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An entire village in Dorset is facing eviction – proof that private money holds all the power in rural England

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An entire village in Dorset is facing eviction – proof that private money holds all the power in rural England | George Monbiot

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One person has been evicted already, to make way for an estate office. When she complained about her treatment on social media, the first reply stated, without a shred of evidence: “You’re being evicted so that young fighting age male refugees, who are escaping war in France, can have somewhere safe to live, who, as far as our government is concerned, have priority over you … VOTE REFORM!” That’s how divide and rule works: never mind the anonymous plutocrat evicting her, the true culprits, somehow, are asylum seekers.
We are lectured by rightwing parties and the rightwing media about the need for “integration”. But that word is used only as a weapon against immigrants. It is not they who rip communities apart, tear people from their homes and shut us out of the land, causing social disintegration. It is the power of money.
But look, a spider! The cosmopolitan city, swarming with immigrants and trans people, is coming to get you! It will terminate the traditions country people love and impose its own culture instead. It is drummed into our heads that what rural people want is different to what the oppressive urbanites desire. But it’s not true.
I love the (much needed) snark here
Join the club, our communities have never recovered from it, but the lords made plenty of money
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_Clearances
- Chiming in from Wales, where Tryweryn valley was flooded to provide Liverpool with water. We are still suffering from the over a thousand years of English attempts to remove of our language and culture. Due to a huge effort from Welsh speakers, our language did survive and is recovering, at least
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tryweryn_flooding
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_Not
“You’re being evicted so that young fighting age male refugees"
We need those, right? Not those plebs hanging about town.
"who are escaping war in France"
War, in France 🤔
"can have somewhere safe to live, who, as far as our government is concerned, have priority over you … VOTE REFORM!”
Em, no? It's not safe in most parts of the UK and what we need is the police and councils enforcing them not some nutjobs who thinks there's a war in France right now.
- The article is quoting a ridiculous comment someone left and exposing how it's stupid.
  However, that comment itself was a parody
  I think the "war in France" thing is an argument that the illegal immigrants coming across in boats from France are abusing the asylum system to pick and choose what country they end up in, instead of actually seeking safety. As if you were seeking safety, you wouldn't have an issue being in france.
Is it proof though? Or is it a rare circumstance of a village being owned by a single landowner?

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