Pedal Power
‘WHILE David Blunkett explains all, another politician with a tangled love life cycles back into the fray.
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The Times looks on as Boris Johnson heads for another confrontation with his party and, judging by the three sequential shots of him cycling while using on his mobile phone, a collision with the pavement.
And the phone is the thing, because Tim Yeo, the shadow transport secretary incidentally, in a past political incarnation Yeo cheated on his wife and fathered a child by a Hackney councillor – says that its not right that cyclists can use their mobile phones when in motion while car drivers cannot.
Cyclists need to hear more sensitively than people in cars because they dont have mirrors and so dont know whats coming up behind them, says Yeo, who wants cycle phones banned
But Boris isnt having any of it. Speaking via his Spectator column, he vows to defend the right to cycle and phone while there is breath in my body.
There goes Boris, as they say in Liverpool, wallowing in his victim status…’
Posted: 6th, December 2004 | In: Uncategorized Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
