Nathan Ley
@nathanley.com
County Councillor for north Abingdon. Usually riding a bike 🚲
Greens rejoicing about active travel protects being cancelled because they might 'cause congestion'....
No party is perfect eh
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No party is perfect eh
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Sudbury Melford Road active travel scheme cancelled amid concerns - BBC News
Those opposing the scheme for pedestrians and cyclists, including a Green councillor, are relieved.
www.bbc.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Greens rejoicing about active travel protects being cancelled because they might 'cause congestion'....
No party is perfect eh
www.bbc.com/news/article...
No party is perfect eh
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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At #Christmas we tell the truth:
“Whichever way you look at it, you can’t reach the potential of cycling without making it much more safe and hospitable to cycle. It all comes down to that basic fact.”
@matthewbarber.co.uk 👀
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“Whichever way you look at it, you can’t reach the potential of cycling without making it much more safe and hospitable to cycle. It all comes down to that basic fact.”
@matthewbarber.co.uk 👀
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...
Cycling is changing at speed – but is Britain keeping pace?
Emulating the bike-friendly highways enjoyed by our continental neighbours will take a lot more money and political will
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2025 at 11:15 PM
At #Christmas we tell the truth:
“Whichever way you look at it, you can’t reach the potential of cycling without making it much more safe and hospitable to cycle. It all comes down to that basic fact.”
@matthewbarber.co.uk 👀
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...
“Whichever way you look at it, you can’t reach the potential of cycling without making it much more safe and hospitable to cycle. It all comes down to that basic fact.”
@matthewbarber.co.uk 👀
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...
@footballcliches.bsky.social @cdeccleshare.bsky.social Watching Everton Arsenal following the Darts last night.
Begs the question: Is ‘Keane Barry’ the most Everton-coded Darts player technically possible, ever?
Begs the question: Is ‘Keane Barry’ the most Everton-coded Darts player technically possible, ever?
December 20, 2025 at 8:14 PM
@footballcliches.bsky.social @cdeccleshare.bsky.social Watching Everton Arsenal following the Darts last night.
Begs the question: Is ‘Keane Barry’ the most Everton-coded Darts player technically possible, ever?
Begs the question: Is ‘Keane Barry’ the most Everton-coded Darts player technically possible, ever?
First time I’ve seen a little egret right in Abingdon town centre, on the River Stert 🦢
These wading birds feed on small fish and insects, so it’s great to see wildlife using our river right through the heart of town!
These wading birds feed on small fish and insects, so it’s great to see wildlife using our river right through the heart of town!
December 20, 2025 at 4:07 PM
First time I’ve seen a little egret right in Abingdon town centre, on the River Stert 🦢
These wading birds feed on small fish and insects, so it’s great to see wildlife using our river right through the heart of town!
These wading birds feed on small fish and insects, so it’s great to see wildlife using our river right through the heart of town!
🌲🌳 It's really nice to see the highways tree planting scheme again this season!
Especially gratifying to have received positive feedback about their trees from the households who specifically asked me for some in their street when I posted this shout-out this time last year
Especially gratifying to have received positive feedback about their trees from the households who specifically asked me for some in their street when I posted this shout-out this time last year
December 14, 2025 at 11:12 AM
🌲🌳 It's really nice to see the highways tree planting scheme again this season!
Especially gratifying to have received positive feedback about their trees from the households who specifically asked me for some in their street when I posted this shout-out this time last year
Especially gratifying to have received positive feedback about their trees from the households who specifically asked me for some in their street when I posted this shout-out this time last year
The pain is worth the effort! (so I tell myself..)
"Oxfordshire awarded active travel rating upgrade"
news.oxfordshire.gov.uk/oxfordshire-...
"Oxfordshire awarded active travel rating upgrade"
news.oxfordshire.gov.uk/oxfordshire-...
