Nigel Farage forges new career as anti-cycling bingo caller

"high-speed hobby bringing town-centre traffic to a stop"! High speed but stopping traffic, so which is it?

Whilst the sane majority will quietly chuckle at this absurd rant from a man whose sole purpose in life is to go around breaking things. There is a worrying number of people lapping it up and frothing at the mouth.

“For much of the day these new bike lanes with their endless lines of shiny white posts lie empty while traffic jams block what is left of the roads,” 

“When I stop at traffic lights, cyclists surround me like a strange swarm of insects.”

Schrodingers cyclists again. DIsappear when someone is stuck near cycle lanes but appear when he is stopped at traffic lights. Of course the efficiency of travel is lost on him. As others have said, just wanted a pay day for spewing bile and he can for bikes where he might not have been allowed if he had changed it for migrants, even in the DM.

Someone sent me a snippet of Fromage talking on the radio about the US election. The lies and misinformation he was cackling out was plain ridiculous. Loads of people will believe it of course. I would like to speak to an editor, man to man, at the Mail, Express etc and ask 'why do you commission these articles? What is it you hate so much about me because I ride a bike to get to work?' I have a colleague who puts it down to simple jealousy; unfit, ignorant, inadequate, obese, cowardly people who see cyclists and the freedom and joy it engenders and because they are too unfit and scared to cycle they simply hate those who do. 

Cycling UK is working on guidelines to issue to the media to tell them clearly what is, and what isn't, responsible reporting. Words matter. Items like this are akin to hate speech and justify and encourage anti-cyclist rhetoric. It has to stop.

What I find more depressing than the article is that someone paid him to write it.

Fartage has made a successful career tapping into the latent aggression and prejudice of the average person. Unfortunately there's plenty of it out there.

Migrants, lockdown, EU... Cyclists were an inevitable target

"commandeered by self-righteous platoons of middle-aged men in tight-fitting costumes"

well you can't fault him for this one :-). 
 

While Farage is truly a vile specimen, just to play devils advocate here, to assume that all cyclists are innocent saints going about their business is just as much a generalization as drivers thinking all cyclists are bad. I've experienced plenty of inconsiderate and rule flouting bicycle riders that reinforce this us vs them mentality. 

Gammon's gonna gammon. This fucking reptile is seeking to keep himself on the gravy train somehow now that he's got no paymaster in the US and the Brexit gravy train has dried up for him. He'll end up writing regularly for one of these cumrags, spewing out his bile and hate for fun and profit.

Stop giving this cretin the oxygen of publicity. The people he talks to will never listen to reasoned exposition of the lies he spouts, don't waste your time or energy attempting to educate them.

Farage the grifter, the man whose hypocrisy knowns no bounds.

Trying exit the EU whilst taking their wages and big fat pension pot, all whilst not attending sessions for his constituents.

Shilling for Trump, including breaking travel restrictions.

Sucking at Bank's teat, who's a proxy for Putin.

Is there anywhere that wouldn't be better off without him? He's probably done more to destabilise the UK than any other person alive today, with the possible exception of Dominic Cummings.

And now he's an anti-masker.  I bet he wears one when it suits him to.

its making me sad now simon. I was angry earlier when i saw it published. I knew he had previously written about ''hoardes of lycra cyclists'' in his home area during the first lock down, but id never have put him for being that far on the hatred side.

The road tax argument- anyone who still uses that has to state why nissan leaf drivers do not pay it and are allowed to sit two abreast in front of a driver who has paid 400 pounds in VED. So a non paying leaf driver is perfectly acceptable in farage's eyes to sit in front of his car in town, but slow him to a complete stop? Why the difference then? That reasoning allows me to ride side by side with a friend in front of his car and completely stop.  

Empty bike lanes cause congestion?

Explain then. How exactly does a bike lane CAUSE cars to be alongside it? It didnt just appear and force the cars to become alongside it did it. 

I see many videos of holland with very used bicycle lanes running alongside major roads without an issue. Explain how it can be the fault of a bike lane in england then that the motor traffic is not moving?

The bike lane is empty, either, people who wanted to use it did so and have now reached work or their destination.  In the same way, there are very remote country roads i ride to that are empty of cars. But i dont presume that car drivers never use them. Just that they arent there at the current moment i am.

In the same way how clarkson attacked the bike lane for the traffic, they both need to realise, the car is NOT king and will not be allowed to dominate towns and cities in the future. It does not work.  Out of town, motorways and fast b roads, yes, mostly cars work perfectly well there. 

They don't work in town roads and cities though. Not as they keep getting bigger and bigger. They still have the same problem, four wheels cannot get around in a tight space. If you cannot get around in a tight space, you get stuck. 

Look at how humans act in town centres on foot. If you come up behind an old lady in the street, do you just walk very closely behind her? Yell at her to move over? Or do you simply go around her when theres room? The latter of course, because that is how manourverability works. The road is the same.

Humans can dart around eachother in congested high streets and do so.

Cars cant do that. They havent got the ability to. This means they line up in order and progress ever more slowly. Nothing to do with bike lanes.

Meanwhile, cyclists and motorbikes can dart around, left, right, in circles, thus never really get stuck on the road network. Bikes are more similar to humans, in their moving around way.

Cars are not like us, thus get stuck, making the owners and drivers of them ever more upset once they realise they are not in control of this vehicle any more and getting it to their destination. Anything percieved to be slowing it and them down is therefore the problem[ ie, empty bike lane takes away space for MY car and MY journey].

If the car cannot make the journey as fast as you want to, then you'll just have to realise, other people are not the cause of your slow progress, thats to mr farage and clarkson, YOU are. You chose to drive a car. Other people didnt. 

If you need to drive a car, fine, go for it. But don't try to pin the blame on congesting solving bike lanes, cyclists or other people. We can all move around on the road network fine. If you CAN'T, work out the reason WHY you can't before submitting your rant to the DM and getting ''likes'' from people who most probably are unemployed or retired and fat[ the majority of the commenters on DM must be one of these two plus the latter].

Basically, bikes work and are sustainable, cars aren't, deal with it.  

a video of me being forced to ride at 15 mph in a 60 zone because of a line of cars all sat two abreast, demonstating my point. So farage and clarkson are perfectly ok to sit in lines in other cars like this, driving very very slowly, not even walking pace in this clip, but if they follow a cyclist or people in groups cycling? Fair game, lets rant about them being in the way! Hey farage and clarkson, YOU'RE IN MY WAY IN THE GOD DAMN VIDEO!!! YOU GET IN MY WAY EVERY SINGLE DAY!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNe6VTcK2Gk

Farage, Clarkson, Freeman, Mail, Express, Sun- all malevolent rubbish.