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Fantastic news!

This has taken a lot of work over many years to get to this point. I am really pleased with the designs. Please do respond to the consultation and help improve this key link in NCR5 and a key junction for pedestrian movement in the town centre.

I have today sent the attached open letter to Anneliese Dodds MP

This has got to be a world speed record for Labour stealing our good ideas

I've seen plenty of left wing factionalism in my time, but a major split before they've even formed is genuinely impressive :-D

The cross-party Commons' Education Selection Committee has today published a strong report into the SEND crisis in English schools. It highlights the catastrophic impact on children and families and the urgent need to fund local authorities. We now need the government to lead a cross-party response.

A reasonably balanced article for once. The choice is clear: rail investment or gridlock. A pity the leader of the local Tories won’t back the essential reopening of Ardley station. www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk/news/2547419...

I mean, call me a Loony Lefty if you want, but it *is* starting to look a bit weird arresting disabled pensioners protesting peacefully one day and telling coked up bellends attacking you to “calm down” another day the same month. Obviously, just my opinion. I might have got it wrong.

Ending the week at Police & Crime Panel holding the [Tory] Commissioner to account. We are currently looking at an underwhelming report on police complaints that provides none of the sort of information that would reassure the public.

Very proud of all the work we've done and are doing in Oxfordshire to help schools install solar panels and cut their utility bills.

At Oxfordshire County Council today and just spoke in favour of using any government Best Start funding to support and expand family centres across Oxfordshire. I spoke about the amazing work of Abingdon Carousel for children and families in Abingdon. abingdoncarousel.org.uk

Typical woke, anti-car.....car companies??

Please support this great venue if you can.

Kate Rusby does a sublime version of that song.

This is a lovely story. I was in Bosnia not long after the civil war doing some political reconciliation work, so this struck a chord with me. I still remember seeing the bullet holes in walls and lots of half derelict buildings. Must have been terrifying for a child.

Thames Valley Police apparently haven't got enough resources to arrest shoplifters or stop dangerous speeding. But they've got enough resources to arrest peaceful protestors opposing genocide.

Excellent news!

Ooh ooh, I've got an alternative!! Hire more people to process claims in the manufactured backlog, stop bad decision-making w lengthy appeals processes (going back to 2000s New Labour tactic). Swift, efficient processing completely removes the need for hotels! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

"I had two weeks to live and the amazing stem cell charity Anthony Nolan found me a donor in that small window. " I am honoured to contribute a track to a new charity album, raising money to save lives through stem cells. Keep your loved ones close x wrongpop.bandcamp.com/album/wrongp...

Performing one last massive farewell hometown gig to tens of thousands of people and then dropping dead just a few days afterwards is an incredibly metal way to go out.

As Israeli forces continue to murder 100s of starving civilians, this is an excellent article on the wrongness of the decision to proscribe Palestine Action.

Absolutely typical of the current Tory shower to oppose a policy that improves local services and saves money, just because they think workers should have shittier lives.

Applications have opened for 500 subsidised pavement charging channels for electric vehicles, for households without off-street parking. Oxfordshire County Council says the programme is “the largest of its kind in the UK”. news.oxfordshire.gov.uk/residents-wi...

This is absolutely shocking.

1. Yesterday, 86 people were arrested in the UK under the Terrorism Act 2000 for holding signs saying "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action." They are the opposite of terrorists. They were protesting *against* terrorism. 🧵

The proposals from Israel's Defence Minister Israel Katz to contain all 2.1m Gazans in a new compound are illegal and utterly abhorrent. I have written today to David Lammy asking him again to sanction Minister Katz, and to set out the Government's legal view of Israel's occupation of Palestine.

Health services are not meeting the needs of residents on ADHD. Read my full article here 👇 parliamentnews.co.uk/adhd-in-the-...

If you, like Oxford Labour would like: * Cheaper and more accessible Public Transport * Action on private school traffic * More frequent P&R buses and shuttles Then support the Temporary Congestion Charge and in Q9 select the relevant options. 🗳️Consultation link: shorturl.at/FuVxo

Great result! Well done Ben! www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2530657...

LIB DEM HOLD in Botley & Sunningwell ward, Vale of White Horse DC @assoclibdemcllrs.bsky.social Ben Potter (LD) 732 Con 162 Grn 130 Well done Ben and the fantastic local team :-D

According to Oxford City Council's survey on their 'Lebensraum' proposal for Local Government Reorganisation, towns including Carteron, Faringdon and Thame appear to have been erased from the county. Many county residents also look to Reading. consultation.oxford.gov.uk/corporate-st...

A Tory amendment seeks to ban non-British citizens like my father, who has worked in the NHS for over 40 years from accessing universal credit and PIP should they ever need it. It’s divisive and disgusting. It’s anti-British and we should not stand for it.

Today @EdDavey.LibDems.org.uk and @MuniraWilson.bsky.social have written to Keir Starmer setting out five principles for SEND reform, and offering to work on a cross-party basis with the government to ensure the reforms deliver for children with SEND and their families.

Even after concessions, the PIP plans remain deeply flawed and risk real harm to disabled people, carers and families. There’s no credible plan to support people into work. The Liberal Democrats will vote against this bill - and keep fighting for a fairer, more compassionate system.

First full council today and still trying to wrap my head around how we ended up with Labour voting against their own motion arguing for free bus travel for children because it had been amended to also include asylum seekers and care leavers.

Huge thanks to Vale Community Impact for your time explaining the vast range of valuable services being provided - advice, befriending, community transport, and more - by your incredible team of staff and 135 volunteers. @whitehorsedc.bsky.social @wantagetowncouncil.bsky.social

@ffrench.bsky.social seen this? youtu.be/oQXdM3J33No?...

Very pleased to see this, and that the Oxfordshire public re-elected us to do more.

Useful write up of our Oxfordshire County Cabinet meeting today about the proposals to cut congestion in Oxford while the Botley Road remains closed to vehicles due the Network Rail's project overrunning.

Fantastic news :-D

A legal challenge to Oxford’s Low Traffic Neighbourhoods has been withdrawn after advice concluded it would “likely fail”. Full report – in which we ask who’s funding opposition to the Oxford traffic measures: oxfordclarion.uk/legal-challe...

I feel very privileged to have become Deputy Leader of Oxfordshire County Council today.

I’ve been pushing for the Government to scrap the two child benefit cap at every opportunity, as have my Lib Dem MP colleagues. This would make such a difference to so many families in my constituency, I urge the PM to do the right thing. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Benefit cuts rebellion grows towards enough to defeat the plans bit.ly/4msbw5R PM justifies cuts for disabled people saying ‘if you can work, you should work’ but the big change is to exclude hundreds of thousands from PIP which has nothing to do with work at all

I attended the Annual Mayor Making in England's longest continually inhabited settlement, Abingdon, last night. The Parish Church, St. Helen's, was full of people. The Town Councillors were in their robes, the Mace Bearer bore the Town Mace, and we were greeted by the Abingdon Traditional Morris

Very much looking forward to working with Nathan and Tom on behalf of Abingdon. @oxfordclarion.bsky.social

Still waking up after a very hectic week. Extremely grateful to my neighbours for choosing me to represent them on the County Council for the sixth time.

Oxfordshire Council Result #LE2025: LDM: 36 (+12) LAB: 12 (-3) CON: 10 (-15) GRN: 7 (+4) INDs/LOCs: 3 (+1) RFM: 1 (+1) Liberal Democrat GAIN from No Overall Control.

Thanks for the mention Layla :-D