Legality of overtaking cyclists

cycle training specifically addresses such issues.

if you cannot turn right or cars are over taking you then your road position is not assertive enough

i was really surprised at how much road they encouraged me to take up

I have always subscribed to that belief since i was hit off by an overtaking lorry back in 2001, funnily enough having had an incident free 8 years, the same day this thread starts someone pulled the most ridiculuous overtake on me i have ever experienced (i have a pretty boring commute).

20 yards from turning right on a mini r'bout in Heston, me well on the right of the lane (assertive?) and hand signalling right, some fucker thinks that they must still overtake me, and goes way out into the other side of the road passing within 2 inches of my handlebars, before cutting back in front of me with only a couple of yards until the road divider at the r'bout entrance, me having thumped on the passenger window and let off some choice obscenities at them, and hoping to find them further up the road wrapped round a lamppost in some form of divine retribution as was seen in richmond park with that bmw last weekend...