MP who called cyclists "law-breaking Lycra Louts" fined for driving through red light

"How many times have you seen a cyclist deliberately riding in the middle of the road, preventing any car passing and then screaming abuse at the poor driver who dares to try?"

Let's see now, erm....oh yes, NEVER. Not once in my long life. I wouldn't be surprised if she hasn't either.

And while I'm at it, 'Lycra louts' is just another silly, catchy sound bite, designed to grab attention and sound like it actually means something. Typical Daily or Sunday Mail sound-bite-sneering, devoid of any thought whatsoever. The people you do see jumping lights and doing other daft things are rarely, in my experience, 'lycra-clad', i.e. serious proper cyclists like you and me.

RLJing combines two things most people hate...arrogance ('the law doesn't apply to me') and queue jumping.

Funny another example of claiming another group is the issue when it is actually the person pointing the finger.

Just goes to show that when you point your finger at somebody there are three (Norfolk excepting) pointing back at yourself.

As said earlier KARMA

Er, no....more often they're Denim-Louts. But Hoey, full of vitriol, sees only what she wants to see....as do all bigots.
P.R.

Why we need stronger sentences for 'minor motoring offences: http://sickandtiredtothebackteeth.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/why-we-need-str...

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"How many times have you seen a cyclist deliberately riding in the middle of the road, preventing any car passing and then screaming abuse at the poor driver who dares to try?"

I have to say I have seen this in the UK and people riding in a group of 5 or 6 strung across the road filling the lane on a busy route.

It is madness people, remember the laws of:-

1 The road.
and
2 Gross tonnage

1 The road, I know we are allowed to cycle two abreast but just to wind somebody up on a narrow road get a life or more aptly applying rule 2 gross tonnage, keep the one you have.
We are all road users.
I know, I know, a lot of car users (cannot say drivers cause a lot of people cannot drive their cars adeptly) are septic ar$eholes but does that mean we have to be as well?
Mind you I'm lucky I do most (well all) of my cycling in France and have had no problems to date except from one UK driver and he may just have not appreciated the insane priority to the right rule over here (see no where's perfect). As in this article what goes around comes around or more succinctly Karma

So funny. I lived in London during the height of the Blair years (97 - 05) and always found Hoey to be a vacuous piece of detritus. Strangely enough I kind of liked Blair . . . moving right along . . .

Poor old kate must be doubly pissed off because not only did she earn a traffic conviction and the ridicule of the cycling world but the fox she was speeding to run over at the time got away when the police stopped her as well

Kate Hoey representing part of Lambeth (an entirely urban area with a significant level of gun crime, no fox hunting, and a somewhat higher-than-average proportion of utility-cyclists) has to be one of the most mismatched MP-constituency pairings ever.

Her pet causes seem to be: Northern Irish Protestants, supporting farmers and country people generally, supporting fox-hunting, supporting the right to own guns, banging on about sport, and expressing pig-ignorant bigotry towards cyclists.

Regardless of whether one agrees with any of those (I range from strongly disagreeing to just not caring either way), who decided she was a good match for this particular parliamentary seat?