I expect you've all seen this. Driver tweets about a collision.

[Jezston]

Blimey! The Daily Mail! Have we now official reached some kind of tipping point? Are we past 'peak hate'?

 

[Jezston]

This young woman's attitude is a proportionate response to TrafficDroid's inexcusable provocation, I'll wager.

What.

Have you got your threads muddled up?

 

[Pale Rider]

The definition of 'road tax' seems to matter a great deal to a few on here.

So it's worth remembering there has been some historical revisioning.

Road tax, or the 'tax disc' used to be officially called Road Fund Licence until officialdom accepted only a tiny proportion of the money raised was ever used to fund roads.

Thus it became Vehicle Excise Duty, handily pinned to the emissions flag which at the time was gaining popularity with the chattering classes.

It's never been any more or less than a tax on motoring.

 

[glenn forger]

A tax on motoring that thousands of motorists don't pay. So, not a tax on motoring at all. It's a voluntary tax paid by those who choose the most polluting vehicles. Having a go at cyclists for not paying VED is like attacking a four-year-old child for not paying tax on cigarettes.

 

[glenn forger]

Contacted by the Mail last night, Miss Way refused to comment. However a friend said she had been suspended from work at accountants Larking Gowen.

The friend claimed: ‘She stopped, but the other guy didn’t stop. She looked in the mirror and he was gone. It’s absolutely ridiculous. There was nobody marshalling the cyclists and they were going really fast.

‘She is a village girl who knows every pothole on every road round here. She made a stupid remark on Twitter but it’s all got out of hand.’


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[vernon]

Having a go at cyclists for not paying VED is like attacking a four-year-old child for not paying tax on cigarettes.

No it's not. All four year olds can not purchase cigarettes so can never be liable for tax. Lot's of cyclists own cars so pay VED when their vehicles qualify. Some cyclists are able to avoid having to pay VED through owning a motorised vehicle which does not attract VED or through not owning a motorised vehicle at all.

 

[redcard]

No it's not. All four year olds can not purchase cigarettes so can never be liable for tax. Lot's of cyclists own cars so pay VED when their vehicles qualify. Some cyclists are able to avoid having to pay VED through owning a motorised vehicle which does not attract VED or through not owning a motorised vehicle at all.

He said 'like'. Not 'exactly identical in every single possible way'.

 

[vernon]

He said 'like'. Not 'exactly identical in every single possible way'.

It's not even similar.

 

[redcard]

It's not even similar.

No tax is paid in either circumstance. So that bit is.

 

[vernon]

No tax is paid in either circumstance. So that bit is.

But one half can never even be in a position to pay tax so it isn't.

 

[Canrider]

But one half can never even be in a position to pay tax so it isn't.

So once your pedal-cycle produces carbon dioxide emissions...?

 

[avalon]

The story has now made it into the news here in Australia. I wouldn't be surprised if some magazine offers her money to take her clothes off next or she appears on Top Gear as one of Jeremy "I hate anyone on two wheels'' Clarkson's heroes.

 

[TheDoctor]

Well, it's a job. I can't imagine she'll keep her current one for too much longer...

 

[coffeejo]

Flippin ek, the forum time of the month.

 

[Archie_tect]

Yawn....