Spring has arrived on the North Coast of Zealand, and my fellow Danes are busily scrubbing down their summerhouses for the season. Villages which were nearly deserted during the winter – Danes can generally only occupy their summerhouses for 180 days a year – are gradually filling up.
Sadiq Khan said London’s second homeowners ought to pay “much, much more” than a 100 per cent council tax premium
Yet I rather doubt Sir Sadiq Khan, who earlier this month said London’s second homeowners ought to pay “much, much more” than a 100 per cent council tax premium, will be on anyone’s prospective guest list. The current war of expropriation on British second homeowners is incomprehensible to Danes: there are 225,000 Danish summerhouses, often shared among extended families; enough that half the population of six million is said to have access to one. That would be an awful lot of voters to punish.
Denmark’s summerhouses – emblematic of the mentally and physically healthy contemporary Danish lifestyle – took their time to get going. