Sadiq Khan doesn't want open public debate on ULEZ & local councils don't on LTNs

Venue for our Bath event on Thur (re: 15 new LTNs + 48 more planned by council) cancelled due to pressure

We won't be shut down!

New Bath venue - join us Thur - info:
https://togetherdeclaration.org/event/free-our-streets-bath-event-thursday-2nd-feb/

What do you call a country where Govt uses military against peaceful members of public, journalists & democratically elected representatives?

We have the fight of our lives for basic rights like free speech, freedom to protest #together

"15 Minute Cities" are presented as positive

In fact the idea is to LIMIT & RESTRICT you

As June Slater rightly says:

Councils will NOT be rebuilding towns - so how will you have "everything you need?"

You won't!

You'll have, do, be less & your life will be poorer for it

We reject this grim, sad, frightened vision of the future

Free Our Streets #together: https://www.togetherdeclaration.org/free-our-streets/

BATH: Open meeting this Thur 7pm-8.30pm

To discuss 15 new LTNs (Low Traffic Neighbourhoods) + 48 more planned by @bathnes

NEW VENUE - after "cancellation" by previous venue for daring to want to debate LTNs! - is DoubleTree by Hilton BA1 5BJ

More info:
https://togetherdeclaration.org/event/free-our-streets-bath-event-thursday-2nd-feb/

From Bounds Green London to Cowley Rd Oxford Councillors imposing LTNs & 15 min cities have been enormously damaging to small business & many residents
@JoannaBlythman

@TheGrocer


Will Local Councillors start listening?
@LGAcomms

@londoncouncils
https://twitter.com/Togetherdec/status/1621180497719074817?s=20&t=Z7GkCGDPmLHlVKlSCiQaJA

Join us at 11am-1pm today
@tntradiolive
where
@alanvibe
interviews guests on the issues of freedom & campaigning

1st
@Fox_Claire
on Online Safety Bill & Public Order Bill
@UKHouseofLords
then campaigners from Birmingham & Cambridge & Grant Davis
@The_LCDC

https://twitter.com/Togetherdec/status/1621819088585560064?s=20&t=XIlPO9oinRiVecfV7GntEA

Our event in Bath was full & we had to turn people away. It's clear to all except @bathnes @CllrMandaRigby huge amount of opposition to LTNs & RPZs as @Leighlines & speakers explained on the night

We were not shut down: you inspired all to get more active
https://t.co/Ejz5FsIYH6

"I saw a consultation in Oxford where 90% said 'we don't want this' & they were totally & utterly ignored.

"That's not a democracy. That is not the country we should be living in"

Olympian Sharron Davies at our Bath event on Thursday - which was absolutely packed!

It is clear there is huge & growing public opposition to undemocratically imposed and damaging "15 Min Cities", "20 Minute Neighbourhoods", LTNs etc

It's time to Free Our Streets

Get more info & get involved:
https://togetherdeclaration.org/free-our-streets/

"‘Digital pound’ possible by 2030 in bid to combat falling use of cash"

This headline is a nonsense

"Risks but no obvious benefits" - former Governor Bank of England Mervyn King

To require "significant public investment?"

And most money digital anyway

So why do it?
Who benefits?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/02/04/digital-pound-possible-2030-bid-combat-falling-use-cash/

Watch Mayor of London Sadiq Khan heckled by female lorry driver over ULEZ - who is then kicked out by security

Khan is pushing for Digital ID because "anonymous abuse online"

But he doesn't seem to like the "wrong" feedback - anonymous or not!

#ULEZ a tax on poor
No clear benefit except £££

https://twitter.com/Togetherdec/status/1622299943259045891

Ealing residents got hugely unpopular LTNs removed 2021

But @EalingCouncil don't appear to have got message

"Introduce 3 'Liveable Neighbourhoods' & 25 LTNs by 2030"

Locals may wish to look into council meeting on "Local Development Plan," Ealing Town Hall, 7pm tomorrow

“The politicians offering to keep us ‘safe’ with Online Safety Bill are the same politicians working with the same technology companies to remove critics of its policies from the public square... a secretive disinformation unit has no place in a democracy.”

https://unherd.com/2023/01/is-the-government-spying-on-you/

"The day I joined Twitter I was placed on a blacklist.

"If this kind of suppression hadn't happened, we wouldn't have had lockdowns"

- Dr Jay Bhattacharya with Together's Alan Miller

Free & open debate is how healthy societies self-correct

#TwitterFiles

Wow! We had an INCREDIBLE ‘Free Our Streets’ event in Bath on Thursday evening!

The venue was completely packed with around 350 people turning out, and the energy, enthusiasm and quality of contributions from speakers and attendees alike was inspiring.

What came through loud and clear was that so many locals feel they are just not being listened to by local councillors - who are riding roughshod over their wishes to impose restrictions that threaten basic abilities to move around and live life freely.

In this sense Bath is no different to towns and cities up and down the UK… even rural Norfolk is being targeted for a “20 Minute Neighbourhood” scheme! (This is much less baffling when you understand central Government is funding many of these schemes.)

Putting the Public back at the heart of decision making is a core part of our work Together - if you'd like to support us in doing this, please join us as a member from as little as £3 per month, here: https://www.togetherdeclaration.org/join/

Why do we need a "Central Bank Digital Currency?"

"It is about data on what you spend... control(ling) data on everything someone spends, when & where they spend it, (is) a priceless asset" - @faisalislam says quiet part out loud

What could go wrong eh?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-64536593

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