The wave of right wing populism crashing over Holland right now is part of the reason a lot of the Dutch have zero tolerance for squatters, but if squatters conveyed their message in a better (legible) way, maybe there'd be more understanding.
I can imagine they'd grab an arm each, while Nick Boles MP stood on his little stool in the corner, jeering, as I was dragged from the conference room, and booted into the parking lot by Mark Rutte, the Dutch prime minister, while Michael Noonan, Ireland's minister for finance, tells me in no uncertain terms to get lost.
"Eden has had a difficult season, a lot of injuries coming back, a lot of setbacks, he had a lot of frustrations," said the Dutch coach.
The banking and mortgage crisis of 2008 shares a lot in common with the Dutch Tulip Bubble of 1637.
"There was a lot of emphasis given to the Dutch culture that is present here in the city but nothing given to the Native American heritage of the people who were here when Hudson arrived," Chase said.
"There is a lot of speculation and I read a lot of nonsense stories," he told the Dutch newspaper Noordhollands Dagblad.
Given his family's long-standing interest in big oil, King Willem-Alexander will doubtless have lots to talk about with the Dutch environment minister, Sharon Dijksma.
To my amazement I was told that "the Dutch complain a lot" and replied by saying, "send them to Afghanistan where they will not stop until dropping from exhaustion from continuously having to complain".
"The Dutch are investing a lot here, the Argentines, the French, the Brazilians," he said excitedly.
The company long ago jettisoned the steel rolling mills that churn out basic commodity products, unlike British Steel, which in 1999 threw in its lot with Dutch rival Koninklijke Hoogovens in the belief that creating Corus, the world's third largest steel producer, would be the route to success.
