by The Cypriot » Fri Jun 05, 2009 11:44 pm
A few observations.
• Sandwiched between two episodes of Coronation Street guaranteeing substantial audience figures.
• No one in Britain can now be in any doubt about the foolhardiness of buying property in the north.
• Orams, both looking very overweight, her with her ridiculous pink hair, didn't come across at all sympathetically as victims of 'politics' but as greedy opportunists that have got their comupence.
• Poor refugee woman looking devasted at seeing the hideous development on her land in the north would have won far more sympathy than any of the British 'victims'.
• Film footage from 74 showing the paratroopers and planes. This was a war; an invasion. It was a reminder why there were refugees, why these homes were vacated and going cheap.
• The unscrupulous and overweight developer who, in 2005, was guaranteeing that property he was selling would double in price. His development now at a stand-still. Sums up the dodgy regime the Brits had allowed themselves to be taken in by.
• A few shots of the massive Turkish flags and also mosques to go with all the unfinished property development monstrocities. All in all, not a great advert for the north as either a tourist destination or a place to settle in.
• Irony of Brits saying, it's not right to let people be made homeless.... where were they in 1974?
• The articulate lawyer and two journalists all reiterating the huge risks of buying land in the north previously belonging to refugees and the failure of the regime in the north to protect the Brits.
In summary, a devastating final nail in the coffin for the economy of the north, reliant as it was on this false property boom. One wonders what's happened to all those thousands of builders who would have come over from Turkey to take advantage of the work opportunities. Many of the Polish builders in Britain have gone home. Is the same thing happening in the north I wonder?
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The Cypriot on Sat Jun 06, 2009 12:28 am, edited 1 time in total.