Oxford, UK: The Great Reset in action. Wall-less prison for inhabitants

If you think it’s not to control people, just wait for your rude awakening. Never heard of the WEF and The Great Reset? They are very open about their plans, and it includes limiting mobility for the masses, including many other Orwellian things. @ArishMell

@Carissimi Of yes, Of course I have heard of them but I don't take them too seriously. Too much of what I have heard or read of them is from their natural enemies anyway.

I know the WEF is real but see it as largely a talking-shop; though there is the serious point that governments, economists etc of the world do need to talk about internationally serious matters. Nations are not isolated, self-sufficient little bubbles.

The Great Reset? I regard that, if the concept actually exists, as merely some theoretician's dream that gets conspiracy-theory types all excited!

@ArishMell Clearly you have not looked at a single one of the resources I sent you!

The WEF is NOT an old boys' talking shop. It is a real and present danger to civilisation. Explore its website.

The Great Reset DOES exist. See the book by the same name by WEF president Klaus Schwab.

@SunshineGirl And the rest?

And those members of the public who find this objectionable but were not consulted? See extract from The Telegraph above.

You may be happy about this, but many of those affected are far from happy.

@WalterF Perhaps choose to live elsewhere? Oxford is a small city. Its main economic activities are education and tourism. Most students do not own cars. Many tourists are happy to leave their cars behind in order to enjoy and appreciate the historical environment. The city has an excellent (but underused) public transport network. Using a car in a built up environment is a privilege, not a right. Unpowered human beings and their welfare should always be placed before the cinvenience of car users.

@SunshineGirl Brilliant idea! To "save the planet", the family of two working parents plus children at school could just move to another town! As long as it's for the greater good, no personal sacrifice is too great! And the elderly - just the right time to up sticks and go to a more human-friendly place! You're in line for the Best Comment award!

@WalterF 💯 gaslighting us, control and abusing us.
Fact-checking crap only came about to hide the truth.

@WalterF @Fairydust conspiracy, theorist believe the theories they do out of choice, not evidence. So feel free to believe what you like, but this Hass to be fact, checked because of the idiotic miss information that has become normalized on the right.

And to your question about why I trust the associated press over a far right independent source, then you truly need to find a way to understand what a legitimate source is.

@Graylight Good luck to you. I wish you all the very best.

@SatyrService You are aware that anything with the word "fact-check" in the title cannot be trusted.

Correction: it CAN be trusted, but ONLY if you want to hear a reinforced version of the message that the media are banging out 24/7.

Best to check the facts YOURSELF. Don't leave that job to paid-up propagandist hacks.

@SatyrService Here is my original source. I have just added it to the post

https://www.visionnews.online/post/oxfordshire-county-council-pass-climate-lockdown-trial-to-begin-in-2024

@SatyrService
the wef stated that we’ll need a permit to travel outside our area’s, they control all the government’s.
This is real, agenda 2030.
The Great Reset, 1984 was a warning.

@WalterF That's a bit exciteable for The Telegraph!

WHO though has actually proposed physical road-blocks? Traffic-counters using ANPR cameras yes, to limit [i]driving vehicles[/i], and I don't like the proposed ideas much either... but has anyone genuinely proposed controlling [i]people[/i] simply moving about the city?

My town's main shopping street is barred to motor vehicles, with appropriate exceptions, in the day. Although there are probably few residents there, in flats above the shops, and nowhere for them to park in that road anyway, is that wrong too?

Note what SunshineGirl points out - many of Oxford's residents already use other means normally.

@ArishMell Obviously, all who travel on foot or by bike are not affected.

That leaves an awful lot of others. Those who drive to work, spending more than 15 min in their car. The elderly who need vehicles to get to their GP or other appointments. The parents who drive children to schools. Or visitng one's preferred out-of-town superstore.

A measure imposed on many who will be unwilling. And, as usual, without the slightest consultation.

Personally, I find this worrying. But the Oxford public is not happy. Can we all be put in the far-right, tin hat, youtube-based conspiracy basket?

@WalterF Of couse the Oxfordians are not happy about it, and that might be reflected in the next Council elections.

No of course we can't all be put into one basket, far-right, far-left or in any other direction. I questioned the sort of problems you raised, in my first answer but I separate the intention from the likely effects in practice, and apart from wondering what electoral results there may be I throw out the political stuff.

I was trying to tease what the councillors really mean, from what that VN magazine and [i]The Telegraph[/i] tell us to think they mean. It seems to me be a plan made with the best of intentions but not properly considered, and then badly reported.

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I do think the problem of out-of-town supermarkets is one coming home to roost. For decades they were allowed, even encouraged, and they are still, but they rely on their customers driving to and from them theoretically once a week (hence that phrase,' the weekly shop', which is as in bad in assumption as it is in grammar). Some are very long way from many of their likely customers, too: Cribbs Causeway for example is several miles from the middle of Bristol, whose Council now seems very anti-car indeed.

They are not compatible with traffic reduction schemes based on directly cutting car use, but are certainly good for congestion-charge fund-raising. Either way they add to the very problem of traffic that the planners are trying to decrease! While ruining the town-centres: that scheme in Oxford might redress some of that imbalance, but it does seem an unnecessarily harsh and bureaucratic method.

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If nothing else it might encourage people to use their cars more efficiently so less expensively, but I'd have thought the simple rise in motoring costs generally would do a lot of that. The truth is that we have all become so dependent on owning a car that it has created a circle of dependency bringing along with the traffic -jams and pollution, the loss of town-centre shops, public-transport, rural services, and so on. I can live without my car through most of the week, but many others in my area do not have that choice, and the County Council has just destroyed a bus service round one sizeable suburban area, leaving it with no alternative to taxis or private cars if you can't walk or cycle to town. (Financial cuts).

It is unfortunately inevitable that something has to give eventually. I don't like what Oxfordshire County Council appears to be doing, I think it too complicated, inept and heavy-handed; but I fear that such plans, congestion-charging and the like will become more common.

It is not intended to spoil our fun or obstruct medical appointments and school or work, but to make us all think more carefully about where, when and how to use our i.c-engined cars. While moaning about the traffic-jams to which we add. Whether it will work or merely anger everyone in Oxford for no useful result, is another matter.

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Following a conversation with friends in Somerset, I looked up the gov.uk list of congestion / clean-air towns,, and found mine is exempt in them; but these friends have to think very carefully about visiting Bristol in their work. One said his van would cost £30 a day, so it is not worth finding new customers there as most are private householders. The permanent traders in such cities will suffer badly and many might well simply give up; making life harder and costlier for the residents needing their services.

Allegedly Bristol City Council offers loans to buy new vehicles, as if that is likely to be an attractive or useful proposition. It can apply only to those who can afford a car-loan anyway, and who would still have to sell the existing one far from the city to have any chance of a reasonable return!