Reddit reviews Who Owns Britain

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Owns-Britain-Ireland-Kevin-Cahill/dp/1841953105

> This is a critique of both the landowning artistocracy and the Land Registry. Cahill argues that our present system of landownership is of material detriment to the vast majority of homeowners in the UK, while many of the wealthiest landowners in the country pay no rates and actually receive money in the form of grants and subsidies.

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> 160,000 families, 0.3% of the population, own 37 million acres, two thirds of Britain, 230 acres each. Just 1,252 of them own 57% of Scotland. They pay no land tax. Instead every government gives them £2.3 billion a year and the EU gives them a further £2 billion. Each family gets £26,875.

> Landowners' wealth is a parasite on Britain, the least productive part of the economy, with the most state support. Their wealth comes not from farming, nor even from renting, but from trickling land onto the urban housing market. They sell land to property developers, at an average price per acre of £404,000 in 1999.

Most obviously you need to read Kevin Cahill's Who Owns Britain?, but you could also usefully read Kevin Carson's The Subsidy of History and The Iron Fist Behind The Invisible Hand from which it was taken to get a fuller picture of how today's "free market" system is still bound up in the feudalism from which it sprang. For every mythologised entrepreneur, there are countless priviliged rentiers who are far more representative of the system we call capitalism.

Edit: Link added.

This is well known, if pretty disgraceful stuff.

EDIT: Essential reading if you've not read it already.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Owns-Britain-Ireland-Kevin-Cahill/dp/1841953105

This is absolutely undercutting it.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Owns-Britain-Ireland-Kevin-Cahill/dp/1841953105 This is a book by the first person to investigate and answer his own question and beyond that:

https://whoownsengland.org/2016/08/14/blog-post-title/

This person investigates and is trying to work out who owns what of this land. They deeds for the majority of England will still be in majority royal ownership because why would they give up the majority considering its political power.