Beddington Farmlands Campaign

Well all I can say is,  it is so much more comfortable and fun fighting this campaign from a safe distance in the inspiring and soul filling Oxfordshire countryside than it is from the trenches of the crack of south London being slowly eaten away by what we are trying to stop. It is the exact re-positioning that we needed plus making new contacts here where they know exactly how to fight off these threats. Now I have stepped back from all the hard community work, recording and reporting (which Viridor overall ignore anyway and just use it for greenwash) I can focus solely on campaigning (and digitalisation) for this project 

Another major break through has been the new demographic that have moved into Hackbridge. The new builds which have just been completed and are being marketed in Felnex cost upwards of £700K for a three bed house which has attracted dynamic and professional people into the neighbourhood. It has not taken them long to work out the exploitation and corruption that is going on. Needless to say we have teamed up to form a highly re-energised community group. 

It is all shaping up to be a very interesting May 2022 Local Election. 

Here are some of the latest campaigning posts from the Beddington Farmlands campaign facebook page plus a re-post of our epic story with the Telegraph earlier on in the year . Credit of course to all the journalists and activists involved in all this particularly Sheldon Vestey, Dave Tchil and Josephine Moulds and thanks to our local MP Elliot Colburn who has lend his voice to the campaign- even if he did vote for Tory sleeze last week (an hypocrisy which was not lost on the public- see the shared links from the farmlands facebook post). 

In light of COP26 and the change in corporate culture expectations,  the Beddington Farmlands climate and ecological black hole just got bigger and blacker. Even though recent progress with the restoration has been good, the changing political environment is moving faster than they can catch up with delays. The delays and inadequate mitigation agreements in the past could now cost them immensely (not a bad thing as the green transition is now being seen as a 100 trillion dollar investment opportunity) ... lets hope all things work out for good, even if it's difficult to see that at the time. With natural capital, carbon credits and biodiversity net gain creeping in to fundamental Capitalism and corporate culture, things really are evolving in exactly the way we want. One day it won't be Capitalism anymore, our system would have evolved into something quite different and better.  Slowly slowly revolution. Between then and now (or never)- fight.