Re: Half of England is owned by 1% of the population - just be careful what you wish for... Archived Message
Posted by brooks on April 18, 2019, 11:47 pm, in reply to "Re: Half of England is owned by 1% of the population - just be careful what you wish for..."
Sorry but I find this incoherent. You're not in favour of nationalizing - or "deprivatising" as you call it - land that is overwhelmingly owned by a tiny oligarchy, because our "democratic control could easily be subverted, as indeed our entire democracy has been". And yet you somehow trust that same subverted democracy to "provide the necessary controls that the population need" to keep the land open to public use - while remaining in private hands - and to enact and enforce "wise legislation" that will prevent anything bad from happening to it. Bit of a contradiction, no? And who are these dreaded "socialists" that - unlike the noble landlords, apparently - you don't trust? You seem to be arguing that some tiny elite does - and should - own everything lest the plebs lose the great privilege of taking pleasant strolls on some fine, environmentally-minded Lord's estates.
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