David Cameron taunts France over Team GB cycling dominance

Cameron would make a great pro cyclist, because every time he gets on a bike, he's followed by a huge fleet of support vehicles.

Union JACKS on the Champs-Élysées? Last time I checked it wasn't possible to sail a boat along there

I just love the remarks about how Tory scum are ruining this country etc! But let us remember it was Labour scum that got us to this position of debt in the first place!!

Now in trench with tin hat on!!!

But didn’t we do well in the cycling this year

While I hate Cameron with a passion the French comments deserve a rebuke and his relatively mild ribbing was reasonable. The French accusations have absolutely no basis in fact and not even the slightest hint of evidence to back them up. Having just got back from watching the Mountain Biking and seeing Julie Bresset dominate the race we should, by their standards, start a discussion on whether or not she's on some performance enhancing products. But I hope that we don't and instead just salute a wonderful performance.

I think you need to moderate some of these comments out; they're totally irrelevant.

Nick T - in the current financial climate where the working / middle class are being hammered left right and centre its the "privileged few" of which Cameron and most of his cabinet cronies are who get away without having to worry about rising bills.

Remember the tax cut, announced by chummy osbourne, saved most of the cabinet in the region of £50k. Thats more than most families have to live on a year.

And working hard has nothing to do with it as proved by the conservatives.

Wow some mild ribbing over a sporting event has been turned into a political rant over how this country is being run (Trolls 1 humans 0)

Amazing, being "privileged" is somehow derogatory. Heaven forbid your ancestors work hard for your future! I'm off to spend my kids inheritance before Some Fella and his lot start pointing fingers, it's for your benefit son!!

He is a contemptible, arrogant, nasty, privileged, smug tw@.
He is happy to bask in the reflected glory of our cyclists but was happy to abolish Cycling England within months of weazling into power.

"let's hope some of that swagger translates to funding for grassroots cycling"

From a man that on one hand dismisses sport from within the school time table yet on the other wishes to make school sports more competitive(as long as it is done for free and outside of the normal school hours), I wonder what more grass root funding would look like?

Death race commuting for cyclist.... oh sorry we already have that!

As for the french thing it is just idle banter a bit of fun at the expense of the french no doubt the boot will be on the other foot at sometime in future C'est la vie as they say

The man is a buffoon with no knowledge of anything outside whats printed in front of him by his assistant.

When the economy is completely up the swanny with no hope of it being brought under control by the muppets in Whitehall he goes and winds up one of the main countries we will have to rely on if it really goes tits up.

I hate him with a passion and i hope he gets piles

Rant over, but we did kick the frenchie arses this year didn't we

Despite my username, I'm not so familiar with L'Equipe's politics - I know it's mainly a sports paper. In _this_case_, I actually agree with Cameron - don't accuse us of cheating and hide behind your readers, that's the sort of tactic the Daily Mail would use.

Or his kids!

I hope the French remind him he hasn't even got the gumption to lock his bike up proper.

just like a tory .....

It screams "punch me", perhaps that's just me.

Poor show for L'Equipe to label us cheats using the old "well it's only what our readers think" ploy.

Come out and say it if you have the balls, otherwise STFU.

Did you read the comments on that L'Equipe piece? There were a good number of people saying it was good preparation that won the medals & anything else was sour grapes.

I hope (vainly?) that if the position were reversed we'd be as gracious.

Why does every picture of Cameron scream 'Look at my c*m face'?

As much as I don't like Cameron, as long as all he is doing is responding to questions from the French media I don't have a problem as long as he keeps it light and in direct response.

I must say the headline on here does make it sound as though he has been crowing to the media just for personal gratification. Red Top journalism? Shocking!

All that public school and posh university education and he still isn't a gentleman.

Learn some manners, Toryboy!

No fan of Cameron, believe me, but in this case he's quite right. Bad losers. Simple.

He said this on a R2 interview yesterday morning, I thought it was quite funny.

It's also a pity that you didn't take a little more time over that first sentence.

Camera on a he should be known as thats all he is (a PR Merchant) is a C••T of the highest order.

It's a pity he doesn't spend more time attempting to put this country back together rather than trying to wind our neighbours up ... leave that to the red-tops.