Boycott Addison Lee

Gosh! I would have signed, but I am german citizen and also normally live here (my aunt living in Surrey does not count). Politicians here recently started a campaign that looks like they want to declare war against cyclists. But I guess things are much worse in London if a company feels able to give their employees "carte blanche" to kill cyclists. Plain horror.

Well, obviously it all gets rather overcooked, especially in some of the media. Equally obviously, Griffin hasn't given anyone carte blanche to kill.

I can only imagine that people are confusing, merging, or exaggerating two things there: his strange decision to exhort his drivers to break the law concerning bus lanes, and his victim-blaming attitude in the Addison Lee magazine. Both are completely unacceptable, but of course together they don't make 'carte blanche to kill cyclists'.

Imagining the possible consequence of someone dying is legitimate, especially as a tool of protest. It still doesn't mean that Griffin actually said or meant to call for killing. His defence against that charge is a lot clearer than Matthew Parris' a few years ago when he 'jokingly' said that people should string chicken wire across country lanes to decapitate cyclists.