Joe Porter: Allotments tie people to their neighbourhood, to the land beneath their feet, and to each other

Joe Porter: Allotments tie people to their neighbourhood, to the land beneath their feet, and to each other

Cllr Joe Porter is the district councillor for Brown Edge and Endon and the former Cabinet Member for Climate Change and Biodiversity at Staffordshire Moorlands District Council We all know Angela Rayner has made a lot of mistakes. But it takes a pretty monumental one to get Jeremy Corbyn and the Conservatives to be both equally outraged. Outrage over allowing councils to sell off allotments to raise funds to cover day-to-day spending might seem…