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Yeah having done a little reading up it's generally regarding as split liability: there is a duty for the drivers involved to try to be aware of other road-users, but there is also onus on those doing the filtering to do it carefully and slowly (which I wasn't).
However I wasn't apportioning blame, I didn't shout at anyone, the van driver was just a cunt, pure and simple.
Of course the real fault lies with the sheer amount of fucking traffic on that narrow road that causes it to snarl up every fucking morning, meaning cyclists have to try to negotiate it somehow, and filtering on the right is always better than trying to sneak past in the gutter on the left.
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I believe the onus is on the person pulling out/turning to make sure the road is clear before moving. Not that that is easily possible in queueing traffic, so many just chance it.
Strictly not your fault, but common sense says filtering past queueing traffic should be treated like going past parked vehicles on a narrow road (do it slowly and carefully).