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21 Mar, 4 tweets, 2 min read
#Oxford. This is your green Utopia. This is what you have been voting for, for years, from the City and County councils, for Lab/Con/LibDem/Green. This is what it means. This is the planet-saving future you demanded. Happy now? #LTNs
These are the faces of Oxford West and Oxford East.
You get what you vote for, I guess.

The same city produced Caroline Lucas, George Monbiot, and quite a few others.

There's something in the water, maybe.
It's a degenerate grotesque. It's barely a market town but a world-class university makes it a city. It has been blessed by CAR FACTORIES, teaching hospitals and research spin-offs. It could have grown into a zero-unemployment utopia. But it let down its children and its poor.

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19 Mar
Air pollution is a dead end strategy for LTN criticism.

Air pollution fear mongering is used to reduce the mobility of people under the guise of 'protecting' them.

The evidence for those claims is extremely weak, and is produced by the nexus of academia and activism.
This doesn't help anyone navigate the issues.

All it says is ban all cars everywhere.

It takes no look at the historical air quality or mortality/disease data.

And it makes no defence of affordable mobility.
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Me in @spikedonline on why the government cannot explain its climate 'plan', why MPs are just as culpable as the government for policy failure, and why none of them can admit what their climate ambitions really are.

spiked-online.com/2021/03/10/com…
Here is the summary of the Public Accounts Committee report that found the government 'has no plan'.

The highlighted text is extraordinary.

"Government has not yet properly engaged with the public on the substantial behaviour changes that achieving net zero will require."
The PAC MPs' criticism of the government is that the government is insufficiently draconian.

Much as there was no opposition to the policies, and of the government giving itself ever greater powers over the last year, the PAC wants the government to inflict more hardship.
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8 Mar
Whut? Take it seriously? Who is this guy?
I'm going back to bed. I think I woke up in the wrong reality.
There's a number of Youtube channels about guys building massive boats in their backyards. Some wood, some steel. I could watch them all day. I'd love to do that -- build a ship. Politics is just nuts.
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7 Mar
Shrill To Power.
If only the government was more powerful, it would make fewer mistakes.
We can know this because governments with absolute power have many fewer critics.
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7 Mar
Did anyone else notice the government 'let the virus rage'?

He's a bizarre political fantasist. He invents stories that either require the state to acquire new powers, or that make his political enemies culpable for things that have not happened.

Why would a man just a few years south of his 60th birthday and having only recently recovered from cancer treatment, and having been locked down for a year, feel a bit under the weather?

The only answer can be the government's DELIBERATE incompetence... Image
You won't struggle to find me hating the government.

But that means I want less of it.

George simultaneously wants FAR more government, but then constantly find that the government are just an evil bunch of bastards, who literally profit from things like his 'long covid'.
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Climate alarmism is dead, long live climate alarmism!

Why do they ALWAYS demand more poison as remedy?

junkscience.com/2021/02/study-…
The above is a *MUST-READ* blog post - and read the study, too.
Alarmists are constantly fighting against the excesses of their own desire for prognostications.

Doomsday predictions pass, not just without event, but to the OPPOSITE of what they predicted: people being better off, not killed in catastrophes.
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