When what's yours is not yours?

[Teal]

I'd be interested to hear others views on this When I first read on the bbc website about crofters being about to purchase a 53,000 acre estate in scotland i thought - good effort! As I read through the article something strange stuck out to me- that the land was being sold against the owners consent - he didn't want to sell anything and 3 of the 4 owners live there full time. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4903142.stm

 

When I researched a bit further, and found that: the estate was earmarked for Europe's biggest wind farm. of which "Nearly 100 would be on the Galson estate, and the annual income would be hundreds of thousands of pounds."

 

Then I read that the landowners had actually offered the crofters that "Half the revenue will go to the crofting community anyway, but I suppose that is not as much as it would be if they owned the land," Graham said. ‘What has triggered this off is talk of wind farms and big money’. (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/02/24/ncroft24.xml)

 

It seems to me, if you make a success of something in this country then you get it taken away for peanuts. Then what really annoys me is that taxpayers will pay for 90% of the purchase price!! To me the people on that island are greedy, and no better than what is happening in zimbabwe :<

[lurcherboy]

I echo that teal. I saw it a while ago and can't believe it wasn't made mainstream news. I wonder why?

 

 

 

 

LB

[henry d]

I think that this is why estates are getting rid of `keepers before they retire as it is similar with tied houses :thumbs:

I think I might get myself a few allotments and make a killing in the building game