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From The Telegraph: Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour leader, attended a meeting of his local allotment association on Sunday despite the resignation of most of his shadow cabinet. With the mounting threat of…
Russell Arben Fox
July 7, 2016

From The Telegraph:

Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour leader, attended a meeting of his local allotment association on Sunday despite the resignation of most of his shadow cabinet.

With the mounting threat of a leadership challenge and open calls for his resignation, Mr Corbyn attended the Annual General Meeting of the East Finchley Lot Association.

In an interview with the Sunday Mirror earlier this year, he said: “I enjoy growing things in my allotment and garden. This year the maize has done very well. It’s been a great year for maize.”

He also grows beans and pumpkins and uses fruit from the plot to make jam which he gives to friends and family.

Mr Corbyn pays about £65 a year for the rectangular plot at the allotment site where demand is high with more than 100 people on the waiting list.

A source close to Mr Corbyn confirmed he had attended the allotment association meeting.

Diane Abbott, the shadow health secretary, claimed that Mr Corbyn now has a “great shadow cabinet” and that it had been “rather bloated” before the mass resignation.

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Russell Arben Fox

Russell Arben Fox is a Front Porch Republic Contributing Editor. He grew up milking cows and baling hay in Spokane Valley, WA, but now lives in Wichita, KS, where he runs the History & Politics and the Honors programs at Friends University, a small Christian liberal arts college. He aspires to write a book about the theory and practice of democracy, community, and environmental sustainability in small to mid-sized cities, like the one he has made his and his family’s home; his scribblings pertaining to that and related subjects are collected at the Substack “Wichita and the Mittelpolitan.” He also blogs–irregularly and usually at too-great a length–more broadly about politics, philosophy, religion, socialism, bicycling, books, farming, pop music, and whatever else strikes his fancy, at “In Medias Res.”

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