Lord Robert Winston says a woman kicked him when he told her not to cycle on the pavement

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The nutty professor was probably up skirting the poor female cyclist with a hidden camera in his umbrella which is why he has come up with this cock and bull story.

Lost all respect for this clearly nutty, illogical, anti-cylist facist professor who conveniently forgets roads are dangerous to cross or ride on 2wheels. He ignores shared pavement staggered around here and there but does he complain about them? No.

He has no authority to stop anyone going about their buisness on what may have been a shared pavement. Why does he not stop dangerous drivers and step out in front of them and save an actual life rather than letting them kill in the 000's and many more through toxic exaust fumes? Why does he not step out and stop speeding motorists and pick on them instead of picking on a vulnerable female cyclist who has no protecrion as motorist's have. Why does he not call for a dirty diesel ban since he has a medical background? Get your priorities in order, mr Robert Winston...no longer a professor in my book.

Just a thought.  Maybe we should consider number plates, and licensing requirements?

Come on - a bit of honesty here.  Some of these "peers of the realm" are downright dangerous, and (frankly) I'd be very happy to have loony-tunes peers like Lord Winston to be obliged to wear a number plate, and a VERY prominent L-plate until they have passed a stringent test of competence regarding their ability to tell truth?

If he was able to simply "walk up and politely point out it was illegal", then the cyclist was clearly travelling slowly, otherwise he’d have had to run. The police have been advised to accept that many people do not feel comfortable cycling amongst some of today’s extremely aggressive traffic and that in areas with no cycle lanes they should not enforce the letter of the law if they are cycling safely. (Idiots weaving through pedestrians at speed are fair game to stop) Current regulations on licence plates haven’t stopped drivers breaking the law with a recent survey finding over 50% of drivers admit to "regularly" exceeding the speed limits, huge numbers still using hand held phones, etc etc etc

Now, of course, there are many things I don't get with this, but why the glaring inconsistency of this just applying to city centre cyclists?

He is one of those ‘scientists’ whose understanding of ‘evidence based practice’ comes off with the white coat.  

Do doctors wear masks so they cannot be identifed? I think all doctors should have their General Medical Council registration details tatooed on their forehead so they can be identified while wearing a mask.

I don't agree with cyclists using footpaths, but he is clearly wildly out of touch with the real world if he thinks his plan would make the slightest difference.

Law-abiding cyclists would be registered, at a cost and inconvenience to themselves.

Those who couldn't give a monkey's about not riding on footpaths won't register for this.  What will happen to those who aren't registered and ride on the footpath?  Between reduced numbers and spending their time on policing the interweb in case people say nasty things, what Police does he think will be about to arrest cyclists without number plates.  If a copper should see a cyclist without a number plate what will they do: run after them or manage not to see them?

To be a little fair to the Police, they can only work with the resources they have and if they are told to prioritise the nonsence of people being offended as a crime,and don't have the available resources to investigate drug dealing and burglary, I don't think they'll have the helicopter out for a cyclist without a number plate.

If only there were some means of easily identifying individual motor vehicles via a series of numbers and letters, then misdemeanours would stop immediately.

For a supposedly bright bloke, Robert Sir Lord Winston seems to have a sketchy grasp on reality.

I'm wondering on the pracicality of sitting on a stationary bike and being able to kick someone...

Delusional old tool should be put down, I hope he gets a right kicking with regards his proposal and outed for the lunatic, discriminatory gammon liar that he is!

How incredibly convenient for him.

As others before me - I'm calling BS on this.

The other option is that he's attacked a woman on a bike. 

For a clever dude - he's a bit of a nob. 

Only the other day I was having a peaceful stroll through some local woodland and was set upon by a small furry critter that seemed to be wearing glasses and a bushy moustache. I tried reporting it to the local constabulary and they wouldn't take me seriously.

Maybe I should call for compulsory license plates (and insurance?) for all the woodland critters.

Several months ago a drunken pedestrian began kicking my bike and pannier bags while screaming and abusing me. I couldn't identify him to police either.

Looking forward to Winston putting in a bill for all pedestrians to wear licence plates on their hoodies.

I would back him...if all pedestrians had an identification number tattoed on their foreheads and had a tracking beacon inserted under the skin.  Then any time any body did anything they could be identified...

With the abundance of cctv these days, I'm sure there's some footage this alleged assault?

Like the Brexit Bill, it's No No No and trice No Lord Winston

Just sent this to the Daily Mail via their contact form.

Good afternoon,

I just read the story on how Lord Winston was attacked by a cyclist.  This is appalling, and I condemn it without hesitation or reservation.

I wonder if you could ask Lord Winston why he didn’t report this to the police.  After all, he was assaulted and had his phone presumably damaged.  There were two witnesses, and there is CCTV all over central London.  Not to mention loads of drivers with dashcam in their car.   Someone would have got a look at this woman, and considering who Lord Winston is, the Met would not have just told him to piss off as it does to so many cyclists who are bullied, assaulted and threatened.   

I look forward to your (and his) response.

I know.. pissing into the wind.  I know. 

Somebody should tell him that considerate pavement cycling is allowed thanks to an amendment in 1999 to the anti pavement cycling law, and reasserted? in 2006.

Oh and Bloomsbury? A rich area? That maybe has cctv to back him up?

I call bullshit on his story. It should be investigated and if there is cctv (that doesn't back him up) he should be prosecuted and thrown out of the lords (will never happen)

How very convenient that having had his daft idea for licencing and registration slapped down by Baroness Barran, he immediately goes out and engineers a confrontation with a cyclist to create a story that supports his narrative.

If the incident did actually happen then I would urge Lord Winston to report it. 2 witnesses who came to his aid and London is well covered by CCTV. Also the Police do actually have some record of success in apprehending suspects who were not wearing personalised registration numbers whilst commiting offences.

I would also caution "Have a go heroes" to think about the appropriateness of accosting ladies in the street. She may well have felt fully justified in shouting and lashing out when a creepy old man blocked her path and looked like he may be trying to film her with a mobile phone.

I believe the modern response would be "Cool story, bro."

I call BS on this story.

I think he's making it up.

(or, he doesn't want anyone to mention that the cyclist kicked him after he (Lord W) went all vigilante and poked an umbrella through their spokes or something...).

While he's at it, he should introduce a private members bill calling for pedestrians to be licensed. That would solve all the muggings and knife crime at a stroke!