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The bankers want every last penny they can get, so the British government has to sell England.
The latest peice is the woodlands GUARDIAN NEWSPAPER

If you want to let the government know you are not happy, please sign the following petition PETITION

It is too late for that. My personal suggestions for the British people would be along the lines of torches, pitchforks, rope, lampposts, tar, feathers etc.

Students rioted against increased educational costs.

I read an article yesterday that 65% of British students would NEVER be able to pay off their student loans in their whole life.

The Guardian, a very leftwing newspaper, is just scaremongering over this -- and that's not difficult considering most city dwellers are shockingly ignorant of what happens in rural areas. I'm not sure what your specific objection is, but will consider alternatives:

I guess a lot of people have an ideological problem with private ownership, and there's not much i can do about that, but if you're just worried about accessing woodland then consider that many of the most beautiful places in Scotland are privately owned, yet anyone has a right of access (subject to commonsense restrictions). In the case of England and Wales most forestry commission land, as well as some privately owned woodland, is subject to CRoW legislation that again gives access (subject to restrictions when logging is occurring). If the government land is sold it will still be subject to the CRoW legislation. Moreover, many rights of way existed before the CRoW legislation was introduced, and they will still exist after the land is sold.

Regarding the claim that all this forestry will be suddenly felled to make way for holiday villages, that is absurd. A vast amount of legislation governs what you can and can't do with private land, including felling trees. You need a licence to chop down trees in a forestry context and even if a licence is issued it will be subject to conditions, such as replanting. In the case of mature deciduous woodland in many cases you wouldn't be able to touch it except for maintenance purposes. Building holiday villages is subject to planning permission, and people have opportunity to object as part of the process. For particularly sensitive areas local planning guidelines will mean it just won't happen anyway.

Looking at this objectively, selling off the land is likely to make woodland areas more accessible to urban dwellers as private enterprise will find income from recreational based activities useful in addition to the commercial forestry side of things.

I'll add that the government could also introduce a restrictive covenant with the sale to prevent future use for anything apart from forestry. In many cases I expect this would occur.

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