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My Land Not Yours - My Diamond Jubilee Not Yours - Got it? |
The plot of land is the plot of man. That has been the case since the beginning of our existence on planet Earth. It is the amount of space in which we live safely and in comfort, free from predators and natural disasters, that has allowed mankind to flourish. However, the division of the land over the centuries is not in any way done in fair proportion to everyone who lives on the planet. In fact the majority of the planet have no land at all on which to live.
Our great overlords have acquired land through claiming it as their own private possession, regardless as to anyone else using it. Once this has been claimed, fights, skirmishes, even wars have been fought to confirm birthright of the land upon which they have laid claim.
No one knows why one plot of land 'belongs' to someone. It is almost a mystical bestowal from ages dark. But if we trace the lineage back it is very clear that only by force was land ever taken and 'owned' by someone. It may have changed hands over the years but someone has claimed the deed to the plots of land. A deed claimed in bloodshed.
This is the natural order of things in the 21st century, with our laissez-faire morality, and seemingly ever-optimistic views on progress; we still persist in the illusion that the land is legally owned by people.
How can it?
My great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather lost a battle to yours and so his land passed on down the ages at my expense? Sorry? Are you serious?
No one and no thing has ever conferred any such right. The planet belongs to noone and everyone.
That is all it comes down to.
However, through the legal framework of the capitalist system, the capitalist dictatorship confers the decrees upon who 'owns' the land. They enforce it by the capitalist state; the armed bodies of men who are the protectors of the capitalist dictatorship. Sorry fools, we do not live in a neutral 'democracy', where all is fair in love and war, and all that crap. We live under a capitalist dictatorship; the dictatorship of capital over labour. Land rights are integral to keep the current
system of tyranny in place.
In the UK, there are 60 million acres of land. 59 million people live on those 60 million acres. However, the land used to house 59 million people consists of between just 4.4 million - 6 million acres, which is about 10% of the total land at a maximum. If we take away the land that we can settle, including farmland, land unaccounted for and so forth we are left with in the region of 40
million acres of land that is owned by just 189,000 families.
The vast majority of the large estates owned by these families are held by just three classes of people:
Aristocrats
Baronets
Residual landed gentry
These three groups, coincidentally, sit in Parliament, are the captains of the militia, officers of the Army, Navy and Air Force, are the bishops and cleary of the church, and the judges of the legal courts. They also keep everyone else out of these professions through their close-knit nepotism.
What is significant in the UK is that the majority of the land is owned by people from these groups of society, but we do not know exactly who owns what. No full charter exists to confirm this. The Land Registry is patchy at best and great swathes of land do not have the owner's details recorded.
This fact alone makes it very interesting when you look at so-called patriots of this country. Considering that the majority of us Britons own absolutely nothing of this country's land, it is an absurdity that we claim to be 'British' or feel 'British'. We are merely living on other people's land if
we accept the capitalist dictatorship's claims that land can be owned.
The absurdity continues when you realise that the myth of nationality, the nation state and going to war with other nations, is based upon man's relation to his 'land'. When you own no land how the hell does this work? You are fighting like peasants, or dogs, for your good master, so he can take you back to your kennels in the kingdom you don't even have a share in.
Why do landowners want to own land? It is expressed well by the 15th Earl of Derby in
1881:
'The object which men aim at when they become possessed of land in the British Isles may, I think, be enumerated as follows. One, political influence; two, social importance, founded on territorial possession, the most visible and unmistakable form of wealth; three, power exercised over tenantry; the pleasure of managing, directing and improving the estate itself; four, residential enjoyment, including what is called sport; five, the money return - the rent.'
Derby owned 68,942 acres in five counties back in the day. The current heir to the estate is the 19th Earl of Derby, who is a merchant banker, went to Eton, married the daughter of a major landowner in Essez, and his father is an Old Etonian as well. His current home is not registered on the Land
Registry.
By burying the details on who owns the land in Britain through excluding information from the Land Registry, our dear leaders, the landowners, hide themselves from public view.
Be honest now, who really knows who owns the land in Britain? Who had even heard of the 19th Earl of Derby before reading this article?
My particular favourite confidence trick is the so-called Council Tax in Britain. This is basically a land tax which averages to £550 per household and totals around £10.4 billion per year. The 189,000 families who own 40 million acres pay £103 million in Council Tax, but then receive a subsidy of £2.3 billion from DEFRA, and another £2 billion in subsidies from the EU. The peasants pay the Council Tax, the landowners get payments back from a different area and are laughing at the majority of the population.
Council Tax, just like its predecessor the Community Charge and the rates, are billed as the revenue collected by the government to pay for local services. This is a mere fiction. Council Tax is used purely to supplement budget grants that are paid directly to local authorities by central government. These grants could be a lot larger, and hence Council Tax a lot lower if the central government was not paying out large subsidies to the landowners. When you look at the Irish who pay no council tax, they still receive local services.
If Council Tax was ended, if land and transactions in land taxed, if avoidance of tax by placing land in offshore trusts pulled and subsidies ended, then the peasants would be better off and local services would still run. In fact, between £12 billion to £17 billion would be raised, which would cover the £10.4 billion raised by the plebs in Council Tax.
With that in mind, I suggest we should introduce a new tax called: The Diamond Jubilee Shine the Queen's Diamonds Tax. Everyone should pay a tenth of their income towards cleaning costs to ensure that the Queen's diamonds are sparkling for the Jubilee this June. It is very important that we mere peasants understand our place and realise that 'democracy' is in actual fact Orwellian speak for 'dictatorship'.
We should also realise that as we own nothing in this land and nothing in any other country, we do not have anything in common with those who do own land. That step taken, we should then realise that we do have more in common with the vast majority of people in the world who also do not own any land.
If you seriously want to be whistling 'God Save the Queen' this Jubilee then you are either a landowner yourself or a poor deluded mind slave who loves the thought of another century of poverty, slavery, serfdom and misery with fuck-all reward.
So tally-ho old chaps and have fun living on someone else's land! Good oh! What what what!
by Raygun
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