It’s not like he brought it up out of the blue though, is it?
Maybe work on your own reading comprehension.
It’s in direct response to Angela Rayner selling off allotment land. Land that is deemed so important to the nation that it’s protected by law, and only sellable via ministerial sign off. Not even the scumbag Tories did this.
Plus, our primary source of food may well have to be allotments again soon. With farms failing due to years of monoculture and pesticides, coupled with climate change and a loss in biodiversity.
unsustainablemagazine.com/home-gardens-vs-farms-e…
It is normal in politics for opposition politicians to attack the actions of governing politicians. That is what Corbyn has done, he’s not suddenly got out of bed and decided today’s topic of conversation is allotments because he’s away down to his in the afternoon.
HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 9 hours ago
It used to be. As recently S THE 1970s gardens and allotments were the source of the majority of grown food.
Supermarkets being the default is a very recent thing.
It was even common in the past post war period for green grocers to buy goods from local allotments growers.
Unfortunately the move to commercial production has done huge harm. In both product variety as allotment farmers tended to use more seed varieties then farmers do. But also in the use of steril crops.
All done purely to increase profits while reducing the diversity allowing crops to survive extra. Conditions.
Honestly if people cannot see how important such things are, they are not thinking fully,