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Sorry to link to a "rival" forum (chdot, please remove this if I'm overstepping the mark) but amongst the usual sillyness there's a good thread on bikeradar about a question asked in the House of Lords about cyclists complying with the Highway Code.
I didn't just want to regurgitate the contents here, but it's worth a read, if only for those Lords that spoke up rather eloquently in defence of cyclists
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Lord Haskel: Does the Minister accept that most cyclists abide by the Highway Code purely out of a sense of self-preservation from the motorists who do not?
Earl Attlee: My Lords, it is most important that every one reads the Highway Code from time to time, in order that they understand their obligations as road users.
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http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201011/ldhansrd/text/101013-0001.htm#10101325000358
Noble LORDS: Oh!
(Exeunt omnes. Lights down. Curtains. Applause.)
It needs a little follow-up confirming that the appropriate request was formally (and doubtless nobly) made to the appropriate (and appropriately-addressed) Noble Baronesses (the Noble Ladies Sharples and Trumpington) and perhaps a sort of reference-tracking system to see what happens to the request as it passes into the mire of the invisible back-room workings. What after this discussion, will actually take place?
I wonder if cycling Lords err towards being Bromptoneers? Personally I imagine they chain their bling fixed track bikes up outside the House.
Its interesting reading the difference between an unelected house and an elected house. One reads like the daily mail the other an educated discussion.
@steveo - which being which?
Take your pick ;).
I prefer the Lords discussions as they tend to have some factual basis and have less politicking with attempts to score cheap points with the disinterested voter since they don't have to worry about the (in general) the mood of the country and as such tend to bat down stupid laws which are rushed through the lower house to be seen "to do something"
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