Jeremy Corbyn attacks Angela Rayner for selling off allotments

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• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I see he’s tackling the biggest issues first.

  As with most of the things Corbin says I don’t inherently disagree with him I just think he goes at it like a bull in a china shop. There was a time and place to go full nuclear option and an arguement over allotments (assuming there is an arguement, because this is the first time I’ve heard about this) isn’t the place to do it.

  Also name your goddamn party, it makes it so difficult to talk about it when it doesn’t have a name. Spend 10 minutes and come up with a name for frig sake, even reform managed it.

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  • HumanPenguin@feddit.uk ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s been and seriose issue for decades.

    In poor urban areas few have gardens. So to allow poor to continue to grow some of their own quality food. Post WW2 the allotment scheme was kept for such areas. As for many it was the only option.

    For anyone older we hears about right wing effects to sell off the land at least every 10 years or so. Waiting lints have increased to decades in many areas.

    The land is designed to be cheap to rent. But requires use as an allotment. So age is often how they change hands.

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  • Zombie@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Almost as if he’s tackling multiple concerns at once.

    youtube.com/shorts/HuOP2vEEz6Q

    Allotments are fundamental for the feeding of our people and in tackling biodiversity loss. If you don’t have green fingers you may not be aware, but we’re currently in the midst of the largest mass extinction event since the dinosaurs.

    Currently, human activities are driving a rapid decline in biodiversity, often referred to as the Holocene extinction or the sixth mass extinction. It was estimated in 2007 that up to 30% of all species could be extinct by 2050.[4] Habitat destruction—particularly for agriculture—is a primary driver of this decline.

    en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodiversity

    This video from the WWF drives home the point.

    m.youtube.com/watch?v=ufiiFGdAl5E

    But even if you don’t care about biodiversity loss, it is a necessary means for many people to feed themselves. About 1/3 of my fruit and veg intake is homegrown. Without it I would struggle to pay my bills, not to mention the mental health benefits of being out in the sun playing in the dirt.

    Rayner can get to fuck. She’s a fucking liar who pretends to stand for the left of the Labour party and since getting into power has acted like a Tory. There’s a reason she’s been suspended from Unite.

    unitetheunion.org/…/unite-conference-votes-overwh…

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Your reading comprehension leads some improvement because I never said I disagreed with it I just said it’s hardly the most pressing of issues and it isn’t.

      As I am sure you know our primary source of food is not random allotments.

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  • Agosagror@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Corbyn was always amazing at representing his constituents, presumably one of them has talked to him about alloments, hence this article.

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  • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    You know it’s a real leftist party when they can’t even agree on a name. And there’s only two of them.

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• MrPoletki@feddit.uk ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Oh shit, did she sell of his allotment?

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