Stealing From The Common People .

[cuttsie 1,090]

The Grand old Duke of Norfolk is to get two and a half million quid for land at Attercliffe stolen from us a few hundred years ago . 

 

The law locks up the man or woman that stole a Goose from  on the Attercliffe Common .

But lets the greater villain loose that stole the Common from the Goose .

Edited April 30, 2022 by cuttsie

[Tipstaff 159]

How was the land stolen?

[PRESLEY 1,228]

30 minutes ago, Tipstaff said:

How was the land stolen?

Nobility equals power, The Royals are the worse culprits, bullies, we need another Oliver Cromwell type to bring this lot to justice, the French got it right and so did the Americans.

[Tipstaff 159]

2 minutes ago, PRESLEY said:

Nobility equals power, The Royals are the worse culprits, bullies, we need another Oliver Cromwell type to bring this lot to justice, the French got it right and so did the Americans.

It doesn’t answer my question though……

[PRESLEY 1,228]

10 minutes ago, Tipstaff said:

It doesn’t answer my question though……

Your correct,  just fed up that lot, over centuries getting away with things.

[melthebell 863]

That's how power, lands, royalty work...they take it by force

[Annie Bynnol 612]

In a town I know well the local slave owning Baron in his Castle applied in person to Queen Victoria to take all mineral rights away from landowners and to take all land not claimed or in dispute. She enabled the Act despite legal representation to her. The alcoholic Baron closed all pubs on his acquired land. 

All the pubs in the town are on a strip of land which was missed in the Act, between the river and the main road.

[carosio 186]

3 hours ago, PRESLEY said:

Nobility equals power, The Royals are the worse culprits, bullies, we need another Oliver Cromwell type to bring this lot to justice, the French got it right and so did the Americans.

Yes, although the Red Indians might have a slightly different view.  Getting rid of the monarchy didn't stop the French invading other countries and building an empire.

[El Cid 218]

5 hours ago, cuttsie said:

The Grand old Duke of Norfolk is to get two and a half million quid for land at Attercliffe stolen from us a few hundred years ago . 

Laws should not be enforced 50+ years afterwards.

If you believe it should, will you be supporting reparations for the slave trade?

[Tipstaff 159]

3 hours ago, CaptainSwing said:

See "Attercliffe & Darnall Inclosures" here:

 

https://www.sheffieldindexers.com/Memories/CherishedMemories_InclosureAwards.htm

 

Background about enclosures in general here:

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure

 

A bit more about the rhyme that @cuttsie quoted here:

 

https://www.onthecommons.org/magazine/“stealing-common-goose”

My thanks to you for this. 👍 

Well, it appears that the land wasn’t ‘stolen’ at all but acquired lawfully in 1810 by the Duke of Norfolk, who was Lord of the Manor. 
 

[Anna B 1,414]

14 hours ago, PRESLEY said:

Nobility equals power, The Royals are the worse culprits, bullies, we need another Oliver Cromwell type to bring this lot to justice, the French got it right and so did the Americans.

One of the problems with this country is that for obvious reasons some laws remain in situ long after they have outlived their relevance. In a country run by rich people, for rich people, it's easy to fall back on tradition and heritage as a reason for keeping things the same 'because it's always been done that way...' 

You're right - we need a (bloodless) revolution to sweep away the cobwebs and keep history where it belongs - in the past.

 

In Britain we've made an art form of living in the past, as if that's some good thing.  It's not.

[Tipstaff 159]

Well, there’s a few revolutionary types on here!? How would your revolt manifest go then? ……