Chris Busby-Refusal to be illegally thrown off allotment by town official
Channel: drdrwoland
Date: 16/09/2019

Local government is the same everywhere in England and Wales. Unelected officials make decisions without consulting democratically elected councillors, often involving huge financial deals relating to land sales where there is little involvement of local people. Here in Bideford, we hear (from a Newspaper report) that a deal has been struck to sell the historic Brunswick wharf to some company to put up a complex of shops and flats. This is a familiar scam. Someone gets the land for peanuts, sells it to someone else for a million, they sell it for 10 million, they borrow 100 million to build a marina, then they go bust having run off with large amounts. This happened in Aberystwyth. Familiar? So here Chris and Lucinda are bullied off their allotment by a petty official, one Richard Coombes. Apart from being illegal under the Allotments Acts, this is a good time to dig in and begin an analysis of what is going on here in Torridge. Who is making the decisions and Why. Do we need shops by the waterside?  All the shops in Bideford are closing. Chris Busby has had enough of this, and also the Brexit shenanigans. He is taking time out from radiation and standing as prospective general election candidate for the Green Party. Politics in England has imploded. Anything can happen in the next 6 months. Time to try and sort it out.