THANK goodness for the good sense of Oxford people in the elections. We voted for a stronger Labour council, beat the Green Party in the Euro elections and sent Labour’s Anneliese Dodds, who lives in Rose Hill, to represent us in Brussels.
The city council now has 33 Labour councillors out of 48 and is still a Tory and UKIP-free zone. Labour won three extra seats and is well placed to tackle the housing, environmental and cost of living issues that confront our city.
In the Euro-poll in Oxford, Labour won a third (33 per cent) of the vote, the Green Party only a fifth (21 per cent) and the Tories in third place with just 15 per cent. What a pity the rest of the huge South East region didn’t follow Oxford’s example.
I’d like to thank your readers for voting and especially those who voted for Labour. But Oxford will have to shout loudly to make sure sweet reason and internationalism are heard above the din of blaming foreigners for our troubles.
John Tanner, executive board member for a Cleaner, Greener Oxford, city councillor for Littlemore and county councillor for Isis
- Today’s letters
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