Still fighting the proposal to build in elegant, historic, well-loved Victoria Tower Gardens, but now on Insta and Bluesky.
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Ideal spot for an underground learning centre?
@AngelaRayner @LordWajidKhan @EricPickles @edballs @UKHMF @EnvAgency @MayorofLondon
#UKHolocaustMemorial #HolocaustLearningCentre
High tide seeping through the embankment wall in Victoria Tower Gardens on the #ThamesPath National Trail afternoon. @AlanBarrierEA @Tidal_Thames95
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.@EricPickles have you seen the state of St James’s Park today? Honestly, what a dump!!
Have you got £200m to fix it?
Just some of the stoical peers who were in the @UKHouseofLords chamber until the early hours of this morning, arguing and voting for amendments to the terribly flawed Holocaust Memorial Bill.
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SO pleased to see that @europanostra has recognised the important heritage value @SaveVTG. It is a vital historic green lung in the 💚 of London at risk of development and rising water💧levels @LDNGardensTrust @ThamesEstPart
Also, would you really want to be flippant about fire risk on project where Lord Pickles is involved……😣
Whereas supporters claim that construction will only cost £191m, and Adjaye had nothing to do with the design. 🧵
But we’re the fantasists.
That it will take up a mere 7.5% of the park (but please don’t hold them to square footages, because that would ‘make the proposed scheme undeliverable’. In fact, don’t use measurements at all. Just look at the ‘little lines’ on the plan.)
But we’re the fantasists.
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For years, a planned Holocaust memorial in London has been beset by delays, legal challenges, rocketing costs, and the emotionally complicated spectacle of very old survivors speaking both in favor and against it. nyer.cm/nfi6sXC
Two questions:
- is this the same APPG that does not appear in the October 2024 Register of APPGs?
- will you be publishing minutes of the great meeting?
@BobBlackman @GiorgioAnnecch1 any answers?
The Holocaust Memorial Bill is currently in the Lords, where the Government is arguing that Holocaust survivors do not have the right be heard in relation to a Holocaust Memorial!
In today’s @thetimes William Shawcross runs through just a few of the proposal’s many failings.
Hooray!
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And it’s surely easier to preserve existing green spaces than create new ones.
#VictoriaTowerGardens #UKHolocaustMemorial
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Very good: Samuel Rubinstein examines muddled thinking on Holocaust education and memorialisation, from @10DowningStreet, @edballs, @EricPickles and others.
'Rather than being an event in which Britain was largely offstage, now the Holocaust is presented as a foundational moment in our own national story.'
✍️ Samuel Rubinstein spectator.co.uk/article/brit…
