Cllr Tom Greenaway 🔸

Liberal Democrat - Oxfordshire County Council/Abingdon Town Council - Tweets in a personal capacity

[Joe Allen @Joe___Allen]

> Hit & killed elderly pedestrian.
> Fled the scene. Found hiding in a garden.
> No valid licence or insurance.
> Will likely be out in 12 months.
> *3 year driving ban*.

Again, hard to understand why we'd choose to have people like this back on the road in a few years?

[Alex Chalmers @chalmermagne]

There is something incredibly depressing about the government responding to the test backlog by just writing it into law and pretending it's a policy choice. Total decline vibes.

[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

For people who don’t believe that marginal rates change behaviour:

[Iain Mansfield @IGMansfield]

A carer earning £10,100 a year who earns an extra £100 will find themselves over £4,000 a year worse off.

On the median part-time wage, they'd need to work over 6 hours extra a week to overcome the cliff-edge.

Infinite marginal tax rates help no-one.

https://t.co/pJXXiEZS2F

[Andrew Bennett @andrewjb_]

seems bad

[Cllr Tom Greenaway 🔸 @t0mgreenaway]

Great to see this approved!

This will be so important for the club, fans and county 💛

[Oxford United @OUFCOfficial]

Oxford United are delighted that our planning application for a new 16,000 capacity stadium on land north of the city has been approved by Cherwell District Council.

[Cllr Tom Greenaway 🔸 @t0mgreenaway]

@rail_guns Bumped into this delaying two buses on Friday 🤷

[Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson]

Encouraging people to lease cars they don’t really want to artificially lower their salaries is not a great system

[Cllr Tom Greenaway 🔸 @t0mgreenaway]

Great to see this moving forward!

This link and the pedestrian crossings will be a massive boost for the town centre 🚶 🚴‍♀️ 🦽

[Oxford Clarion @OxfordClarion]

£1.5m plans to fix the missing link for cycling across Abingdon have advanced following the appointment of Phil Jones Associates to design the scheme. A new through route will be created on National Cycle Route 5 where cyclists currently have to dismount, using Government funds.

[Adam Tranter @adamtranter]

A driver who flipped his car, left the scene then lied about it being stolen to Police has avoided jail or any driving ban.

Why?

Because “he’s now driving for Amazon” and “has expensive car repayments to make”.

Now we have to share the road with him.

https://t.co/hM9Xp71OIT

[Renaud Foucart @RenaudFoucart]

Economists: people don't understand marginal tax. If your tax rate increases above £100,000, you don't suddenly lose money when you earn £100,001

UK tax system: hold my beer

[Adam Tranter @adamtranter]

One year in prison, one year on licence and a four year driving ban, for killing another human being while driving distracted.

This is for a case that took nearly five years to come to trial.

The system is broken.

[Cllr Tom Greenaway 🔸 @t0mgreenaway]

@neilfawcett The 12 month @ThamesVP crime summary shows a 100% increase in homicides, 129.7% increase in business property robbery, 28.6% increase in shoplifting and a 36.3% increase in drug trafficking.

You’d think our PCC would welcome some enforcement help 🤷‍♂️

https://t.co/9iTfkMgCYz

[Anya Martin @AnyaM8_]

Why don't the Met just cut to the chase and start lobbying for a national compulsory bedtime?

[createstreets @createstreets]

This is a street scar. Most people hate them. They degrade our high streets and town centres. They say “you don’t matter. Your home town is worthless.”

We could stop them happening. If you would like to then ….

[Cllr Tom Greenaway 🔸 @t0mgreenaway]

@springy_steve Loads of them have gone in across Abingdon recently which is great to see. It’s a tree planting scheme from @OxfordshireCC

I asked for a batch to go along the Drayton Road and was going to check them out this weekend. I’ve heard good feedback already 👍🌳

[Sayff @thesayff]

My entire scientific career I have been cautioning against climate doomerism. It’s dangerously unhealthy for young people and leads into apathy.

Humanity won on ozone depletion. Much of the world has been successful on acid rain and air pollution. Climate is winnable.

[Cllr Tom Greenaway 🔸 @t0mgreenaway]

@duolingo Is the app down currently? I’m trying to do my daily practice but it’s giving me error messages?

[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

If any of us stopped paying tax we’d be prosecuted in a jiffy. So how can this be happening?

[Alec Stapp @AlecStapp]

However bad you think things are in the UK, it’s worse