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Dec 5 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
#ClimateLockdowns in #Oxford -- the return of feudalism, separating residents by their class and confining them to their designated residential areas?

Who would have thunk it?

Me in 2020: spiked-online.com/2020/05/12/cov…
And again in 2021. Why Greens Love Lockdowns:

spiked-online.com/2021/02/05/why…
But green ambitions to deprive you of the freedom of movement were obvious before even the pandemic.

"Society has failed to grasp the extent to which green imperatives are ideological fantasies. Green claims are routinely taken at face value, rather than interrogated, to see what kind of world greens really want." -- this is the problem.

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Dec 7
Me on @iancollinsuk @TalkTV show yesterday, on #Oxford's antidemocratic anti-car ideology.

@iancollinsuk @TalkTV It's extremely difficult to get points across in debates such as this. They are extremely short, and the flow of conversation doesn't necessarily let you say what you want.

Anyhow. These are the points...
@iancollinsuk @TalkTV 1. Oxfordshire CC's anti car agenda is much older than the new scheme. Like many local authorities, Oxfordshire believes that cars are bad things that must be punished, not the most economic and versatile form of transport.
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Dec 6
If wind power is so wildly popular even with Tory voters, why aren't eco-Tories demanding a referendum on Net Zero?

While we're at it, let's make the promised upsides of the #NetZero agenda legally binding, such that if the benefits do not materialise, the targets are dropped...
Referendum point 2: if wind farms fail to deliver lower prices, then developers lose their investments, which are put into public ownership.
Linking Net Zero targets to the performance of Net Zero technologies is surely the 'no-brainer' that activists claim that Net Zero is.

They claim that it will create jobs, green growth, lower prices, and peace.

OK then, make a commitment. Put your money where your mouths are.
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Dec 5
What the significantly green, leftoid, woke, Remain and wealthy Oxford is discovering is that there are no drop-in replacements for the things its industries, small businesses and lifestyles have depended on.
It is to become an island, choked by its own ideology.

Without industries, the city's inequalities will steepen.

Without small businesses it will lose its creativity.

Without transport, it will lose its talent and its markets.
Without access, its trainee doctors and nurses will learn elsewhere.

Oxford has chosen itself to be the subject of a suicidal experiment.

Everyone I speak to hates it. Each of them tells me about businesses that have closed, or how divisive its green schemes are.
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Dec 4
"WHO experts."

No, that's not what pollution monitoring stations show.

Khan does not understand that kerbside monitoring stations do not record what people breathe.

They record only the data at that point.
Air pollution is a *highly* localised phenomenon. Compare these two series of data recorded at the same time in London -- one on kerbside of Brixton Road, and the other on Streatham Green, 2 miles away down the A23.
Note also that the charts have different Y-scales.

As you step back just a few metres from the roadside, the air contains far less of these substances.
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Dec 4
"Nigel Farage is a very real threat to the Tory party's survival."

No, the Conservative Party is the very real threat to the Conservative Party's survival.

@Conservatives

telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/12/0…
@Conservatives Nigel Farage is a force in politics because he is a better judge of the public than all of Westminster and its armies of civil servants, PR firms and 'communications professionals', nudgers, focus groupers, pollsters, spads and spin-doctors. But the Tories chose their own path.
@Conservatives The same will be true of Labour, FWIW. It is just as dire, detached from a traditional base, without meaningful commitments to principles, completely hostile to even its own membership, and to the public.
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Dec 3
Dragon Meaden appears to be blackmailing the Prime Minister with Just Stop Oil.

I wonder what "taking Climate Change seriously" (her capitals) means, and whether or not it has as robust a definition as "peaceful protest" and "anti democratic".
Easy question first. It looked pretty serious to me when Rishi Sunak announced the alignment of financial institutions with $130 trillion AUM to the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero at COP26.
But I have questions about how democratic it is to use finance as a form of governance to achieve radical changes to society. And when it turns out that the beneficiaries of that transformation also funded the campaigning organisations that demanded it, my doubts consolidate.
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