The Archive · 1925

A Utopian Land Scheme

Meantime Lloyd George has come out with his new Land Programme which will not work at all. He urges State cultivation and the elimination of the landlord on a system of permanent annuities based on fair rents and a species of cultiv No one connected with the land wi ave anything to do with the idea, since after all the tendency both here ard elsewhere is in favour of, ownership, and the last thing any-tone wants is the supervision of a State official telling the landed interest how to run things. Lead-have come out and Panacea is wort than the-disease and will kill Liberal chances in the rural areas, fact, I still see no chance of any. Liberal revival, The Conservatives

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