Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party to target pro-cycling councils in next year’s local elections

now i feel compelled to throw this at nigel and have him explain it then.  The shared path was always there, it just got widened a bit recently. So is nigel saying the shared path has caused the traffic queue? Could he worm his way out of it? Cos what i saw was a bike lane being used by kids whilst i was stuck behind aload of two abreast financed wheely cupboards.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rML7zcJPGfQ

F****** nazis. Why can't the idiots see that the answer is not to remove cycling infrastructure but to remove drivig infrastructure. I like living, so please let's stop climate change as quickly as possible!

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“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.”

"What is left of the roads" - I haven't noticed anywhere that bike lanes have reduced urban roadways to single direction single lane...  In most cities, it seems that bike lanes take up at most a third or a quarter of the roadways, in some but not all areas, and are a patchwork of such lanes.

I'm pretty certain that the roadways cars can drive on still make up the vast bulk of all urban (and rural) roads...

Obviously this campaign/party is all about promoting Nigel Farrage over everything else. But there is a good chance they will split the anti-LTZ vote in council elections and work against his stated aim.

“If measures to improve the environment really are necessary, they can only be introduced sensibly,” he added.

Farage/sensible; brain melt.

These right wing tossers are very choosy about their love of personal freedom aren't they? No to wearing masks and Covid restrictions, but someone else wants to go about their commute free (or reletively free-er) from the risk of serious injury or death...

I'd like to be as confident as others who have commented in believing he is now an irrelevance, a reactionary sideshow, a muffled hate-foghorn - but he does have an audience that as we know and have seen this past week, tend to shout louder than others and therefore seem to have disproportionate influence. Everything he says is deliberately controversial, and when it comes to our MSM controversy = airtime. Why else would he have appeared on BBC Question Time nearly as often as the presenter during the run up to last years General Election?

Facts don't matter to his voters. It's  emotional. People who ride bikes are an 'elite' to them. people in London have spent the past decade being told we are 'a metropolitan elite'. For years we have tried to point out that Farage is the elite - with his private education,  with his media access, his grace and favours property in Kensington, his yearly earnings of 150K +.  But no, just ordinary people, with ordinary jobs, with spouses born in the `EU, (like him incidentally) with children who go to local state schools , with modest houses in modest parts of London - we are the enemy and the 'elite'. He is so divisive. And now he is turning his hate and lies on cycle lanes.  

Shaun Bailey really is a duplicitous little c*nt isn't he.

LTNs are the responsibility of local councils, not TfL or the London Mayor.

The congestion charge hike was stipulated by the treasury as part of the TfL bailout.

Actually, I'm worried about this. It's now not just cyclists, but those who support them, who are The Enemy in the culture wars. So you look at all the rhetoric against immigrants (like me) which has led to random attacks, the hostile environment policies, and the windrush scandal. And then to lawyers and those who use the rule of law to frustrate his agenda. And this is what we can expect for cycling. Of course, Farage has never been elected to the UK parliament, but he has forced the Tory party to adapt his rhetoric and policies. 

This may have less traction than he thinks - In the local elections after the LTN's in East London (prior to COVID) a few local politcians promised to rip the LTN 's out.  If I remember correctly they lost (please correct me if I'm wrong) - once the things bed in they become popular 

Is Reform UK a party? Or is it, like the Brexit Party, actually a company owned by one N Farage? Which was profitable, in case the European Parliament pension ever felt too little.

So the agenda of the Reform UK party is to protect the petrol addict status quo? not really reforming are they?

Luckily I don't think the anti cycle lane voters care nearly as much as the europhobes, so I don't see them getting anywhere.

Bit of a come down for the duck faced twat. From fucking over an entire country to fucking over individual progressive councils.

Farage is pretty politically astute whatever else you may think of him.

He obviously thinks there's mileage in this and by targeting council elections which historically have very low turnouts he won't require a huge number of votes to make gains.

Paradoxically I hope that this development helps to ensure that cyclists turn out and vote in the council elections.

Your local council has far more influence over cycling infrastructure than the national government so vote for the councillors with the best cycling policies regardless of your usual party preference.

I will be voting Labour as they have done a very good job increasing and improving the cycling infrastructure in Cardiff.

That's not the case elsewhere though so check in your local area and vote accordingly!

Can only hope Sir Farcical splits the gammon and Karen vote

London should be safe but more brexity places might have a problem. 
 

or will the shit have hit the fan so hard by then that he is ruined? Probably not, it's always everyone else's fault.

Farage- the turd that just won't flush

Sounds odd. But this is actually good news, for cycling and delivery of good cycle lanes to be a big enough issue for this loon to pay attention to. 

“Come May, I know what I’ll do,” Bailey said. “On day one as Mayor..."

Save your breath, mate. You're not going to be Mayor, you're going to lose.