Cameron and a Scottish Referendum

www.parliament.uk/documents/commons...orm%20Paper.pdf


The link is to a paper on land ownership in Scotand. It is quite an eye-opener if you are wondering how the rich manage to stay that way.

This is tainted at least to the extent that the driver is a need to make people accept "fiscal consolidation" (for which read austerity) and the perception that it will be easier if the wealthy are seen to pay proper tax and lose some subsidies. But despite the underlying agenda this is long overdue. As the paper says,10% of all land in Scotland is in public ownership. Of the remaining 90% half is owned by just 432 people. The arrangements they make to ensure that we do not really know who owns what; the sheer scale of public subsidy they are given;and the tax avoidance arrangements they make are covered in some detail.


From time to time there is some fuss about this but nothing ever gets done and for some reason our much vaunted free press is not overly concerned to bring it to our attention.