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Episode #134 - Land Reform Now The Common Weal Policy Podcast
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Episode 134 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast
You can download the episode directly here.
This week, Craig talks to Simon Brooke a land activist, smallhold farmer and previous guest of the podcast when he talked about his experience self-building his home. They discuss the Scottish Government's new Land Reform Bill and the public consultation that is being held to inform it. We encourage everyone to submit their thoughts to this consultation, even if you only answer a single question.
If you would like to join Common Weal's Campaign Centre to get help writing a response or to talk to other activists about their responses, you can join here.
Simon's article on repopulating Scotland with quarter of a million crofts can be read here.
And his provocation on an exponential land tax here.
You can find out more about the Scottish Government's public meetings on land reform here.
And you can submit your own response to the consultation here.
Common Weal's work is only possible thanks to our generous supporters who regularly donate an average of £10 per month. If you would like to help us build our vision of an All of Us First Scotland, you can do so here: https://commonweal.scot/product-category/support-us/
The Policy Podcast would like to discuss all of Common Weal's policy papers in detail as well as other major policy stories in and around Scotland so if there are any topics that you would like to see covered or if you have an interesting policy story to tell and would like to be a guest on the show, please contact Craig at craig@common.scot
You can also find us on iTunes, Spotify, Castbox, Stitcher, Tunein, iHeart Radio and other major podcast aggregators.
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"Hiding Your Reality" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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Support the show
Episode 134 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast
You can download the episode directly here.
This week, Craig talks to Simon Brooke a land activist, smallhold farmer and previous guest of the podcast when he talked about his experience self-building his home. They discuss the Scottish Government's new Land Reform Bill and the public consultation that is being held to inform it. We encourage everyone to submit their thoughts to this consultation, even if you only answer a single question.
If you would like to join Common Weal's Campaign Centre to get help writing a response or to talk to other activists about their responses, you can join here.
Simon's article on repopulating Scotland with quarter of a million crofts can be read here.
And his provocation on an exponential land tax here.
You can find out more about the Scottish Government's public meetings on land reform here.
And you can submit your own response to the consultation here.
Common Weal's work is only possible thanks to our generous supporters who regularly donate an average of £10 per month. If you would like to help us build our vision of an All of Us First Scotland, you can do so here: https://commonweal.scot/product-category/support-us/
The Policy Podcast would like to discuss all of Common Weal's policy papers in detail as well as other major policy stories in and around Scotland so if there are any topics that you would like to see covered or if you have an interesting policy story to tell and would like to be a guest on the show, please contact Craig at craig@common.scot
You can also find us on iTunes, Spotify, Castbox, Stitcher, Tunein, iHeart Radio and other major podcast aggregators.
You can also add the podcast to your RSS feed using this link: https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/264906.rss
Theme
"Hiding Your Reality" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Support the show
47 min