Burghers of Calais
#London #UK #VictoriaTowerGardens #travel #wandering #photography
*charged taxpayers >£100k for "3rd home" he seemed to use rarely;*emails show[he]pressured #MHCLG officials to work out how to overrule govt's planning inspector so he cld approve #Westferry plans;*breached "guidance on planning propriety" re #VictoriaTowerGardens...
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*charged taxpayers >£100k for "a 3rd home" he seemed to use rarely;*emails show[he]pressured #MHCLG officials to work out how to overrule govt's planning inspector so he cld approve #Westferry plans;*breached "guidance on planning propriety" re #VictoriaTowerGardens
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RSVP @miattafahnbulleh.bsky.social cc @rachelblakemp.bsky.social @teamlabouruk.bsky.social @labouruk.bsky.social @labourlewis.bsky.social A mistake/typing error/misunderstanding, surely🤔? This unwanted, ideologically-led, ludicrously expensive desecration of #VictoriaTowerGardens should be dropped.
House of Lords: ‘The sole purpose of any Learning Centre must be the provision of education about the Holocaust and antisemitism.’
Government: ‘Nope.’
#HowDidWeGetHere #MakeItMakeSense #HolocaustMemorial #Westminster #VictoriaTowerGardens
@rachelblakemp.bsky.social Speaking of costs - #BBCR4 now - RSVP re any update on the absurd #VictoriaTowerGardens #HolocaustMemorial proposal? @savevtg.bsky.social @newjournal.bsky.social @tomfoot1.bsky.social
#GreenSpaces #London
FYI @chrishinchliff.bsky.social 1/2
#AngelaRayner shd heed opponents of #VictoriaTowerGardens #HolocaustMemorial (estimated cost now>£160m) scheme:🚨far too big for the little park...far too small for its purpose🚨camp survivor #DrMartinStern pages.pagesuite.com/7/6/76ba7db5...
#GreenSpaces #London
@jimmcmahon.co.uk Pl tell yr boss #AngelaRayner to heed opponents of #VictoriaTowerGardens #HolocaustMemorial (estimated cost now >£160m) scheme: 🚨far too big for the little park...far too small for its purpose🚨camp survivor
#DrMartinStern pages.pagesuite.com/7/6/76ba7db5...
Stray Kids were in town, and I was going to see them the day after. Having never used a Leica before, I decided to walk around London as the sky was threatening and so dramatic. I used the default black and white dynamic mode
#LeicaDlux4 #Leica #VictoriaTowerGardens
🤦🏻♀️ #DavidCameron has an awful lot to answer for...
#PPEMedpro £122m; his proposal for #HolocaustMemorial on public park #VictoriaTowerGardens reported to have reached >£160m... #WestminsterExtra letter Feb 21 via @newjournal.bsky.social 👇
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@savevtg.bsky.social
London Parks and Gardens welcomes assistance from Europe's largest civil society heritage network to resolve the Victoria Tower Gardens deadlock....read more on thedirt.news #LondonParks&Gardens #VictoriaTowerGardens
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Athena in @countrylifemag.bsky.social hits the nail on the head:
‘The uncompromising attitude of those responsible for driving it forward….to admit no reasonable objection….Indeed, why should they when the whole system is being managed to their advantage?’
#VictoriaTowerGardens
#UKHolocaustMemorial
#VictoriaTowerGardens
Bravo @privateeyenews.bsky.social!
@sliondale.bsky.social @newjournal.bsky.social @islingtontrib.bsky.social @heathernstaff.bsky.social
Good work from @privateeyenews.bsky.social. They’ve covered this “divisive project” from the start, and they’re still on the case.
#UKHolocaustMemorial #VictoriaTowerGardens
#JournalismMatters #VictoriaTowerGardens
#SHAME @theguardian.com Sloppy #journalism: '...new national Holocaust memorial, *to be built at Westminster*... Wrong. This scheme hasn't yet been agreed:see
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@savevtg.bsky.social
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#VictoriaTowerGardens #trees
#EricPickles knows that #TPOs don't give permanent protection, as economic/other considerations always trump 🌳🌳 (pun intended 😉) when inconvenient for developers. His statement to @houseoflords.parliament.uk on Thursday misleading > @londongreenparty.bsky.social
#What3Words #HolocaustMemorialBill
#Gerrymandering by any other name
#VictoriaTowerGardens
@greenjennyjones.bsky.social @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social @sianberry.bsky.social @carladenyer.bsky.social @adrianramsay.bsky.social @elliechowns.bsky.social @sliondale.bsky.social
Aha….so it will take up “approximately 7.5% of the area of #VictoriaTowerGardens, but setting a square metreage for the #HolocaustMemorial & Learning Centre would “MAKE THE PROPOSED SCHEME UNDELIVERABLE” Whaaatt??
A competition that no one really wants to be in.
But very grateful to #EuropaNostra for recognising the value of #VictoriaTowerGardens and the severity of the current risk to it.
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@robinlustig.bsky.social @joshuarozenberg.bsky.social @channel4news.bsky.social RSVP re #VictoriaTowerGardens, with link👇to last week's @houseoflords.parliament.uk Grand Committee debate on same - some excellent contributions (some less so...😉)
parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...
@carladenyer.bsky.social @elliechowns.bsky.social
#WestminsterExtra letters via @newjournal.bsky.social
A #Holocaust memorial in #VictoriaTowerGardens wld be an error (21 Feb) pages.pagesuite.com/.../76ba7db5...
Response
#Newark has the museum (28 Feb) edition.pagesuite.com/html5/reader...
@sianberry.bsky.social @adrianramsay.bsky.social Two letters via #WestminsterExtra, sister paper @newjournal.bsky.social
FYI: A #Holocaust memorial in #VictoriaTowerGardens would be an error (21 Feb) pages.pagesuite.com/.../76ba7db5...
Response (28 Feb)
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@peterwalker99.bsky.social Two recent #WestminsterExtra letters re #VictoriaTowerGardens
🚨A #Holocaust memorial at this site would be an error
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response
🚨 #Newark has the museum
edition.pagesuite.com/html5/reader... via @newjournal.bsky.social
In @thetimes.com today, Dr Gerhold cuts to the critical question: why here?
#HolocaustMemorial #Westminster #London #DanielFinkelstein #VictoriaTowerGardens
@arusbridger.bsky.social FYI acting locally to #DefendDemocracy in the midst of international horrors
Two #WestminsterExtra letters
🚨 A #Holocaust memorial in #VictoriaTowerGardens would be an error (21 Feb)
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🚨 Response (28 Feb)
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@raymodraco.bsky.social FYI acting locally to #DefendDemocracy in the midst of international horrors
Two #WestminsterExtra letters
🚨 A #Holocaust memorial in #VictoriaTowerGardens would be an error (21 Feb)
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🚨 Response 28 Feb
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@houseoflords.parliament.uk RSVP grateful confirmation that #VictoriaTowerGardens committee discussion resumes today (can't see listed on your schedule)?
@savevtg.bsky.social @sliondale.bsky.social @newjournal.bsky.social
🚨 #VictoriaTowerGardens #GreenSpaces #London 🚨
The @houseoflords.parliament.uk committee resumes today assessing the @adjayeassociates.bsky.social outrageous proposal. Two recent letters here opposing the scheme:
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