Shakedown Social

fulanigirl<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/BlackMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BlackMastodon</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/BlackTwitter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BlackTwitter</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SouthAfrica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SouthAfrica</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/LandReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LandReform</a> The question of land reform in So. Africa is complicated. While land needs to be redistributed (leading some Afrikaners to tell Trump they are being persecuted 🙄 ), the government and poor people don't always align on what the best solutions should be. Hammer & Hope talks to some working class Black So. Africans for their views on the new law. <a href="https://hammerandhope.org/article/musk-south-africa-land-reform" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://hammerandhope.org/article/musk-south-africa-land-reform</a> Also read Issue 6 which just posted last week. Ed: Spelling

JZ MurdockTrump & Musk call South Africa's equity laws "racist"—but global orgs like the UN, IMF, & World Bank back them as essential to undo apartheid’s legacy. It's not racism to fix systemic injustice. It’s called justice. So WHO's racist? <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/SouthAfrica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SouthAfrica</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/LandReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LandReform</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/BEE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BEE</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/GlobalSupport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GlobalSupport</a>

Auntie SyzygyGreat to see this long saga on Craiganour written up, and well done to Alan for his persistence. Until we know who owns and controls our land, Scotland will not flourish. And until we have proper governance and accountabiltiy, we will get nowhere. <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/LandReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LandReform</a> <a href="https://andywightman.scot/2025/05/craiganour-estate-has-got-away-with-a-criminal-offence/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://andywightman.scot/2025/05/craiganour-estate-has-got-away-with-a-criminal-offence/</a>

WenLand reform is an essential part of Scottish IndependenceAn opinion piece.<a href="https://www.thenational.scot/politics/25114298.ariane-burgess-land-reform-bring-power-back-people/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.thenational.scot/politics/25114298.ariane-burgess-land-reform-bring-power-back-people/</a><a href="http://archive.today/2025.04.25-101323/https://www.thenational.scot/politics/25114298.ariane-burgess-land-reform-bring-power-back-people/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">http://archive.today/2025.04.25-101323/https://www.thenational.scot/politics/25114298.ariane-burgess-land-reform-bring-power-back-people/</a>? (archive of article)<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/LandReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LandReform</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ScottishIndependence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScottishIndependence</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scotland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scotland</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Inequality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Inequality</a>

Simon Brooke"[ <a href="https://mastodon.social/@greenpeace" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@greenpeace</a> ] gave birth to the non-Indigenous part of the modern environmental movement in the early 1970s and captured the imagination of the world by engaging in spectacular and creative actions to save whales in the north Pacific and to stop nuclear testing. Greenpeace needs to be protected in this critical moment"<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ClimateEmergency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateEmergency</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Ecocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ecocide</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/LandReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LandReform</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/FreeSpeach" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreeSpeach</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ThereIsNoPlanetB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ThereIsNoPlanetB</a><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/28/greenpeace-verdict-pipeline-north-dakota" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/28/greenpeace-verdict-pipeline-north-dakota</a>

Simon BrookeThis is (part of) why I am, and intend to continue to be, a financial supporter of <a href="https://mastodon.social/@greenpeace" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@greenpeace</a> . I'm not claiming the organisation is perfect – none is – but we need groups with the courage, resources and skills to stand up to the onrushing <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Corporate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Corporate</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Fascist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fascist</a> wave.<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ClimateEmergency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateEmergency</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Ecocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ecocide</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/LandReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LandReform</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/FreeSpeach" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreeSpeach</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ThereIsNoPlanetB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ThereIsNoPlanetB</a><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/28/greenpeace-verdict-pipeline-north-dakota" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/28/greenpeace-verdict-pipeline-north-dakota</a>

Simon BrookeIt is good for people to have security of tenure of their homes; it is good for land to have consistent management over long periods of time. But heritable property is the principle driver of social inequity, and we should not tolerate it.[My opinions, not those of the people writing the survey!]<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/LandReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LandReform</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ScotPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScotPol</a> #2/2<a href="https://diffleypartnership.co.uk/the-big-land-question/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://diffleypartnership.co.uk/the-big-land-question/</a>

Simon BrookeThe default state of land in Scotland is currently that it is privately owned, and fungible -- it may be traded for money. The default state of land should be that it is common, that is to say inalienable (non fungible) communal property of the local community, and that individuals should have non-heritable life-rent of holdings.<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/LandReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LandReform</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ScotPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScotPol</a> #1/2<a href="https://diffleypartnership.co.uk/the-big-land-question/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://diffleypartnership.co.uk/the-big-land-question/</a>

Michael BaconThis is an outstanding opportunity for <a href="https://social.coop/tags/CommunityLandTrusts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CommunityLandTrusts</a> and cooperative housing if we had anyone near power who understood their potential.Auctioning this off to developers and it'll provide temporary relief only.<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/16/las-vegas-housing-shortage-federal-land/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/16/las-vegas-housing-shortage-federal-land/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub</a><a href="https://social.coop/tags/CLT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CLT</a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/CLTs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CLTs</a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/LandReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LandReform</a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/coops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#coops</a>

