The Shocking truth about Who REALLY Owns England?

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1. We are not historians. We enjoy researching and learning, and with that we enjoy sharing our journeys with you. That said, sources for information often listed below with credits.
2. Errors. Whilst we make every attempt to not include any errors, research, and piecing stories together from dozens of sources sometimes leads to one or two. I will note here if any are found:

A: Someone has recently commented and suggested the following: "Hey Paul, very interesting video. One thing was quite problematic for me though.... Were you aware that you talk a lot about men as farmers and land owners rather than recognising other genders that may have these roles? Would love you to reduce gendering of land owners and farmers. There is a negative impact to many by calling all farmers are men and all land owners and men. Would you reflect on that?"

My reply as follows: "Hey. First and foremost, thanks for understanding what this video was about and not assuming like many have, that I am having a go at the "Farmer". You are of course 100% right, I think when I am trying to rush things along in the filming, and edit, I tend to revert to whatever flies out of my brain. I completely agree with you, I should have worded some sentences in this video better for that reason. I will add a note to the description to acknowledge this."

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Filter: Snowman Digital and Beachfront
B-Roll Maps: Google Maps and Google Earth Studio
Maps: National Library of Scotland Maps:
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Stock Footage: Storyblocks
Music: Storyblocks

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Chapters:

00:00 - Intro
00:46 - The Problem
03:10 - The Divide
04:25 - How Guy Started
06:00 - Highways Clause
07:20 - Subsidies
08:30 - How Owns England?
10:06 - The Stats
11:01 - Wish List
13:20 - Outtakes

[vkdrk]

In Slovakia, there is a website, very similar to Google maps, where you can zoom in and see who owns the land. Every single square metre of land in the country, all buildings, forests, roads, rivers, creeks, lakes, anything you can imagine... and everyone has access to it (free of charge). You can see who owns the land, when they got it, and how they got it (purchased, inherited, gifted, etc) and their current address in case you need to contact them. There is no inheritance tax in Slovakia (it's illegal because it's considered as double taxation), so the ownership of land is changing regularly and they also update the data regularly on that website. I think it's great to be able to check who owns land around you.
Slovaks love having access to this kind of data online. You can even check how much your local council spent on toilet paper or pens last month because they have to publish all invoices online when they spend your tax money 😂

[gibbson]

In my younger days i did a brief bit of volunteering with a wildlife charity. They used to send gangs of us out to these big estates and have us do work for them under some guise of something fluffy like "creating a wild flower meadow" even though we were destroying nature and habitats.

I just found it all hard to swallow, and one day there was a woodland manager from the actual estate we were working on there, i started asking some questions and he took me aside out of earshot of everyone else and told me everything. How the land we worked were all owned by landed gentry and aristocrats, including his boss who lived overseas, how what we were doing was essentially useless, a free workforce that enabled him to apply for millions in subsidies for the landowner from the EU and UK govs and even how the CEO of the charity was "one of them" and it was all one big money making scam. Really opened my eyes as a young man what really goes on in this country.

"It's a big club and you're not in it"

[rayganter]

A poem from the 18th century reads as a protest of the inclosure acts:
They hang the man and flog the woman
Who steals the goose from off the common
Yet let the greater villain loose
That steals the common from the goose
The law demands that we atone
When we take things we do not own
But leaves the lords and ladies fine
Who take things that are yours and mine
The poor and wretched don't escape
If they conspire the law to break
This must be so but they endure
Those who conspire to make the law
The law locks up the man or woman
Who steals the goose from off the common
And geese will still a common lack
Till they go and steal it back

[dghtr_]

the real question is why offshores are even legal anywhere? because it is straight up legalized theft of taxes, there is no other way of looking at it, there are countless and countless businesses who do business in country X and never ever pay a penny of income tax in said country even though they extracted wealth from that country

[bartoszbrown]

As a polish guy, I've always found it strange and mysterious how the farming fields are 'fenced off'
we don't really see that in Poland, so if you live in a village, it is normal to be able to access footpaths between privately owned farming land.

[zlamanit]

We pay thousands in council tax for small parcels of land. Imagine how much tax these large landowners must pay... NOT!

[robedmundsvid]

Using holding companies to register land sounds like one almighty tax dodge to me.

[GrahamWalters]

The experience in my family is that most farmers do not own the lad they farm, My grandfather was a tenant farmer on the Foley estate, my Uncle was as a tenant farmer as well, when my Uncle eventualy retired my cousin took over the farm, house and and stock. His farm forms part of the massive Clive estate in Herefordshire.

