Southwark has recently consulted and then voted upon a series of bye-laws. This includes stopping cycling on a particularly narrow part of the Thames Path (not the Sustrans cycle route but the Thames walkway).  

I now read in the South London Press that Councillor Jenny Jones is threatening to defy this cycle ban.

There is a very honourable tradition of peaceful protest and civil disobedience in the UK which I wouldn’t wish to denegrate. From the Chartists to the 1990s road protests – it plays an important part in a free society.

But Jenny Jones has already had an opportunity to make her case on this issue. As I recall it she was at the Council meeting that discussed the bye-laws but didn’t make a stand against this measure. She neither spoke against it nor recorded a vote against it.  This seems strange for someone who is so incensed about the issue now.  I wonder what the explanation is.