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Fate of new Galloway national park proposals to be revealed (www.bbc.co.uk)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Check out the gammon opposing it. Landowners of course, the lot of them

The only reason you'd be opposing national park status is because you are a hill farmer who wants to control yet more land either by removing more people, or converting to far too lucrative tree plantations. Fuck em

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't know much about how national parks work in practice but they seem to be a way to create little feifdoms for people to get into positions of power, even if it is just the power to say you can't park in a certain place overnight.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

As opposed to the landed gentry doing what they want? National parks help bring ownership away from landlords who show a persistent inability to think about anyone else but their heirs