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    From Spike@21:1/5 to All on Thu May 16 17:21:58 2024
    BBC R4 Today programme 16 May 2024, 08:24:10 to 08:29:40.

    Basically…the message is “it’s only a handful, why all this fuss?”.

    Then listen very carefully to his closing remarks about climate change and society:

    “We’ve got to move on from informing and inspiring to enabling and requiring”.

    Grim or what. He doesn’t like cyclists being controlled, but ‘knows’ what’s
    good for society.

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    Spike

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  • From JNugent@21:1/5 to Spike on Thu May 16 19:38:01 2024
    On 16/05/2024 06:21 pm, Spike wrote:

    BBC R4 Today programme 16 May 2024, 08:24:10 to 08:29:40.

    Basically…the message is “it’s only a handful, why all this fuss?”.

    Then listen very carefully to his closing remarks about climate change and society:

    “We’ve got to move on from informing and inspiring to enabling and requiring”.

    Grim or what. He doesn’t like cyclists being controlled, but ‘knows’ what’s
    good for society.

    Some chav-cyclists like to give off an impression of erudition and
    liberality.

    But when it boils down to the basics, they're almost all just
    self-centred, scofflaw chavs. And Boardman's mask slipped there,
    revealing the whining kid within.

    "Just leave us alone to do as we like! After all, other people just
    don't matter".

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  • From Spike@21:1/5 to Spike on Fri May 17 11:20:08 2024
    Spike <aero.spike@mail.com> wrote:
    BBC R4 Today programme 16 May 2024, 08:24:10 to 08:29:40.

    Basically…the message is “it’s only a handful, why all this fuss?”.

    Then listen very carefully to his closing remarks about climate change and society:

    “We’ve got to move on from informing and inspiring to enabling and requiring”.

    Grim or what. He doesn’t like cyclists being controlled, but ‘knows’ what’s
    good for society.

    The claim about ‘enabling and requiring’ has been used before by Boardman, in this article complete with the original misleading headline having been corrected. Well, this is the pro-climate BBC, after all:

    <https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/67084941>

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    Spike

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  • From Spike@21:1/5 to Spike on Fri May 17 11:29:54 2024
    Spike <aero.spike@mail.com> wrote:
    Spike <aero.spike@mail.com> wrote:
    BBC R4 Today programme 16 May 2024, 08:24:10 to 08:29:40.

    Basically…the message is “it’s only a handful, why all this fuss?”.

    Then listen very carefully to his closing remarks about climate change and >> society:

    “We’ve got to move on from informing and inspiring to enabling and
    requiring”.

    Grim or what. He doesn’t like cyclists being controlled, but ‘knows’ what’s
    good for society.

    The claim about ‘enabling and requiring’ has been used before by Boardman,
    in this article complete with the original misleading headline having been corrected. Well, this is the pro-climate BBC, after all:

    <https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/67084941>

    From the Boardman website:

    “I am married to Sally-Anne Boardman and have six children, two dogs and a cat. We have lived on the Wirral peninsula for nearly 30 years.”

    <https://chrisboardman.com/about.php>

    Excuse me, but if you are keen on ‘requiring’ people to follow diktats regarding climate change, was it the best idea to bring six children into
    an overpopulated world and then whinge about the climate changing?

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    Spike

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  • From Brian@21:1/5 to Spike on Mon May 20 19:41:18 2024
    Spike <aero.spike@mail.com> wrote:
    BBC R4 Today programme 16 May 2024, 08:24:10 to 08:29:40.

    Basically…the message is “it’s only a handful, why all this fuss?”.

    Then listen very carefully to his closing remarks about climate change and society:

    “We’ve got to move on from informing and inspiring to enabling and requiring”.

    Grim or what. He doesn’t like cyclists being controlled, but ‘knows’ what’s
    good for society.


    Boardman’s Twitter / X post is a classic:

    “I don’t normally get involved in calling out headlines but it’s just getting bonkers.

    If this was directed at a gender, race or religion it would be rightly
    called out as the hate speech it is. Mums, dads, sons and daughters being labelled as killers. It’s just got to stop.”

    Doesn’t he realise that every killer is someone’s son or daughter and many are mums, dads, etc?

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  • From Spike@21:1/5 to Brian on Tue May 21 15:42:55 2024
    Brian <noinv@lid.org> wrote:
    Spike <aero.spike@mail.com> wrote:
    BBC R4 Today programme 16 May 2024, 08:24:10 to 08:29:40.

    Basically…the message is “it’s only a handful, why all this fuss?”. >>
    Then listen very carefully to his closing remarks about climate change and >> society:

    “We’ve got to move on from informing and inspiring to enabling and
    requiring”.

    Grim or what. He doesn’t like cyclists being controlled, but ‘knows’ what’s
    good for society.


    Boardman’s Twitter / X post is a classic:

    “I don’t normally get involved in calling out headlines but it’s just getting bonkers.

    If this was directed at a gender, race or religion it would be rightly
    called out as the hate speech it is. Mums, dads, sons and daughters being labelled as killers. It’s just got to stop.”

    Stop the killings is a good idea, and the new changes bringing in
    up-to-date laws for cyclists who kill is to be welcomed. But I don’t think that was what he meant.

    Doesn’t he realise that every killer is someone’s son or daughter and many
    are mums, dads, etc?


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    Spike

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