Saturday 18 August 2012

Take a fairer approach

10:00am Friday 17th August 2012 in Letters
I HAVE to agree with Green Party spokesman Cllr Craig Simmons’s economic calculations regarding the Temple Cowley Swimming Pool.
He is probably correct in stating that it is more cost effective to save the Temple Pool than to get rid of this much-loved facility.
Although I fully appreciate that deprived areas such as Blackbird Leys deserve extra investment in leisure facilities, I feel that the needs of Temple Cowley and east Oxford residents deserve equal consideration.
The city council needs to adopt a fairer and more balanced approach here instead of favouring one particular electoral ward at the expense of other wards.
Interestingly, my youngest son came home from school one day and said that he is upset with Oxford Labour as they want to shut his favourite pool! Clearly even 11-year-olds are getting involved in this political debate at school.
The Green Party secured an exceptionally high vote in the Temple Cowley Ward last May for this very reason.
Let us hope that a very long stay of execution will be granted for the much-loved Temple Cowley Swimming Pool and that a fairer approach is adopted by the city council regarding leisure facilities.
SUSAN THOMAS
Magdalen Road
Oxford

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1:20pm Fri 17 Aug 12
Sid Hunt says...
"deprived areas such as Blackbird Leys" - 'deprived area' seems to be en vogue currently appearing in several letters to the OM. Can any of the claimants actually substantiate the 'deprived area' claims?
7:56pm Fri 17 Aug 12
mytaxes says...
Why is it a "deprived area", what about the other areas in Oxford that are getting less and less for their council tax? How much will council tax increase next year to pay for their madcap schemes?
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Thursday 2 August 2012

Oxford Politics

We’ve made it worse

6:02pm Monday 16th July 2012 in Letters
 RECENTLY the Taliban executed a young woman for adultery in line with the strict Sharia law in Afghanistan.


 Ironically, Sharia Law is now prevalent in Libya thanks to the monumental incompetence of our Foreign Secretary William Hague.


 Under the democratic regime of deposed Gadaffi, Libya had exemplary rights for women.


 Indeed I would go as far to say that Colonel Gadaffi was a good leader.
Under his rule, Libyans had free university education and free electricity.
Even the unemployed were entitled to receive a comparable wage as that of a working person. Women had full and equal rights.


 Gadaffi was correct in saying that the rebels were Al Qaeda.


 William Hague was the prime instigator of the military action. He fancies himself as a Rambo action man.


 There are those who believe that Gadaffi was behind Lockerbie or the murder of WPC Yvonne Fletcher.


 There is no proper forensic proof to corroborate either of these theories.


 The shots that killed the WPC could not possibly have come from the Libyan embassy.


 Gadaffi was smeared and used as a fall guy.


 His son also gave millions of pounds to the LSE.


 Our Government has cocked up by killing Gadaffi and enabling repressive Sharia law to take the place of the democracy.


 Libya is a mess now thanks to William Hague.


 Well done idiots in the Foreign Office. You have excelled yourselves again.


SUSAN THOMAS,
Magdalen Road,
Oxford




Zaxharias Ziegla says...
Though time prevents menton of them all, I should have thought Gaddafi's choice of friends rather gave his game away.


Back in the 1960s there was Jean-Bedel Bokasser 1 of Central Africa; later Charles Taylor of Liberia (tried and convicted for crimes against humanity at the Hague); and more recently that charming fellow 'Bob' Mugabe.


Perhaps Susan is hoping for a script witer's job with The Now Show?


7:16pm Tue 17 Jul 12
Fantomas says...
"The shots that killed the WPC could not possibly have come from the Libyan embassy"


If you have any new evidence, (not conspiracy theories) pertaining to this then I hope that you'll bring them to the proper authorities.
10:51am Wed 18 Jul 12
Megs says...
I worked, on women's issues, during the 1990s, in countries where there was Sharia Law. Some have recently seen revolutions and some military action from foreign organisations and countries. I can assure Susan Thomas that extreme, unacceptable behaviour towards women, for which Sharia law may have been used as the excuse, existed in many of these countries and certainly predates the UK's & it's allies interventions in the cases she mentions, of Afghanistan and Libya. Further, the women I have worked with in such countries know that freedom from dictatorship is a fundamental aspect of human dignity. They have not been ignorant the fate they might face if dictatorship is removed and tentative democracy introduced; but is it not perhaps conceivable that they might like to engage in the battle for their own rights in their own nation rather than have some Susan Thomas blethering on about how much better it all was before, under the old regime?
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