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[Viral_Jim]

I'm inclined to agree. Judging from the beak's closing comments (I didn't follow the case closely enough to be sure) it seems she placed a lot of weight on his attitude and behaviour after the incident. Whether that is right wrong or indifferent is not for me to decide.

[2boxerdogs]

18 months not long enough in my opinion, hope the arrogant little shit gets his just desserts .

[Gaffers]

18 months when the maximum is 2 years.  Anymore would have been automatic grounds for appeal (which I believe is the case when the max sentence is awarded)

I believe that there is an unofficial movement to blacklist him from the cycling community.  The amount of reputational damage he has done merits a lifetime of the cold shoulder.

[BazaJT]

One thing to note is that he was convicted on a Victorian law covering horses/horse drawn carriages etc as current motoring laws didn't/don't cover it and he was found not guilty of manslaughter.

[Gaffers]

Further proof that the whole RTA needs reform with respect to all road users

[BazaJT]

Have to agree Guffer.Problem is of course by the time they've come up with proposals,talked about them,watered them down they would[if it ever came to pass]be another half arsed lash up as usual!

[Bigron]

Never fear, when Boris becomes PM, I will be his Minister for Transport and you will see some changes. There will definitely be an end to the war on motorists (although refocused on cyclists?), and ALL of the taxes gleaned from motorists will be rightfully spent on the roads and other motoring benefits, returning the Road Fund Licence back to its proper meaning.
I would remove all greed cameras and other stealth taxes, replacing them with high visibility policing - real policemen with that old-fashioned thing, discretion.
Taxes collected from motorists will no longer be vired off into other areas and total transparency will be the norm, because my mate, the Chancellor, will make it so! 

Ron.

[Gaffers]

....and...3..2..1..you're back in the room.

[Bigron]

If you don't have a dream, how you gonna have a dream come true.....?

Ron. (Away with the Fairies).

[Gaffers]

In the military we have a saying.  "No plan survives first contact with the enemy".  In civvie street it's first contact with reality.

[Bigron]

I was p[roposing a Utopian agenda; without politicians and their self-serving greed, it could (and would) happen. My Manifesto is a dead certain vote winner, and you know it!   

Ron. (FIRMLY based in Reality)

[Rods2]

I was p[roposing a Utopian agenda; without politicians and their self-serving greed, it could (and would) happen. My Manifesto is a dead certain vote winner, and you know it!   

Ron. (FIRMLY based in Reality)

Nice one Bigron, outlandish enough to fit seamlessly in the next Monster Raving Loonie Party manifesto. Their election HQ used to be based in a Yateley pub not far me. If it still is, at the next general election, when you are standing on your soapbox outside, Guffer, I and other local cyclists can turn up on our bikes and heckle you.

[Bigron]

You won't be allowed bikes, they will all be confiscated and destroyed, and all lycra burned, with or without you in i

Ron.t.....

[BazaJT]

So forget Boris,  it's TB for PM and Bigron for minister for Transport

[Bigron]

Sense at last!
Yep, I'll accept that, and for your support and confidence in the New World, Baza, you will be allowed to live - but not necessarily in luxury.....

Ron. (Minister for Transport Elect)