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  • If only this were true.

    Alas, much to my chagrin, Daily Mail readers are afforded equal rights as constituents to the politicians that create and legislate the laws that we live by. They won't have to concede anything, they can just vote in people who will change the laws back. If you say fuck them then they'll vote against your propositions. In politics and the law the only people that you can fuck off is an absolute minority and in this situation, that would be us.

    Maybe so, but when did you last vote on one specific law? Once laws are implemented, they are rarely repealed. Yes, Daily Heil readers are afforded equal rights, as they should be. However, these should not trump the need to protect the most vulnerable road users. We as cyclists may be a minority, but a rapidly growing minority. Ignore us at your peril. Even BoJo, a tory who probably reads the daily mail appears to be on the side of the cyclists. The government is looking for ways to decrease traffic & public transport congestion, get people active, reduce pollution and go "green" as it were. Cycling presents at least a partial solution and the government knows that - cycle to work scheme for example. The odds for change are better than they have ever been, and it would be silly to not take the opportunity. Strike while the iron's hot and all that. We will get nothing of value if we don't big up the cause just because someone might not like what we are doing. Organisations like Greenpeace would be nowhere near what they are today without the pioneers sticking to their guns and principles.

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