Saw a program the other week on sat over here about the land grab in Spain. Not my part of Spain but Splitlinks' part.
A guy and his wife from England had bought a falling down farmhouse with surrounding land and began to restore it. The guy they bought it off retained land by the side of this, then sold it to the government. This started the land grab scandal. Anyway in short the brits had half their property stolen by the government and the government expected the brits to 'contribute' to the building of apartments for the benefit of the 'people'.
One way it would have cost them something like 80,000 euros or if they just wanted to keep the bit they had left the government was 'only' going to charge them 50,000 euros for the land they had
already paid for. Legal, stamped and everything.
Poor *******s ended up having to just walk away, losing what they paid for land in the first place!
It certainly is not democratic over here!
The government do what they want with total disregard for any previous laws. (They just make a new one up). If you owe social security money. They just go into your bank account and take what they want. 'Ohh! you have d/d's for car insurance, rent, water, electric, phone? Not our problem if you get cut off.'
Maybe the governments should be bombed eh? Did ole Guy Fawkes have it right?
Also: These last few posts prove that censorship of some kind is needed. It is so easy to go off topic. Whilst some people may find the digression amusing it will derail the thread.
Mmm, what then? Move the reticent posts to another thread? Delete? Or try to get the thread back on track?
3 choices. All of them are right and all of them are wrong.