I've just checked mine and its the same size
I'm not sure about that. I moved into a spacious three bedroom and I've now got a cramped one bedroom. I do have two boxrooms though.
Living rooms have shrunk?
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I'm not sure about that. I moved into a spacious three bedroom and I've now got a cramped one bedroom. I do have two boxrooms though.
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Same size as two settees, some delivery boxes from ASOS, some random shoes, coats thrown around and cups that some kids has not taken to the kitchen.
Cuts down on the decorating. Stay positive.
Yes but is it still the same size as it used to be...... ?
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That's 7.7% of the whole of the UK, no?
But not all of the UK's land is viable for building.
7.7% of the whole UK including gardens and other green spaces (Kate Barker report 2005). Propaganda in the hands of vested interests state the UK is busting at the seems and running out of land. The country is empty. The richest people are landowners - financial parasites.
DATA ON LAND USAGE
The land cover of Great Britain is 23.5m hectares. Taken from the Office of National Statistics, in 2002, usage was as follows:
- Settled land - 1.8m hectares. 7.65% of the land mass.
- Agricultural land - 10.8m hectares. 45.96% of the land mass.
- Semi-natural land, with much uses as agricultural land -7.0m hectares. 29.78% of the land mass.
- Woodland - 2.8m hectares. 11.91% of the land mass
- Water bodies - 0.3m hectares. 1.28% of the land mass.
- Sundry, largely transport infrastructure - 0.8m hectares. 3.42% of the land mass.
Many question the accuracy of the above figures as government departments present differing figures. Nevertheless the figures are a good guide.
Note 2:
The settled land figure includes gardens and other green spaces, which are estimated at around 5%. When adjusted a figure of only 2.5% of paved land emerges.
Very little of the land in the UK is not viable for building. If all towns, cities, villages and supporting infrastructure was doubled, it still would not make much impact on the land mass. The country would still be largely empty.
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And who feeds the people? Land owners aka "farmers" is it not?
Theres not enough land to feed the current population.
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If I go and park my Car & Van in the farmers field do you think he will mind. ?
There’s plenty of it.
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I might go and build an house on my local farmers land. Then they’ll be less land to grow his crops.
The country’s empty. He won’t mind.
The UK started to import food from the Americas in the mid 1800s when steamships could traverse oceans, to avoid the impact of famines - the Irish famine also hit Mainland GB and other parts of Europe had famines. The introduction of the steamship meant food could easily be transferred between continents. The refrigeration ships meant meat could as well. That is still the aim today. Most of our wheat still comes from North America as we like the taste of it. Most of our beef came from Argentina, where British companies owned vast tracts of the country split into ranches. The bully beef British and Commonwealth soldiers ate in WW2 was from Argentina - even canned there. You may remember Frey Bentos and Dewhursts. Pre and post WW2 the British controlled a hell of a lot of the world's food distribution.
Also, we import most of the animal feed. An enlarged facility is to be built at Liverpool docks to cope with demand.
Even if the settled figures for land are doubled it will still not make an impact on the land mass. Look at the figures. A lot of this farmland is paid to lay idle. We import vehicles which are essential to our society, as well as nearly all our electronics. Agriculture is a lame duck industry accounting for only about 2.5% of the UK economy. It is inefficient. It needs updating in parts for sure. It is heavily subsidised. If we can import cheaper cars from abroad then we can import cheaper food. But giving spacious and decent accommodation for all (the construction industry will expand greatly, which is labour intensive), will hardly impact agriculture.
People have to live somewhere, and in decent spacious accommodation as well. That can easily be provided. But the emphasis has to be towards people, not the profits of parasite landowners.
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- The UK has 60 million acres of land in total
- 70% of the land is owned by 0.66% of the population.
- Just 6,000 or so landowners - mostly aristocrats, but also large institutions and the Crown - own about 40 million acres, two thirds of the UK.
- Britain's top 20 landowning families have bought or inherited an area big enough to swallow up the entire counties of Kent, Essex and Bedfordshire, with more to spare.
- Big landowners measure their holdings by the square mile; the average Briton living in a privately owned property has to exist on 340 square yards.
- A building plot - the land, now constitutes between half to two- thirds of the cost of a new house.
- 60 million people live in 24 million "dwellings".
- These 24 million dwellings sit on approx 4.4 million acres (7.7% of the land).
- 19 million privately owned homes, inc gardens, sit on 5.8% of the land.
- Average dwelling has 2.4 people in it.
- 77% of the population live on only 5.8% of the land, about 3.5 million acres (total 60 million acres).
- Agriculture only accounts for 3% of the economy at most.
- Average density of people on one residential acre is 12 to 13.
- Tony Blair ejected from the House of Lords 66 hereditary peers, who between them owned the equivalent of 4.5 average sized English counties.
Land Valuation Tax at a rate high enough to eliminate income tax would sort the lot out. Land would automatically be redistributed to productive people - by the free market.
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I see the brain-washing hasn't worked.
Not with the intelligent.I see the brain-washing hasn't worked.
"If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself."
-Joseph Goebbels
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