Saturday, 16 May 2015

Land Reform in Scotland.

Could this be why the Tories are so keen on the Union?

My latest blogpost: Land Reform in Scotland.Tweet this! Posted by Bayard at 23:30

8 comments:

James Higham said...

The grass looked ok to me in that pic. What do they want to reform?

17 May 2015 at 08:51
Mark Wadsworth said...

It's about the only plausible explanation we have left.

17 May 2015 at 09:02
Random said...

Yay! Go Scotland! Too bad they screwed up on the currency question though.
JH, it says:
"If you have an idea or would like to get involved in the project in any other way please contact the collective at editors@postmag.net"

17 May 2015 at 13:19
Ralph Musgrave said...

So loads of Glaswegians are itching to go hiking and build holiday homes in the wilds of Northern Scotland, and English aristocrats are keeping them at bay? I doubt it.

17 May 2015 at 18:00
benj said...

The Tories would only be too happy for London and the SE to detach itself from the rest of the UK/EU.

They'd get to keep all the rents in perpetuity, no matter what.


And the rest of the UK are so stupid they think this is a great idea too.



17 May 2015 at 18:33
Random said...

"So loads of Glaswegians are itching to go hiking and build holiday homes in the wilds of Northern Scotland, and English aristocrats are keeping them at bay? I doubt it."
If they introduce land reform perhaps it will catch on in the rest of UK as the arguments against it are shown to be BS.

17 May 2015 at 21:51
Tim Almond said...

BJ,

"The Tories would only be too happy for London and the SE to detach itself from the rest of the UK/EU.

They'd get to keep all the rents in perpetuity, no matter what."

I'd like to see what they do for water when those of us that get it all decide that we'd rather keep it than have hosepipe bans.

Seriously, though, I doubt London is much of a net contributor to the UK if at all. Add up all the jobs that exist doing up opera houses, at Whitehall, and so forth. The London & South East government would have a lot less money for that. There's no way the people in Mercia would be paying for London's opera house. They'd build their own, probably in Worcester or somewhere.

17 May 2015 at 22:15
benj said...

@TS

In fact it's pretty easy to calculate that London and the SE are a net burden to the tune of around £100bn per year on the rest of the UK.

http://markwadsworth.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/regional-inequality-lvt-will-sort-it-out.html

18 May 2015 at 00:03

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