re: #207 Nojay UK

Oh dear… It was Scots landowners who instigated the Highland Clearances, not “the English”. For most people living in the Highlands the best thing they could do was get out and go farm somewhere that wasn’t a forty-five degree slope of bracken and bog-moss over loose shale rock and if the local landowner was willing to pay for a ship to take you there, so much the better.

The English wanted to “assimilate” the Scots Landlords, which meant that they had too get used to living the “Aristocratic” lifestyle.

And with prices for mutton and beef a premium due to the Napoeonic Wars, it was more profitable to raise livestock that to maintain a subsistence-level popuation.