We Should All Care Allot

After its failed Blairite schools policy, its abandoned Blairite health policy, its revived Blairite scheme to privatise the Royal Mail, its ongoing Blairite attack on council housing, and its textbook Blairite war in Libya, the Coalition has resumed the Blairite campaign against allotments.

Of course central government hates allotments, just as it hates the local government that is trying to save them. Heaven forefend that each and every household might one day own a base of real property from which to resist both over-mighty commercial interests and their over-mighty client State. And heaven forefend that any decision might ever be taken over than by the former acting through the latter.