MPs Expenses

Kieran_Burns

Bear with me - I PROMISE this is relevant to bike commuting, honest!

In the morning I tend to watch documentaries on Sky and at the end of the hour flick over to watch the BBC local news. Once that is done you get the headlines and that has inevitably been about the MPs stealing, sorry: CLAIMING for private islands / moats / castles in the air / whatever; There has, every morning this week, been a reporter stood outside the HoP giving the latest gossip.

The thing is: I find myself looking in the background and watching all the cycle commuters whizzing past (see told you it was relevant) and wondering if anyone from on here has been seen in shot.

So, do any of you London commuters see the news crews stacked up outside the HoP blathering on to the camera about the latest MP caught thieving, sorry: fairly claming?

If you go by tomorrow could you wave at the BBC camera so we know it's you?

Christophe3967

I rarely see anything other than the fleet of police vans and hoards of Tamil protestors that have taken up residence. In the evenings, you have to be on full alert for suicide peds, cars pullling out of the HoP car park without looking, taxis stopping without warning, muppets on scooters, tourist buses in the wrong lane, foreign playboys in Ferraris and other cyclists who think they should be at the front of the queue. Other than that, its very quiet.

cjcp

Kieran_Burns wrote:

So, do any of you London commuters see the news crews stacked up outside the HoP blathering on to the camera about the latest MP caught thieving, sorry: fairly claming?

If you go by tomorrow could you wave at the BBC camera so we know it's you?

I was stopped at the little set of lights outside HoP last week, leaned against the railing and there was Lembit Opik next to me having a chat with two chaps about the Telegraph story. Don't know if they were journos having an OTR chat.

I know, I might do a Cavendish style victory salute if I spot one on the grassy section opposite the HoP. :P

Don't suppose running past Andrew Marr in Richmond Park counts, does it?

Other than that, as Christophe said, it's eyes peeled for detritus (sorry, I mean scooters), private cabs (damn Addison Lee VW Sharan cut me again today!) hazards. Particularly at the moment. The traffic is horrendous - roadworks, Tamils + general volume of traffic.

Half term next week though. 8)

Kieran_Burns

You've just reminded me about this mornings broadcast... watching the cyclists filter down the inside of the traffic, I was amazed to see a scooter in the middle of the melee bouncing along ALSO 'filtering' along the kerb!

Is there a series of boxes on the outskirts of London where motorised travellers leave their common sense?

cjcp

Kieran_Burns wrote:

You've just reminded me about this mornings broadcast... watching the cyclists filter down the inside of the traffic, I was amazed to see a scooter in the middle of the melee bouncing along ALSO 'filtering' along the kerb!

The Detritus/Scooters filter like there's no tomorrow. They can get through gaps not even rats can get through.

gtvlusso

I am gonna become an MP and expense this:



As my main form of transport....I think the tax payer will cough up £7000......eco friendly and the same price as a secondhand Golf!


Seems reasonable :shock:

chuckcork

gtvlusso wrote:

I am gonna become an MP and expense this:



As my main form of transport....I think the tax payer will cough up £7000......eco friendly and the same price as a secondhand Golf!


Seems reasonable :shock:

More eco friendly that a car + driver and cheaper too. Provided the ride it every day, why not?

(Then again, why couldn't the rest of us claim such against our tax? Not that I have the cash)