Cycle campaigning

He might well be a committed cycle campaigner, but he's also a bully. I used to be a member of the Southwark Cyclists facebook group until one day he deleted me from it and blocked me from rejoining. Not for anything I'd said or any disruptive behaviour - I don't think I'd ever really posted much in the group beyond adding likes and the odd positive comment. He did it solely because I have in my Facebook contact lists somebody he didn't like and who he had performed a sustained campaign of bullying against for quite some time, purely because (as far as I could make out) they had a different opinion to his on cycle lanes. That seems to be the level of his campaigning. The individual in question has done a great deal to promote cycling as a positive activity which made his continued, very public, personal attacks against a vulnerable individual even shittier than they would be otherwise (though I can't honestly say there's any circumstance at all where behaving like that would be decent human behaviour).

When he's not relentlessly following people around so he can bully them, or trying to silence voices that might say things he doesn't agree with, or hitching a ride on the deaths of total strangers to push his own political agenda, he could be a pillar of the community for all I know. For all I know he spends his spare time adopting orphaned kittens and handcrafting tiny splints for injured hedgehogs while teaching blind children to play the piano. I've no idea, and if the only public activity I've seen him take part in is acting like a spiteful prick, then I'm going to think he's a spiteful prick. Unfortunately I can't really separate my personal opinion of the man as a person from his campaigning, because he was acting like a spiteful prick in his capacity as a campaigner.

That's why my "nasty rubbish" clutters up my opinion of Don.