Police State....

[Eric the Half a Bee]

Orwell would raise a concerned eyebrow at one particular law on the books waiting for the right crisis to come along, it's the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 whose emergency powers would lift the totalitarian heart of dear old Joe Stalin himself from beyond the grave.

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/36/part/2

22 Scope of emergency regulations

(b)provide for or enable the requisition or confiscation of property (with or without compensation);
(c)provide for or enable the destruction of property, animal life or plant life (with or without compensation);
(d)prohibit, or enable the prohibition of, movement to or from a specified place;
(e)require, or enable the requirement of, movement to or from a specified place;

I notice you don't include reasons for doing this in your propaganda

[Organ Morgan.]

I notice you don't include reasons for doing this in your propaganda

I linked to the legislation for anyone to peruse.

I'm concerned that the state can quite legally confiscate property (perhaps without compo or any by your leave) and compel anyone to relocate to wherever it chooses.

[Eric the Half a Bee]

I linked to the legislation for anyone to peruse.

I'm concerned that the state can quite legally confiscate property (perhaps without compo or any by your leave) and compel anyone to relocate to wherever it chooses.

What about those occasions where the state WOULD find it absolutely necessary to confiscate property for the reasons listed but if there wasn't legislation to allow it, they couldn't?

There has to be reasons for doing so. Bloody good ones that would stand up in court if necessary. You talk as if the state could do so on a whim, which is bollocks.