I don't know where they got this idea or initiated such a stupid, completely unintelligent practice

Mohammed Al Fayed

He bought the property for �60,000 in 1972 and has spent more than �4m restoring it.

The Land Reform Bill was unveiled by Scotland's Justice Minister Jim Wallace last year with the aim of promoting "responsible access to land".

It would widen access to Scotland's countryside and give rural communities the opportunity to buy land when it is put on the market.

Crofting communities would be able to buy land at any time.

Bill 'disaster'

Mr Fayed said: "This (Bill) would be a disaster and drive everybody away, because this is not acceptable.

"Especially if I pack up and go. I will do that because you do not know what you expect later.

"I don't know where they got this idea or initiated such a stupid, completely unintelligent practice - to hurt their own country."

Mr Fayed: Threatens to quit Scotland

However, local resident Sandy Chalmers said he believed the bill did not go far enough.

Mr Chalmers said landowners owned too much and the community needed to control more.

"I think there should be more benefits coming back to the community from our asset, because it is our asset after all.

"At the moment it is being completely controlled and dominated by people who don't live here. To me, that seems like an imbalance," he said.

'Total misreading'

Tenant farmer George Holden said he did not know why Mr Fayed opposed the Bill.

"You don't become a Scot because you can afford to buy a kilt," he said.

"The man is living in cloud cuckoo land if he thinks that is the case. But that's to his detriment.

"To his benefit is the fact that he provides employment and I think he should be content to do that.

"It is a total misreading of the bill to for him to be frightened of what might happen."

Frontline Scotland was transmitted on BBC1 Scotland on Tuesday 23 April at 2235BST.