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Some odd crap on twitter today.
The All Party Cycling Group (a decent resource) retweeted some nonsense by a brain dead Tory MP which suggested that helmet compulsion was obviously a right way to save lives.
I responded to him ( stupidly before checking which party he came from and therefore before realising that he was more interested in compulsion than saving lives) by suggesting that persuasion rather than compulsion was the answer and that compulsion would cost lives.
The result of my over hasty tweet was a vehement attack from some deranged Stalinist cyclist to the effect that I was talking nonsense and that helmets should be banned and there should be no choice in the matter thank you very much.
I don't think that people who adopt such strident stances help the cause of cycling.