[umaspencer]

"Who Owns England?" I'll be purchasing the book to support the cause. Thank you for enlightening us!

[alphatoomegabeyondthematri]

Very strange I bought 5 acres of land in Wales so excited I spent my first night on it in my car. The next morning a man came to the gate wanting to be friendly I went up thought it was local farmer as I reported a stuck sheep to a neighbour who owned a large house. Anyway he was a Council Enforcement officer and wanted to check their was no caravan on the land I said no I had only just bought the land. I let him in to see and then he went on to say you're not allowed to live on the land and went on and on. Remember I had only stayed on my own bought land 1 night.
How did he find out so fast and why did he come out in one night? Very fishy when you write to the Government and it took them 1 month to respond with on sentence re being land. So you see these large estates unaccountable. I would be happy to see responsible people I can choose to allow to go onto my land alas public liability will be a bit of a issue but I want to vet people due to certain people are not responsible and can be very nasty. Normal British people fine or any who respect the environment but there is a whole section of our country now who do not respect any British people or anything British, let alone the land. I want to farm the land as forest horticulture I've planted many trees I also want to introduce with rare breeds animals. However the hoops one has to jump through for anything to cut a tree permit which costs, put a polly tunnel on permit costs also waiting for response you name it all money gabs. I will not get grants all have rules that make no sense at all. Like tree grant require a huge number of trees in a small area which is not good for the environment. My God it is enough to give one a heart attack and I struggling to find somewhere to live hopefully now found a place to live cross fingers only taken me 3 years. Only allowed to stay on my land 28 days so doing anything is useless 28 days does not mean you can manage land you need to observe wilds flowers habitat damp spots light levels etc Try doing that in 28 days. I do actually believe small permaculture properties would across the country managed well live on would be great for wildlife and can feed the population. We are heading for a huge famine yet every obstacle is put int he way of producing food yes it is on purpose they want depopulation so let's starve the public.

[spitfire]

“We live in a Democracy” If you believe that then you need to look into it further.

[chrisrand]

I used to work for a Local Authority and we spent years trying to trace the owner of a parcel of unregistered land, including posting site notices, notices in the London Gazette and asking members of the local community, but to no avail. One day a family of Travellers set up camp on and adjacent parcel of abandoned highway. Within 24 hours we knew who the landowner was when they demanded that we evict the Travellers.
Postscript: we allowed the Travellers to stay for a set period and charged them for waste collection. They left the site as agreed and in a better state than they had found it.

[BIBIWCICC]

A simple way around this is to make all foreign owned land accessible to the public. If you don’t pay tax in the UK on your land then you don’t get the same rights as someone who does. This will also act as a tax avoidance deterrent and benefit the British public.

[minimal]

While others have left this behind, the UK has largely remained a feudal society.

[nicklovell]

For those who think they own their own home look at your deeds, the clue is at the top, Tenant free from rent. You own the right to live there for free unless they ie the crown needs it, wants it or you’ve done something wrong. Before anyone says I’m wrong look up Allodial title and understand the Uk

[lancewalker]

I agree with what you say about companies that own land here should pay tax here. I would expand that to companies that earn any revenue here should not be allowed to move their profits off-shore and avoid tax. They should pay their taxes here. That should also apply to Trusts and inheritance tax.

[BinkySocks]

Never had a clue. It’s rather disheartening that citizens only own 5% of all the land. Thanks for a great video 👍

[marcinsobczak]

I live in the ROI and, with all due respect, I feel like a rat in a maze. everything is private, fenced off and inaccessible. only public roads are so narrow that there isn't even a one place during a long car trip to pull over and take a piss, not to mention go for a walk. My family who visit me sometimes are amazed that there is nowhere to go except in a car, kids say there is nowhere to play outside except narrow sidewalk next to the busy street in the estate. to go cycling or walk the dog I have to get in a car and drive there first for miles. truly depressing place to be

[KamilSkalny]

People of Great Britain slowly realising that this is not their country.

[HumunculousInPants]

There's a place called Tusmore Park that is currently owned by Wafic Saiid who is a Middle Eastern arms dealer and fraudster. He bought it from the Royal family and immediately erected a monument dedicated to the Queen. It's my suspicion that this monument was his act of faith showing that he will eventually return ownership to the royal family. So, essentially the royal family is laundering money earned from selling the weapons that kill British soldiers by "selling" these properties. Think about it, they have absolutely no need to sell it. Either they wanted this arms dealing fraudster to live in England so badly that they willingly cut off their own estate to give to him (and if that's the case, then why?) or there is something else going on. Either way, someone should look into it.