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'Quotas' for shared flats shouldn't be the way forward



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Published Date: 27 March 2008
By James Jopling
SINGLE pensioners are to be banned from buying homes in the Merchiston and Morningside areas of Edinburgh.
Edinburgh City Council has agreed to set quotas for the number of lone pensioners allowed to buy flats in these areas. The quota will initially be set at 20 per cent. A spokesman for the Families Need Homes campaign welcomed the move, saying: "There...



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Reckless,

Police State 27/03/2008 07:56:01
Doh! I bet Hitler would have kicked himself for not thinking of this first.

http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-6495462761605341661&q=poice+state+2000&total=1&start=0&num=20&so=0&type=search&plindex=0
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The ghost of Harry Lauder,

Edinburgh 27/03/2008 10:21:44
This is a welcome breath of common sense. I live in a part of Edinburgh where there a lot of shared flats and the people add vibrancy to the area, as well as helping with local shops (single people without cars tend to shop locally; families often shop away from the area at big supermarkets). Although there ARE some problems of noise etc they are best dealt with through licensing.
3

Alternative (High Octane) Fuel Head,

Edinburgh 27/03/2008 16:03:36
#1:

You beat me to it.

There is a fair chance that some of these pensioners who have to gall to wish to buy a flat were actually involved in dealing with Hitler. If not, they would almost certainly have lived through loosing members of their family and friends as they dealt with him.

Now. In Scotland. In the capital city. In the 21st century. The Nazis have returned in earnest. First it was hunting, then it was smoking, then it was drinking---not to mention the on-going war against the motorist---and the latest chapter in their catalogue of oppression is who can buy flats and where they can buy them.

We really need some kind of public uprising about all this, but no doubt, the vast majority will simply, quietly go along with it because it doesn't affect them... Yet!
4

Seabhag,

Edinburgh 27/03/2008 18:08:36
1 and 3 - I take you have actually spotted that the pensioners thing is a spoof? The clue is in the phrase: "this is a spoof".

 

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