Tim Swift
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Tim Swift
@TimSwift
Labour and Cooperative Councillor; Calderdale MBC. Interests in health, social care, and the future of towns. Tweeting in a personal capacity




The shortage of oil and gas from the Middle East underlines the stupidity and irresponsibility of UK energy policy which makes us so dependent on imports. When will the government encourage and permit more UK production?

When in 2007 the mayor of #Ljubljana proposed to close 12 hectares of its city center to private cars, just 40% of residents approved. A decade later, no less than 97% were against reopening to motor traffic: “None of us can really imagine cars ever staging a comeback”.






Labour’s decision to block Andy Burnham’s leadership manoeuvring was not ruthless but realistic. Allowing it to continue would have handed its opponents an open goal, says @_SeanOGrady – and solved none of the party’s deeper problems independent.co.uk/voices/andy-bu…





















