Thread by @psimonk

The bestest, brightest tweeters & campaigners1 on active travel are women, incl @Jo_Earlsfield & @carlafrancome. That Jo has been targeted by a nasty misogynist gang of bitter men, raging that they've lost the argument in every way, is sadly unsurprising. #BigUpJoRigby

https://twitter.com/carlafrancome/status/1470868725188415503

My thoughts FWIW. 1. Don't engage w these idiots directly. Don't reply. Screenshot & use to make points if you must. Report. But don't engage. Don't feed trolls folks. 2. Good news: they've lost. That they do stuff like this shows that. 3. Bad news: that makes those left worse...

4. Again, it needs saying, that while there are idiots on both 'sides' of this debate, if you think LTNs, bus gates, cycleways are evil, you are standing on the same side as folks who doxx, follow people home, routinely target women, make violent threats, cause criminal damage...

And your Next Door and FB groups are toxic cesspits of misogynist abuse. On 'our' side there has been some sweary idiocy, mocking etc. But none of that basically. So again, think hard about what your fellow travellers say about you. And no, it's not a few bad apples.

5. We should be able to have a conversation, even disagree on how to reduce pollution, car use, climate emissions without this. 6. I'd like to see Conservative, Labour, Lib Dem & Green Cllrs, politicians working to reduce heat in this discussion. Stop using active travel...

As a political football. Jo has spoken out about inaction & poor decisions by fellow Labour Cllrs. As a result she was attacked by politicians from her own party & she has been attacked by her 'opposition'. If we can't speak out about bad politics, if we can't #BeMoreJoRigby...

To deal w #ClimateCrisis without getting attacks from Cllrs who get upset about being legitimately criticised, if any time a few residents get angry about changes to streets a bunch of politicians amplify that anger, we are stuffed as a city, country, planet. Stop feeding hate.