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(not satire – it’s the Cameron government!)
Did you know that millionaire grouse shooting landowners – whose well-heeled clients can pay more than £3,000 each for a single day’s shooting – are now receiving millions of pounds annually in government subsidies?
And did you know that since January 2015, those same millionaire land owners have been receiving around £56 a hectare in taxpayers’ money for organising grouse shooting?
Because apparently – according to Tory logic – we can’t afford schools and hospitals but there’s plenty of money to subsidise their wealthy mates’ country activities.
Erm, call me old-fashioned – but shouldn’t this be a scandal?
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Pride's Purge 
Yes it damn well is a scandal – my MP will get an ear bashing
Will someone rid us of these turbulent Tories! Not just out of government but out of existence.
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You may be old but not sure about fashioned
However a sense of irony here when complaining about we have no more room for immigrants as we are full to the brim and toppling into the seas,
Presumably because all the land is used to house all the common folk
Er how much land is there which is available I wonder if chunks of it are being put to use because of their hobby
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They were previously getting £30 a hectare. This has now been doubled.
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Richmond MP William Hague has some of the finest grouse moors in England in his constituency;landowner Lord Peel,one of the largest syndicates.Meanwhile hill famers,raisng sheep, are increasingly impoverished.
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http://rt.com/uk/232691-abuse-cover-up-mi5/
MI5 INVOLVED IN KINCORRA BOYS HOME SCANDAL
SECRET]
CABINET MEETING FEB 1982
those present:
The Rt Hon Margaret Thatcher MP
Prime Minister
The Rt Hon Wlliam Whitelaw
Secretary of State for the Home Department
The Rt Hon Lord Carrington
Secretary of State for Foreign and
Commonwealth Affairs
The Rt Hon Sir Keith Joseph MP
secreatary of State for Education and Science
The Rt Hon James Prior MP
The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
The Rt Patrick Walker MP
Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
The Rt Hon George Younger MP
Secretary of State for Scotland
The Rt Hon Humphrey Atkins MP
Lord Privy Seal
The Rt John Biffen MP
Secretary of State for Trade
The Rt Hon Norman Fowler MP
Secretary of State for Social Services
The Rt Hon Baroness Young
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
The Rt Hon Norman Tebbit MP
Secretary of State for Employment
The Rt Hon Sir Goffrey Howe QC MP
Chancellor of the Exchequer
The Rt Hon Francis Pym MP
Lord President of the Council
The Rt Hon John Nott MP
Secretary of State of Defence
The Rt Hon Michael Heseltine MP
Secretary of State for the Environment
The Rt Hon Nicholas Edwards MP
Secretary of State for Wales
The Rt Hon Patrick Jenkln MP
Secretary of State for Industry
The Rt Hon David Howell MP
Secretary of State for Transport
The Rt Hon Leon Brittan QC MP
Chief Secretary, Treasury
The Rt Hon Nigel Lawson MP
Secretary of State for Energy
The Rt Hon Cecil Parkinson MP
Paymaster General
THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR NORTHERN IRELAND said that
he intended to make a statement in the House of Commons that
afternoon about the allegations of criminal sexual misconduct made
against persons employed at or otherwise connected with the Kincora
House boys home in Northern Ireland. The accusations now being
investigated by the police included suggestions that security in the
Province might have been compromised by the use of blackmail
against those concerned. He proposed to announce that the
Government intended to set up a public inquiry under a High Court
judge once the police had completed their investigations into the
alleged offences and any subsequent criminal proceedings had been
concluded. The precise form of the judicial inquiry would be
decided at a later date. The Chief Constable of the Royal Ulster
Constabulary (RUC) would also invite Her Majesty’s Chief
lnspector of Constabulary to arrange for another Chief Constable
to investigate the handling of the affair by the RUC.
The Cabinet Took note
TRANSCRIPT OF ACTUAL CABINET MEETING AT NUMBER 10 DOWNING STREET FEB 1982
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Yet another reason to loathe this bunch.
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Question: how many times does the word ” blackmail ” appear in cabinet meeting documents??
Not many I would hazard to guess but it appeared on Feb 1982
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anyway chewie there are 60m uk acres, with most of the pop crammed into 3m…a hectare is 2.2 acres…
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It already IS a scandal, but one rarely mentioned outside Scotland. The Scottish Government has plans for land reform to end the stranglehold a few landowners have on the country. The landowners are bleating about how hard it is despite not being charged their taxes in full and being given undeserved subsidies which were supposed to be given to farmers.
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gary
that reminds me of cat boyds speech @ glasgow ric conference…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGXQG8hyXzA
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They get away with it: simply because they know they can……
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What was that subsidy to landowners who were paid not to chop down trees of which they were not going to anyway. I think it amounted to about £10,000 pa
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Reblogged this on Beastrabban’s Weblog and commented:
This should be a massive scandal, as it truly shows the feudal mindset behind Cameron and the modern Tories. They really do feel that medieval feudalism should be revived, and money taken from the peasantry to subsidize their lavish lifestyle. It was one of the major issues in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when the refusal of the Tory landlords to pay tax on their massive landholdings, while demanding that the tax burden fall firmly on ordinary householders and tenant farmers. It was so contentious, that several leading political philosophers in Britain and America demanded the introduction of a land tax, to be levied on their colossal estates. It was an issue that drew many people from Liberalism to Socialism and the first beginnings of the Labour Party.
And this should be a source of real anger in Scotland. Although the grouse moors are empty now, before the Highland Clearances they were a living landscape full of fields and villages. Then the landlords cleared them for sheep, which were much more profitable than the rents raised from the mixed agriculture pursued by their tenant farmers. The grouse moors look like wild, unspoilt wildernesses, but they’re entirely artificial, and a reminder of the vicious, exploitative and destructive attitude of the aristocracy over the people they had in their power.
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Need a reasonnot to vote Tory?
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Primary pupils need sex-and-relationships education, say MPs – http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-31486465
Scuze me but why does MPs and sex and education for children sound creepy?
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I read recently that the cost of a shotgun certificate has been pegged at £50 although the cost of issuing one is about £200 – another subsidy for people who get their kicks out of killing wildlife.
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Or armed robbery becomes too pricey to commit..
Good idea use the market to price out gun related crimes
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….Definitely a matter to grouse about…… but I feel sorry for the poor grouse, who are sacrificed on the altar of the hedonistic so-called ‘leisure activities’ of these over-fed land-owning Tory capitalists.
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The grouse are lucky, they are getting shot ,if they were poor these demonic bastards would starve them to death instead,but hey sport is sport in Tory land.
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