📺 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/

"We help a lot of older people, explaining how to do things... there are so many things (the LTNs) affect"

- DIY store owner Simon Francis, Moorland Road, Bath

You can give them all the idyllic-sounding names you like, but these anti-car ideologies are damaging communities in innumerable ways

Free Our Streets
Get involved: https://togetherdeclaration.org/freeourstreets/

Advertising Standards Authority launches investigation into Sadiq Khan’s new ULEZ TV advert

100s of complaints over pollution claims made in ad

No-one’s buying it

Stop this cash grab on low waged, families & tradespeople
https://www.mylondon.news/news/zone-1-news/sadiq-khans-new-ulez-tv-26269604

UK Prime Minister

Cambridge residents have demonstrated their determination not to have charges imposed on them by @CambsCC @camcitco

This Sunday 26 Feb 12 noon will be another protest

Across Cambridgeshire & beyond we’ll be joining & supporting. Stand Together!
https://twitter.com/Togetherdec/status/1627628041294827523?s=20

⚠️ GOVT "DIGITAL ID" CONSULTATION ⚠️ - PLEASE DO THIS TODAY

The Government's new “Consultation on draft legislation to support identify verification” may sound reassuringly boring - but in fact it contains some real dangers. (You can find the full thing here: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/draft-legislation-to-help-more-people-prove-their-identity-online/consultation-on-draft-legislation-to-support-identity-verification)

This “consultation” has barely been publicised, and the time to complete it is extremely short - both of which features are rather alarming.

This consultation closes SOON… so please do this TODAY:

STEP 1: OPEN UP A BLANK EMAIL, USING CORRECT SUBJECT LINE

Yes, there is a form online you can complete but today, we recommend you EMAIL your response.

(We will provide guidance on completing the online form another day.)

Important - this BELOW is the SUBJECT LINE you must use, please COPY & PASTE IT:


Response to the consultation on the data sharing for identity verification services


STEP 2: THEN USE THIS EMAIL ADDRESS:

dea-data-sharing@digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk


STEP 3: WRITE YOUR OWN MESSAGE (always best if you can do this), OR USE / ADAPT OURS BELOW (include your name and address at the end)

I totally reject the proposed "legislation to support digital identity verification." It appears to be a gross intrusion into the privacy of the individual, and a monumental security and safety risk that would endanger members of the public right down to children as young as 13.

It sounds as though all Government departments, Local Authorities and even schools would be sharing highly personal information on citizens - including data as sensitive as income, photos and email addresses.

All this would then be accessible to almost anyone working for the state AND "any organisation" working WITH Government. Can this possibly be true?

Data sharing of personal, sensitive data will open us up to abuse and discrimination.

Do you think it appropriate to run a public 'consultation' on this radical change in the relationship between how citizens provide data to the state, that almost no-one knows about and lasting 8 weeks?

Do you really intend for this to be imposed - with little if any Parliamentary scrutiny - by December?

Government has an appalling record of large scale IT projects and data security. Ministers also repeatedly denied "Covid passes" would be introduced, before they were, so distrust has been earned. In Scotland, the Information Commissioner's Office even found the scheme introduced there broke the law.

This proposal puts the public at risk and leads to greater surveillance, unnecessary monitoring and huge potential to be used in an authoritarian way by the state.

This appears to be legislation that comes with enormous risks to the safety not only of adult citizens but of children as young as 13. It should be scrapped.

Covid Inquiry "secrecy row" as "names of civil servants removed from documents"

Why was UK's original pandemic plan thrown out overnight?

https://youtu.be/3WbzRVJzKjg

Local pharmacist: we'll be forced into "patchy opening hours if they bring in RPZ (Residents Parking Zones) in Bath, which is what we've seen in other parts of country"

"We weren't able to take part in the consultation"

All over UK, anti-car dogma has real impacts on local residents

TONIGHT 6pm-7pm outside Guildhall, Bath, Together supporters can join Free Our Streets Bath & North-East Somerset demo against LTNS & other "15-minute city"-inspired measures

There will be a council meeting in Guildhall so opportunity to remind councillors of widespread local discontent on these issues

Free Our Streets

TONIGHT from 5.45pm outside Guildhall, Bath, Together supporters can join Free Our Streets Bath demo against LTNS & other "15-minute city"-inspired measures

There will be a council meeting in Guildhall so opportunity to remind councillors of widespread local discontent on these issues

Ends 7pm

Pls respond to this Consultation

Let GLA hear your concerns about more surveillance & road charging asap

@MayorofLondon pushing ULEZ despite majority opposing & ignoring 5k @SadiqKhan wants cameras in place for road charging

scrutiny@london.gov.uk

https://twitter.com/togetherdec/status/1628063528337670145?s=46&t=FS8okxfqNSiyvtSBD5EuSA

"The 'war on motorists' feels like a war on women & children.

"Who benefits?

"Not women, parents, the elderly or disabled, not young families."

Bev Turner is right

Roadblocks, LTNs, removing parking appeals to tiny, noisy minority

But not practical, not fair & simply not wanted by most

"Stop LTNs in Bath!"

Chilly night last night but lots outside Bath council meeting

Representing residents & local businesses v unhappy & demanding accountability from Bath & North East Somerset Council after sham 'consultations'

Save Bath
Free Our Streets
Take Back Democracy

Disgraced Tony Blair is back hawking Digital ID as the cure for all ills

If constant attacks on privacy, rights, autonomy & general freedom by dubious technocrats like Blair offend you, channel it positively

Respond to Govt consultation now; here's how: https://view.flodesk.com/emails/63ee4aba7c773858f8ffd617

Cambridge residents have demonstrated their determination not to have charges imposed on them by Cambridgeshire County Council

This Sunday 26 Feb 12 noon will be another protest

Across Cambridgeshire & beyond we’ll be joining & supporting. Stand Together!

Blair's new schemes about "curtailing democracy"

Disgraced Blair & career politician Hague want more technocrats and LESS democracy; seriously?!

As for Digital ID: a year ago Blair was all for 2-tier society on medical history & "Covid Pass"

Denied by Govt repeatedly
Then happened!
Lack of trust is 100% justified

Just look at the state we're in
We don't need to hear any more from the failed former politicians who gave us this mess
Take Back Democracy

Coming to a high street near you?

Greengrocer: "Business down 50%... we don't know what to do"

This is what anti-car policies in Bath have done

Anti-car activists say "it's OK, just walk to everything you need!"

But walk to WHAT if you've destroyed all the businesses?

So much damage

Get involved at your local level and let's Free Our Streets #together

Tony Blair obsession with Digital ID "mission creep toward Big Brother state"

This is not hype. Remember, barely 12 months ago we had a two-tier society based on health status

Blair actually wanted you excluded from normal life... based on what a phone app said

We saw that off, we will again #together

Privacy, autonomy and no surveillance

We don't want ULEZ expansion Mayor of London

Unfair, unnecessary, undemocratic

Another tax on movement - with added creepy surveillance

Low waged, low-income families & small business will be worst hit

Stop #ULEZ Sunak