A ramble round Daily Mail tax exile Lord Rothermere's Ferne Park in Wiltshire
Tony Gosling | 23.04.2012 00:59 | Occupy Everywhere | Free Spaces | History | Other Press | South Coast
Particularly annoyed by the Daily Mail's mean-spirited and skewed reporting of the criminalisation of squatters. That is fine and dandy Mr Rothermere when you are a £750m tac exile and have lots of places to live yourself. Having said all that your rag the Daily Mail has been the only UK media to report the mysterious death of Dr Richard Holmes so yes, free speech does mean the right for you to print what so many profoundly disagree with. The trouble is Paul Dacre cynically prints libelous stories about penniless young squatters when Associated Newspapers' lawyers know that they cannot afford to take you to court.
Squatters are mostly disposessed and politically betrayed young people taking practical, common sense steps to put a roof over their head. Many of them are extremely switched on, more intelligent that the duffers who own Britain, and very much aware of the historical injustices that have led to them having nowhere to live.
The land (to live, work and play on) is necessary for all the earth's inhabitants and is a free gift for all mankind. It is entirely wrong to treat it as private property (like a car or a bag of sausages) as it is something civilised people have to share out. The Bible demands in Leviticus 25 that we regularly re-share-out the land in the Jubilee and this is a Jubilee year is it not?
Over the past 500 years, through enclosure, or privatisation of common land when only the bigger landowners were allowed to vote, the land under our feet has been stolen from the ordinary people of Britain. Only money can now buy you land but the money system has been monopolised and sabotaged by City crooks.
That fact that squatters can not afford to sue the Daily Mail in court for the lies they tell about their desperate plight bears no relevance to the justice of their cause which must and will ultimately prevail.
To cut off all escape from financial servitude, the travelling lifestyle has also been criminalised over the last ten years with the Tory Criminal Justice Act 1993 which was largely drawn up by the Country Landowners Association's lawyers.
The present generation refuse to accept this stealthy class war by the greedy rich people on the poor of Britain, and as such are reclaiming what is rightfully theirs by occupying empty properties and making them their homes rather than sleeping rough. Starved of opportunity and the right to express themselves through meaningful work these are the real entrepreneurs of 21st century Britain.
FURTHER non Daily Mail READING:
The World Turned Upside Down (1972) by Christopher Hill (not your Melanie Phillips' recent stolen titled drivel)
The Levellers and the English Revolution (1976) by N. H. Brailsford
This Land Is Our Land (1987) by Marion Shoard
Who Owns Britain (2002) by Kevin Cahill
Who Owns The World (2010) by Kevin Cahill
Cotters and Squatters (2002) by Colin Ward
The land (to live, work and play on) is necessary for all the earth's inhabitants and is a free gift for all mankind. It is entirely wrong to treat it as private property (like a car or a bag of sausages) as it is something civilised people have to share out. The Bible demands in Leviticus 25 that we regularly re-share-out the land in the Jubilee and this is a Jubilee year is it not?
Over the past 500 years, through enclosure, or privatisation of common land when only the bigger landowners were allowed to vote, the land under our feet has been stolen from the ordinary people of Britain. Only money can now buy you land but the money system has been monopolised and sabotaged by City crooks.
That fact that squatters can not afford to sue the Daily Mail in court for the lies they tell about their desperate plight bears no relevance to the justice of their cause which must and will ultimately prevail.
To cut off all escape from financial servitude, the travelling lifestyle has also been criminalised over the last ten years with the Tory Criminal Justice Act 1993 which was largely drawn up by the Country Landowners Association's lawyers.
The present generation refuse to accept this stealthy class war by the greedy rich people on the poor of Britain, and as such are reclaiming what is rightfully theirs by occupying empty properties and making them their homes rather than sleeping rough. Starved of opportunity and the right to express themselves through meaningful work these are the real entrepreneurs of 21st century Britain.
FURTHER non Daily Mail READING:
The World Turned Upside Down (1972) by Christopher Hill (not your Melanie Phillips' recent stolen titled drivel)
The Levellers and the English Revolution (1976) by N. H. Brailsford
This Land Is Our Land (1987) by Marion Shoard
Who Owns Britain (2002) by Kevin Cahill
Who Owns The World (2010) by Kevin Cahill
Cotters and Squatters (2002) by Colin Ward
Tony Gosling
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couldn't add the pix for some reason so trying again
23.04.2012 01:06
here are the pictures
me again
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this is excellent
23.04.2012 07:01
I've seen a video where someone does a similar thing but on a rothschild estate, and actually bumps into one of them! aha :
ROTHSCHILDS are the big fish though.
well done for your efforts
But remember
23.04.2012 10:16
anarchist
..to anarchist
23.04.2012 19:19
"It is the state that provides the legal framework of "land ownership", that keeps the peasants off the land, and provides the rich with more than their fair share."
- more precisely, it is the rich who draw up the laws that exclude the poor from the land (cue the diggers song).
The state is not some imperious structure that exists by its very nature to control or annihilate - it is a structure most usually controlled by the property-owning class who use it to dominate over the rest of the population. Your hyperbolic generalisation is both incorrect, uninformed and wrongheaded
You also incredibly said: "The greedy rich are clearly not the cause of inequality, they are just a symptom of statism."
