Cllr Dr Alex Powell

Promoted by and on behalf of Alex Powell (Oxfordshire Green Party), 12A Merlin Road, Oxford OX4 6EP.

On the eve of the Gorton & Denton by-election the Labour Party have invented a fake tactical voting organisation to put on their leaflets. Lying to voters is all they have left. All the (real) tactical voting organisations agree: only a Green vote can stop Reform on Thursday.

for reasons unknown,@YouGov have taken their perfectly functional website (with easy access to tracking polls, survey results and PDFs) and stripped everything functional out, leaving useless bright coloured slop. Enshittification kills another business yougov.com/en-gb

You can palpably feel the desperation... This kind of disingenuous nonsense from Labour is corrosive to democracy. It's the same nonsense they pulled in Caerphilly right before coming a pathetic third with just 11% of the vote. For Labour, entitlement is the default setting.

*public conceptions.

More needs to be said about Fiona Bruce saying 'we talk about the cost of living every week' in response to @ZackPolanski As if immigration is also not mentioned every week on #bbcqt. The BBC is itself playing a part in creating public connections of immigration as a key divide.

Once again, I am appalled by the descent of the UK Labour party into apologism for the worst kind of scapegoating. Labour are aping the rise of fascism in this country, as the Tories did before them. And the BBC is contributing to the conditions in which that is happening.

It's click bait journalism. Both Zack and, to be fair Daisy Cooper (largely) did an excellent job tonight. But the fixation on migration from the media is blocking the capacity to meaningfully address the real issues facing this country.

"When are we going to have a cost of living special?" @ZackPolanski on #BBCQT join.greenparty.org.uk

I found the unfiltered fascism from Reform and Labour, calling migrants "rapists and paedophiles" (the Trump playbook) disgusting on #BBCQT. As @ZackPolanski said, "we need to change the conversation on migration", it's a diversionary moral panic from the issues affecting people.

Zia Yusuf truly is an odious and nasty individual. To show such disdain for a member of the public who has given their life to working in the NHS says everything about his character. A thoroughly repulsive member of an utterly vile party. #bbcqt

Delighted that my book was published on Tuesday. Still feels amazing to hold the physical edition on my hands!

Had a wonderful book launch with @SociologyOxford last night! 📚🥂

📚🏳️‍🌈 Join us to celebrate the publication of Dr Max Morris' book 'Not Sex Work' - a study of the parallel histories and intersecting politics of LGBTQ+ communities and sex workers. 🗓️ 5pm, 14 November 🎙️🥂 Talk followed by drinks reception RSVP ➡️ forms.office.com/e/6p7hXxd8AQ

Delighted to share that I'll be doing a book launch in the Department of Sociology at the University of Oxford, 5pm Friday 14th November (exactly three weeks away). This @SociologyOxford talk will be followed by a drinks reception. All welcome; RSVP here: sociology.ox.ac.uk/event/book-lau…

I thought @ZackPolanski was brilliant on #BBCQT tonight despite a hostile panel and personal attacks. Calling out fascism and racism rather than blaming immigrants, calling for a wealth tax rather than blaming poor and disabled people for needing a properly funded welfare system.

This is my one thread only return from the Butterfly app.

My initial inclination had been to wait until all candidates were announced before making up my mind. But today makes things clearer, Labour are handing the keys to the UK to fascists. There is little time to shift the discourse and we need to be vocal now, without further delay.

The embrace of far-right narratives by this government puts new urgency to the need for a mass appeal popular left alternative of the kind that @ZackPolanski is proposing. In the coming leadership election I will be supporting #BackZack

🚧 Major delays from Network Rail on the Oxford Rail Station project and its effects on the Botley Road have caused serious disruption to the lives of residents in Oxford! That's why tonight we're calling on the City Council to take legal action. 👇 bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…