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Did anyone else see the new Hugh Fearnly Whittingstall River Cottage programme last night on C4? I'm referring to the bit about his joining up with the Woodland Trust to enable school children to plant fruit trees in school grounds. http://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/FruitShare/start/ Good idea for our local schools?
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Just pointing out the h u g e differences in wealth in this country and that land ownership is an important element in that. Churchill could see the impact and importance of land ownership over a hundred years ago. Have things changed then? And yes I know Churchill was a Liberal in 1909. Free market philosophy' n all that. Isn't that what we are about today ? That's why his speech, I think, is ...
And the thing is B'nut that even the tories (well some of 'em) think a land value tax a good idea 'n all! http://toryreformgroup.tumblr.com/post/17259025518/david-cowan-progressive-conservatives-should-support-a-l
@burneside - cost of housing (to buy and to rent) immediately comes to mind. On a not unrelated issue. I've just been looking at some online info on Land Value Taxation - land owners especially might be interested to look that up. Here's a link to start you off. http://www.landvaluetax.org/what-is-lvt/
Of course the state pokes its nose into our affairs - all governments of every hue do. Any thoughts on Winston Churchill's speech and the monopoly issue that I raised about large landowners?
The Mother of all Monopolies Winston S. Churchill [From a Speech Delivered at King's Theatre in Edinburgh on 17 July 1909] It is quite true that land monopoly is not the only monopoly which exists, but it is by far the greatest of monopolies - it is a perpetual monopoly, and it is the mother of all other forms of monopoly. It is quite true that unearned increments in land are not the ...
Why not have a limit on the number of cars per household?. We could certainly debate that (although on a separate thread perhaps?)There are, after all, limits on other things like how much any one individual can put in an ISA over any 12 month period. Why not have limits on other things as well? To return to the land issue. I'm trying to work out why the tories amongst you are seemingly ...
Did you miss the word 'large' that I used in my example? Or do you regard yourselves as large landowners? (and by large I mean having lots of land as opposed to being adipose tissue challenged). Good for you that you have land if that is what you wanted and were able to buy. Don't have a problem with people owning land if that is what they want to do. I do however have a problem with l a r g e ...