Oxfordshire awarded active travel rating upgrade
Oxfordshire County Council has topped the south-east local authority active travel ratings. The council has been announced as an active travel level three in the government’s 2025 ratings. It is one o...
news.oxfordshire.gov.uk
December 10, 2025 at 12:59 PM
The pain is worth the effort! (so I tell myself..)
"Oxfordshire awarded active travel rating upgrade"
news.oxfordshire.gov.uk/oxfordshire-...
"Oxfordshire awarded active travel rating upgrade"
news.oxfordshire.gov.uk/oxfordshire-...
I have learned the hard way (again) - watch out for ice during the winter! 🙈
This was by Dalton Barracks this Wednesday morning on the way to work
Thanks to all the nice drivers who stopped to help, and especially George from Grove who got me (and the battered bike) home. Humanity at its best
This was by Dalton Barracks this Wednesday morning on the way to work
Thanks to all the nice drivers who stopped to help, and especially George from Grove who got me (and the battered bike) home. Humanity at its best
December 4, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I have learned the hard way (again) - watch out for ice during the winter! 🙈
This was by Dalton Barracks this Wednesday morning on the way to work
Thanks to all the nice drivers who stopped to help, and especially George from Grove who got me (and the battered bike) home. Humanity at its best
This was by Dalton Barracks this Wednesday morning on the way to work
Thanks to all the nice drivers who stopped to help, and especially George from Grove who got me (and the battered bike) home. Humanity at its best
I agree with this piece.
I'd also say Labour is in denial about who votes for it these days.
Hammering higher earning working age people in favour of pension benefits (who will never vote for them) will not end well for them
I'd also say Labour is in denial about who votes for it these days.
Hammering higher earning working age people in favour of pension benefits (who will never vote for them) will not end well for them
This was a Budget born of political and intellectual weakness, not strength
Labour has to realise that moving the pieces on the board is not e enough. Affluence is essential for social democracy. And there isn't a plan to create it.
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Labour has to realise that moving the pieces on the board is not e enough. Affluence is essential for social democracy. And there isn't a plan to create it.
Latest from me 👇
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A budget born of weakness, not of strength
Labour needs affluence to remake society. Yet it seems curiously uninterested in creating it.
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November 28, 2025 at 7:26 AM
I agree with this piece.
I'd also say Labour is in denial about who votes for it these days.
Hammering higher earning working age people in favour of pension benefits (who will never vote for them) will not end well for them
I'd also say Labour is in denial about who votes for it these days.
Hammering higher earning working age people in favour of pension benefits (who will never vote for them) will not end well for them
Not a serious country or a reliable partner
Breaking News: The CDC quietly appointed Dr. Ralph Lee Abraham, who has been critical of vaccines, as its second in command. During the Covid pandemic, he promoted discredited treatments like ivermectin and, as Louisiana’s surgeon general, halted the state’s mass vaccination campaign.
C.D.C. Quietly Appoints Doctor Critical of Vaccines as Second in Command
During the Covid-19 pandemic, Dr. Ralph Lee Abraham promoted discredited treatments like ivermectin and, as Louisiana’s surgeon general, halted the state’s mass vaccination campaign.
trib.al
November 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Not a serious country or a reliable partner
🚨 One for Abingdon Locals: The Lodge Hill junction when approaching from Hinksey Hill/Sunningwell/Bagley Wood *still* has this priority
As of today they have basically agreed to make the signs larger on the approach, as shown. It is apparently now better lit as well
As of today they have basically agreed to make the signs larger on the approach, as shown. It is apparently now better lit as well
November 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
🚨 One for Abingdon Locals: The Lodge Hill junction when approaching from Hinksey Hill/Sunningwell/Bagley Wood *still* has this priority
As of today they have basically agreed to make the signs larger on the approach, as shown. It is apparently now better lit as well
As of today they have basically agreed to make the signs larger on the approach, as shown. It is apparently now better lit as well
Facebook has a lot to answer for
November 18, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Facebook has a lot to answer for
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I've spent a lot of my political career listening to Labour activists call me, as a Lib Dem, a 'yellow Tory'.
