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.
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.
Almost as if he’s tackling multiple concerns at once.
https://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.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodiversity
This video from the WWF drives home the point.
https://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.
Your reading comprehension needs 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.
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.
https://www.unsustainablemagazine.com/home-gardens-vs-farms-efficiency/
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.
As I am sure you know our primary source of food is not random allotments.
It used to be. As recently S THE 1970s gardens and allotments were the source of the majority of grown food. Specifically friut and veg potatoes etc. these were historically a huge part of the UK diet.
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,
Corbyn was always amazing at representing his constituents, presumably one of them has talked to him about alloments, hence this article.
You know it’s a real leftist party when they can’t even agree on a name. And there’s only two of them.
Oh shit, did she sell off his allotment?
