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Who Owns Britain and Ireland Paperback – 1 Oct. 2002
- Print length464 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherCanongate Books
- Publication date1 Oct. 2002
- ISBN-101841953105
- ISBN-13978-1841953106
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According to Cahill the failure to redistribute land in Britain is driving up prices for everyone -- The Sunday Times 25th November 2001
An exceptional piece of information gathering, prefaced with an impssioned essay on the issue of landownership in the UK today -- The Scotsman 8th December 2001
In this brave work, Cahill makes a plea for the last great social reform,land reform -- The Times 12th January 2002
This lengthy book is packed with the facts and figures of landownership in Britain, county by county, title by title and family by family -- The Independent 11th January 2002
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It does not possess information about the acreage of England and Wales
That titles were recorded without recording the acreage of each title. The Land registry also informed the minister that it estimated that about 65% of England and wales was the subject of a register of title (and 35%) was not. But this was only an estimate. The Lord Chancellor also revealed in the preamble to the LanD registration act that freeholds in England & Wales were not freeholds. "The Crown" the Lord Chacellor said "is the only absolute owner of land in England & Wales; all others hold an estate in land. Estates, which derive from feudal terms of tenure, originally took many forms but were reduced by The Law of Property Act 1925 to two, an estate in fee simple, absolute in possession, generally known as freehold and an estate for a term of years absolute generally known as lease hold'.
The Government is committed to reforming both the nature of landownership in law, and to completing the Land Registry
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- Publisher : Canongate Books; Main edition (1 Oct. 2002)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 464 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1841953105
- ISBN-13 : 978-1841953106
- Best Sellers Rank: 936,103 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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I'm a reporter, fundamentally, as was Charles Dickens. I have worked part time in the same place he did, the UK Parliament, for 31 years. I have published 3 books conventionally; Trade Wars with WH Allen, Who Owns Britain and Ireland with Canongate and Who Owns the World with Mainstream, Hachette and Random House in various editions. I wrote a book/manual on computing for the British Institute of Management called 'The Principles of Business Sytems' and I was the researcher/producer for Dr Philip Beresford's Sunday Times Book of the Rich (Weidenfeld and Nicholson)
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Cahil systematically puts into the public realm whatever can be known about the power of our very few landlords who not only eat up huge amounts of subsidies but place enormous tax burdens upon the 'plebs' they have been deceiving for centuries. His revelation that the Plantagenets survived their extinction is staggering..not least because it is a warning today of how hidden elites manipulate decision making power in their favour-regardless of government or policy- by ganging up to prey upon elected or instituted rulers.
If government 'by the people and for the people' is ever going to take place in this nation, it will be by forcing an openness upon every person or institution using hard earned public money, this book details what must happen..and soon.
Will UK plc enter the modern world or descend into feudal darkness out of the reach of any computer data base?..this book is a wake up call to all who care about the nation, its myths, its realities and its future...