Yet here is a Labour Government announcing a bunch of policies that are simply cruel, apparently due to political panic.
Any decent Labour members left need to stop this.
Yet here is a Labour Government announcing a bunch of policies that are simply cruel, apparently due to political panic.
Any decent Labour members left need to stop this.
Today, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood prepares to announce the latest attack on refugee rights in the UK.
A host of hostile policy changes have already been announced. We don’t yet have the full details, but we’ll keep you updated as more becomes clear.
⬇️Here’s what we know + think so far:
A host of hostile policy changes have already been announced. We don’t yet have the full details, but we’ll keep you updated as more becomes clear.
⬇️Here’s what we know + think so far:
Starmer braced for backlash from Labour MPs as Mahmood sets out asylum plans – UK politics live
Home secretary to announce a drastic tightening of rules, including requiring asylum seekers to wait 20 years before getting the right to permanently settle in UK
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:27 AM
I've spent a lot of my political career listening to Labour activists call me, as a Lib Dem, a 'yellow Tory'.
Yet here is a Labour Government announcing a bunch of policies that are simply cruel, apparently due to political panic.
Any decent Labour members left need to stop this.
Yet here is a Labour Government announcing a bunch of policies that are simply cruel, apparently due to political panic.
Any decent Labour members left need to stop this.
🥳 Today I’m celebrating the milestone of 3000 (!) followers (on another platform!) 🎈
Celebrating than with the 300(0) Park and Ride Bus from Redbridge, where the bus is FREE and it’s £2.50 for all day parking for our family!
(And now only 7 minutes to reach the city centre, which is heaving 🚌)
Celebrating than with the 300(0) Park and Ride Bus from Redbridge, where the bus is FREE and it’s £2.50 for all day parking for our family!
(And now only 7 minutes to reach the city centre, which is heaving 🚌)
November 16, 2025 at 10:53 AM
🥳 Today I’m celebrating the milestone of 3000 (!) followers (on another platform!) 🎈
Celebrating than with the 300(0) Park and Ride Bus from Redbridge, where the bus is FREE and it’s £2.50 for all day parking for our family!
(And now only 7 minutes to reach the city centre, which is heaving 🚌)
Celebrating than with the 300(0) Park and Ride Bus from Redbridge, where the bus is FREE and it’s £2.50 for all day parking for our family!
(And now only 7 minutes to reach the city centre, which is heaving 🚌)
There isn’t louder outcry over this because the bit that normal people see (Council Tax) is always going up.
So sympathy from normal people just isn’t there!
So sympathy from normal people just isn’t there!
At what point will Labour politicians, locally and nationally, really start to push back against the endless underfunding of local authorities?
We know what damage this does, and how it will verberate into our futures.
How is there not louder, insistent opposition to this?
We know what damage this does, and how it will verberate into our futures.
How is there not louder, insistent opposition to this?
English councils plan to sell off social clubs and sports centres to balance books
Survey finds 60% of key cities councils are planning to sell assets to meet costs of adult and children’s social care
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:12 AM
There isn’t louder outcry over this because the bit that normal people see (Council Tax) is always going up.
So sympathy from normal people just isn’t there!
So sympathy from normal people just isn’t there!
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Prime example of why the contract between the public and the police is breaking down, regardless of long term crime trends. Thames Valley Police don’t even think it’s their job to investigate this. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Kidlington fly-tipping: Criminals dump mountain of waste in field
The enormous pile of rubbish is called an
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November 14, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Prime example of why the contract between the public and the police is breaking down, regardless of long term crime trends. Thames Valley Police don’t even think it’s their job to investigate this. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Honestly, if this is you, fair play to you. That's principled.
November 14, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Honestly, if this is you, fair play to you. That's principled.
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Won't someone please think of the people paying £600 per night for a suite?
They want their Oxford congestion charge refunding, so let's screw the bus users and chuck the whole thing in the bin. (1/2)
www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2561634...
They want their Oxford congestion charge refunding, so let's screw the bus users and chuck the whole thing in the bin. (1/2)
www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2561634...
