campaign for peoples assembly

[james armstrong]

I think the time is ripe for this.
A PEOPLES ASSEMBLY INCORPORATES PROTECTION OF THE LAND INTO THE CONSTITUTION
Exploitation of people by means of the  land is long  established in history 
The heir to the monarchy is perhaps to-day ,the biggest personal  
beneficiary of  building several thousand houses (why?) on  land he 
monopolises at Poundbury in Dorset.  C.A.P. subsidies,   Tithes, Enclosures, 
the Royal land grab ('Dissolution of the monasteries' ), the Charles's 
Forest Laws, the Abbey lands, the manorial system, even '1066' are past 
examples. The new 'Housing  Monopoly Game' is only the current version.  The 
land barons institutionalised their holdings into the constitution  as the 
'House of Lords'. Also  until late nineteenth century,   membership of House 
  of Commons  and even the right to vote was confined to landowners. The 
monarchy is or was the biggest landowner-  'History' itself as it justifies 
the Duchy of Cornwall's ownership of 137,000 acres by what ?  a grant of 
land in 1337,  is currently being subverted to the monopoly cause.
"I have said before  how much I admire the foresight of Edward lll
And the structure put in place  when he created the Duchy of Cornwall  in 
1337.  The longer I work for the Duchy the more my admiration grows , 
because the structure has so well achieved its primary aim  of maintaining 
and developing an estate which fully reflects the Duke of Cornwall's 
wishes."
              ….quotation from the Secretary's Report, The Duchy Review,  
2002
Mr W A Ross , above, fails to note that such a 'structure' would be illegal 
to-day since it involved the transfer of rights over the lives and labour of 
  the occupants .   It fails also to note the genocide  only nine years 
previously when  the people of southern Scotland had been ravaged by the 
same king's armies .
ALL THREE ESTATES OF GOVERNMENT HAVE A TRADITION OF EXPLOITING PEOPLE BY 
MEANS OF THE LAND AND THEN INSTITUTIONALISING THIS WITHIN THE STRUCTURE OF  
GOVERNMENT
It is suggested here that constitutional reform is the basis of land reform. 
Campaigning for a Peoples' Assembly is campaigning for land reform and 
campaigning for reform of the insane housing market, campaigning for 
democracy and  campaigning for sanity.
  The 1947 Town  &Country  Planning Act  was subsequently subverted by 
landowners who lost the right to develop but retained the sole right to 
apply for development and were paid then in £millions for the 'lost' 
privilege and now sell the land with p.p. at £1.25million an acre!
      The House of Lords cemented this exploitation within  the 
constitution. It is therefore appropriate now to  safeguard the land from 
future exploitation by replacing the House of Lords by the Assembly of the
People, charged  for ever  with safeguarding  people from being exploited by 
means of land ownership -especially  building land ownership-monopoly  
---which certainly has more authenticity in a democracy
J Armstrong               23 May 2007

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