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The current Tory Government are to allow Councils to self off public allotments, this despite:-

Massive waiting lists for allotments.
Green policies.
Re-wilding policies.
Open space policies.
Common sense.

Fortunately most allotment sites are on land that is unsuitable for building on, that's partly how they came about. However in recent years it isn't unheard of that building on unsuitable ground still goes ahead and problems occur later.

SOURCE

Typo, DD,?

Always a good chance these days but I can't spot one.

OK, so this Tory government are far worse than the previous one.

Same, highly focussed on passing money up the trough system. Even capitalist America is waking up to the fact that extreme wealth inequality destroys a country. The only way for a country to be successful is to distribute wealth, otherwise you are just making a few individuals successful which are a tiny minority of a country.

The biggest con out is knocking houses down and building new ones. You buy a new house and you have immediately given 50% of that price away, you have a mortgage and over the lifetime of the mortgage you give away far more than the remaining 50% of the property, you pay insurance which is one of the most lucrative businesses out there.

In the mean time there are numerous distraction policies like allowing a high crime rate, attacking foreign countries, throwing personal insults around instead of discussing political policy, promoting celebrities as people that really important in this world, allowing rampant lies in the media (corporate and personal), faking disgust etc etc.

And in the mean time allowing blatant bribery and corruption, as a GP put it recently, saying he isn't allowed to receive a pen off a company rep yet politicians in the health sector receive gifts of hundreds of thousands of pounds from those same companies https://privatisation.everydoctor.o...-big-pharma-and-us-healthcare-lobbyists/.