Great to see land liberated back to the common people- maybe the Duke of Buccleuch, Richard Scott, the 10th Duke, in Dumfries and Galloway/Borders, will volunteer some of his acres to the good people of Scotland? He is after all the largest private landowner in the United Kingdom and chairman of the Buccleuch Group, a holding company with interests in commercial property, rural affairs, food, and beverages- with 288,000 acres in Scotland and Northamptonshire surely he can free up a few square miles to the good tax payers of Dumfries and Galloway, the Borders and Northamptonshire?
If so, we, the common tax payer, might be able to take advantage of the European Farming subsidies. In the European Union you are paid according to the size of your lands: the greater the area, the more you get. In our "New Jerusalem" Britain, 69% of the land is owned by 0.6% of the population. It is this group which takes the major pay-outs. The good old Duke of Buucleuch gets £405,000 in Euro handouts...on second thoughts: why would he volunteer some of these fair green fields to the people with freebies like that?