Who Owns Britain?

I wouldn’t mind that as such but other Nations aren’t allowed to sell off their silverware but allowed to buy ours, morally they’re ours, the people, infrastructure paid for by the tax payer and sold off Russian style, a disgrace.

That’s a different matter. State-owned utilities and other industries were sold off in this country; once that happened they could end up in any hands, so the only way to prevent that would have been to keep them state owned. But don’t kid yourself that those assets belonged to the people in any way - they belonged to the state, and the state in this country doesn’t belong to the people, nor has it ever done.

I’d certainly agree that selling them off was disgraceful and has given no benefit whatsoever to anyone who couldn’t afford to buy shares in those sell-offs.

Insider trading on the sell offs is and was rife, I know a bloke who made an awful lot of money on a public utility being sold off, this nation and its people have nothing, don’t make anything, produce nothing and have sold everything, other nations protect their assets, we have a service industry in London.

From the workshop of the World to being on its knees in 100 years. The UK is very simliar to Southampton FC.

No chance of being in Europe next year?.

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The actual answer is easy. It’s the Queen. She owns nearly all the land. Prince Charles owns Cornwall, because it managed to get itself declared a feudal entity in a High Court case an ol’ Big Ears is their feudal lord. Apart from those two, no-one in the UK owns the land underneath their feet.

People have either freehold or leasehold. Most consider it ownership of the land, but it’s not quite that. It’s the right to use the land, usually in perpetuity.

Further, what people think of as large land owners are actually big freeholders, able to exploit the freehold through rents and selling bits of it off to property developers. The biggest freeholder in the country? Why, that’s Her Majesty again. Around 74% of all Britain’s freeholds are controlled by just 550k families.

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In which case Pap is Karl still on the money? I was ever an indifferent student of politics (& it shows before you say it…). :

You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society, private property is already done away with for nine-tenths of the population; its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence in the hands of those nine-tenths. You reproach us, therefore, with intending to do away with a form of property, the necessary condition for whose existence is the non-existence of any property for the immense majority of society.

KARL MARX, The Communist Manifesto

Right on a lot of things, didn’t see other events coming. The Communist Manifesto also called for nations to be abolished, but I doubt Marx would find too much comfort in the EU, apart from as a handy mechanism to bring a lot of nations under a Communist system. Even that would seem unlikely.

Its all a big con. My preference would be for everyone to get a six billionth of the planet, allowing folks to pool allocations if they want to live together.

When you think of all the resources people spend on just having the right to use a piece of land, you gotta wonder how good our economy would be with all that disposable income.

shotgun not eastleigh.

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Which in easier times you could go and lop her head off and proclaim yourself King or Queen.

Shame we still cant do that

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A bit Game of Thrones @philippinesaint so therefore ok in the Papsters book?

:lou_sunglasses:

Oops.

Irony. The company who owns Britain.

Is going bust.

“The dirty secret of PFI and all government attempts to pass public services into the private realm is that the shareholders make profits while the taxpayers remain on the hook for any losses.”

That about sums it up. All hail the power of the free market and the dominance of the private sector. Unless it goes tits up. Then you and I will be bailing the cunts out.

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And yet again, it’s the banks who are all too eager to reap the (tax free) profits and all too keen for the tax paying public to pick up the bill.

Now who was running the place when many of these pfi things were started up?

Lloyds have sent me a new statement which says my balance with them is now Zero and I earnt 0.003p on the balance that they cannot credit to the account.

The previous statement was -15000.00 in debt which I refused to pay as they stopped my account and would not give me an address to send a cheque stating we do not accept cheques.

Its a bank all they do is play with cheques.

As they have now written of 15 grand thank you very much.

Given the shenanigans going on over in the Brexit thread at the mo’ I thought I’d bump this thread.

Some of the comments act as a remider of just who will benefit most regardless of Brexit or no Brexit.

Brexit is bollocks. It’s all a game, because we own Britain according to this(it may also be bollocks. Make your own mind up).

“We have a tri-partite government in this country. The Commons, Lords, and the Crown (not the Monarch) are intended to provide protections and limits upon each other.”

https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/fundamental-principles-our-constitution

Not sure about this site, so be warned.

What, and spread it everywhere. No thanks.