Just 70,000 families (0.3%) own 81% of the UK, 190,000 km² and they want to make sure it is never taxed so the same 0.3% continue to own everything forever. They don't need protecting from the rich because they are the rich. - ThreadSky

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bladeofthes.bsky.social • 71 days ago

Just 70,000 families (0.3%) own 81% of the UK, 190,000 km² and they want to make sure it is never taxed so the same 0.3% continue to own everything forever.

They don't need protecting from the rich because they are the rich.

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ianlineham.bsky.social•70 days ago

Seriously, how much of that is "family farms"

robjj73.bsky.social•71 days ago

Although this is immensely powerful, I’d like to see the concentration of the biggest families, published.

If we remove the Royal Family from the statistics, then this focus would get a lot of support (once Murdoch & DMG /Harmsworth circumvented).

The Trust Review Service may be interested also🤔

eaarth.net•71 days ago

They run our government, our universities, our media, they are creating charter towns the ultimate neo-liberal takeover

chrismshea.bsky.social•70 days ago

Do you mean in general or the land? I’ve always wondered if your aristocracy still own the majority of the land.

chloew1656.bsky.social•71 days ago

Everybody is up in arms at the thought of Putin keeping his spoils of war and yet I bet a lot of those 70,000 families got their land by similar rules of "spoils" under the feudal system. I'm sure as hell sure they didn't purchase it.

ebikeruk.bsky.social•70 days ago

I see you understand next to nothing about the economy and scale of farming in the UK.

oxfordjovan1.bsky.social•71 days ago

We. Are still ruled by the dead.

dennispatton.bsky.social•71 days ago

Less than 1% of the population owns 50% of England, meaning the UK has one of the most concentrated private land-ownership systems in Europe.

dennispatton.bsky.social•71 days ago

And...
Who Owns England?: How We Lost Our Green and Pleasant Land, and How to Take It Back

Book by Guy Shrubsole.

profsensible.bsky.social•71 days ago

In Scotland, it used to be 7/84 and that was thought to be outrageous. But that was before Thatcher.

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