A Tory MP who in 2015 accused the organisers of Velothon Wales of “telling lies” about the potential impact of the inaugural edition of the event on local businesses beat yesterday’s Tube strike in London – by taking to two wheels on a Santander Cycles hire bike.
David Davies, who has been the Member of Parliament for Monmouth since 2005, tweeted a picture of himself after he had arrived at a docking station near Parliament Square, having ridden from Paddington Station in less than 20 minutes.
Tube strike? Dont get beaten just get on a bike! @SantanderCycles Paddington-Parliament in 18minutes. pic.twitter.com/bSmwxRyWFm
— David Davies MP (@DavidTCDavies) January 9, 2017
When one Twitter user questioned his environmental credentials – Davies has been accused in the past of being a climate change denier – the Conservative politician replied, “I love cycling.”
That didn’t appear to be the case in 2015 when he criticised the Velothon Wales mass participation event, however, expressing concerns about the impact of the event on local businesses and residents.
Davies – not to be confused with Minister for Brexit, David Davis – said at the time: “The arrogance of this organisation – they’re telling lies to people. They told me that all MPs support it, and that was a lie. They back-tracked when they found out that I was an MP.”
> Team Sky’s Luke Rowe expresses support for much-criticised Velothon Wales
9 thoughts on “MP who criticised cycling event beats Tube strike … on a bike”
I’m just glad that he didn’t
I’m just glad that he didn’t get doored by a minister…
PaulBox wrote:
Dooring minister was reportedly stuck in Clapham Junction
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/transport-secretary-chris-grayling-pictured-battling-to-get-to-work-at-clapham-junction-during-a3436691.html
It is an apprehensible
It is an apprehensible calculus, given the pervading societal ennui, to find persuasion and even debate so ungratifying as to not even be worth attempting, no matter the potential yield. But whatever the current zeitgeist, to reward those coming around to your position by publicly shaming them on their past reservations is, IMHO, to move past the aimlessly juvenile to the wantonly deleterious. YMMV, as always.
Carton wrote:
Is an English translation available?
burtthebike wrote:
i translated it into Azerbaijani, from there into Haitian Creole, then into English. It makes some sort of sense now:
“It is a matter of satisfying the potential to find and even no income, so as not to be worth a try ungratifying discussion covered, taking into account public boredom is an account understand. But no matter what the meeting now, wantonly dangerous move past minor aimlessly in a position to open not bother to reservations last coming around, IMHO, award. YMMV, as usual.”
ConcordeCX wrote:
C’est juste, Gerard. I might have the original laying about, if accuracy is paramount. It’s in a Samoyedic Lithuanian dialect of Guarani, though, so Google might not quite make it out. Maybe Babel-fish?
Carton wrote:
Heh, there is actually a good point in there…
Zooming in to look at the
Zooming in to look at the bike against the lamp post in the background, I was somewhat alarmed at the countenance of the smaller figure behind. Small “Anonymous” march on HoP?
Dr_Lex wrote:
could be worse:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6C-Y3oX5PyQ