Dutch cities want to ban property investors in all neighborhoods

Re:Dutch cities want to ban property investors in all neighb... by laurent92 on Sunday September 05, 2021 @08:04AM (#28423676)

No, it was recovering the freedom that was getting eaten by Europe, and listening to the vote of the UK people again. Whether it ends up in “getting rid of foreigners” or anything else would only be a second-order result of listening to the Englishman’s vote, if that is what they still vote for in 10 years. The goal of Brexit was democracy, not particular measures left or right.

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Re:Dutch cities want to ban property investors in all neighb... by sideshowb on Sunday September 05, 2021 @09:09AM (#28424069)

Amusing you equate democracy with the English vote. Sincerely, Scotland, Wales and NI

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Re:Dutch cities want to ban property investors in all neighb... by rfrey on Sunday September 05, 2021 @09:31AM (#28424226)

I understand there are other factors at play (to say the least) in NI, but can you explain the incentive Scotland and Wales have to stay in the UK? I'd have thought they'd be gearing up for full scale separation referendums by now.

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Re:Dutch cities want to ban property investors in all neighb... by Filligree on Sunday September 05, 2021 @10:07AM (#28424443)

It’s the same incentives the UK had to stay in Europe. Ninety plus percent of their trade is with each other.

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Re:Dutch cities want to ban property investors in all neighb... by laurent92 on Sunday September 05, 2021 @12:05PM (#28425336)

I’m equating democracy with listening to the most numerous. You have been thoroughly defeated with 3 blatant-majority votes in 4 years. If you don’t like it, you were never in favour of democracy, and if you are not in solidarity with your English mates, tell me about solidarity with an entire continent.

Name a single country that succeeded to leave EU without retaliation from said EU and I’ll eat my hat. EU is not a choice for most of us on the continent. We’re not free to leave, and we were manipulated into joining.

Long story short: The simple fact that it required not 1 but 3 blatant-majority votes for elites to register that yes, UK people wanted to leave EU, is a sufficient proof that EU is not listening to the most numerous.

And let’s not even talk about the quantity of funding, sponsorship and 4x3 billboards it took to swerve Scotland’s, Wales and NI in favor of EU. Manipulation is in plain sight here.

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Re:Dutch cities want to ban property investors in all neighb... by dmje on Sunday September 05, 2021 @02:50PM (#28426696)

Personally I see the b/s scaremongering, the likes of the Farage bus and the hateful rhetoric of the Daily Heil as the "plain sight manipulation" in creating a manufactured problem with the EU which simply never existed, but each to their own.

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Re:Dutch cities want to ban property investors in all neighb... by mxmilkiib on Monday September 06, 2021 @05:43AM (#28432013)

That's isn't just one kind of democracy.

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