Child poverty has not improved in 30 years and shockingly remains stable ~30%. While UK billionaires accumulate a more and more wealth. Is this the "abundance" they talk of? (Sources in ALT text).

Parking creates traffic. The City of Oxford College running an unlicensed public car park is a big WTF.

How is this not bigger news??https://www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk/news/25517093.probe-launched-rubbish-heap-found-a34-cherwell/

Usual rule applies. If it's free, then you're not the customer, you're the product.

free of charge? Where's the catch??

Oxford charity Asylum Welcome is asking residents to place an orange light in their window during the Oxford Light Festival, 14-16 November. The light represents compassion for people fleeing war and persecution and is inspired by the colours of a lifebelt.

To be fair, I doubt Farage gets much pleasure from remembering that his side lost World War Two.

Out door knocking yesterday for the Ridgeway by-election, I spoke to a resident who said "we've been let down for so many years now." - This person lives in a house that cost well over a million pounds. If even the people living in the big houses feel that way, how do you think poor people feel?

Labour aren’t even pretending any more. Here’s a handy list of Oxfordshire County votes for a motion brought by the Conservative Alliance published on the Reform councillor’s FB page. Labour voting with Tories, the nutters from the IOA (their chair is an anti-vaxxer and Covid denier) and Reform. 🤷‍♀️

Car culture is wild. Coz wdym the M&S Christmas advert is celebrating a huge traffic jam (which generally means a very serious, often fatal collision) and promoting people exit their cars on the motorway.

I think my colleague and I broke our boss when he tried to get us to make changes to a ppt we had been working on together, but we're not having it. Boss,finally: "It's quite subjective and i feel a 2v1 Friday afternoon mutiny coming my way so go with yours!" .... More power to the women, BAM!✊

For illustrative purposes: a million seconds is 11 and a half days. A billion seconds is 31 years and 8 months. A trillion seconds is 31,710 years. Billionaires should not exists. Trillionaires, even more so.

If you ever despair at what an uphill battle it is to fight inequality, remember: there’s 99% of us and only 1% of them.

The first tenant has been announced at Oxford North.

Conservative Alliance played their usualy game of wasting valuable council time on meaningless leaflet and social media post fodder by presenting a motion to scrap the congestion charge a mere 6 days after it was implemented.

Regular reminder that if you’re a woman punching down on a more vulnerable group in the name of “women’s rights”, you’re definitely not: a modern day suffragette.

This is the best thing I’ve seen all day.

Don't tell us about "trust". Here we have Cllr Baines' picture on a leaflet that tells outright lies. Oxford Greens proposed in fact an amendment to include _additional_ disadvantaged groups into the bus motion proposed by Labour.

Or indeed decided not to give free bus fares to young people... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Absolute scenes in Oxfordshire. LABOUR voting WITH TORIES and the car brained IOA to remove a traffic intervention designed to speed up buses, and was recommended by 74% in the citizens assembly THEY ASKED FOR, AND that has already been praised by the BUS companies, after SIX days.

"let’s see how the next election goes for him" - this TORY has a sense of humour 😂

Doesn't this absolutely sum up everything

unhinged.

I’m sure this sounded like a gotcha, but the park and ride with free bus travel is still a better deal for those coming from outside Oxford than those who live within the city and take the bus.

Followers of the series won't be surprised when I tell you: This land is actually owned by all of us and should not be given away to storing cars, at all.

Cllr Henwood: can't have air that's too clean, that would be woke or something and must be opposed. (hey, Cllr, quick side question though, what made the Oxford electric bus rollout possible in the first place? ... ..... spoiler: it was the promise of reduced congestion but you already knew that.)

I have deleted my video of a driver eating with both hands as I have submitted the footage to the Met Police.

Cllr Emma Garnett (Green, Parks) wants to know if OCC resources are being used for the electric private jet trial to Cambridge. Cllr Judy Roberts says she doesn’t know of any funding but will check with officers.

unexpected item in anti-motorist agenda area.

This was Emily Scaysbrook's 'well-considered evidence-based suggestion' when she stood (and lost) as a high-traffic candidate in May: a congestion charge! web.archive.org/web/20250722...

'personally I do all my shopping at the big super store outside the ring road, this is why I can with expertise speak to the fact that we need to support independent businesses in our city, by making a point for protecting parking at the superstore at the edge of the city.'

If you're into unhinged stuff, don't miss the afternoon coverage of the time wasting motion on already scrapping the congestion charge a week after it went live (and has already improved bus times), brought by the Conservative Alliance Cllrs Walker and Henwood.

Had not listened to the Guilty Feninist podcast in a while as it got buried under other content but am very glad I came across this recommendation by @mimmymum.bsky.social - this conversation is essential listening 👇👇👇

Welche Produkte in 🇩🇪 mit 19% besteuert werden: - Hafermilch - Windeln - Sojaschnitzel Und Welche mit 7%: - Kuhmilch - Fleisch - Froschschenkel Und Welche überhaupt nicht: - Flugkerosin - Schiffsdiesel - Int. Flugtickets Unser Steuersystem ist völlig absurd und gehört reformiert!

👇 must read thread 👇

I think I know where this is and if I’m correct, ironically, this car is parked outside a garage.

Welcome to East Oxford where half of the pavement is for cars, half of the pavement is for bins, none of the pavement is for pedestrians. 👎

Love the buzz of the @greenparty.org.uk surge - we had someone at our @oxfordgreenparty.bsky.social East Oxford Action day today who had literally joined the party 1.5h earlier. 🙌 💚

Nothing screams "Nobel Peace Prize" just like closing your eyes and ears to Israel continuously breaking the ceasefire in Gaza ... and... checks notes ... starting a war with Venezuela.

Stop. Selling. Arms. To. UAE.

Let's go! Unlike Reform Ltd, the @greenparty.org.uk does not take donations from aviation fuel magnates, hedge fund bosses, and property tycoons. It's an uphill battle but we are getting stronger every day. We will be even stronger with YOU 🫵 Join.greenparty.org

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why did I first read that as "roadside bollards".

A vote for Green won't be a wasted vote in Oxford East. Some parties have been taking their electorate for granted for too long. I am looking forward to enthusiastically voting for the party that represents my values best.

Great episode of @zackpolanski.bsky.social’s podcast out today. @mikaelaloach.bsky.social is an absolute joy and inspiration to listen to.

Happy congestion charge launch day, Oxford. Enjoy the new bus services. 🚌🫶

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New road projects that will create more traffic and lowered environmental standards for the building industry - nicely bookmarked by further privatisation of our healthcare and boosts to the financial sector. What’s not to love. Join.greenparty.org if you want real positive change.