http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Today’s Susan Webber Warbling en Mon, 18 May 2026 22:48:44 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20228&page=2#post-379964 Thu, 12 Jun 2025 16:27:33 +0000 chdot 379964@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“</p> <p>Lothian Tory MSP Sue Webber blamed the Greens for delaying the Sherriffhall plans. She claimed the Scottish Government and Edinburgh City Council were "in thrall to the Green Party’s anti-car agenda". </p> <p>“</p> <p><a href="https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/edinburgh-sheriffhall-junction-cost-of-flyover-could-now-been-two-and-a-half-times-original-estimate-claims-msp-5173114" rel="nofollow">https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/edinburgh-sheriffhall-junction-cost-of-flyover-could-now-been-two-and-a-half-times-original-estimate-claims-msp-5173114</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20228&page=2#post-376844 Tue, 08 Oct 2024 16:34:33 +0000 chdot 376844@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Spoilt it with the #</p> <p>“</p> <p>Delighted to be appointed to the post of<br /> @ScotTories<br /> Shadow cabinet for Transport</p> <p>So many issues and opportunities to make lives better : From Buses to Canals, Roads and Pavements</p> <p>And let's not forget trains, trams, EVs, and bikes </p> <p>#planestrainsandautomobiles</p> <p>“ </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20228#post-376843 Tue, 08 Oct 2024 16:16:50 +0000 Frenchy 376843@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Delighted to be appointed to the post of @ScotTories Shadow cabinet for Transport"</p> <p><a href="https://x.com/SueJWebber/status/1843669294267425273" rel="nofollow">https://x.com/SueJWebber/status/1843669294267425273</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20228#post-376724 Fri, 27 Sep 2024 09:36:04 +0000 chdot 376724@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/opinion/columnists/extra-spending-on-trams-is-a-waste-of-taxpayers-money-sue-webber-4798541" rel="nofollow">https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/opinion/columnists/extra-spending-on-trams-is-a-waste-of-taxpayers-money-sue-webber-4798541</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20228#post-376673 Tue, 24 Sep 2024 07:33:03 +0000 gembo 376673@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Warbly Webber has turned her big guns onto the Tiny LEZ. My band mate the Professor of Climate Justice Big Davie was in a hired car in Edinburgh recently and doing a U turn to avoid the LEZ [he works London where they have proper LTN/LEZ].</p> <p>I am like - it is ok,it is a pretend LEZ</p> <p>But even a tiny pretend LEZ is too much for Sassy Sue. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20228#post-376658 Sun, 22 Sep 2024 14:00:29 +0000 gembo 376658@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Two-stroke/gasoline Radge Cats </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20228#post-376654 Sun, 22 Sep 2024 11:54:58 +0000 chdot 376654@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“There are a few motorbikes these days”</p> <p>Electric?</p> <p>Food deliverers? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20228#post-376652 Sun, 22 Sep 2024 09:17:31 +0000 gembo 376652@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I see her walking her dug quite often on the WoL Path. I remain civil due to my extreme Zen training. There are a few motorbikes these days maybe a few more than there used to be. They are not great. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20228#post-376650 Sat, 21 Sep 2024 21:58:40 +0000 edinburgh87 376650@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <br /> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20228#post-376649 Sat, 21 Sep 2024 19:38:55 +0000 Frenchy 376649@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Article in the EEN where Webber is calling for increased enforcement action against people using (illegal) e-bikes and e-scooters, apparently following someone "buzzing" her on the Water of Leith pathway.</p> <p>"The behaviour is illegal, but there's not enough police todo anything about it."</p> <p>Wait till she hears about drivers. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20228#post-370485 Fri, 15 Sep 2023 16:20:42 +0000 chdot 370485@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“</p> <p>Webber trotting out all the old cliches:</p> <p>Militant cyclists!<br /> Segregated lanes aren’t safe!<br /> Avid cyclists don’t want them!<br /> Water of Leith is a good cycle route!</p> <p>Also: she voted for the Roseburn-Canal link and praised it as a good project. Opportunist hypocrite.</p> <p>“</p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/pidginposting/status/1702602990245367943" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/pidginposting/status/1702602990245367943</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20228#post-368710 Fri, 16 Jun 2023 07:30:21 +0000 chdot 368710@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>(In response to her!)</p> <p>“</p> <p>Despite time you spent on the Transport committee you clearly still have not understood that adding segregated cycling infrastructure has been a significant factor in increasing safety. But, from yr consistent opposition to progress, that doesn’t seem to matter to you.</p> <p>“</p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/lmacinnessnp/status/1669292181897527297" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/lmacinnessnp/status/1669292181897527297</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20228#post-364827 Sat, 19 Nov 2022 08:30:48 +0000 gembo 364827@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Ungrateful b1tch. She was standing in the middle of the road, sort of stranded in hope she could stop the 44 bus with her mind. I slowed and was already in primary and the bus driver noticed her platinum Bob (white actually) and started to draw into the stop. As I passed I declared. a cyclist helped you MSP </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20228#post-364826 Sat, 19 Nov 2022 02:06:31 +0000 chdot 364826@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“</p> <p>How to object and for it actually to break through. </p> <p>I get no sense that officers or Admin elected members (labour) are interested in listening </p> <p>The legitimacy of SfP has gone. These bollards should be removed</p> <p>“</p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/suejwebber/status/1593729207519027200" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/suejwebber/status/1593729207519027200</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20228#post-362840 Mon, 22 Aug 2022 11:11:22 +0000 chdot 362840@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/opinion/columnists/why-liz-truss-gets-my-vote-for-party-leader-sue-webber-3810550" rel="nofollow">https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/opinion/columnists/why-liz-truss-gets-my-vote-for-party-leader-sue-webber-3810550</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20228#post-361632 Tue, 28 Jun 2022 15:12:38 +0000 chdot 361632@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Is there any evidence… </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20228#post-361630 Tue, 28 Jun 2022 14:31:21 +0000 Morningsider 361630@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Is there any evidence that the Juniper Green bike bus was arranged as part of a campaign to secure the long-term future of the Lanark Road cycle lanes? If not then it is troubling that an MSP is directly impugning constituents taking part in a lawful activity that is encouraged by national and local policy. