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Mike, it's perfectly understandable that people go contraflow, and it highlights one of the main problems with the gyratory. It has understandably always attracted a lot of attention over the years. I remember it being a topic of much conversation in Stoke Newington more than ten years ago.
People obviously shouldn't do it, but it's inevitable that some do--they always split into a couple of different choices when faced with such a phenomenon. Some obey the rules, others don't, still others find a kind of 'half-obeying the rules and half not' course of action. The rules here are obviously flawed and you never get universal agreement to flawed rules. (You never get universal agreement to better rules, either, but non-compliance tends to be less blatant.)
That's not to condone it, just to explain it. I can't count the number of times people have complained to me about footway cycling specifically in Stoke Newington. It's a problem that needs to be tackled at its root.