Still fighting the proposal to build in elegant, historic, well-loved Victoria Tower Gardens, but now on Insta and Bluesky.
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21 Oct 2024
Ideal spot for an underground learning centre?
@AngelaRayner @LordWajidKhan @EricPickles @edballs @UKHMF @EnvAgency @MayorofLondon
#UKHolocaustMemorial #HolocaustLearningCentre
21 Oct 2024
High tide seeping through the embankment wall in Victoria Tower Gardens on the #ThamesPath National Trail afternoon. @AlanBarrierEA @Tidal_Thames95
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12 Jun 2025
.@EricPickles have you seen the state of St James’s Park today? Honestly, what a dump!!
Have you got £200m to fix it?
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12 Jun 2025
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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10 Jun 2025
…about the UK Holocaust Memorial & Learning Centre proposed for Victoria Tower Gardens…
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22 Mar 2025
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22 Mar 2025
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
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Also, would you really want to be flippant about fire risk on project where Lord Pickles is involved……😣
21 Mar 2025
Peers opposing the plan claim it will put people at risk of being poisoned by novichok, fentanyl or some other gas hidden in terrorists' rectums, being drowned, burnt alive, trampled to death, or blown to bits by rockets fired from traffic nearby or even boats on the river.
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22 Mar 2025
Whereas supporters claim that construction will only cost £191m, and Adjaye had nothing to do with the design. 🧵
But we’re the fantasists.
21 Mar 2025
Peers opposing the plan claim it will put people at risk of being poisoned by novichok, fentanyl or some other gas hidden in terrorists' rectums, being drowned, burnt alive, trampled to death, or blown to bits by rockets fired from traffic nearby or even boats on the river.
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22 Mar 2025
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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22 Mar 2025
That 50 sites were considered, before VTG was chosen in ‘a moment of genius’.
But we’re the fantasists.
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SaveVictoriaTowerGdn retweeted
2 Jan 2025
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
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19 Nov 2024
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?
19 Nov 2024
Great meeting at the Holocaust Memorial APPG yesterday, discussing the proposed content of the UK Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre. Thank you to all those that attended.
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5 Nov 2024
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.
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23 Oct 2024
And it’s surely easier to preserve existing green spaces than create new ones.
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16 Oct 2024
Very good: Samuel Rubinstein examines muddled thinking on Holocaust education and memorialisation, from @10DowningStreet, @edballs, @EricPickles and others.
16 Oct 2024
'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…
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