mightiswrong
10-05-2008, 08:10 PM
TLIO campaigns peacefully for access to the land, its resources, and the decision-making processes affecting them, for everyone, irrespective of race, gender or age.
http://www.tlio.org.uk/index.html
The Land Registration Act 2002, was meant to be so dull and boring that it was classed as 'non contentious' and almost passed through both Houses of Parliament on the nod. Instead, a Lib Dem backbencher has used the act to persuade the Government to begin the most profound reconsideration of both land ownership and land registration in hundreds of years.
"The brutalitŽ of realitŽ" might have been a phrase coined by the late Alan Clark. It wasn't. But it goes a way to describe the situation within the UK tax system, whereby 41,000 millionaires, who pay no tax on their assets, receive between £1 billion and £2 billion from the public purse each year, to support those currently unproductive assets. That's between £24,000 and £48,000 per family, free and gratis, from the taxpayer. The 41,000 are that 27% of the 147,000 families who own, as opposed to rent, about 70% of the UK land mass, who have assets in excess of 340 acres each. The situation of this group of millionaires, and of a significant number of the remaining 147,000 land-owning families, is doubly anomalous. Most of them receive money from public funds by way of the Common Agricultural Programme, DEFRA subsidies and other tax derived sources totalling about £4 billion each year.
http://www.tlio.org.uk/news/news22.html#cahill
http://www.tlio.org.uk/index.html
The Land Registration Act 2002, was meant to be so dull and boring that it was classed as 'non contentious' and almost passed through both Houses of Parliament on the nod. Instead, a Lib Dem backbencher has used the act to persuade the Government to begin the most profound reconsideration of both land ownership and land registration in hundreds of years.
"The brutalitŽ of realitŽ" might have been a phrase coined by the late Alan Clark. It wasn't. But it goes a way to describe the situation within the UK tax system, whereby 41,000 millionaires, who pay no tax on their assets, receive between £1 billion and £2 billion from the public purse each year, to support those currently unproductive assets. That's between £24,000 and £48,000 per family, free and gratis, from the taxpayer. The 41,000 are that 27% of the 147,000 families who own, as opposed to rent, about 70% of the UK land mass, who have assets in excess of 340 acres each. The situation of this group of millionaires, and of a significant number of the remaining 147,000 land-owning families, is doubly anomalous. Most of them receive money from public funds by way of the Common Agricultural Programme, DEFRA subsidies and other tax derived sources totalling about £4 billion each year.
http://www.tlio.org.uk/news/news22.html#cahill