The ToB problem you experiences Walkerman, was that our police just don't seem to be able to handle this event in the way the French police do with the Tour de France.
Our police are absolutely supposed to close and empty each road section in the same way as the French do, but year after year we have this sort of failure through ineptitude, and I remember a similar mess in South East London one year when not only was traffic allowed into a stage but many of the Tour riders were misdirected the wrong way by some flustered police officers and ended up on a network of tram-like on road railway tracks on the edge of the docks. Disastrous on their narrow tyres.
I didn't watch all of the Tour of Britain highlights programs and didn't see the episode you report, but no doubt they would have wanted to keep it quiet anyway. I doubt if our police regard the ToB as important anyway, as the French police would regard their Tour which is a national institution.
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