Prof Catherine Rowett 💚 Ex-MEP @catherinerowett@respublicae.eu

@BuccoWayne @clairemcilvenna Without the cars it would be the Tesco that failed. It's the cars that destroyed neighbourhood shopping, not the big shops. Big shops tapped into an ideology of everyone in metal boxes that kill everything in sight.

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RT @lewis_goodall: NEW: confirmed- junior doctors in England vote to strike by a *98%* yes vote. Turnout of 77.5%.

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@Stuarty771 @linkcott18 @carltonreid Yes looks like the Labour county councillor Duncan Enright has messed up mistaken imposing a congestion charge with rules against driving through road blocks into the next neighbourhood for facilitating a "15 minute city". Playing straight into conspiracy theory hands. 😠

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@irisstylosa @TheGreenParty Yes we are already fully and explicitly committed to that.

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@smoggy1977 @irisstylosa @TheGreenParty ?t=K510tcuYzKg8O-N5il7AbQ&s=19
RT @LondonNurse2015: @Dan1763 @smoggy1977 @SWAAHBUNISON Nuffield states ambulance pay -4%
no pay rise above inflation in 12 years

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@TTestial @linkcott18 @carltonreid Maybe. Or maybe 🙄
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@TTestial The claim was that more people would be less poor, due to more people not having to have a car, not that everybody would. You too would be less poor (assuming you can take more business), but for a different reason.

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RT @JolyonMaugham: Matt Hancock has belatedly come clean about the date of his clinch with Gina Coladangelo and it's pretty clear to us that he broke not just the guidance (as he has always insisted) but also the criminal law.

So we've written to the Metropolitan Police. https://goodlawproject.org/good-law-project-threatens-action-against-met-for-refusing-to-investigate-matt-hancock/?utm_source=Twitter-Jo&utm_campaign=HancockClinch200223&utm_medium=social%20media

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@TTestial @linkcott18 @carltonreid Yes but in a response to a tweet that was deliberately concealing the reason that you have a car (which is, as it turns out, not just a private vehicle). So I was responding to what appeared to be ignorance or ideological blindness but was actually just irrelevant.

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@TTestial Well, in that case, you will be better off when others don't have their cars and are less poor and you still have yours (which you will have). But how you'll be better off is irrelevant to whether the scheme makes others better off, because they can be rid of their cars.

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It's the supermarkets setting loss-making prices that causes supermarkets not to have any veg. If you shop in a real shop you can get what you need, but people have lost the ability to shop in a real shop because, well, we don't have 15 minute cities and the car is king.
RT @suewill63: This is from my brother in law who was in the industry on food shortages. Supermarkets set the price they will pay, UK growers normally import to supplement their own production and…

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@TTestial @linkcott18 @carltonreid Yes, that's why you would be less poor without a car, though it's mainly the fossil fuel companies, car manufacturers and insurance companies who are taking your money. Why did you ask the question and accuse me of ad hominem responses when I couldn't believe you didn't know?

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@TTestial @linkcott18 @carltonreid How would you be less poor without a car? Is that a serious question? The ignorance, or the ideological confusion, is deeper than I thought.

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@Otto_English @Donaldzki1 @Aylmer51 @PerrinAybaraAM @BurnsideNew I've spent much of my life struggling with the traffic congestion in Cambridge, and the many complicated obstructions to traffic to try to help cyclists and buses. I wonder what those amusing rising bollards are for? Couldn't it be to keep cars out?

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@Stuarty771 @linkcott18 @carltonreid Yes but this is about zones/barriers for a *congestion charge*.
It's nothing to do with the policy of planning cities with local facilities within walking distance of where people live.
It's a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT TOPIC.
A "15-minute-city" is a place with handy things nearby.

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@Aylmer51 @Donaldzki1 @PerrinAybaraAM @BurnsideNew @Otto_English The schemes in Oxford & Cambridge are congestion charges. They're not 15 minute cities, though they are designed to improve conditions for walking, cycling & public transport to work well. They could conceivably lead to some of the nice things you get in a 15 minute city.

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@TTestial @linkcott18 @carltonreid More people will be less poor because they won't need to have cars to get to where they need to get, if buses can run quickly and cyclists can have the rest of the road to themselves. Cars make everyone poorer.

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RT @joncstone: wow, I didn't realise car parking was this cheap in London. £39.90 a year to store a car on the public highway? a 7-day zone 1-3 travel card is £45.20! https://www.lambeth.gov.uk/consultations/changes-emissions-based-parking-charges-consultation

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@linkcott18 @Stuarty771 @DanielPhilips1 @carltonreid More freely even.

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@TTestial @linkcott18 @carltonreid No people's movements are restricted by a congestion charge. Only the movements of private motor vehicles. Which don't have rights or freedoms unless we grant them.
Motor vehicles currently cause people's movements and lives to be very severely restricted and endangered.

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