Simon Brooke"While recommending a high-tech form of land enclosures via '<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> Growth Zones' (AIGZs), which are about handing data centre developers "access to land and power", it gestures towards the idea that these could drive local innovation in post-industrial towns"This is certainly absolutely delusional. The whole point of the Internet is that there is NO geographical linkage between the location of the servers and the high value jobs.<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/AIActionPlan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AIActionPlan</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/LandReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LandReform</a><a href="https://www.computerweekly.com/opinion/Labours-AI-Action-Plan-a-gift-to-the-far-right" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.computerweekly.com/opinion/Labours-AI-Action-Plan-a-gift-to-the-far-right</a>

Simon Brooke<a href="https://mastodon.online/@RejoinEU" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@RejoinEU</a> The penalty should be that the land holding which the path traverses should be confiscated from the current owner and revert to common.Well, all land should, but this would be a good place to start.<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/LandReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LandReform</a>

Simon Brooke<a href="https://mastodon.scot/@thecommongreen" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@thecommongreen</a> Having now read this, I'm DEEPLY underwhelmed.If you tax the Drumlanrig estate at a fixed proportion of its value, and number 13, Rotten Row, Dull, by Aberfeldy, Perthshire, at the same proportion, then ratio of wealth between the Duke of Buccleuch and the poor agricultural labourers of Perthshire doesn't reduce one iota. It's far more likely to increase, and sharply.<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/LandReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LandReform</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/TaxTheRich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TaxTheRich</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ScotPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScotPol</a><a href="https://www.journeyman.cc/blog/posts-output/2014-12-09-me-and-you-and-the-duke-of-buccleuch/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.journeyman.cc/blog/posts-output/2014-12-09-me-and-you-and-the-duke-of-buccleuch/</a>

Simon Brooke<a href="https://beige.party/@HarriettMB" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@HarriettMB</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/@felicitymartin" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@felicitymartin</a> Land really ought not to be owned. Heritable property has no benefits for society and causes enormous harms.Land tenure needs to be secure for individual lifetimes, and assigned on need, not wealth.<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/LandReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LandReform</a>

Simon Brooke<a href="https://kolektiva.social/@beka_valentine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@beka_valentine</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/@newstephie" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@newstephie</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/@webhat" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@webhat</a> So build better ones! People DESERVE better ones.This isn't rocket science.<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Homelessness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Homelessness</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/HousingCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HousingCrisis</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/LandReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LandReform</a>

Simon Brooke<a href="https://archaeo.social/@HeatherDLeonard" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@HeatherDLeonard</a> this is a standard problem across all of remote rural Scotland. Rich folk retiring from cities can outbid for housing anything that anyone who has anything positive to contribute to the local community can afford to pay.<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/LandReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LandReform</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/SocialHousing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SocialHousing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/EthnicCleansing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EthnicCleansing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ScotPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScotPol</a>

Simon BrookeI envisage that a common form of land management would be small farms and crofts leased on <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Liferent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Liferent</a> from the local community, which would not pay <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/LandTax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LandTax</a> (because the land would continue to be owned in common), but would pay a rental.<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/LandReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LandReform</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ScotPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScotPol</a> /ends<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liferent" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liferent</a>

Simon BrookeFinally, as I said above, land on which the <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/LandTax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LandTax</a> was not paid would automatically revert to common -- i.e. to the management of the local community. This would drive rapid and effective <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/LandReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LandReform</a>.I envisage that <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ScotGov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScotGov</a> would appoint a Common Lands Factor to manage lands on behalf of those communities who chose not to manage it themselves.Continued

Simon Brooke"The high profile failure of a local community to be able to enact a community buyout of the Tayvallich Estate in Argyll – which had an asking price of £10.5 million, equivalent to around £7,800 per hectare – is indicative of Scotland’s broader failure to enact <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/LandReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LandReform</a> and will only be one of many such failures until reform is embedded. A local <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/LandTax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LandTax</a> can, should, and must be a part of this reform"<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ScotPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScotPol</a> <a href="https://commonweal.scot/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Taxing-Land.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://commonweal.scot/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Taxing-Land.pdf</a>

Simon Brooke"communities are simply being ‘priced out’ of land, even where legislation has made some steps towards making it theoretically easier for them to purchase such land assuming they somehow had the capital to do so"<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/LandReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LandReform</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ScotPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScotPol</a> <a href="https://commonweal.scot/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Taxing-Land.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://commonweal.scot/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Taxing-Land.pdf</a>

Simon BrookeIt needs to be said that this speculative bubble and the unscrupulous and the fraudulent '<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/CarbonCredit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CarbonCredit</a>' nonsense underlying it has been consciously and irresponsibly driven by <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/SNP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SNP</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ScotGov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScotGov</a> policies.This is not JUST bad lairds; it's also really poor governance, and if you're still voting SNP in the face of this, have a long hard look at yourself. This policy hits Scotland, it hits the people of rural Scotland, and it benefits only the kleptocrats.<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/LandReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LandReform</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ScotPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScotPol</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Greenwashing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Greenwashing</a>

Recent searches

Search options

Administered by:

Server stats:

#landreform