Addison Lee drivers told to defy bus lane law (and to just say SMIDSY)

Critical Mass gets mentioned but this, and everything else that has happened in the last few years, just goes to prove again what an ineffective campaigning tool it is.

I doubt that Critical Mass was ever a campaigning 'tool'--it was for a time the most important cycling event in London (mid-Nineties) and some people attached high hopes to it as a 'protest', but that role is long gone. Moreover, it was never intended to be prescriptive in what people were supposed to bring to it and what to use it for.

Completely agree with the first part of your post.