- No, no , no, absolute garbage!!! To come out with a sentence like 'the greedy rich are clearly not the cause of inequality' shows you up as completely daft
" you could work illegally, in the black market (free market) to allow an unknown system to organically grow and perpetually change to meet the changing needs of the people."
- ....wot a load of absolute bollocks
Bullshit Detector
Vanity Fair article
27.04.2012 11:59
Opening double page spread
Inside Ferne Park House
Outside Ferne Park House
Jonathan Harmsworth, Viscount Rothermere with wife Lady Claudia Rothermere
EXTRACT FROM VANITY FAIR NOVEMBER 2006
"There are a number of people who look at the world in a certain, more liberal way," he says. "The Mail challenges that, and shakes that view, and they find that disconcerting."
But the key to Jonathan is that he is not the Daily Mail. For example, he is known to be friendly with Tony and Cherie Blair, a couple who are far from popular in the eyes of the paper. In a 2004 interview in The Independent he said, "My views are not necessarily the views of the newspaper, and [the Blairs and I] have a relationship outside it. Do I think they are overjoyed by the attacks? No, I don't. But I think they realize that I don't edit the newspaper and that I allow Paul [Dacre, the paper's editor] to do that, and they respect the decision I have made."
This stance affects Jonathan and his wife Claudia's personal profile and habits of going out. Or, in their case, staying in. Although they have every possible bauble (money, influence, youth, and looks) which would qualify them for global social superstardom, neither is faintly interested. Speaking at the imposing country house they recently built in Dorset, Claudia says, "Thank goodness we didn't choose that. Jonathan is very private and family-orientated, and so am I."
Jonathan adds pertinently, "I'm shy, Claudia's shy. If you are shy and you combine that with going to a party and someone is not being rude to you but ignoring you on purpose, and their friends are also ignoring you, because your paper has done a hatchet job on them, it's quite disconcerting. And at the end of the day, my first love is the newspaper."
Now, in the fourth generation, that love is virtually a genetic imperative. (The first Lord Rothermere was one of the men parodied as Lord Copper, proprietor of the Megalopolitan Newspaper Corporation, in Evelyn Waugh's novel 'Scoop', while Jonathan's father, the third Viscount Rothermere, Vere, vastly improved the company's financial health.) Jonathan was swaddled in newspapers, and after a stint in high school in Connecticut, which engendered a love of America, he spent his formative years working his way around the business.
Editorial autonomy and journalist appreciation may be a Rothermere "thing," but their continued application also stems from Jonathan's personal experience. During his pre-inheritance scamper throughout the newspaper business he worked as a reporter on the Daily Record and Sunday Mail in Glasgow. While he enjoyed it, he thinks journalism is a difficult job. "You are only as good as the last story, or the story you are working on next, so you get these ups and downs," he says. "When you have a good story and a good show in the paper you feel great. But then when you're not working on a story, or can't find one, then you get these terrible lows and think, That's it, I'm finished. . . . Management is much easier than being a journalist."
[editorial note - there are countless stories out there which are easy for reporters to get - from the corruption of elite groups such as the Nazi founded Bilderberg Group and retired intelligence crooks little club the Pinay Cercle right the way down to harsh treatment of the most vulnerable in society by this Conservative Government. People would even phone them in to the Daily Mail if they felt they would get a fair hearing, rather than being blamed and ridiculed for being on the poverty line. The fact is The Daily Mail presently has an highly politicised Tory and elitist line and some of the best human interest stories and exposees of the evil lurking within the top echelons of society simply will not get past the newsdesk filters]
Octavius Black, the managing director of the consulting firm the Mind Gym and an old friend of the Rothermeres', remembers visiting them during that period. "Jonathan had just had his first article published; he was quite pleased in a modest way. Chuffed to have his first byline, and self-aware enough to know why he'd got it," says Black. "Later, when I holidayed with them in Jamaica, Claudia came down, all the proud wife, saying, 'Jonathan's just got a promotion!' He raised an eyebrow and said, 'No kidding-we know why that is.'
"He's very self-deprecating," Black continues, "which I suspect among newspaper barons is a rare trait. He's great at teasing or joshing-we're always taking the piss out of each other. He's extraordinarily self-aware, and most people in that situation are, in my experience, high on self-delusion."
What Jonathan does know is that he has inherited a historic newspaper company. "The boardroom was moved [to the current headquarters] by his father, piece of wood by piece of wood, from Fleet Street," says Jonathan's friend Charles Dunstone, the founder and chief executive of the Carphone Warehouse and a member of the board of directors of the Daily Mail and General Trust. "When you sit in there, whatever's going on in the world, however it might feel that day, there's a great sense of history-that this organization has been telling the stories that are going on in the world for a very long time and they've seen some wonderful things and some terrible things. But in the end, life keeps going, and it's quite good at making sure you have a sense of what a small part you are in the whole journey of that company, or the world, and that you mustn't over-react to things."
And responsibility comes with that inheritance. "If I crash Carphone Warehouse into the ground," explains Dunstone, "I'm a stupid idiot, but I made it and I destroyed it. I think it's much more difficult when you're asked to look after a dynasty, because if it's really successful, people have a tendency to say, 'Well, he inherited,' and if you make a mess of it, everyone will jump up and down on you. So you sort of can't win."
Tony Gosling
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