As with the forests, the rights and wrongs of allotments are mere smokescreens. The plan is to get land for their mates to make money out of. That's all. If it walks like a duck it's a duck. I'm old enough to remember the Margaret duck handed £150K to every one of her supporters that had a tumbledown barn by allowing them to convert them to houses - and the purpose she said was "to preserve the character of our rural heritage".....