Councillor Bob Timbs, the portfolio holder for leisure, says he is going ahead with the closure of Temple Cowley Pools and the building of a brand new pool at Blackbird Leys on the basis of cross-party support.
This is totally untrue.
The Green Party has consistently opposed the closure of Temple Cowley pools.
It was Green councillors who stood with local campaigners collecting signatures with local campaigners to stop the closure (more than 10,000 have signed that petition).
It was also Green city councillors who attended the public consultations and spoke against the idea.
On two occasions it was Green Party members who moved in full council that Temple Cowley Pools should be saved and the whole idea reconsidered.
Those resolutions are on record for all to see, as is the video of the council meeting with Green councillors speaking against the closure.
On each occasion the Green resolution was voted down by Labour and the Liberal Democrats.
The Greens have opposed the idea as it went through committee and some of the factual research on the issue was done by Green councillors.
For example, I spent three hours examining the contract between Fusion Leisure and the council.
The Liberal Democrats have wavered on the issue. They were initially fully in favour of the closure (it was their idea).
But very recently, as they realised that 99 per cent of people thought the idea was totally wrong, believing it a tactic to get money from land sales to modernise the existing pool at Blackbird Leys, they appear to have begun to hesitate.
This of course has not stopped them voting with Labour at the last two council meetings to vote down Green motions to retain Temple Cowley Pools.
Why has councillor Timbs tried to suggest there was cross-party consensus?
Because he knows the arguments for closure have been lost.
He knows that the Greens have the real history of defending public services, and his comments are a mark of total desperation as he tries to deflect blame for where it really rests: with the Labour group on the city council.
David Williams Leader of the Green group on Oxford City Council London Road Oxford
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