Manor Gardening Society @ Pudding Mill Allotments

1. In keeping with its disregard for local stakeholders. @LondonLegacy is now attempting to bypass its own local plan so it can pursue a development which will destroy our allotments access to sunlight.

I grew up watching flag-waving little Englanders parading their nationality around Rochester like Dickensian caricatures, puffing their chests out in pride over an imperial history carefully reimagined to paint over barbaric cruelty with Constable landscapes and Churchillian swagger… As if the accident of where they were born had been an achievement… These folk were everywhere… with their arrogant smiles and entitled condescension. They were the National Front-supporting parents of school friends, avoiding eye contact if I dared visit their house via their sons, asking me transparent questions about my ethnicity and explaining how mixed race marriages never work, in case I propositioned one of their vulnerable teenage daughters… I was taught to consider myself both lucky to be here and self-evidently inferior by virtue of my heritage. So when I see those same superior, colluding, patronising smiles on the over-rehearsed faces of attention-seeking rabble-rousers like Farage and Tice, I have to remember… We can’t change the past but we can make damn sure those who belong in the past don’t destroy our future… Farage is a disease, a malicious vessel of hate… A gleeful provocateur. Everything he touches becomes a toxic wasteland of hopeless misery. He is a cancer waiting to destroy the same host over and over again. I said this about him in a Channel 4 News interview back in 2014. I’m saying it again now.

Thanks for all your support dealing with the ever horrific @LynGarnerLLDC and @noordinarypark

UK fellow allotmenteers please take time to sign and share the petition 😊👍 Petition: Fund a national programme to provide allotments and access to orchards for all petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6425…

As much as we appreciate the support. We were not established in 2016 but the 1920's. Nor are we an LLDC initiative. We were displaced by the Olympic games and this new site is part of the much promised and under delivered legacy programme.

Great to lead the @UCLurbanlab walk yesterday around the GreenWay and #QEOP to discuss GreenBlue Infrastructure 🌳🦆Stop at Channelsea River to talk #FloatingIslands and the amazing work by @SurgeCooperati1 and @puddingmill Allotment - Haven for wildlife threaten by lost of ☀️!

@counterOlympics @blanchecameron @ProfKateJones @ucl @UCLEast @guardian @BBC @BartlettArchUCL @TheBartlettUCL @LeeValleyPark @LondonLegacy @noordinarypark @wfcouncil @Olympics The @UCL building that they have yet to break ground on. But has consent. Will put our entire site in shadow from 7pm in May. All the more reason to protect the access to sunlight we have next

@blanchecameron @ProfKateJones @ucl @UCLEast @guardian @BBC @BartlettArchUCL @TheBartlettUCL @LeeValleyPark @LondonLegacy @noordinarypark @LondonLegacy @wfcouncil @LeeValleyPark conspired to overturn planning permission to allow the Manor Gardens Allotments, evicted for London @Olympics, to return to @noordinarypark at Eton Manor. The allotments were created by same philanthropists gamesmonitor.org.uk/archive/node/2…

At the Launch of UCL People + Nature Lab @ London Olympic Park to celebrate @ProfKateJones and all @UCL's hard work to set up @UCLEast congratulations all. We must restore our ecosystems + understand how our future depends on nature @guardian @BBC @BartlettArchUCL @TheBartlettUCL

The full quote we gave is as follows: "It is a travesty of democracy. All elected representatives voted against, but were outnumbered by technocrats appointed by LLDC with no mandate from residents, none of whom live in Newham. Would they want to live... newhamrecorder.co.uk/news/campaigne…

One of the winter photos made @puddingmill #allotments home to the #EastLondon Manor Gardening Society where 66% is at risk of being over-shadowed by new development leaving plots with not enough light for the cultivation of vegetables. anthonypalmer.me/journal/puddin…

@PhinHarper Doesn’t bode well for us..

Remembering my sister Hazel on her birthday | Ellis Park Wildlife Sanctuary donorbox.org/sponsor-rina-3…

Deadline: tonight! Please help us to object to ⁦@LondonLegacy⁩ development plans which go against their own Local Plan & will cause significant overshadowing & reduced #cultivation at our #allotment ☀️ #community #wellbeing #mentalhealth weneedlight instagram.com/p/CZw-Yy1o4n_/…

1. In keeping with its disregard for local stakeholders. @LondonLegacy is now attempting to bypass its own local plan so it can pursue a development which will destroy our allotments access to sunlight.