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Welcome to Oxford City Liberal Democrats
Putting People First on Oxford City Council
Welcome the website for Oxford City Liberal Democrats, the group of Lib Dem councillors working on the City Council to champion our areas and improve the way the council serves Oxford.
As well as finding contact details for our councillors and news on their work, we hope you'll be interested in the reports and videos on how the Lib Dem opposition are fighting the Labour administration's mismanagement of the City Council.
Latest News on Oxford City:
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Fri 29th May 2009
"Warm words and rhetoric are easy", said Nick Clegg on Thursday. "Indeed, they are a guarantee that little will happen. So let us bar the gates of Westminster and stop MPs leaving for their summer holidays until this crisis has been sorted out, and every nook and cranny of our political system has been reformed.
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Sun 17th May 2009
Times are tough in Britain. The recession is hitting people and families hard: tens of thousands are losing their jobs, businesses are failing, and every week hundreds are losing their homes. Lib Dem Leader Nick Clegg said: "We can only protect British families from crime, the recession and climate change if our country works with other European Union countries."
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Sat 25th Apr 2009
Following extensive consultation lasting several months, the county council cabinet member for transport has made a decision on behalf of the council to introduce 20 mph speed limits on most roads inside the city limits. The decision makes Oxford only the second city in Britain (after Lib Dem-run Portsmouth) to introduce the lower speed limit on a such a wide scale.
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Sat 25th Apr 2009
Liberal Democrats have "called in" a decision by the county council cabinet member for transport to initiate an expensive short-term programme of changes to Queen Street in central Oxford. Said Lib Dem shadow cabinet member for transport Cllr Roz Smith: "Moving the bus stops out of Queen Street, without reducing the number of buses, will increase congestion on St Aldates and the High Street. It will also severely worsen the air quality in St Aldates, High Street and surrounding streets where there are many residents and even more full-time workers."
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Wed 1st Apr 2009
Oxford City Council and Oxfordshire County Council Lib Dems want plans to remove bus stops from Queen Street in central Oxford later in 2009, to be delayed, and bus company proposals to reduce the total number of buses in the centre of the city, to be brought in first.
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Sat 28th Mar 2009
Surveillance powers designed to prevent crime and terrorism and have been used by councils more than 10,000 times since 2004, research by the Liberals Democrats has found. Commenting, Liberal Democrat Shadow Local Government Secretary, Julia Goldsworthy MP said: "This Government sees civil liberties as little more than a temporary inconvenience. Slowly but surely freedoms have been eroded. We're now in a situation where dog fouling is considered enough to warrant surveillance by council officials."
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Sat 28th Mar 2009
Oxford's Leisure Centres are due for a relaunch next week with the start of a new partnership between the city council and the specialist charitable trust Fusion Leisure. Liberal Democrat spokesman for Leisure, Cllr Alan Armitage, said: "We are delighted that the council has finally decided to bring in a specialist leisure partner, and Fusion has an excellent track record. The Lib Dem group has been trying to get something like this to happen for years. We confidently expect the range and quality of the leisure services in Oxford to improve quickly and radically."
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Tue 10th Mar 2009
The Environment Agency has published an Oxford Flood Risk Management Strategy and invited comments and suggestions from residents and businesses in Oxford by 12 May 2009. Said Lib Dem councillor Alan Armitage: "I believe the Environment Agency is serious about working out the best way to protect the parts of West Oxford which have flooded so often in recent years. I would urge residents to give them positive feedback and to tell them clearly what they feel about the options."
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Tue 10th Mar 2009
Liberal Democrat councillors and members have joined the OxClean clean-up with enthusiasm. Dr Evan Harris, MP for Oxford West and Abingdon, was among those out in north Oxford, and councillors Ruth Wilkinson and David Rundle (right) could be found brightening up their ward of Headington.
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Sat 28th Feb 2009
Excessive food packaging used by supermarkets is undermining consumers' efforts to recycle, and is adding to landfill costs and council tax bills, a new survey has found. The survey went on to name and shame the worst offenders. Said Oxford City Council Lib Dem spokesman Cllr Chris Scanlan: "Each one of us is trying to help increase the amount of waste which can be recycled. With this information, we can now decide where we shop. It is disappointing that some supermarkets are not really trying to help reduce the waste going to landfill."
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Thu 19th Feb 2009
On Monday, BMW in Oxford summarily dismissed 850 workers, with just a week's pay, and the chill winds of recession started to bite in Oxford. On the same day, Labour's city council group forced through its budget, imposing the maximum possible increase in council tax, and cuts in services which will impact small businesses, vulnerable people and community groups of every kind.
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Wed 18th Feb 2009
Oxfordshire Lib Dems have been running an on-line survey about the county council's "Transform Oxford" proposals to extend pedestrianisation in the centre of the city. [You can add your voice by clicking on the link to the left.] The results to date show there is virtually unanimous opposition to any idea of people from East Oxford always having to change buses at The Plain. Opinions seem to be evenly divided about whether there are too many buses in the High Street.
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Archive of earlier news stories.
 News Story Feed (v1.0).
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| Quotes of the Week |
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"On issue after issue, the Liberal Democrats have led the fight for real change while the Conservatives lagged behind. On the economy, on the environment and now on the real reform of politics, it is the Lib Dems that are offering something different. "
April Pond, Liberal Democrat candidate for the Norwich North by-election
www.norwichlibdems.org.uk - 21 June
"I believe that my position as an MP between now and the next election is untenable. "
Labour MP Ian Gibson
Resigning as MP for Norwich North - 6 June. See www.norwichlibdems.org.uk for Norwich North by-election news.
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| Oxford East General Election Result |
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Turnout: 41790 (58%)
36.9%
Labour: 15405 (−12.5%)
34.6%
Liberal Democrat: 14442 (+11.2%)
16.7%
Conservative: 6992 (−2%)
View the results in detail.
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