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more fresh air from the torygraph... holland go hardline on scum

PaulF81
PaulF81 Posts: 1,727 Forumite
in Debate House Prices & the Economy
sorry, those with a troubled background.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/netherlands/9719247/Amsterdam-to-create-scum-villages.html

may i suggest hull as ground zero?
Amsterdam to create 'scum villages'
Amsterdam is to create "Scum villages" where nuisance neighbours and anti-social tenants will be exiled from the city and rehoused in caravans or containers with "minimal services" under constant police supervision.
"We have learned from the past," said the mayor's spokesman. "A neighbourhood can deal with one problem family but if there are more the situation escalates."

why didnt we do this?
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  • Generali
    Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    PaulF81 wrote: »
    sorry, those with a troubled background.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/netherlands/9719247/Amsterdam-to-create-scum-villages.html

    may i suggest hull as ground zero?





    why didnt we do this?

    Isn't that what 'sink estates' are? Plenty of those in London already.
  • PaulF81
    PaulF81 Posts: 1,727 Forumite
    They keep on mixing something called local authority in nice new build estates, the only reason why I would never buy newbuold.
  • A._Badger
    A._Badger Posts: 5,881 Forumite
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    Generali wrote: »
    Isn't that what 'sink estates' are? Plenty of those in London already.

    Yes, Croydon for one. All of it!
  • Generali
    Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
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    A._Badger wrote: »
    Yes, Croydon for one. All of it!

    Truly a nasty place. A social experiment gone very badly wrong.
  • moneyinmypocket
    moneyinmypocket Posts: 908 Forumite
    I am all for this - these b@stard families need isolating from the hard working family
  • pqrdef
    pqrdef Posts: 4,552 Forumite
    Just got to find somewhere to put the scum where the locals won't mind. It'll be as easy as finding sites for travellers.

    Like the travellers, we can tell them they should forget the caravans and go and settle down on a nice estate somewhere. Oh, no, hang on
    "It will take, five, 10, 15 years to get back to where we need to be. But it's no longer the individual banks that are in the wrong, it's the banking industry as a whole." - Steven Cooper, head of personal and business banking at Barclays, talking to Martin Lewis
  • Eellogofusciouhipoppokunu
    Eellogofusciouhipoppokunu Posts: 445 Forumite
    Perhaps you guys would prefer a permanent, final solution to the problem of people you perceive as 'undesirables'?
  • Rotor
    Rotor Posts: 1,049 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 500 Posts
    Eellogofusciouhipoppokunu wrote: »
    Perhaps you guys would prefer a permanent, final solution to the problem of people you perceive as 'undesirables'?

    I call Godwins Law!

    I expect you would hug Hitler and tell him he's a naughty boy!

    There - we can all take an argument to extremes ; but it doesn't really move it on very far.
  • ILW
    ILW Posts: 18,333 Forumite
    edited 4 December 2012 at 9:35AM
    Eellogofusciouhipoppokunu wrote: »
    Perhaps you guys would prefer a permanent, final solution to the problem of people you perceive as 'undesirables'?

    Just need to come up with a sensible definition of "undesirable"

    Should be realtively simple to put together a list of acts that fall into that category which most people would agree with.
  • abaxas
    abaxas Posts: 4,141 Forumite
    Didnt we do this in the 60/70s with Slough/Bracknell etc.
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