Nick Clegg cancels visit to Oxford

LibDem slimebag Nick Clegg has cancelled his visit to Oxford next week, after several inspiring and militant mass actions, citing 'a scheduling problem'.

The Context

-28 Oct - Vince Cable due to visit Oxford. He pulls out because of 'security concerns' but the counter-demo goes ahead anyway and is one of the most energetic and militant Oxford has seen for years:

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/oxford/2010/10/466984.html

-30 Oct - Vodafone stores shut down all over the country in a co-ordinated day of anti-cuts action called at the last minute, showing that people everywhere are angry, up for action and just waiting for a convenient target. This includes a fairly lively action in Oxford:

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/oxford/2010/10/467098.html

-10 Nov - Big demo in London against education cuts culminates in the occupation and trashing of Tory HQ:

http://london.indymedia.org/articles/5938

-10 Nov, evening - Clegg announces cancellation:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-11728802

Funny timing for a 'scheduling problem' to crop up. Does that sound like a co-incidence to you?

Keep up the pressure! Let's make Oxford a no-go zone for all such slimeballs!

Additions

Organising against the cuts

11.11.2010 13:42

Keep checking the calendar on the home page for how to get involved in resisting teh cuts. Meetings coming up include:

Thursday 11th November, 7:00pm-9:00pm Oxfordshire Save Our Services meeting, Fusion Arts Centre, Princes Street, OX4 1DD (off Cowley Road near East Oxford Community Centre)

Tuesday 16th November, 7:30pm Oxfordshire Anti-Cuts Alliance, Oxford Town Hall

Wednesday 17th November, 6:30pm Women and the Cuts - whats the deal and how do we feminists resists? @oxfordgef, Wadham College, Parks Road, Moser Theatre

IMCer

you were right

16.11.2010 01:34

1. Yep, you were right; according to the minutes of an OEC (Oxford Education Campaign) meeting on 8th Nov, it was already known then that he'd pulled out. It just goes to show how far we still have to go in making Oxford indymedia a viable news site that no-one at that meeting bothered posting it here until now! Which means it wasn't in reponse to the London demo but probably /was/ influenced by the local demo against Vince Cable's visit.

2. There's a rumour he is still coming to Oxford, and that although the public event at the Union is cancelled he is still planning to address the local Lib Dem club. Can anyone give details or confirmation of this?

Comments

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"Slimeball"? Really?

11.11.2010 01:26

Firstly, Nick Clegg is not a "slimeball", and I really object to the fact that you seem to be calling Vince Cable a "slimeball" too. Also, is it any wonder Clegg doesn't want to go to Oxford when Cambridge students were among those tearing down the Tory HQ yesterday? Is this really even news?

Student

Erm is this really a student?

11.11.2010 01:44

Clearly not.

See ya later commenter!

Fuck off clegg!

Fuck off cable!

abc

A despicable man

11.11.2010 11:14

Clegg is both a liar and a coward.

Steve

@student

11.11.2010 13:40

"Also, is it any wonder Clegg doesn't want to go to Oxford when Cambridge students were among those tearing down the Tory HQ yesterday?"

I think you're confusing Cambridge with Oxford. And Clegg pulled out of visiting Oxford before yesterday's demo. Other than that, I agree with your entire sentence.

The other place

11.11.2010 16:12

> Also, is it any wonder Clegg doesn't want to go to Oxford when Cambridge students were among those tearing down the Tory HQ yesterday?

How dare you associate us with "the other place"? That lot punt from the wrong end you know! Even if I do sort of admire them for trashing the Tory HQ...

oxfordian

loose lips sink ships

11.11.2010 16:40

in regard to previous comment, too much information ...in case u didn't kw, cops read these pages

shut the f*** up!

@X

11.11.2010 18:51

> Clegg pulled out of visiting Oxford before yesterday's demo

How do you know this? I'm not saying you're definitely wrong, but it would be good to know either way. Do you have a source/proof?

@h

11.11.2010 20:18

10 November 2010 Last updated at 20:11
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has cancelled a planned speech at the Oxford Union.
...
A spokesman for the Oxford Union said they were informed last week that Mr Clegg would not be able to make it.

Source:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-11728802

It's only a source - I don't have proof, but I haven't been able to find a retraction anywhere.

@X

12.11.2010 13:42

Well sure, the Oxford Union /claim/ that he'd been planning to cancel it since last week, but the cancellation was only actually *announced* the evening after the London demo.

So the only actual evidence is the word of the Oxford Union, who have a vested interest in pretending that this cancellation has nothing to do with student militancy. Personally, I don't believe them. Why would they leave it until now to announce the cancellation if it had been known about that long?