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

[b]Is this a world first (China excluded)?
Coming soon - to your town![/b]

[[c=003BB2]b][big]Residents will be confined to their local neighbourhood and have to ask permission to leave it all to ‘save the planet’.[/big][/b]

Oxfordshire County Council approved plans to lock residents into one of six zones to ‘save the planet’ from global warming. The latest stage in the ’15 minute city’ agenda is to place electronic gates on key roads in and out of the city, confining residents to their own neighbourhoods.

Under the new scheme if residents want to leave their zone they will need permission from the Council who gets to decide who is worthy of freedom and who isn’t. Under the new scheme residents will be allowed to leave their zone a maximum of 100 days per year, but in order to even gain this every resident will have to register their car details with the council who will then track their movements via smart cameras round the city.

Communism will make the weather better.

Oxfordshire County Council, which is run by Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the Green Party, secretly decided to divide-up the city of Oxford into six ‘15 minute’ districts in 2021 soon after they were elected to office. None of the councillors declared their intention of imprisoning local residents in their manifestos of course, preferring to make vague claims about how they will ‘improve the environment’ instead.

Every resident will be required to register their car with the County Council who will then monitor how many times they leave their district via number plate recognition cameras. And don’t think you can beat the system if you’re a two car household. Those two cars will be counted as one meaning you will have to divide up the journeys between yourselves. 2 cars 50 journeys each; 3 cars 33 journeys each and so on.

Under the new rules, your social life becomes irrelevant. By de facto Councils get to dictate how many times per year you can see friends and family. You will be stopped from fraternising with anyone outside your district, and if you want a long distance relationship in the future, forget it, you are confined to dating only those within a 15 minute walk of your house.

A single person’s life will be at the mercy of Communists in central office, dictating the same type of draconian rules we had to avert the last crisis, a mild flu virus so deadly 80% of people didn’t even know they had it.

An entirely new social structure is being imposed on Oxford’s residents (and more cities are to follow) under the lie of saving the planet. But what it really is, is a plan for Command and Control. There will be permits, penalties and even more ubiquitous surveillance. Council officials will determine where you can go and how often, and will log every time you do. 15-minute cities, or 15 minute prisons?
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[c=1F5E00]Source:https://www.visionnews.online/post/oxfordshire-county-council-pass-climate-lockdown-trial-to-begin-in-2024[/c]
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ArishMell · 70-79, M
Who the Hell do these County politicians think they are?

Although that report does not make it very clear I think it is really only to limit you [i]driving[/i] around the town. Nor does it involve physical gates! The "gates" are number-plate cameras and counters, electronic sensors not steel barriers.

[i]Vision News [/i]does give the Oxfordshire County Council's side of the story, which explains it; although VN's editor clearly does not believe them. It states no plan at all to "lock" people in, or to restrict them from [i]moving [/i]about the place at all; only to limit their [i]driving [/i]within the town.

Even so I can't really imagine the good people of that fair city - residents, local business people and University students - putting up with that; and it is hard to see how it could possibly work for residents who need their cars every day.

Nor can I imagine it working at a practical level. How could it? it is a heck of a lot of administration based on computers so designed by programmers not users, for idealists not users; a recipe for failure.

- How would it allow access for traders - deliveries to shops, building repairers, and so on? Would they simply abandon working in the town? Town-centre shops are already under enormous threat from the Internet and the continued development of out-of-town supermarkets designed to attract only motorists (because they can carry big trolleyfuls of goods, and probably no buses there anyway). One trader has told he will no longer take on work in Bristol because its new so-called "Clean Air" charge would put £30 a day for his van, on his bills.

- Or for commuters, either into or out of the area?

- Or for visitors from away from the county - would they be subject to a charge if they arrive by car of some artificial specifications?

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I don't go along with VN's imagined Orwellian motive, and I have no time for its Reds-Under-The-Bed waffle. More likely this genuinely is [i]imagined[/i] a way of reducing car use within the town for environmental reasons, but it has not been [i]thought[/i] through; by local counsellors thinking they are somehow Doing The Right Thing.

It seems a car-limiting scheme by rationing use rather than the charging by type arrangements of the Clean Air "Zones" [[i]sic[/i]] now in force in Bristol and other cities. Those are well-meant but really only cash-raising schemes with consequences either not seen, or ignored. However, unlike those, Oxford's scheme does not seem based on vehicles' theoretical emissions, just vehicle use; and just as badly thought.

On that, I believe London is extending its Ultra-Low Emission "Zone" even further out, beyond the North & South Circular Roads ring-road. I don't know how far out though. If to the M25 it would cover a huge area with a vast numbers of homes and businesses within it; and a sizeable part of it is way out in the countryside, far from the city.
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The idea of all these wheezes is not to control[i] people[/i] but to control using i.c-engined [i]vehicles[/i].... but it forgets the vehicles are needed by all sorts of people for all sorts of reasons.
Carissimi · F
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
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@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!
WalterF · 70-79, M
@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.