Britain: Council to Force Family Living On Their Own Land and Growing Their Own Food to Live in State Housing and Become Dole Recipients
June 30th, 2011Madness.
Via: This is Devon:
A COUPLE living an “off-grid” lifestyle say they face prison unless they move from their own land in Willand and return to an existence in the benefits trap.
Stig and Dinah Mason bought Muxbeare Orchard after a sudden windfall allowed them to quit their impoverished lives on a Hertfordshire council estate two years ago.
The Masons have transformed what they described as a derelict four-acre plot into a haven of self-sufficiency boasting a 400 sq m allotment, a polytunnel and greenhouses to grow fruit and vegetables, chickens for egg production and an orchard they have regenerated by planting around 14 new apple trees of various species.
The couple, who have two boys, aged eight and nine, say because they moved onto the site in order to work the land, Mid Devon District Council is turfing them off as officers do not consider them to be conserving an agricultural area.
They faced magistrates on March 31 when they were served with an injunction to leave within 28 days from June 1.
Research Credit: tochigi
i thought it was so over the top it could be a spoof. but no, the Mid Devon Council don’t appear to have heard of The Onion.
http://www.middevon.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=8146
(scroll down to “163 THE ENFORCEMENT LIST”)
the UK is FCUKed.
Why don’t the government mind their own damn business and quit meddling in private affairs. It sounds like they want to control everybody and make them dependant on the government for their living. Welcome to the nanny state people. There is way too much government in Britain and other western nations. These bureaucrats have to justify their jobs by telling everybody what to do all the time.
Yeah, while if they stuck to telling the bankers to stop raping us and the agricultural industry to stop poisoning us (oh, and themselves to stop spying on us) we could sort the rest of it out just fine, thank you.