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Jeremy Vine’s live blog season ticket hasn’t seen much action in recent months (apart from the odd impatient Bentley driver), but it’s safe to say that over on Twitter – it’s still around, hooray! – the two-wheeled presenter is continuing his successful streak of upsetting angry, entitled motorists with his daily commute videos.
Vine’s latest ‘controversial’ clip, posted yesterday morning, shows a Kensington taxi driver go full MGIF (Must Get in Front) by close passing the broadcaster, despite the cyclist’s hand signal to indicate that he was staying in the outside lane.
If this black-cab driver had just said “Sorry, that was a bad overtake,” I wouldn’t have minded. But his entitlement and lying were just off the scale. The remark “You can do what you like, you know that” (meaning *he* can) suggests he has simply invented his own Highway Code. pic.twitter.com/uIe45BGly9
— Jeremy Vine (@theJeremyVine) November 20, 2022
Not only that, but the close pass was also accompanied by an obligatory blast of the horn and a shout of ‘What’s your problem?’ from the black cab driver.
As with almost all MGIF passes, of course, the manoeuvre comes to no avail, as Vine soon draws level with the cabbie for a rather testy debrief.
“Why did you close pass me?” Vine asks.
“You put your hand out and I thought you were going right,” comes the response.
“No, you didn’t, there’s no right turn.”
“You can do what you like, you know that. You put your hand out to go right, I’ve let you go…”
“No, you deliberately close passed me.”
“You should know better.”
Like the vast majority of Vine’s close encounters with London drivers, this clip attracted some classic anti-cycling responses:
So you’re on your bike. You need to go into the right lane. You put you’re right hand out to show this and then just go, ignoring what is behind you? What, in you’re head thinks I can indicate right, and just go. When NO other vehicle on the road would do that!
— Andrew Yates (@AndrewYates6) November 20, 2022
Very selective with your clips. You never show any clips of bad cyclists🤔. I bet you have loads of clips of em jumping red lights, no indications, riding on the path, not using cycle lanes. But hey.
— stress-ed (@EdStress) November 20, 2022
jeremy vines road according to him . You didnt care that you were carrying out 1 overtake then went for another . you cut the cyclist off on your left and he could read the situation by staying behind teh cab to let other road users make progress . try that sometime on a mission?
— roy rockliffe (@ducatiepie) November 20, 2022
Even YouTube driving instructor and live blog favourite Ashley Neal (a two for one deal on a Monday morning, aren’t you lucky?) got involved, sparking a somewhat heated exchange between the pair:
The cab driver was impatient, but there’s plenty of things you should’ve done differently. Do you fancy sending me the unedited footage and I’ll do a piece on it?
— AshleyNealDrivingIns (@AshleyNealDI) November 20, 2022
You’re clearly biased against cyclists. Are you instructing people to drive, because that sounds dangerous to me?
— Jeremy Vine (@theJeremyVine) November 20, 2022
However, amidst all the righteous fury, one particular tweet stood out as worthy of at least a nomination to the anti-cycling bingo Hall of Fame:
Why didn’t you move left. He pays road tax you don’t, he is faster than you, he is trying to earn a living.
— Tim Monck-Mason (@tamarillotim) November 21, 2022
Ah, is that in the highway code — the more “road tax” you pay, the more you have to give way to others on the roads?
How would that work with electric cars? They would b never be allowed to overtake anyone— Jeremy Vine (@theJeremyVine) November 21, 2022
He doesn’t pay road tax. He isn’t faster and Jeremy was probably cycling to work trying to earn a living. So wrong on all accounts.
— Adam Bronkhorst (@AdamBronkhorst) November 21, 2022
Another reader of the My-way Code! Honestly, you guys should work out what made your lives so empty rather than picking on cyclists. You’ll be hassling pedestrians next
— Hantsman (@hantsarchitect) November 21, 2022
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