According to a report in the Scotsman newspaper: 'The Dall Estate, on the shores of Loch Rannoch, is set to become a "mini Monaco" in the heart of the Scottish countryside – a home from home for billionaires, Russian oligarchs, heads of state, the international glitterati and Hollywood and sporting superstars.'

The idea is being led by Malcolm James, a reclusive property developer who lives in a baronial mansion, Dall House in the heart of the Rannoch estate and was rather anxious to put his plans to the Scotsman newspaper. The plans include a luxury hotel with 104 rooms, two 18-hole golf courses and clubhouse, a state-of-the-art health spa, a concert hall,  a "body-enhancement clinic,"  a retail arcade, a shore-side restaurant and so on and so on.  The cost of a night's stay in the hotel, centred on Dall House itself, would start at £6,000, rising to £14,000 per person for the most luxurious rooms on the shores of the loch.  Presumably this is on top of the membership fees which will be "way over" £2 million a year. If you want an exclusive holiday home, prices will start at just £1 million. But before ordinary “ten penny” millionaires get excited about the prospect of whooping it up on the bleak Rannoch Moor, remember the complex is being aimed at the super-rich, as well as celebrities, film stars and famous footballers, and heads of government.   But only the super-rich will be able to apply, as the minimum liquid asset net worth of individuals will be set at £100m. So while Beyonce Knowles and Christina Aguilera might well jet in to perform, very few pop or Hollywood stars will have enough spare cash to actually make it as members. According to James; "Tiger Woods isn't rich enough to join, but he can come as a guest because he is known.” I am sure Tiger will be very grateful.

James goes on to paint a picture of a Highland utopia where only the "multi-multi-billionaires" of the world will have the right to enjoy and relax in one another's exalted company because, “They want somebody that loves them from their heart. They want somebody to have a real cuddle from, not a fake cuddle. And that's something that money can't buy." Apparently the super-rich have a hard and stressful life holding on to their hard earned pennies. According to James, “Billionaires can go to any hotel and they are the target of the beautiful, greedy people in the world who try and move in their circles and then, twelve months or so down the line, they take them to cleaners.”

You see it's only really rich people who are genuine; everyone else is after their money so they have to shut themselves away from the spongers and rogues in society. It’s a pity they will still have to arrive at Aberdeen airport in a private jet and therefore be exposed to real people scraping their money together for a caravan holiday in Skegness. And just in case you were wondering about the struggle to survive in the present economic recession and how these people can actually afford to spend such fortunes on the luxuries of life, Malcolm James concludes: “The recession is a bad recession, but it doesn't mean to say the money has disappeared in the world. It is all here. It's just gone into a lot fewer pockets."  There we have it, an admission that it’s the rich that get richer even in a recession. The whole issue of playgrounds for the super-rich, protected from the rabble that is the working class sums up the degeneration of the capitalist society.  Like the Roman emperors before them they fiddle in their luxurious surroundings whilst the world is collapsing around them.  Presumably they hope that their enormous wealth will protect them from the dangers of war, famine and environmental disaster. But you cannot eat money.

We must ensure that  billionaires’ paradises such as this are scrapped and that the wealth of these rich parasites is distributed among the population that produced it, so we can create a world where we are all equal and all share in the rich environment that the world has to offer.