Oxford is 'Green capital of Britain' says Miliband (From thisisoxfordshire)

Bet Susanna Pressel is delighted to hear Eddie admit that.

Who is telling the truth. Only a few months ago Oxford City centre was deemed one of the most polluted places in the Country. Now a Government minsiter is saying that 'Oxford is the Green Capital of Britain'. Is this yet more Government 'spin'?

I've read some cobblers on this website over the years, but this takes the cake.

Milliband like all Labour M.Ps is a ****-wit. HE like all the green loonies should be forced to repent and stick to what their good at!

typical O.M didnt add my last bit ,WHICH SAID, NOTHING

Yup- good work Oxford- the 'Green' initiatives are so effective in deterring me (an Oxford resident) from getting anywhere near the city centre that I drove the 40 mile round trip to Reading yesterday, parked for free, wandered around, had something to eat, bought some stuff and came home again.

What? You mean turning over a city centre to cyclists buying vegan paninis and fair trade smoothies displaces the problem?

Oh dear- sounds like a lack of joined up thinking to me- no wonder a Nulabour muppet is praising it...

BTW- how does vastly increasing the over crowded city (and Country) with migrants help us all meet our 'green' targets?

Better go and turn my TV off standby- that'll solve it...

Zimmer wrote:
Who is telling the truth. Only a few months ago Oxford City centre was deemed one of the most polluted places in the Country. Now a Government minsiter is saying that 'Oxford is the Green Capital of Britain'. Is this yet more Government 'spin'?

Miliband is so very Green...... around the gills that is!!

He should have made a visit to Cowley to see how green Oxford can be.....

Can the Council please come & empty the recycling bins & put new stickers on them, as the locals don't know the difference between a glass bottle & a newspaper. Also the T.Vs which were meant for pick up seem to be mating & cloning themselves, they have got a bed & cabnet & making a home for themselves now.
How many Buses pass up to BBleys & the city each day. They may be green Buses & pump out a lot less carbon, but that does not give the bus companies to send out twenty dozen each day to make up that carbon footprint limit.

A new green town rejected in the past week!!!

We will need all this new Green energy for the new powered road signs going up around Oxford to tell us to stay away.

Very Green indeed Mr. Miliband.

I feel Goverment minsters will lick anyones boots at the moment as they are all con men/women, All Miliaband is asking is don't forget me at the next election.... Please!

Oxford could be Green, it is a lovely city with the colleges & parks but I'm afraid it's like a great lego kit which has been added on over the years with extra bricks from another set which don't match & never will quite fit properly.

tribalamazonian wrote:
I've read some cobblers on this website over the years, but this takes the cake.

Stick around I'm sure there is more to come!!

tribalamazonian wrote:
I've read some cobblers on this website over the years, but this takes the cake.

To be fair they're excellent at claiming "expenses".

Is Vesta wind a by-product of Vesta curry?

Nice bit of reporting on only the good things - if you read the full report it says that affluent areas are the worst performing while the most 'green' areas of Britain are built-up inner cities. The average household's carbon footprint is 28 tons per year.

The figures were calculated by the Stockholm Environment Institute, a global think tank, and Experian, an information services company. They looked at official figures on energy use, travel and general consumption including food.

People in wealthy areas eat more exotic and environmentally unfriendly food. They also fly more often and take foreign holidays in more distant locations, drive more gas guzzling 4x4s and live in bigger houses which cost more to heat and light.

tanchris wrote:
Milliband like all Labour M.Ps is a ****-wit. HE like all the green loonies should be forced to repent and stick to what their good at!

But all that MPs are good at is lying, taking our money for duck islands and generally having their snouts in the trough! I'd rather they all just pi55ed off...

The public were conned by MP's & their wicked house of lies & still we are letting them carry on, A general election will change nothing-different faces-same problems. until straight law abiding trustworthy normal persons stand against these theives nothing will change, but who is normal & who is trustworthy.
Joe public will let it happen over & over again if it is not expenses it will be some other con.

We have a real chance to change this Country but time is running out & maybe we are just too late.

I love my Country but hate the people that lead it & Miliband is part of the un-elected Goverment of Gordon Brown-The Snake around the Crown- God he's not even English. Edward Longshanks would be turning in his Grave.

Hold on MI6 are at the door!!!

Agnes_c wrote:
Nice bit of reporting on only the good things - if you read the full report it says that affluent areas are the worst performing while the most 'green' areas of Britain are built-up inner cities. The average household's carbon footprint is 28 tons per year. The figures were calculated by the Stockholm Environment Institute, a global think tank, and Experian, an information services company. They looked at official figures on energy use, travel and general consumption including food. People in wealthy areas eat more exotic and environmentally unfriendly food. They also fly more often and take foreign holidays in more distant locations, drive more gas guzzling 4x4s and live in bigger houses which cost more to heat and light.

