No, it's not. The OP is about an off-plan new-build, not evictions.
Greedy landlords rub their hands with glee as Londoners queue in the cold to buy flats
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No, it's not. The OP is about an off-plan new-build, not evictions.
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hiraethified
And there you go again. Lazy, insulting, inaccurate drivel from a blazing, arrogant hypocrite.
Going to ignore your more facile character assassination attempts - but why am I hypocrite?
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
High white laid high rag content card, embossed logo, hand-printed lettering.
All that to say "look at me, I'm a cunt".
coley
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Ok, I don't know London, but can you, or people familiar with the development, let me know if this development didn't disadvantage Londoners wanting to remain in their neighbourhoods?
High white laid high rag content card, embossed logo, hand-printed lettering.
All that to say "look at me, I'm a cunt".
Ha! You are quite good at what you do, I have to admit.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
I thought so. Reading Diamond's arguments on any subject is exactly like reading an Economist article on the same subject - market-centric to a fault, lacking any engagement with social realities, and still praying at the shrine of a couple of dead Austrians whose economics were proven wanting over and again in the last quarter of the 20th century.
coley
Well-Known Member
Before you permabann him (and I can understand the temptation) let him/her explain why London should be handed over to speculators and the population be driven out?
equationgirl
Respect my existence or expect my resistance
Is localist even a thing???
And it's clearly not fair that people are priced out of their neighbourhoods because property speculators/buy-to-let landlords/greedy scumlords have pushed the housing prices up out of people's price ranges.
It's not just London that's been affected by this, Edinburgh has similar issues too.
And it's clearly not fair that people are priced out of their neighbourhoods because property speculators/buy-to-let landlords/greedy scumlords have pushed the housing prices up out of people's price ranges.
It's not just London that's been affected by this, Edinburgh has similar issues too.
coley
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Name names, why don't you
coley
Well-Known Member
True, but let's be fair, it seems to be a bigger issue there, it's happening in most big cities but it's absolutely rank in London.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Currently, the finance-biased entity known as "the market".
Who should determine it, is what matters, and unless "the market" realises the socio-economic necessity of affordable and social-rent housing, then "it" (and consequently those exploiting it) is going to make the same mistake that was made in Rome 1800 years ago, and in every city since - that a city necessarily requires decent housing for the manual workers and clerks and bog-cleaners as well as for the professional classes and the ruling class, and that attempting (whether directly or indirectly) to confine the plebs to ghettoes often goes horribly wrong.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Name names, why don't you
Von Mises and von Hayek. Worth a read if only to marvel at their wishful thinking and avoidance of social realities.
Wonderful. So I am simply from the Austrian school then? Quite remarkable stuff from someone who appears to know very little about what he refers to.
Von Mises and von Hayek. Worth a read if only to marvel at their wishful thinking and avoidance of social realities.
If you are inquiring by the way, the most impressive economist that I have recently seen present is David S. Evans.
I'm not sure whether he falls within the "Austrian School" but perhaps you have an opinion on that which you would like to share?
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
You made an insinuation - aka an implicit accusation.
On what basis would a permaban work? Because I'm inconvenient...?
No, it is others who read that how they wanted to.
My point was clear - one person was singled out from three, their words were exaggerated to make a divisive point and they happened to be foreign/other.
To understand the point more directly you can work step by step back through the previous sentence (starting at the end).
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
You haven't bothered to read my post properly, have you? If you had, you'd have noted that I didn't either say or imply that you're "simply from the Austrian school".
Quite remarkable inaccuracy (at best) or misrepresentation (at worst) from someone who claims to be a lawyer.
You haven't bothered to read my post properly, have you? If you had, you'd have noted that I didn't either say or imply that you're "simply from the Austrian school".
Quite remarkable inaccuracy (at best) or misrepresentation (at worst) from someone who claims to be a lawyer.
So what is your position then, if you mind pinning it down more precisely?
Because, forgive me if I got the wrong end of the stick, but I thought you were making a play at a neo-liberal caricature?
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Weasel words.
Not really sure why this is relevant to this conversation or any conversation on these boards to be frank but, yes, I have been qualified for around 2.5 years now.
And you and why do you ask?
cesare
shady's dreams ♥
People keep referring to you as a lawyer so I was interested in whether you actually were yet. I dont know if it's relevant or not, what's your practice?
I'm pretty sure that I've set this out before but my main practice area at work is competition, antitrust and trade regulation.
But I also do quite a lot of work in IP (mainly hard IP stuff around telecoms/standards and pharma) and am now getting increasingly involved in financial regulation but coming at it from a concurrent antitrust pov.
Pro bono wise my main stuff is, in contrast, employment (unfair dismissal etc) and housing.
cesare
shady's dreams ♥
Band?
editor
hiraethified
Not 'inconvenient. ' More deceitful and dishonest with your sloppy, groundless racist/xenophobe slurs.
C&P, you mean?
cesare
shady's dreams ♥
Yes
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