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Dribble you are a clueless ****wit.

More Rogerness. Roger, I didn't write it,
George Orwell did. He is famous,
you probably don't know that.

And when he finally saw the light
he wrote Animal Farm.

He wrote that at the same time.

With his right hand while penning the item you quoted with his left?
Inherently unlikely. Animal Farm was published in 1945. What was the
date of your quote? It has the ring of a young and naive writer.

Except for the
few surviving commons, the high roads,
the lands of the National Trust, a certain
number of parks, and the sea shore below
high-tide mark, every square inch of England
is 'owned' by a few thousand families.

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B.Liar was wrong.

Roger, George Orwell wrote it.
It says up there. A few lines up.

So you don't know who George Orwell
was. No surprise there.

Rogerness again. Roger, you think George Orwell told lies. You told us.

The quote above was certainly untrue in the 1930s which is when I assume
he wrote it. It would probably have been untrue if he had been writing
about the situation 100 or more years earlier.

BTW George Orwell was just a pen name. His real name was Eric Arthur
Blair, hence the B. Liar tag.

He might have been right about the
enclosure acts

Oh he was.

but today (and indeed when B.Liar
was writing) most landowners acquired
their property legally.

I snipped most of what he wrote but

Roger, you should read and understand Mr Orwell. Read it all again 20
times
please.

Rogerness again. Orwell says up there.
"They simply seized it by force,
afterwards hiring lawyers to provide
them with title-deeds."

Probably referring to the Normans.

More Rogerness. Appalling. Roger he gave the dates. Please read again 20
times.

Not of any seizures. He quoted dates for the Enclosure Acts which were
by definition legal.

The enclosure acts were, as the name
suggests, Acts of Parliament. No
force required, just a nod and a wink
to friends in high places.

Yes Roger, appalling we all know. As George says, theft is theft.

All entirely legal.

I am however prepared to admit one small
exception. You lay claim to 2 properties
which no doubt you stole from
their rightful owners.

No I bought them. I did not "seized them
by force, afterwards hiring
lawyers to provide them with title-deeds".

You are just as much a landowner as
those whom Orwell castigated.
Property is theft to some people even today.

NO Roger. I take no rent for land.

Property *is* theft to most communists.

And by occupying 2 properties you are doing your bit to push up property
prices unnecessarily.

--
Roger Chapman