This is what I most detest about the new Communism of the 'Green' agenda- it's an excuse to bang on about the 'wealthy' and blame them for everything- and that's coming from someone who isn't wealthy (me).

Oxford's 'inner city' areas are over crowded, full of students, migrants and people living in shared houses or bedsits.

People with families or who can lay their hands on enough money to move out where there is more room, better schools and a better quality of life do so.

Many of these people perform useful jobs in society, provide employment and create wealth- all of which benefit 'the poor'.

OBVIOUSLY if we all had a bowl of gruel a day, lived six to a room, didn't travel anywhere and wore rags we'd miraculously reduce our carbon footprint to not much above zero- this seems to be the aim of the Green/ Communist agenda.

Interestingly- much of the 'Green' vote is down to young people (students) who are a) rebelling against wealthy mummy and daddy b) have no idea about the Communist underpinnings of much of the 'Green' movement and don't remember that we tried Communism and- er- it didn't work c) live conveniently close to all they need due to subsidised accomodation or the diasterous conversion of swathes of family homes into run down studnet digs, destroying local communities and d) will end up living in a large house and owning a big car when they are older.

Another swathe of the 'Green' vote consists of those older wealthy 'hippy' types who live in a larger house than average, have 2 or 3 or more children, drive a car and go on holiday but it's all ok becuase they vote Green and go to WOMAD.

This report just seems to make a virtue out of a miserable life of overcrowded, holiday- free, subsistence misery, and as someone who has had to choose between food or heating it ain't much fun I can tell you.

Until teh mainly white, middle class chin strokers of the 'Green' lobby strat making some sensible suggestions about global population, immigration into the UK, birth control in India, Pakistan and most of Africa and on local issues such as the destruction of the green belt near Bicester and Grenoble Road, along with the unsustainable increase in Oxford's student numbers and low skilled migrant population, I won't be taking any of these reports seriously.

Grundon Skipp wrote:

Agnes_c wrote: Nice bit of reporting on only the good things - if you read the full report it says that affluent areas are the worst performing while the most 'green' areas of Britain are built-up inner cities. The average household's carbon footprint is 28 tons per year. The figures were calculated by the Stockholm Environment Institute, a global think tank, and Experian, an information services company. They looked at official figures on energy use, travel and general consumption including food. People in wealthy areas eat more exotic and environmentally unfriendly food. They also fly more often and take foreign holidays in more distant locations, drive more gas guzzling 4x4s and live in bigger houses which cost more to heat and light.

This is what I most detest about the new Communism of the 'Green' agenda- it's an excuse to bang on about the 'wealthy' and blame them for everything- and that's coming from someone who isn't wealthy (me). Oxford's 'inner city' areas are over crowded, full of students, migrants and people living in shared houses or bedsits. People with families or who can lay their hands on enough money to move out where there is more room, better schools and a better quality of life do so. Many of these people perform useful jobs in society, provide employment and create wealth- all of which benefit 'the poor'. OBVIOUSLY if we all had a bowl of gruel a day, lived six to a room, didn't travel anywhere and wore rags we'd miraculously reduce our carbon footprint to not much above zero- this seems to be the aim of the Green/ Communist agenda. Interestingly- much of the 'Green' vote is down to young people (students) who are a) rebelling against wealthy mummy and daddy b) have no idea about the Communist underpinnings of much of the 'Green' movement and don't remember that we tried Communism and- er- it didn't work c) live conveniently close to all they need due to subsidised accomodation or the diasterous conversion of swathes of family homes into run down studnet digs, destroying local communities and d) will end up living in a large house and owning a big car when they are older. Another swathe of the 'Green' vote consists of those older wealthy 'hippy' types who live in a larger house than average, have 2 or 3 or more children, drive a car and go on holiday but it's all ok becuase they vote Green and go to WOMAD. This report just seems to make a virtue out of a miserable life of overcrowded, holiday- free, subsistence misery, and as someone who has had to choose between food or heating it ain't much fun I can tell you. Until teh mainly white, middle class chin strokers of the 'Green' lobby strat making some sensible suggestions about global population, immigration into the UK, birth control in India, Pakistan and most of Africa and on local issues such as the destruction of the green belt near Bicester and Grenoble Road, along with the unsustainable increase in Oxford's student numbers and low skilled migrant population, I won't be taking any of these reports seriously.

Grundon Skipp, I like you- I wanted to say all that. well done!