Bath's "'Liveable Neighbourhood' scheme a 'solution' to problem that never existed.

"It has actually *increased* pollution; they've diverted traffic, it hasn't reduced traffic in any way"

Are Bath and North East Somerset Council listening to residents like Norma?

Catch up with our full debate from Bath last week: https://youtube.com/live/0h5oayCwexI?feature=share

You'll see a host of locals with good & respectable reasons to object to these damaging, anti-democratic schemes

It's happening up & down UK though

Get involved:
https://togetherdeclaration.org/free-our-streets/
#FreeOurStreets

https://twitter.com/Togetherdec/status/1623254607873949698

Far from "keeping us all safe," Online Safety Bill would actually make most people *less* safe

Removing encryption will be great for scammers, blackmailers & fraudsters wanting your passwords & credit cards

Scrap it @michelledonelan @DCMS @conservatives

"Anti-car measures have little popular support but create hardship for most vulnerable"

"LTNs benefit more affluent neighbourhoods while funnelling traffic into poorer roads"

Our Bath event mentioned here - Tim Newark is absolutely right

Local councils around UK are watching

Let's show them they can't shut down our ability to move freely

Free Our Streets

https://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/1731907/Low-Traffic-Neighbourhoods-oxford-bath-london-councils-comment

“More than 30,000 motorists a month refusing to pay Birmingham’s ‘Clean Air Zone’ fines”

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/more-30000-motorists-month-refusing-26108664

"If I'd wanted to live in ‘the "safest" place in the world to be online,’ I’d have moved to China” - Lord Moylan skewers Online Safety Bill

#OnlineSafetyBill is a massive attack on free expression - and never in a million years ‘safe’

"So-called '15 Minute Cities' & '20 Minute Neighbourhoods' will take away our personal freedom"

You are right about that Nick Fletcher MP, but...

It is CENTRAL GOVT that is funding these schemes!

We aren't medieval serfs!

If you are local to Haringey and affected by LTNs you can join meeting TONIGHT at 6.30pm

Outside Council meeting
Conel college High rd Tottenham

Free Our Streets
Take Back Democracy Together

"Sadiq Khan accused of ‘using nonsense air pollution data’ to support ULEZ"

"Councillors suggest Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan cherry-picking mortality figures; analysis shows ‘uncertainty’ to health benefits"

Bromley Councillor "I'm embarrassed for the Mayor & his desperate claims"

We hear there will be a protest against ULEZ on morning of Thursday 23 Feb outside of City Hall - more info as and when we have it

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/02/12/sadiq-khan-accused-using-nonsense-air-pollution-data-support/

"I will never allow the Govt to impose a Digital ID"

(This is Pierre Poilievre in Canada, who is way ahead of the dreadful Trudeau in polls)

Not that hard is it Sunak?

We don't accept Govt should be able to impose mandatory Digital ID in UK either

We've been alerted there seems to be a fake 'Together' account on Telegram

These are our only genuine Telegram channels:

Main https://t.me/togetherdeclaration
England https://t.me/togetherengland
Scotland https://t.me/togetherscotland
Wales https://t.me/togetherwales
N Ireland https://t.me/togethernorthernireland

Another unwelcome hit on working people': Three senior London Labour MPs slam Sadiq Khan's ULEZ expansion plans @LBC

@SeemaMalhotra1 @JonCruddas_1 @Siobhain_Mc @UKLabour

Time to scrap ULEZ expansion @MayorofLondon

Undemocratic damaging wrong

https://twitter.com/togetherdec/status/1625422392733343747?s=46&t=XWkKXooM3j_gpHIKeb4y2g

“ULEZ rebellion grows as Home Counties refuse to co-operate with London mayor Khan

“Bucks, Essex, Herts have now pledged to join Kent & Surrey in blocking installation of any Ulez cameras or signs”

Most Londoners DON’T want this!

Another tax on movement that hurts poorest

Scrap it

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/02/13/ulez-rebellion-grows-home-counties-refuse-co-operate-sadiq-khan/

Should we outlaw cashless shops?

"Why can’t we have a law like those already passed in New York & San Francisco, which bans cashless stores?

"Enshrine in law not just a right to access cash but to use it, too"

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-cant-we-ban-cashless-shops/

"Nicola Sturgeon was one of West’s most authoritarian leaders, an enemy of free speech, who had no qualms about turning her country into temporary dictatorship during Covid. Thank God she’s going."

And BTW not all of it "temporary"; despite promising they'd hand them back, some lockdown powers were then made permanent

https://dailysceptic.org/2023/02/15/fall-of-a-scottish-tyrant/

FREE OUR STREETS Oxford: Debate The Travel Plan

Thur 9 March, 7.00pm, Wesley Memorial Church, Oxford OX1 2DH

All sides can be represented and we really hope councillors Duncan Enright, Liz Leffman, and Andrew Gant will be attending so they can speak & address everybody

Local councils rightly get flak for damaging Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs) but...

Central Govt - Conservatives - is where much funding & impetus comes from

Read how Boris Johnson behind £5bn in funding, Grant Shapps pressuring & the general attitude to public consultations - which they appear not to like very much👇
https://politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/low-traffic-neighbourhoods-and-the-paradox-of-the-active-travel-agenda/

HEAR US TALKING "15 MINUTE CITIES & FREEDOM" ON BBC RADIO 4 TODAY -> https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001j4j5

Together's Alan Miller was on BBC Radio 4 today debating '15 Minute Cities and Freedom' in some depth on the 'AntiSocial with Adam Fleming' show

It’s a vital issue & why Together say Take Back Democracy - because so many councillors seem to ignore constituents

(Also re ‘fact check’ stat on buses vs cars depends where in Oxford - see report: https://www.oxford.gov.uk/downloads/file/7320/oxford_source_apportionment_study)

Worth noting too that in Oxford's Traffic Plan they tend to use terms '15 Minute City' and 'traffic filters' interchangeably

Of course ‘Smart cities’ mean different things to different people

Is it about control, surveillance & restrictions? Or ‘hearing the birds?’

Digital ID along with curbs on protest, free speech & movement - coupled with the prospect of Central Bank Digital Currency - all raise tremendously serious concerns, especially given the authoritarian way Govts have behaved in the last 3 years

Free Our Streets #together