Chris Evans, walked or pushed

Jeremy Vine is whining about the meaning of the word "Drivetime".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-46162312

Quote:BBC Radio 2's Drivetime show should be renamed because it celebrates "a form of transport that kills 1,700 people a year"
Writing on Twitter on Friday, Vine said he was sure Cox would be "brilliant" at the helm.
He added, however, that "our addiction to the motor vehicle has made our cities traffic sewers; made us asthmatic, fat and angry; and made our planet suffer".

I've always thought it "celebrates" people who work 9-5 and then drive home. I was one of them once, and I still have fond memories of the comfort it gave me on some lousy journeys in crap traffic

I hope that after such a sanctimonious rant that Mr Vine either cycles or runs into work.

Rather typical, I am afraid, of the media luvvie metroplitian elitist disapproving condescension to the ordinary working man and woman that persists stubbornly despite the popular revolts of Brexit and Trump. It speaks of a Marie Antoinette attitude “let them eat cake and let them walk to their jobs”.

(11-11-2018 07:41 )Doddle Wrote:  Jeremy Vine is whining about the meaning of the word "Drivetime".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-46162312

Quote:BBC Radio 2's Drivetime show should be renamed because it celebrates "a form of transport that kills 1,700 people a year"
Writing on Twitter on Friday, Vine said he was sure Cox would be "brilliant" at the helm.
He added, however, that "our addiction to the motor vehicle has made our cities traffic sewers; made us asthmatic, fat and angry; and made our planet suffer".

I've always thought it "celebrates" people who work 9-5 and then drive home. I was one of them once, and I still have fond memories of the comfort it gave me on some lousy journeys in crap traffic

(11-11-2018 07:54 )Rake Wrote:  I hope that after such a sanctimonious rant that Mr Vine either cycles or runs into work.

He's a poster boy for cycling to work:

Quote:In August 2016, Vine was the victim of a road rage attack while cycling down a west London street.
Footage of the confrontation was filmed on the presenter's helmet camera and posted online.
The driver was jailed for nine months for using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour.

Mmm...I wonder if Mr Vine’s fame influenced both the decision to prosecute and the subsequent severity of the sentence!

His last show on Radio2 this morning.

Well I was wrong last time, but he's finally gone now..

But what's this on the News that he's going to be on the next Strictly Come Dancing.
Why has he been signed up so quickly, as most of the contestants are arranged late spring?
Why are the BBC so keen on signing someone who walked away from the corparation, to work for the opposition?
What happened to the secrecy of not revealing who's going to be on the show until a few week before Strictly's launch?

I smell a big fat ginger rat