We need proper climate change action – not just the activism from the Greens.

At both Oxfordshire and Vale level the Greens and the Liberal Democrats have been running the Council together for the last few years - whilst pretenting the Conservatives have been in charge all along. You may even be aware of this – and it means less money spent on roads. It means less money on home to school transport (Greens want to see your kids on bikes, and less car and bus trips). It means less local bus services (Greens do not think villages are sustainable and want us moved to towns and cities). You’re not voting for The Good Life here folks! But mostly, it means activism and bad government. Here is a simple example. The Liberals and Greens – despite saying they are against new housing development – have approved over 3000 new houses for our area since 2019. I asked how many had gas boilers, and how many had ground source heat pumps instead.

The answer – “we don’t know as we do not track this”. If you don’t control what developers are doing (hint – it’s cheap gas boilers that are going into new homes) they will do the thing that is easiest and most profitable for them. Rather than spending your money taking out gas boilers they should stop builders from adding them in the first place. It’s another example of Green politics rather than green progress. Having declared and eye catching climate emergency at all of our Councils, the Liberal Green alliance seems to not know what to do about it.

Conservative policies on planning will start with every new home being built – and I will campaign to stop the gas boilers being added in the first place.”