyclists, you can hardly pigeonhole much else about us. We've got euro-skeptics, conspiracy theorists, and normal people who don't like UKIP much.

Don't worry, UKIP are not intended to win any elections. They are just a distraction to diffuse the euro-sceptic vote. Nigel Farage is a Rothschild gold dealer and his job is to help protect the fascist EU, not to undermine it.

I recently corrected an item in a local newspaper where it reported an 'accident' between a cycle and a car. I said it was a collision. The police had arrested the driver and I made the mistake of adding that something was very wrong where someone on a 10kg vehicle is hit by one weighing at tonne. Cue quite a lot of thumbs downs and stories about 'dangerous' cyclists. I was then told by a moron that of course it was an accident if the driver did not mean to do it! the idea of criminal negligence does apply to car drivers. Yep these are the people who vote UKIP.