The Government has been warned that if it tries to push through its plans to privatise the Land Registry, it will face a huge new protest.
Yesterday, campaign group 38 Degrees scented victory. It said that if the Government formed by the next Prime Minister did go ahead with the sell-off, it would face “hundreds of thousands” of protests.
The group organised a petition against the sell-off, raising 310,000 signatures, and hired an investigator to “dish the dirt” on companies in the running to buy the Land Registry.
Before last week’s debate on the Land Registry, its members emailed MPs urging them to attend.
Business minister George Freeman conceded that the Government had heard “loud and clear” the views expressed by all parties, including an observation by a Labour MP who argued: “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”
Freeman said he had “no idea what those currently looking to form the new administration will want to do when they are in office but anyone reading this debate today will have seen loud and clear the views of those who have spoken on all sides of the house”.
Yesterday, 38 Degrees said it had achieved a break-through moment.
Comments (2)
My guess is the Party of Asset Strippers will do what they want.
Land registry is actually broken and does need fixing, desperately, but that won’t be done by selling it off; especially to the commercial interests who would pay big money for the data it contains.