Which historical sites or places could Britain sell to pay off its debts?

Wembley Stadium was knocked down a few years ago, and turned into a corporate hospitality venue. Earls Court and BBC Television Centre have already been earmarked for redevelopment and are due to be knocked down shortly. They were talking of getting rid of the Houses of Parliament building, since all trading can be done from a screen these days.

I know the Free Marketeers are quite keen on offloading the nation's forests for "economically sustainable development" which means executive housing, once they've harvested the timber. Suharto did this and made a lot of money from it.

Farmland can also be bought off farmers for next to nothing, and handed out to oligarchs with permissions duely pushed through. No local campaigning is allowed, since they changed the law last week to pile campaigners with bureaucracy - they'll spend so much time filling in returns for the Electoral Commission, there'd be no time or energy left to complain. HS2, which is intended to open up the Chilterns to M4 Corridor style development is a ripe source of bargain basement sell offs. Tatton, however, will be kept pristine for as long as they continue to elect their current MP.

Then there is the indigenous population who could be persuaded to work for nothing in return for the money for a few tins of beans. Of course, when their homes get behind with the payments, they too can be sold off to more deserving hardworking foreign owners, who need tax-free status or they'd take their talents elsewhere. Without homes, we wouldn't need to keep paying them benefits, and just insist they work for nothing or go to prison. G4S will keep them in order, just as they did at the Olympics.

Don't forget we all voted for this.

Sell the land where ever a mosque stands we don't need places the English don't use !

Rochdale, Bradford, Birmingham and tower hamlets.....but haven't they been given away for free?

They were given away cheaply yet we are paying the price in more ways than just in money....the kids sacrificed on the alter of multiculturalism, the child brides imams will marry illegally, the race riots, the crash for cash gangs, home grown terrorists etc etc....

We will never stop paying for the votes for passports scam.

City centre Royal Palaces would make great hotels.

The Falklands, i hear they might have oil there, must be worth a few quid or we could sell Tony Blair to Al Qaeda, their sponsored by the Saudi's who are dripping in cash, reckon we could get a good deal

I think we should sell Scotland rather than just letting them wander off. Belgium may be interested as they will be ruled from Brussels in any case. Belgium has a Royal Family and I'm sure they would fancy being constitutional Sovereign.

Of course the Scots would get 8.3% of the deal so everybody would be happy.

Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales....

Good Q.

With LAND so scarce - and allegedly VALUABLE in Britain - one would have thought Osborne had it mind to sell/lease Tower Hamlets to some African President or another - as an alternative to stashing his cash in Switzerland.
Or getting some oil-rich Arabian Sheik/Prince or whatever to buy up Leicester, Bradford or Peterborough, where many of his ilk currently reside.
By definition - these ARE 'historical sites' - albeit changed a lot since WWII - but should produce a good rental income - if managed well by their new Landlords.

As regards other key sites such as St Paul's Cathedral or Windsor Castle - it might make economic sense for them to be put out to tender - for conversion to a Mosque or MacDonald's drive-through beefburger 'restaurant' but I doubt we are quite THAT deeply in debt.
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The Whole London!!!!

I'm thinking Windsor Palace, Buckingham Palace, Sandringham and all the other Royal places that we pay the bills on and perhaps Spain would be interested in paying for Gibraltar? The Falklands however can never be for sale lest the British lives lost regaining it lost in vain.