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David Cameron's father in law offers to adopt a 'Rob Roy' style Scottish accent to stop 'Mugabe-styl
David Cameron's father in law offers to adopt a 'Rob Roy' style Scottish accent to stop 'Mugabe-style landgrab' by SNP
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/david-cameron/11619189/David-Camerons-father-in-law-offers-to-adopt-a-Rob-Roy-style-Scottish-accent-to-stop-Mugabe-style-landgrab-by-SNP.html
Viscount Astor, writing in this week’s edition of The Spectator magazine, said he was worried the SNP was planning land reforms to take away estates from large landowners north of the Border
David Cameron’s father-in-law has said he may have to put on a “Rob Roy-style Scottish accent” to stop the Scottish National Party launching a “Mugabe-style” raid on his family’s estate in Scotland.
Viscount Astor, writing in this week’s edition of The Spectator magazine, said he was worried the SNP was planning land reforms to take away estates from large landowners north of the Border.
The concerns had worsened after the general election when the SNP won 56 out of 59 seats in Scotland.
The SNP manifesto promised “to ensure Scotland’s land reform debate focuses on how Scotland’s land can be best managed in the public interest to ensure it is of benefit to all of the people of Scotland”.
His comments emerged the day after the Telegraph disclosed how the SNP minister in charge of the plans warned landowners’ rights to use their property as they wish are to be watered down for the public good.
Aileen McLeod, the Scottish Land Reform Minister, told a conference in Edinburgh that the “core of my approach” is to shift the balance of the law so that the “public interest” is given greater precedence at the expense of “individual’s rights.”
David Cameron’s father-in-law has said he may have to put on a “Rob Roy-style Scottish accent” to stop the Scottish National Party launching a “Mugabe-style” raid on his family’s estate in Scotland.
Viscount Astor, writing in this week’s edition of The Spectator magazine, said he was worried the SNP was planning land reforms to take away estates from large landowners north of the Border.
The concerns had worsened after the general election when the SNP won 56 out of 59 seats in Scotland.
The SNP manifesto promised “to ensure Scotland’s land reform debate focuses on how Scotland’s land can be best managed in the public interest to ensure it is of benefit to all of the people of Scotland”.
His comments emerged the day after the Telegraph disclosed how the SNP minister in charge of the plans warned landowners’ rights to use their property as they wish are to be watered down for the public good.
Aileen McLeod, the Scottish Land Reform Minister, told a conference in Edinburgh that the “core of my approach” is to shift the balance of the law so that the “public interest” is given greater precedence at the expense of “individual’s rights.”
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