MP’s are not paid enough to stop them having 2nd jobs which might prejudice their voting behaviour and views. Energy companies are allowed to make bigger profits ‘than they know what to do with’ rather than take a windfall tax to relieve energy poverty. Rights to protest are being curtailed, voting RIGHTS compromised by new rules on eligibility. Rights of way may be extinguished in 2024.
92% of the UK is an exclusion zone for the public. Shooting rights are maintained despite the slaughter of birds of prey. Walls built in the past centuries following Acts of Enclosure (which excluded and cancelled the rights of the common man (women did not get rights for centuries)) are still excluding people from the private pleasure hectares of the rich and titled. Here I am not talking about working farms and their regulated rights of way, but the swathes of the country managed for an elite few. Some generate jobs and benefit the economy through the slaughter of birds, many are just exclusively for the enjoyment of the few. Some charge entry fees for access to parklands. I am sure that some of the money goes to pay for litter picking, etc. – but maybe it is time to restore some areas to general public access. The environment desperately needs areas to counter intensive farming. Is it time to create a Nationalised National Trust type organisation to manage our countryside?