Nathan Ley
@nathanley.com
County Councillor for north Abingdon. Usually riding a bike 🚲
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
www.bbc.co.uk
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
on.ft.com
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.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
open.substack.com
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
news.oxfordshire.gov.uk/new-scheme-t...
news.oxfordshire.gov.uk/new-scheme-t...
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...
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The full transcript of Zohran Mamdani's acceptance speech is very much worth reading in full. Even if you don't agree with your politics, it's very beautifully put together.
archive.is/8VqQJ
[this is a useable link to the NYT transcript]
archive.is/8VqQJ
[this is a useable link to the NYT transcript]
November 5, 2025 at 11:34 AM
The full transcript of Zohran Mamdani's acceptance speech is very much worth reading in full. Even if you don't agree with your politics, it's very beautifully put together.
archive.is/8VqQJ
[this is a useable link to the NYT transcript]
archive.is/8VqQJ
[this is a useable link to the NYT transcript]
This map is a great tool: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
I do need to know what's cooking in some of these places though!
I do need to know what's cooking in some of these places though!
November 5, 2025 at 8:50 AM
This map is a great tool: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
I do need to know what's cooking in some of these places though!
I do need to know what's cooking in some of these places though!
Real shame we couldn't get to these motions today which we had prepped for
Proud of my LD and Green colleagues for successfully voting down the useless Tory windbag's motion to remove the congestion charge (Tory, Lab and Reform in cahoots...)
Proud of my LD and Green colleagues for successfully voting down the useless Tory windbag's motion to remove the congestion charge (Tory, Lab and Reform in cahoots...)
And that’s the end of the meeting, with no time for motions on Abingdon Reservoir, pavement weed clearance, mental health, or community cohesion. Thanks for following along!
November 4, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Real shame we couldn't get to these motions today which we had prepped for
Proud of my LD and Green colleagues for successfully voting down the useless Tory windbag's motion to remove the congestion charge (Tory, Lab and Reform in cahoots...)
Proud of my LD and Green colleagues for successfully voting down the useless Tory windbag's motion to remove the congestion charge (Tory, Lab and Reform in cahoots...)
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Yep, Labour voting with the Tories and Reform to scrap Oxford's Congestion Charge after 6 days, without bothering to wait and see any results.
Given early signs indicate that the buses are speeding up (but not confirmed yet), this is directly opposing improved buses.
Given early signs indicate that the buses are speeding up (but not confirmed yet), this is directly opposing improved buses.
The vote on Oxford’s Congestion Charge is taken and goes broadly along party lines.
For removing the charge: 22 (Con, Lab, Ind)
Against removing the charge: 36 (LibDem, Green, Henley)
Abstain: 2 (Will Boucher-Giles, LibDem for Chesterton; Emma Markham, Green for Shrivenham)
For removing the charge: 22 (Con, Lab, Ind)
Against removing the charge: 36 (LibDem, Green, Henley)
Abstain: 2 (Will Boucher-Giles, LibDem for Chesterton; Emma Markham, Green for Shrivenham)
November 4, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Yep, Labour voting with the Tories and Reform to scrap Oxford's Congestion Charge after 6 days, without bothering to wait and see any results.
Given early signs indicate that the buses are speeding up (but not confirmed yet), this is directly opposing improved buses.
Given early signs indicate that the buses are speeding up (but not confirmed yet), this is directly opposing improved buses.
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sorry everyone I’m just having a lot of fun with the congestion charge debate because look I live outside the ring road in a village with not great bus service and I personally think the CC is one of the best things to happen to Oxford this year
November 4, 2025 at 4:09 PM
sorry everyone I’m just having a lot of fun with the congestion charge debate because look I live outside the ring road in a village with not great bus service and I personally think the CC is one of the best things to happen to Oxford this year
Life ambition= achieved ✅
November 1, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Life ambition= achieved ✅
Bit of DIY roadside buddleja removal with Cllr Greenaway today! #abingdon #oxfordshire
October 26, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Bit of DIY roadside buddleja removal with Cllr Greenaway today! #abingdon #oxfordshire
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Still a few days left to have your say on the East St Helen Street Active Travel scheme in Abingdon...
#Cycling #Walking #Cyclists #Pedestrians #ActiveTravel #Infrastructure #Abingdon #Oxfordshire
#Cycling #Walking #Cyclists #Pedestrians #ActiveTravel #Infrastructure #Abingdon #Oxfordshire
🚲 Big win for Abingdon! £1.5m secured to fix the missing NCN5 link + boost walking & cycling
Plans include a new two-way contraflow on East St Helen St, Dutch entrance kerbs, continuous footways + better crossings
Have your say by 28 Oct – letstalk.oxfordshire.gov.uk/east-st-hele...
Plans include a new two-way contraflow on East St Helen St, Dutch entrance kerbs, continuous footways + better crossings
Have your say by 28 Oct – letstalk.oxfordshire.gov.uk/east-st-hele...
October 25, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Still a few days left to have your say on the East St Helen Street Active Travel scheme in Abingdon...
#Cycling #Walking #Cyclists #Pedestrians #ActiveTravel #Infrastructure #Abingdon #Oxfordshire
#Cycling #Walking #Cyclists #Pedestrians #ActiveTravel #Infrastructure #Abingdon #Oxfordshire