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If we get a leadership campaign every person under 40 should be asking why they should pay some feckless pensioners compensation for ignoring 15 years of notice, while its fine to change student loan terms at the drop of a hat.
This from Sadiq Khan after yesterdays post from Will Norman feel like a welcome change of tack.
New social media manager or advisor?
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Well connected cycle lobby my arse. Who do think were the originators of the accusations of a TFL coverup?
Why of course, it's those two well connected anti cycling infrastructure campaigners Vincent Stops and John Stewart.....
100% addressed at the Soho Society
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And the almost weekly anti-cycling/LTN pieces in the Telegraph (Steve Bird) and Times (Andrew Ellson) pretty much always have a quote from John or one of his acolytes.
'Well connected anti-cycling lobbyists blocked positive change for cycling for years' might be more accurate...
Overdue to see Will Norman properly calling out these two charlatans. Regardless of what they might have campaigned for in the past they are now both explicitly opposed to all ages mass cycling.
Vincent spent many years as Policy Officer for London Travelwatch (an org that was supposed to represent cyclists interests) objecting to protected space for cycling and John was on board of Roadpeace, Campaign for better Transport and London Travelwatch.
It's quite the turnaround over the last 5 years.
John Stewart is a former chair of Roadpeace and the Campaign for better Transport. He wrote praising the mayors Transport Strategy and calling for LTNs in those roles.
Now he thinks it's "time to rethink cycling in London" and wants LTNs and protected infrastructure removed (and ULEZ reversed)
It's Simon, yeah?
It's Simon, yeah?
It's Simon, yeah?
It's Simon, yeah?
James Austin
It's Simon, yeah?
It's Simon, yeah?
It's Simon, yeah?
It's Simon, yeah?
Bicycle campaigners and enthusiasts have been directly shaping and influencing the capital's transport policy at considerable taxpayer expense since at least 2013: www.london.gov.uk/press-releas.... They form a highly effective middle-class pressure group.
'Ministers have rejected accusations that recent changes to student loans are unfair, arguing that they are so heavily subsidised that the government has the right to alter their terms.'
Maybe revert to subsidising university teaching more so that students don't have to subsidise teaching so much?
Lucy Rigby tells MPs heavily subsidised system gives the government the right to alter terms of existing agreements
