The East Dulwich councillors were out in force at the Dulwich Green Fair on Sunday.  It was a great event largely organised by the Friends of Dulwich Park.  

We have been talking to various locals and traders and the East Dulwich Forum members about the idea of a plastic bag free Lordship Lane – as has been introduced to great effect in Modbury in Devon.  

The idea certainly caught the imagination of the Green Fair punters – perhaps as you would expect. We collect hundreds of supportive signatures and Friends of the Earth and Dulwich Going Greener  as well as the Southwark Council waste minimisation officers all showed interest in getting involved in the project. Watch this space for more news. 

All the political parties were invited to attend. Three out of the four did. The only party missing was Tessa Jowell’s Labour party.  It’s a bit pathetic that the party with the local MP is the only one that can’t muster a few people to staff a trestle table for a few hours! Still it’s a long way from North London…. The Green Party were there – cunningly having disguised themselves as a tea stall – I suppose that carrying the urn will be their excuse for arriving in a big truck!  Also present were the Conservatives. No truck for them, they came in a car and spent the afternoon giving away blue carnations.  Now I can’t prove that the carnations were grown in a hothouse, flown in from Kenya and dyed in non-biodegradable blue dye – but I have my suspicions! No doubt any left over will be composted in the council’s weekly garden waste collection!