The paradox goes roughly like this, though. Anywhere that is a well-functioning democracy is unlikely to agree to the scheme. Or do you think that being unkeen on foreign people is a uniquely British… (View Post)

Votes at full council won't be a problem, and the dimmer members can be told what to do. It will be all the responsibility stuff, audit, scrutiny and appeals panels, that will be the problem. No… (View Post)

Utterly dishonest, though, which is what I said. And nothing you have claimed contradicts that. People have explained the business model here to you. Perhaps you should get that travel journalist who… (View Post)

So good you said it twice. And the answer is that there's a narrow sense that it's technically true (some of the buildings used are otherwise used as 4* hotels I'm sure) but utterly di… (View Post)

Or Spain- the villages of the interior have hollowed out to almost nothing, but the people who would have lived there are fine, because they have gone to the cities where the prosperity is. That'… (View Post)