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Kevin Cahill's book Who Owns Britain sets out the figures pretty starkly: the UK is 60m acres in extent, and two-thirds of it is owned by 0.36% of the population, or 158,000 families. A staggering 24m families live on the 3m acres of the nation's "urban plot" – and not surprisingly buy into the idea that Britain is a severely overcrowded country in which land is extremely scarce.
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It's not even that.
Look at land ownership. Our house prices are insane, and enslave those who aren't in the top n% of jobs, because so much of it is still owned by landed gentry.
What century do we live in? Every other European country solved this long ago.
I was in Dorset recently for a wedding and was talking to a local guy about this, and he mentioned a startling fact, Dorset... the county, is predominantly owned by 3 families. Three!
We can dress it up however we like, we can call it whatever anyone wants, but when the numbers are on paper the majority of the wealth is still owned by a tiny % of people, just like it always has been. Those people are not harmed over the years by whoever is in government, and they do not suffer in austerity or hard times.
Most importantly, as time goes by those people get richer, and the progressions made between the start of the industrial revolution and the 1960s are slowly being put in reverse.
Social inequality in the UK is terrible, amongst the worst in Europe if not the worst.
Brexit wasn't about this, and doesn't correct this. It's a UK thing, and the only thing Brexit does is allow this situation to further perpetuate as the EU were a force against social inequality (a slow, lumbering, blunt force... but a force nonetheless).