Fair Fuel UK boss blames “militant cyclist” for marking his house as petrol station on Google Maps

Howard Cox said "I’m convinced it’s a militant cyclist.”

He also used it  (the term militant cyclist) when he appeared on the TV channel GB News last month and accused the broadcaster Jeremy Vine as well as “a very highly vocal minority of militant cyclists” of promoting what he termed “a ‘them and us’ struggle” between cyclists and motorists.

Since when were cyclists and drivers two mutually exclusive groups? It's so easy to ignore the fact that 80% of cyclist hold a driving licence and so easy to talk up a ‘them and us’ struggle” between cyclists and motorists.

Of course the term "militant cyclist" works beautifully for these "militant drivers" bunker mentality and it's not cyclists that talk about a struggle between cyclists and drivers when it's actually a struggle (if that's the right word) between cyclist and bad, inconsiderate, dangerous, selfish, etc... drivers, not drivers per se.

The UK can be at least thankful you don't live in Melbourne Australia.

There, a Dictator named Dan Andrews has taken total power via emergency powers (shutting down parliament, using the Victoria Police to violently crush any opposition with any form of protest now being illegal, people posting on Facebook being arrested for 'incitement', etc.). 

Under the world's longest and harshest Lockdown, the Dictator has banned cycling for >10km from home. 

Breaking news: the Daily Dismail has reported that an army called The lycory has invaded the south coast - many town halls have been taken. General I B Courageous RAC, AA Said " they use strange battel formations, sometimes they are in a large group, sometimes they are in lots of small groups across the road and sometimes a small group is a long way in front of the main large group, they also use strange machines and wear special clothes that enable them to travel as swift as a horse all day. They are very fit tenacious fighters and never give in, the women are the same and battle alongside the men, indeed their leader is a woman called Queen Fearless the Great, a brilliant taction, she has won many battles in the mountains of Europe - her specialty". General I B Courageous RAC, AA also said, "they must be stopped and destroyed or the land of the great god Car will be gone forever".

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... a report last month paid for and produced by Fair Fuel UK described  motorists as “hard-pressed” and “perennially demonised,” and the victims of “political bias” in favour of cyclists.

So hard-pressed that society still subsidises motorists ability to drive on  the road by covering costs that go beyond the amounts raised by all motoring taxes combined.

Demonised because some of them don't care enough about other road users to drive carefully and safely around them, preferring to assert their "entitlement" to use the roads at everyone else's expense. 

And politics is inherently biased, and should be biased in favour of things that are more positive for society. There is a strong political bias towards renewable energy rather than fossil fuels, and towards active travel rather than constantly increasing levels of motorised travel ... as there should be. 

It is neither reasonable, nor responsible for society to be politically neutral on all issues, especially those where evidence points in favour of one thing over another. 

That £100 Billion they've apparently helped people avoid paying would have been really helpful for funding the NHS and schools.

Fuel duty is one of the fairer taxes, if you use more fuel you pay more, simple as.

Perhaps it was the "Biker Mice From Mars" he has just the same amount of 'evidence' to show it was them.

Or maybe it could be a tree hugger, and such is his hatred for cyclists it seems logical to him to blame cyclists. Just another stick to beat the cyclists with. Knob.

After reading this story, I've marked my local Council HQ as a Sperm Bank.
The perfect place to work, if you're a wanker 👌🍆

Troll gets trolled & cries about it.

What a beautiful prank!  

...but then, I'm probably a militant cyclist... Which is certainly a lot worse than helping to keep Britain dependent on middle-eastern oil exporting countries. So, no OPECxit with Mr Cox anytime soon...

How did they get his home phone number?

Edit: Just seen that his home address is posted on the FF website as contact details. Who does that in this day and age?

Another Edit: As somone pointed out, this is at least one month old, nothing to do about the present shortages apart from they have prompted people to search and look for fuel before setting out.

Outstanding!

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"Party Parliamentary Group for Fair Fuel for UK Motorists and UK Hauliers entitled What does the 2030 fossil fuelled new vehicle sales ban really mean to the economy, environment, and UK’s 37m drivers?"

Well, that's a helluva title... 

hmmm, perhaps he should have bought some  fuel and given it away to needy folk who arrived at his house....that would have been the charitable thing to do...or bought fuel and sold it a high mark up to fund his lobbying

Those militant cyclists. I expect it was the cycling taliban. Terrorists I tell you....