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

Astonishing success of 20mph policy in Wales. So proud to have helped deliver this benefit for so many communities and local people in Oxfordshire. Thanks to our policy their lives are better, their children are safer.

Cllr Walker of course promoted and supported 20mph in his own division. He was right to do so. www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2537651...

Great victory for a terrific candidate and councillor, worthy successor and colleague to the wonderful Debby Hallett and Emily Smith. Good swing to LibDems too! (Much less importantly, why couldn’t Labour be bothered even to field a candidate in the heart of what it thinks of as “Greater Oxford”?)

Chaos and civil war in Labour. Cllr Taylor has praised congestion schemes elsewhere. Cllr Brown called for urgent action. Labour asked for the citizens assembly: it asked for a congestion charge. Labour designed the filters. Now they oppose it all. Cllr Hunt stands against her own party. She’s right

Tory Matthew Barber has criticised the Lib Dem County Council for a sign which was actually put up 14 years ago – by the Tories. He could’ve checked his facts, but he didn’t. Welcome to Tory/Trump post–truth world. Not good enough in his position. I hope Mr Barber will apologise.

A pitiful number of homes. Barely a third are affordable. The rest is concrete and cars, piling misery onto local roads. And Cllr Brown calls this a success. Same at Oxpens. And the Kassam. Affordable housing was torn down at Westgate. Oxford Labour don’t care about housing or healthy travel

Calling Zelensky a “Dictator” must be where the line is drawn. It is my sincere hope that the whole political spectrum in the United Kingdom will speak with one voice in opposition to Trump’s lies.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... This is a man whose idea of free speech, democracy and the rule of law is to deny the outcome of an election and pardon people who storm the seat of government by force. Tin-pot despots have balked at less. Europe is better than that. Time to show it.

Our policies are making Oxford healthier … www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2493344...

Great to catch up with David Hughes, CEO of East West Rail, at the brilliant rail conference in Oxford recently. So many exciting opportunities for Oxfordshire and our wider region if we get the decisions around the new agenda right. We need vision and leadership. Oxfordshire has it in spades.

Our region adds huge value to inward investors. Our challenge and opportunity is to leverage the right outcomes for Oxfordshire and the Thames Valley, not repeat the mistakes of the past. That’s what a real strategic vision can deliver. This is the moment.

Labour and Tories competing with each other to bin as many of their own policies as they can. They pretend to support better buses and safer streets, but they’re too scared to back policies to deliver them. They’ve given up. The voters are giving up on them.

Hi @labourwalkscycles.bsky.social @labourstone.bsky.social are you aware of the following: www.oxfordlabour.org.uk/labour-backs... You have invited a group of Oxford Labour Councillors to speak at your event on the 1st Feb. It seems somewhat hypocritical.

Hello. This is Andrew Gant. Trying out this platform as an alternative to you-know-what. Planning to post occasionally, read rarely if ever. Here goes… (PS Happy Christmas)