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Little John
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Edinburgh no-go area

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You need a wrist band to access your own home tonight as the organised Hogmanay celebrations get under way. Edinburgh Council have employed an events company to cordon off and control access to the centre of the town today meaning residents need Id and wrist bands to enter their own homes.

If i lived there I would be outraged by this restriction on my civil liberty. Its another nail in the coffin for freedom and another acceptable step towards social control by business.
Yes this is the real "Little John" (or it could be "colin")
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It's perfectly correct for the local council to try to relieve the burden on hard-pressed rates payers by charging for access to the celebrations, he who plays, pays. If a few locals have to put up with a little inconvenience that's the price that has to be paid, they're quick enough to moan if the mess left isn't cleared up.
Residents who don't like it should arrange to be away and make a few bob b&bing their properties.
Like it or not we live in a nation where profit is king, the people have spoken (or at least made their mark) and strongly rejected the offer of a fairer, more socialist life, or should we no longer believe in democracy now that it doesn't suit our own tastes?
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But SRD, as you well know it was only those in Englandshire that rejected socialism. Lots of “new ideas” that ended up on the Labour Party manifesto already happen in the people’s republic of Scotland. One of the few we don’t have already was free broadband and to be honest I don’t know if I would trust a method of communication owned by any government. Look what happens when governments elsewhere want to shut down protesters.

As to the OP. They can apply for up to 6 tickets for people to attend their own party or go to Glasgow where first footing is still legal.
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