Oxfordshire Council to Trial a Climate Lockdown Starting 2024

Wattsupwiththat ^ | 12/04/2022 | Eric Worrall

[ChicagoConservative27]

Imagine if your power mad politicians liked Covid Lockdowns so much, they wanted to continue them indefinitely. This is going to be trialled in Oxfordshire in Britain.

Oxfordshire County Council Pass Climate Lockdown ‘trial’ to Begin in 2024

Oxfordshire County Council yesterday approved plans to lock residents into one of six zones to ‘save the planet’ from global warming. The latest stage in the ’15 minute city’ agenda is to place electronic gates on key roads in and out of the city, confining residents to their own neighbourhoods.

Under the new scheme if residents want to leave their zone they will need permission from the Council who gets to decide who is worthy of freedom and who isn’t. Under the new scheme residents will be allowed to leave their zone a maximum of 100 days per year, but in order to even gain this every resident will have to register their car details with the council who will then track their movements via smart cameras round the city.

Communism will make the weather better.

[9YearLurker]

Whoa. Just recently I posted in favor of their Labor position to, along with abolishing the House of Lords, devolve more government to local regions.

Perhaps their position (and they are likely to soon be back in power) is in part to advance UN/WEF crap like this?

[9YearLurker]

Oxford is also a walk- and bike-able town and gown area hub.

Will a next step be to require that people have their mobile digital “papers” on them at all times, while that same phone tracks and enforces people not venturing more than a mile or two from their home prison?

[JoJo354]

The proposal doesn’t sound like it is so citizen friendly and free. It states that you have to ask permission to go beyond your “zone”? And there is a committee that regulates this. Have you ever seen the movie “Mockingjay: The Hunger Games”? This city hasn’t gone all in yet but personally...how far will these “policies” go if the citizens go along with it now and those in charge think they need to tighten it further. I don’t know...maybe I am thinking too much but I wouldn’t want to do what they are doing. Using their term “Climate Lockdown” sure doesn’t help! When they say lockdown, what does that bring to mind??

[Basket_of_Deplorables]

WHAT?????

[Winniesboy]

The report, and all the comments assuming 'you won't be allowed to leave your zone' are absolute BS. If you read the actual proposals summarised at post 14, there is nothing at all which will prevent anyone from 'leaving their zone'. You would be able to leave any way you liked provided it's not in a private car - and driving a private car around Oxford is pretty pointless anyway. Even then, there would be nothing to physically prevent you - you'd just get a fine.

In other words, this is nothing more exreme than the various inner-city congestion/air pollution schemes already being introduced across Europe, and already in place in eg London. There are many sensible arguments against them, but the hyperdramatised 'lockdown' characterisation in the article (and consequent posts) is nonsense.