So many buses (Image by Roger Close)
More people are taking the bus since Oxford's temporary congestion charge was introduced say Oxfordshire County Council. Data from six local bus companies including Oxford Bus Company shows an 8% increase vs prior year since the introduction of the charge.
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As it is World Book Day, we are reposting this, from @archoxfordshire.bsky.social on volunteers helping children to read in schools across the county.
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On February 6th Lucy Powell, Labours deputy leader, wrote to Zack Polanski accusing him & the Greens of sharing "misleading election material & claims on social media" & told him "its time to stop the bogus bar charts"
Labour on social media last night & the poll they're referring to⬇️
Delighted to hear from @causingascene.bsky.social in Full Council today - they are the grassroots champions for Oxford's Music Scene and want to help young artists and keep our music venues open. Follow them (or join them!).
Also Oxford is the UK's rock capital.
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And it's been updated to "advice pending..."
I guess someone important complained.
(Ignore tactical voting sites and vote green anyway 👍)
“The combined tuition fees of the entire Question Time panel would not cover my cost for 1 year of uni. Is that fair?”
Oli Dugmore
It’s absolutely NOT fair. This outrageous scandal must end
Do you have the locations they want to get them in? I know they already did this on London road in Headington (they partially won the appeal so one of this monstrosities went up)
We have 400 volunteers on the streets of Gorton and Denton today.
Labour are out of it. It's Greens vs Reform.
Lower bills, tax the rich, protect the NHS. We will win.
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“Jaywalking is permitted in London. In 1966, the police tried to crack down on it, but gave up after three months.”
People walk and cycle on roads by right, people drive under licence.
Jaywalking is not a thing in English law and Waymo must not change that.
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For those just realizing how right I was about creeps like Lawrence Krauss & Richard Dawkins, you should know that I’m also right about good guys like Robin.
St. George's flag being removed, next to the E4 bus stop. It is dark.
Local residents removed 8 flags hung around Oxford last night in response to an organised campaign from a group calling themselves the ’Raise the Colours Oxford’, who brought activists from the Midlands and Sheffield to ‘make Oxford look patriotic’
Election is pretty close now deadline for formal nominations must be rapidly approaching if not already gone?
An excuse to remind you of this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=keGo...
Peter Mandelson at the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2008. Source WEF, Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 2.0
Former Cherwell columnist, failed candidate for Oxford University Chancellor, ‘Prince of Darkness’, St. Catherine’s alumnus and architect of ‘New Labour’ Peter Mandelson has resigned as a member of the Labour Party over links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cl...
And more mundanely, the permit scheme is administered through a website everyone finds impossible to use, so adds to frustration that way
Yes - the permit scheme (100 passes) is in fact one of the bits people find most objectionable. Council seems to have gone with it to avoid excessive network impact, and because other options (city wide congestion charge) were ruled out in earlier stages of planning
Rent controls. Now.
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Am I reading this right? 1. Developer claims new homes not viable without government help. 2. Gov. says fine here's £10m with some minor strings attached. 3. Developer suddenly discovers they didn't need that money after all, whoops!
INTRODUCING! Hannah Spencer Green Party candidate for GORTON & DENTON Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of the Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ
Say hello to Hannah Spencer—councillor, plumber, greyhound lover and your Green Party candidate for Gorton and Denton 💚
Labour government: "We can't really afford to feed children right now"
Also Labour government "Hey AI companies here's some cash we just had laying around"
This is what political choice looks like. There's always money, they're just deciding to give it to big business rather than look after people.
“We are putting Palantir on notice. This is a military surveillance company tied to authoritarian surveillance and the devastation in Gaza — and it has no role in our NHS.”
Green Party leader Zack Polanski on why Palantir must be kept out of the National Health Service.
Fantastic news, huge thanks and congratulations to this campaign
You want to cancel the elections, you have to ask to cancel the elections, a simple "yes" will do!
This is like when I ask my daughter if she wants a snack and she replies "if you want me to."
Keir Starmer did everything he could to be US poodle and his strategy has ended in total humiliation. Both him and Farage are puppets of a hostile foreign nation.
It's obvious that if someone is a bully - you don't just keep appeasing them.
Disastrous strategy by Labour.
You know what? Sometimes the worst thing is to be pragmatic.
When you're dealing with a toddler who just asks for more jelly beans, you have to stop trying to appease him. It won't last.
The tantrum is going to be less bad than the appeasement.
Good - time for other councils to do this too
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Free bus travel for under 22s is just one step to help support those areas devastated by years of austerity.
KMPG analysis shows that for every £1 invested in bus services, we get an economic benefit ranging from £4.55 to £5.
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Oxford Greens out campaigning in Oxford East in the icy weather!
Come snow, sleet, rain or shine we're starting the new year out RIGHT campaigning in east Oxford!!
