Nathan Ley

"The complaints are loud and immediate. The benefit is a child who never develops asthma, and nobody ever writes to thank you for something that didn't happen." cllrdrnathanley.substack.com/p/your-polit...

"The complaints are loud and immediate. The benefit is a child who never develops asthma, and nobody ever writes to thank you for something that didn't happen." cllrdrnathanley.substack.com/p/your-polit...

Yay active travel-friendly measure I did going down well on that site for once!

Great article. This is what's really happening and we need to wake up to it.

the cordon sanitaire does not exist. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Is this the same place that blamed 'traffic restrictions' and lack of parking for why they had to leave? Huge publicity about that then, how about the return?

Kemi Badenoch wants to exempt the family home from inheritance tax. But that creates a perverse incentive for elderly people to *upsize* to save IHT. That could double the cost of the policy, and push £100bn+ from savings into housing. A 🧵 on bad tax cuts.

Incredible things happening on Facebook rn

Pure silliness

𝗠𝘆 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝗔𝗯𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗱𝗼𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗼𝗿 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀𝗹𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗼𝘂𝘁! 📰 cllrdrnathanley.substack.com/p/abingdon-c...

Keep going with these terrible policies, lads.

Finally, a Lib Dem MP able to speak to for what's fair on this topic

Guest speaker at St Helen and St Katharine this week - joining students from secondary schools I created a workshop/game based on a hypothetical council with £1B to spend, but with difficult budget decisions to make... Big thanks to all, and all power to the OX14 Learning Partnership 💪

Oxfordshire’s first new Quiet Lane has come into effect. Shepherds Pit Lane, to the village of Stanton St John, now has a closed gate at one end to prevent through motor traffic, making the road safer for walkers and cyclists. The parallel Bayswater Road remains open to cars and is no slower.

If only there was some sign that Andy Burnham ducks difficult decisions

cllrdrnathanley.substack.com/p/the-roofs-... excellent article here from a councillor in Abingdon. He's so right that we need more solar everyone, roofs won't solve the problem alone.

Hear, hear! Excellent piece. The roofs first objection to urgently needed solar farms "does not survive contact with a calculator". It also doesn't survive our duty to our children.

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If these people in Piddington think this kind of stunt is helping.....it's not. www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2656868...

I’m sorry, but I’m going to put my neck on the line & say this is entirely the wrong policy position. We need to be incentivising people to use less fuel - 17.28bn litres of fuel per year currently. Imagine what £1.7bn per year could do to active & public transport. Not discount dinosaur juice

To celebrate the reopening of Botley Road, Bill Gates and George Soros are there in person scanning the 5G chips inserted with the COVID vaccine of the people walking through the checkpoint between the 15 minute neighbourhoods (Resisted the urge to make this comment on @nathanley.com 's FB post)

💧 Last month I wrote a blog asking you to consider that flooding might be a bit more complicated than “blocked drains” and a lazy council. I also promised to come back with something practical. So here it is. Less polemical, more practical. 👇 cllrdrnathanley.substack.com/p/what-you-c...

Honestly my life is about to get a lot more miserable these next few years Mid terms is gonna be a nice moment of catharsis in November. But it can't undo this

Honestly, I'm starting to wonder how *any* other party will be able to compete with this level of corruption, and such loose finance regulation That postal vote letter Farage sends us every year full of lies? Expect more of that Against the 'elites', fighting for the little guy? Yeah, right

Dismayed by defeat of the assisted dying bill. Nothing was won today – no new palliative care funding, no new disability support. And the suffering that brought this bill to parliament remains.

Ultimately, Rayner is making the right call here imo

The Greater Oxford proposal was also based on fudged data, and would not deliver councils of viable scale. As POETS identified in the same doc, instead of using ONS growth rates of 0.5%, Oxford City inflated the rates to 2.9%, to grow tiny Greater Oxford from 240k population to 345k by 2040

Nice to see this fence and gate fixed at Long Furlong Community Centre ✅️ With thanks to Cllrs Helen & Caleb Abingdon Abbey Northcourt and Cllr Andy Foulsham

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Chris Mason. Failing in his job at a very important time for our democracy

Matthew Barber, Liam Walker.....time to find another hobby

Visited Marcham Road Hospital this morning and saw the newly refurbished Abingdon EMU with Emma Leaver, COO at Oxford Health £1.1m from NHS England for same-day urgent care that keeps people out of the JR overnight Also saw the stroke rehab unit, podiatry and MIU. Brilliant staff.

📩 Abingdon Newsletter - August 2026 Please subscribe for future updates and to receive it directly to your email inbox every month Thank you! cllrdrnathanley.substack.com/p/abingdon-n...

Councillors! MPs! I wrote a reference you can use anytime someone absent mindedly shouts "blocked drains!!!" from their keyboard! cllrdrnathanley.substack.com/p/why-our-st...

This is for every councillor that gets tagged in their local Facebook group this winter

This week's effort. I appreciate anyone who reads More nuance than the title suggests. Possibly more detail than the Oxford Mail comments section can handle Let's hope I don't have to post it too many times this winter! cllrdrnathanley.substack.com/p/why-our-st...

This week's effort. I appreciate anyone who reads More nuance than the title suggests. Possibly more detail than the Oxford Mail comments section can handle Let's hope I don't have to post it too many times this winter! cllrdrnathanley.substack.com/p/why-our-st...

"Eight Republican states this year introduced legislation to limit or prohibit mRNA" Fine. You'll die earlier in those states then. Move, or elect better politicians Moderna pins hopes on mRNA ‘game-changer’ for cancer vaccines - www.ft.com/content/cd52... via @FT

Here is a concept for many of our lives which came to me on holiday this year I had fun writing something a little different Maybe you can relate. Let me know! (Link in the comments 👇) cllrdrnathanley.substack.com/p/the-squash...

Here is a concept for many of our lives which came to me on holiday this year I had fun writing something a little different Maybe you can relate. Let me know! (Link in the comments 👇) cllrdrnathanley.substack.com/p/the-squash...

"Oxfordshire now leads UK on clean air" www.lgcplus.com/services/env...

Here’s why we need solar farms and pretending we can just cover car parks and buildings simply won’t work. takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/the-green-...

🚢 Currently travelling back from wonderful France 🇫🇷 But I’ve still put together our July round-up ! Please subscribe/share if you find it useful 🙂 cllrdrnathanley.substack.com/p/abingdon-n...

Despite a Police and Crime Commissioner for the wider region who works against us, @oxfordshirecc.bsky.social is being brave and leading the way on road safety in 2026

It's that time of the year again Taking a short break from the internet — genuinely knackered and in need of a proper switch-off Something tells me we might need that energy over the next 12 months.... Thank you for the kindness and civility as ever 🧡 See you soon

🚧 £4m extra just approved to fix Oxfordshire's broken gullies - taking total investment to £9.42m over 2 years Now they've been cleared, the extra money is going into to fix the collapsed and broken structures where needed High-risk areas are now being cleaned annually, up from once every 4 years

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Protect our kids. Not like that. Awful people.

🗺️ The Minister who signed off the "Greater Oxford" boundary grab was sacked days later. Look at the shape - it's a gerrymander, reaching for villages that have nothing to do with the city (but cutting us out?) I'd rather keep Oxfordshire whole. Please sign & share: www.oxonld.uk/lgr

This is a significant increase on the £2.7 million received from in 2025/26, because Oxfordshire County Council's active travel rating has increased from 2 to 3 - joint best in the country. www.activetravelengland.gov.uk/resources/ca...