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20228#post-361627 Tue, 28 Jun 2022 13:15:15 +0000 Murun Buchstansangur 361627@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The only people who have politicised the Lanark Rd lanes are Webber and her hinger-ons. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20228#post-361626 Tue, 28 Jun 2022 12:47:11 +0000 ejstubbs 361626@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I am not and have never been involved in a bike bus of any kind, but I would make this comment: yet another example of classic, and rather despicable "Won't somebody please think of the children?" whataboutery.</p> <p>Does Ms Webber really think that she knows what's good for the children of Juniper Green (safe active travel to school, in this instance) better than their parents do?</p> <p>Strikes me as a typical Tory trying to tell other people how they should be living their lives. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20228#post-361625 Tue, 28 Jun 2022 12:33:27 +0000 Stickman 361625@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Any parents who took part in the Juniper Green Bike Bus want to comment?</p> <p><a href="https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/msp-faces-backlash-after-claiming-24340749" rel="nofollow">https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/msp-faces-backlash-after-claiming-24340749</a></p> <p><blockquote>Ms Webber said: "If Councillor Macinnes had read the article properly, she would have seen I did not criticise bike bus schemes per se, but raised the legitimate concerns of parents that children were being used as part of a highly-politicised campaign to preserve a scheme she forced through which made an already busy road more dangerous.</p> <p>"She might be struggling with her irrelevance after years of her high-handed policies ignoring community concerns, but it's pretty desperate stuff to be arguing that it's fine for adult activists to attempt to manipulate impressionable youngsters."</blockquote> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20228#post-361609 Mon, 27 Jun 2022 15:31:50 +0000 Stickman 361609@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Don’t know why she didn’t speak about politicising children when the kids from James Gillespie appeared at the Transport Committee. She did however say this:</p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/algorhythmica1/status/1541375469974700032" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/algorhythmica1/status/1541375469974700032</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20228#post-361607 Mon, 27 Jun 2022 15:00:10 +0000 steveo 361607@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Equally he might say "it could all be a canter".... Applies to most torys... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20228#post-361606 Mon, 27 Jun 2022 10:58:34 +0000 le_soigneur 361606@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>As Gerry Cinnamon would say, "she's a belter" ...</p> <p>... as in "an outstanding example of" pandering to clickbait. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20228#post-361605 Mon, 27 Jun 2022 10:44:09 +0000 Morningsider 361605@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Frankly disgusting and quite demented. Some parents arranged and promoted a communal cycle to school. </p> <p>They did not need to consult with anyone. They did not need permission from anyone. They did not need to conduct a risk assessment.</p> <p>Are the Tories arguing that parents should not be free to choose how their children travel to school? Are they arguing that people should not use the infrastructure provided at taxpayer expense? Are they arguing for parents to conduct risk assessments on home-school travel?</p> <p>Claims that parents were "exploiting children" are simply foul. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20228#post-361602 Mon, 27 Jun 2022 09:23:04 +0000 chdot 361602@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>That’s quite a shocking article/POV. </p> <p>Full of half-truths, untruths and ‘I don’t like change’, ‘I’m right’, ‘anyone who agrees with me is right’ plus ‘I KNOW what the majority WANT’. </p> <p>Even IF the last is true, I wonder if it only covers a narrow demographic?</p> <p>Once again I applaud/congratulate all those involved in promoting/running bike buses, and especially this one. </p> <p>She imagines it’s all a plot because some people ‘came from outside’ - those who had done it before and were there to support and give confidence to those wanting a bike bus at the local school </p> <p>JUST LIKE HAS BEEN DONE ELSEWHERE</p> <p>Ms. W will have to get used to the idea there will be more of them. </p> <p>ESPECIALLY if infrastructure is suitable. </p> <p>Oh….</p> <p>The idea that children enjoying a safe ride to school are just innocent pawns in an adult political game is distasteful. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20228#post-361601 Mon, 27 Jun 2022 08:35:39 +0000 HankChief 361601@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>She's in the EEN with some total guff today.</p> <p>Not suitable for those with a tendency to get heated with Tory ramblings </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20228#post-331343 Fri, 05 Jun 2020 08:52:38 +0000 algo 331343@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>She's not very good at hashtags - serious misjudgement on the one she used a couple of days ago, but she did at least apologise </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20228#post-331342 Fri, 05 Jun 2020 08:25:55 +0000 minus six 331342@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>to be fair, many public figures naively attended sporting events in early march, but not many also had the gall, two months later, to cynically retweet that lockdown should have started much earlier </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20228#post-331339 Fri, 05 Jun 2020 07:03:45 +0000 gembo 331339@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Thought then it was Scottish Conservative Verbals</p> <p>But is Scotland Versus France rugger</p> <p>Who would have guessed </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20228#post-331336 Fri, 05 Jun 2020 00:02:37 +0000 acsimpson 331336@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>interesting hash tag she uses in that tweet, of course it's only with hindsight that a hastag starting #Scov... sounds like a reference to sars-cov-2. </p>