COMES AROUND EVERY BLOODY YEAR THE INGLORIOUS TWELFTH OF AUGUST
As we approach the day that I historically remember by watching BBC TV as ‘the glorious twelfth’ as it was shown on the traditional news at six o’clock and at ten. It was depicted in such a way that the tradition seemed normal and how it was imbedded into the minds of the nation. That’s how it was then in a society divided by class but questions have always been asked and those questions continue. Legal Justice, other organisations, groups of people and individuals like myself are challenging this concept of tradition and the right of individuals to do what they want because they can.
The current concept of National Parks is anything but ‘national’. They are owned not by us but by, in many cases, because the Norman Kings gave our land away to their. I won’t go on because there are some excellent books out there as to who owns Britain. For example, ‘Who Own England’ by Guy Shrubsole and ‘The Lines That Divide Us’ by Nick Hayes.
Today’s Times carries a piece on the traditional ceremony of greeting Her Majesty The Queen to Balmoral. Ridiculous in the context that she has been staying close by at Craigowan Lodge for two weeks. Just a small house of seven bedrooms, but then there will be guests.
The paper says ‘While there are traditional pursuits on offer, including grouse shooting and deer stalking, work will continue as normal for The Queen’. How wonderful! There you go it is official. People can go out put toxic lead shot into the sky and into a ‘flying-for-life’ Red Grouse because they are invited to do so. That will not be for you and I but only for the invited guests.
In an age when National Parks are not ‘common land’ but owned by a few we have the royal estates, it is said, owned by the monarchy. Prince Charles may want to slim down the numbers considered as ‘royals’ then he should also consider distancing himself from who can do what on what I maintain is our land. It seems that Feudality remains!
We’ll wait to see how the media cover this toxic event of the inglorious twelfth. I will be watching and listening.
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