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Opinion: Our Green and Pleasant Land – and Councillors’ powers

Our peaceful occupation of land in England for leisure or gardening or amenity is the result of a century of struggles for land access. “He who controls the land controls the life of the people”: and our native soil was alienated to landlords by the Enclosure movement and in Scotland by the vicious Highlands Clearances; and today such risks are still real. Fortunately Liberals began a defence of the people’s land-rights in the reforms of the 1906-1911 Parliament.

More land cannot be produced by landlords no matter how high its price goes. Charging more for it is no remedy for …

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    A huge mistake by Burnham. Opening the EU's pandora box will sap the energy from this government . Everything will be overshadowed by that question....
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    An excellent article Victor on the great work you are doing. It's a great shame people like David can't give credit where credit is due....
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    Couldn’t agree more Karen. It’s the best speech in a generation, and more importantly an opportunity to build common cause on things that matter to us, like...
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