Max Wiszniewski is Campaign Manager for REVIVE , the coalition for grouse moor reform. He’s written a comment piece for today’s edition of the National , discussing the current SNP leadership race which Max thinks is a perfect opportunity to tackle land (and grouse moor) reform. His article is reproduced below: THE leadership election for the Scottish National Party, the party of government, could literally change the face of Scotland. Scotland will soon have a new first minister at a time when land reform and grouse moor reform is high up on the political agenda. Parliamentary bills on both are due in the not-too-distant future and real reform remains popular with both the public and particularly within the membership of the SNP. After more than two decades since we established the Scottish Parliament, our nation still has the most inequitable land ownership in the developed world. Members of the SNP may be familiar with the figure that around 432 families own more than half of Scotland’s private land. There has been important, albeit very limited, progress in diversifying land ownership in recent years but new leadership at the top level is Scotland’s opportunity to really go for it. Grouse […]
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