Hotel guests ask for congestion charge 'refund'
Guests staying at a luxury hotel in Oxford city centre have been asking for the congestion charge to be refunded from their bills
www.oxfordmail.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Won't someone please think of the people paying £600 per night for a suite?
They want their Oxford congestion charge refunding, so let's screw the bus users and chuck the whole thing in the bin. (1/2)
www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2561634...
They want their Oxford congestion charge refunding, so let's screw the bus users and chuck the whole thing in the bin. (1/2)
www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2561634...
She's sick. I have never felt so targeted!
Rachel Reeves is setting the Cycle to Work scheme on fire as part of the war on salary sacrifice policies! on.ft.com/4oKXNrC
Rachel Reeves to curb bike purchases through salary sacrifice in Budget
Introduction of new cap comes after retailers warned some higher-rate taxpayers were exploiting the perk
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November 12, 2025 at 10:05 PM
She's sick. I have never felt so targeted!
Is there literally *nothing* she won't touch to accelerate the transfer of wealth from working age people towards pensioners?
If you think that “the slow vanishing of employee benefits” is a better trade politically than “the other lot saying you broke your promise on income tax”, you are out of your tree: www.ft.com/content/1160...
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Is there literally *nothing* she won't touch to accelerate the transfer of wealth from working age people towards pensioners?
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If a self-identifying “left of centre” government with a parliamentary majority of more than a hundred seats won’t defend a vital public service institution you really have to ask why it’s in government at all.
The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
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New piece from me.
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The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
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November 11, 2025 at 9:08 AM
If a self-identifying “left of centre” government with a parliamentary majority of more than a hundred seats won’t defend a vital public service institution you really have to ask why it’s in government at all.
Great we've finally had this application approved by government
news.oxfordshire.gov.uk/new-scheme-t...
news.oxfordshire.gov.uk/new-scheme-t...
New scheme to minimise impact of disruptive roadworks is approved
The length of time spent on roadworks and when they take place is to be targeted now that Oxfordshire County Council has been given government permission to introduce a lane rental scheme (LRS).Utilit...
news.oxfordshire.gov.uk
November 10, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Great we've finally had this application approved by government
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Absolutely nobody is suggesting that
But just FYI I did both today. The only thing lacking is your imagination
But just FYI I did both today. The only thing lacking is your imagination
November 10, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Absolutely nobody is suggesting that
But just FYI I did both today. The only thing lacking is your imagination
But just FYI I did both today. The only thing lacking is your imagination
Only just spotted this amazing Leopards/Faces example.....
Where did you think these magical savings were going to come from? Utter charlatans
Where did you think these magical savings were going to come from? Utter charlatans
November 10, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Only just spotted this amazing Leopards/Faces example.....
Where did you think these magical savings were going to come from? Utter charlatans
Where did you think these magical savings were going to come from? Utter charlatans
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Didn’t have “AI-powered NIMBYism” on the 2025 bingo card. Aren't the machines meant to help build the future, not say no to it?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
AI-powered nimbyism could grind UK planning system to a halt, experts warn
Tools that help people scan applications and find grounds for objection have potential to hit government’s housebuilding plans
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Didn’t have “AI-powered NIMBYism” on the 2025 bingo card. Aren't the machines meant to help build the future, not say no to it?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
New consultation! Toucan crossing + bus stops on Twelve Acre Drive to improve safe walking/cycling links and keep bus options open for the future
Have your say 👉 letstalk.oxfordshire.gov.uk/abingdon_twe...
Have your say 👉 letstalk.oxfordshire.gov.uk/abingdon_twe...
November 5, 2025 at 1:39 PM
New consultation! Toucan crossing + bus stops on Twelve Acre Drive to improve safe walking/cycling links and keep bus options open for the future
Have your say 👉 letstalk.oxfordshire.gov.uk/abingdon_twe...
Have your say 👉 letstalk.oxfordshire.gov.uk/abingdon_twe...