Friday, March 21, 2008

Mirror skewers bicycling Dave



You have to smile at the good old-fashioned journalism on show in today's Daily Mirror.


Journalists, determined to find something about David Cameron's cycling to the Commons stunt to take the sheen off it.


They followed him on three Wednesday's as he cycled from his Notting Hill home to Parliament.


The Tory boss was spotted flouting the law by cycling the wrong way in a one-way street, through red lights and the wrong side of a bollard on his 30-minute trip to work.
Hapless Cameron was breaking the rules within minutes of leaving his Notting Hill home in West London for Westminster.
He sailed past a large red no entry sign even Mr Magoo would have noticed. Another clue was the huge arrows on the road pointing which way traffic should go.

Next to be ignored was a keep left beacon in the Mall. He veered off to the right...no change there then. Cam also hurtled over a toucan crossing, for cyclists and pedestrians, while the signal was red.

Dave, to his credit, immediately apologised and said he would not do it again. But still, its made it onto the One O'Clock News, which is not good at all.