Finally, I have some common ground with Corbyn

Jeremy Corbyn and I would not make easy political bedfellows. The list of politicians I have been enthused by runs something like this: Paddy Ashdown, Tony Blair, Nick Clegg. I would probably add Starmer to the list if he were not so resolutely dull. Call me a glutton for centrist disappointment if you must, but I know my lane.

However, Corbyn and I might make rather better flower bedfellows, or perhaps vegetable bed is more like it. As a keen grower of things for the table, I have more time for Corbyn’s potato passion than for his politics.

So, what happens when the potatoes and the politics overlap? In his latest intervention on important matters of public policy, Corbyn has criticised the Government for agreeing the sale of eight allotment sites around the country – something only p