"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

📺 NEW: What happened to the media in Covid?

Broadcaster Bev Turner shares her thoughts in a brand new exclusive interview with Alan Miller for #togethertalks

📺 Watch IN FULL:
https://youtu.be/T9EraSEtv0I

Clint Pugh has been trading 30 years in Oxford & runs 3 restaurants

He says not one councillor ever came to discuss roadblocks that have hit small business so badly - and dozens of other small businesses say exactly the same

Will councillors Duncan Enright, Liz Leffman and Andrew Gant attend the public debate on Oxford's Travel Plan on Thur 9 Mar?

https://twitter.com/togetherdec/status/1626469241548595200?s=46&t=z3c8CYVkr43P2-kuBoeqog

Stop funding restrictions on driving @Mark_J_Harper @transportgovuk @conservatives @grantshapps

LTNs, "15 Min Cities" etc destroying local economies & communities across UK

Majority don't want them

Lack of debate & "stealth" tactics anti-democratic & wrong

Free Our Streets!

"The council has become a complete social menace... they don't listen to people.

"They're representing extreme political ideologies, not the people who live in Bath"

So much damage to community apparent from our packed event in Bath but similar stories across UK

Free Our Streets - get involved:
https://togetherdeclaration.org/freeourstreets/

"Khan’s ULEZ expansion could be blocked by Downing Street"

& "complaint alleges Khan made series of 'false & misleading' statements about whether he had seen consultation results"

A money grab from the low-waged, traders and small businesses, backed by dodgy data

Most Londoners don't want it

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/02/18/sadiq-khans-ulez-expansion-could-blocked-downing-street/