Public Space

The comical tussle that took place on Brighton sea front last week between the gay tory Ian Dale, the publicist of the MCBride autobiography and the 'no nukes' protestor speaks to a problematic issue regarding the public space and who has a right to occupy it and when.Both sides of this spat clearly thought they had the right to be doing what they were doing and indeed the two conflicting interests are irrecociliable all the while public space remains public.Doing so it is an anomaly as it clearly belongs to everyone and no one and groups with diverging viewpoints will seek to commandeer it all the while the public space status is maintained.The only solution is for the streets and roads and all public spaces to be privately owned and the owners would then determine who and what their property could be used for.For this reason the Freedom Party would sell off all public land,roads and streets,pavements only leaving government buildings for essential services such as army buildings,police stations prisons and even these buildings and land could be privately owned and rented out to the respective government bodies.