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"[The cycle] campaign groups are quite hard to deal with"

Don't like what they say, attack them instead.

Also, the idea that everyone will be driving electric cars in 2 to 3 years.

I mean, I know that he has no problem buying a new car every year, but most people really really don't.

the conservative party, ladies and gents.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/tory-mp-philip-davies-says-more-women-should-be-sent-to-prison-to-achieve-equality-with-men-a6741556.html

Another fine example here.

Zac Goldsmith, like most parachuted-in politicians, is as of yet still extremely badly briefed. This will change as his advisers become increasingly horrified by this sort of ignorant interview and he will hedge his bets more (although probably still think the same stupid nonsense) as the election approaches.

Having done this traffic thing for a while now, it still staggers me how little politicians understand transportation, any form of it.