[Diggers350] Save the Land Registry!

[greenwomble]

Not the way to start a conversation in which you hope to engage with anyone else really this is it"green womble" All rather self indulgent
 Not surprising you don't want to use your real name
 Hiding behind anonymity 
 Rather a coward
 (ed.)
 
 Are you mad? The rulers registry? Let's be a commons not a hierarchy. Winstanley was for the likes of me at the bottom of any pecking order he was for the people and the commons not the awful pecking order.  Let's have common land. Let's have homes not houses.
 
 On 30 Dec 2015 19:56, "Mark Brown mark at tlio.org.uk mailto:mark at tlio.org.uk [Diggers350]" <Diggers350-noreply at yahoogroups.com mailto:Diggers350-noreply at yahoogroups.com> wrote:
   Save the Land Registry!
 A united campaign against the proposed plans to privatise the Land Registry
 https://www.facebook.com/savethelandregistry/ https://www.facebook.com/savethelandregistry/
 
 So far over 12,500 people have signed the petition! 
 https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/stop-privatisation-of-the-land-registry https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/stop-privatisation-of-the-land-registry
 
 Osborne revives plans to privatise Land Registry as The Great British Sell-Off
 continues
 
 On Wednesday 25th November, chancellor George Osborne delivered the spending
 review.
 
  Comment: Hidden away in the spending review - a plan to sell off Britain's
 assets
 Ref:
 http://www.politics.co.uk/comment-analysis/2015/11/27/comment-hidden-away-in-the-spending-review-a-plan-to-sell-of http://www.politics.co.uk/comment-analysis/2015/11/27/comment-hidden-away-in-the-spending-review-a-plan-to-sell-of
  He spoke in parliament for an hour and a half. In all that time he barely
 mentioned assets. But when you dig down into the spending review documents,
 assets are mentioned a lot. And it's all about disposing of them.
 
 Although he didn't draw attention to it, Osborne's plans to run a surplus this
 year rely on his decision to sell off our assets. As the Office for Budget
 Responsibility puts it: "As in July, asset sales make the difference between
 debt rising and falling as a share of GDP in 2015-16."
 
 Land Registry
 
 The spending review announced that the government wants to privatise the Land
 Registry from 2017. Plans to sell-off the Land Registry by the last coalition
 government were thwarted in July 2014 after a successful campaign opposing the
 change from a wide spectrum of interest groups from lawyers, solicitors to land
 registry staff appeared to persuade the former Business Secretary Vince Cable to
 do a U turn. 
 
 The Land Registry has a 98% customer satisfaction rate, doesn't cost taxpayers a
 penny and has returned money to the Treasury in 19 of the last 20 years. If it
 is privatised, this may threaten its neutrality, drive up the cost of buying a
 house and the use of its service and force small, local high-street solicitors
 out of business. 
 Sign the Petition against privatisation:
 https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/stop-privatisation-of-the-land-registry https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/stop-privatisation-of-the-land-registry
 
 Ordnance Survey
 
 The spending review also reveals plans to "develop options to bring private
 capital into the Ordnance Survey before 2020". We don’t know yet if that means
 an equity sale or new private partnerships. Ordnance Survey makes £32 million
 profit a year for the public purse. Its data has saved the government tens of
 millions of pounds, and underpins an estimated £100 billion of the UK economy.
 Ordnance Survey is a much-loved public institution at the cutting edge of data
 technology and it needs to stay that way.
 
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 The following is taken from http://weownit.org.uk/evidence/land-registry http://weownit.org.uk/evidence/land-registry
 
 If you've ever bought a house, it was the Land Registry that documented your
 ownership rights. The Land Registry has been recording the ownership of land and
 property in England and Wales since 1862. It doesn’t cost taxpayers a penny and
 has returned money to the Treasury in 19 of the last 20 years, while continuing
 to reduce its fees.
 
 The Land Registry has more than 24 million titles providing proof of ownership.
 Easy-to-read documents explaining the paper title deeds are also provided. This
 makes life easier and simpler for everyone involved in buying and selling
 property. Independent civil servants make sure every entry on the register is
 correct. They also produce data on house prices and transactions which is used
 by the government to make policy decisions.
 
 The Land Registry has a 98% customer satisfaction rate
 Last year it made £8.5 million profit for the public purse
 It gave nearly £100 million back to the government in 2013
 The Land Registry underpins the guarantee of title of £3 trillion of property
 It shares experience in developing a world class land registration system with
 other countries
 The Land Registry has consistently been spoken about as being at risk
 of privatisation. Last year it was close to being privatised but the sale
 was vetoed by Vince Cable, after a campaign by a range of groups, including high
 street lawyers and solicitors who use the Land Registry the most. 
 
 But while that campaign was successful there is reason to believe it will once
 again be considered once the government has sold financial assets like RBS and
 Lloyds. George Osborne united the UK Financial Investments (UKFI) and the
 Shareholder Executive in a new body called UK Government Investments (UKGI) soon
 after the general election in May 2015. UKGI is designed solely to sell public
 assets. 
 
 If the Land Registry is privatised, this may drive up the cost of buying
 a house, force small, local high-street solicitors out of business and threaten
 the stability of the housing market. 
 
 George Osborne plans to sell off £31 billion of public assets this year in the
 largest privatisation ever. His plans don't include the Land Registry at the
 moment - let's make sure they never do. Sign the Top Trumps petition to keep the
 Land Registry public.
 http://weownit.org.uk/take-action/dont-sell-our-top-trumps http://weownit.org.uk/take-action/dont-sell-our-top-trumps
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