Also, if so, why was he allowed on the plane in the first place?
Grounds for an appeal?
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]]>[Short version: not you mate!]
[Slightly longer version: same type of people that owned it in 1689, or 1485.]
59 million people of Britain live on 10% of Britain's land - when you factor in roads, airports, commercial and industrial property, its actually closer to 59,000,000 people living on 4,400,000 acres.
In Scotland the stats are even worse
Land ownership one of the reasons democracy has ceased to function in Britain, and staying in the EU, or leaving it, and Scottish independence, are meaningless distractions.
If you don't know who owns which bit of your country, you don't control it.
]]>Paws I was aware of that & actually, lots of "grousemoor" makes really shitty sheep-heaf. You are out of date w.r.t. coniferous woodland too - might have been true 20-30 years ago, though. When you discount the "mountainous" areas, that's when it starts to get scary. No, I still maintain that we are (practically speaking) overpopulated. Now what?
]]>well, the bits we are permitted to live on by the Crown, the aristocracy and the financial markets are overcrowded, yes...
...but then that's always been the case.
]]>I have heard it said that the landmass of Britain could accommodate a further 20 million by developing an additional two percent of Britain land mass as living space. It's unlikely a Britain of 80 million people would be pleasant place to live, as Britons have the smallest homes by floor area in Europe as it is [and just think how massive private houses owned by the top 0.1% skews that statistic!]. Public and private transport would be nightmarish.
If you have ever flown over Britain low enough and slow enough, it is quite easy to fly a straight[ish] line from Bristol to Newcastle, and NOT pass over any major population centres.
I did it as a passenger in a friend's DHC Chipmunk, Kemble in Gloucestershire to Middleton St George. The largest conurbation we passed over was Barnsley.
A similar route can be flown from Manston in Kent, to Glasgow.
Green and pleasant land in every direction, all owned by people "considerably richer than yow" to quote a Harry Enfield character;-)
]]>as Britons have the smallest homes by floor area in Europe as it is
The trick is losing the aversion to living in a box high up in the air. Gardens are nice and all, but there's too many of us for us not to live in hives.
]]>It's ridiculous these days that houses and flats are still built in the UK wherein you can hear any loud but normal things your neighbours are doing, and are so poorly insulated that you notice they aren't.
]]>Once upon a time I was horrified by 'One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich'.
Nowadays it is commonplace. Gitmo, rendition, etc, etc. The West embraces the tactics of it's so-called enemy because of an expected dividend.
We have become our own enemy. I am pretty sure, but unable to source it, that James Blish said this yonks ago. In order to protect ourselves, we become what we despise.
It is ironic, is it not?
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