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moss M
moss May 1, 2011 10:20:44
Replying to The Sea Cat

Aside from rotten conservative governments there is the history of the allotment here....
http://www.bkthisandthat.org.uk/ShortHistoryOfAllotmentshtml.html

and the historic struggle to keep them alive as part of the social conscience, which of course is not part of new conservative thinking

Well as someone who has been 'green' for 30 years or more and had allotments, I would have thought they were a flourishing success with many overbooked for years to come. Its the local councils that will have to fight this one, this government just changes the rules to its own advantage, and then ducks when the flack flies. Sodding cowards the lot of them (sorry)

Out with Conservatives in with Conservation! ;)

N nigelswift
nigelswift May 1, 2011 10:44:51
Replying to moss

As with the forests, the rights and wrongs of allotments are mere smokescreens. The plan is to get land for their mates to make money out of. That's all. If it walks like a duck it's a duck. I'm old enough to remember the Margaret duck handed £150K to every one of her supporters that had a tumbledown barn by allowing them to convert them to houses - and the purpose she said was "to preserve the character of our rural heritage".....

T The Sea Cat
The Sea Cat May 1, 2011 12:02:20
Replying to moss

moss wrote:
Aside from rotten conservative governments there is the history of the allotment here....
http://www.bkthisandthat.org.uk/ShortHistoryOfAllotmentshtml.html

and the historic struggle to keep them alive as part of the social conscience, which of course is not part of new conservative thinking

Well as someone who has been 'green' for 30 years or more and had allotments, I would have thought they were a flourishing success with many overbooked for years to come. Its the local councils that will have to fight this one, this government just changes the rules to its own advantage, and then ducks when the flack flies. Sodding cowards the lot of them (sorry)

Out with Conservatives in with Conservation! ;)

Well said and thanks for the very informative link.

:-)