7 Replies to “Good news!”

  1. Is this not for the smaller amount of land? Still awaiting a miracle donation in the next couple of days for the whole purchase?

    1. Exactly Paul, assuming there is no miracle forthcoming, can somebody make clear exactly how
      much land will be taken out of grouse production, how much will it cost, and were some of the
      larger donations pledged, on the understanding that the full acreage would be secured ?.

      1. Do so agree Spaghnum. It sticks in my gullet too to hand over all that money to someone who already has certainly millions and probably billions. The land ownership in this country is still in the feudal times. and this desperately needs to be rectified. Anyway, that is not to say the Langholm project should not be congratulated and have all best wishes . It is the system that is grossly wrong and unfair, nationalisation or heavy taxation would seem to be the only way ahead.

  2. Is it good news, that people will be handing all that money to the previous owner Buccleuch estates to use as they will? Where do we think they fall on the good-to-bad spectrum? Will they just use the cash to prop up driven grouse shooting for even longer?

    1. m parry – yes, that’s what buyng entails, giving someone money to get something. It’s not a new idea. maybe we should not pay people salaries unless we can be sure that they will spend them on what we want.

      1. After a bit of hesitation myself for similiar reasons as m. parry outlines above, I did throw in a few quid and I do fully support it. But by God it does stick in my throat to be giving them (Buccleuch) all that money and an easy escape for land that was never theirs. We cannot buy it all up from the likes of the Roxburghs, Percys, Grosvenors and other aristocratic parasites. Sooner or later it must all be nationalised in some form in any case. But thinking positively, let the ‘new Langholm’ become a model for what an exploited landscape can be evolved into.

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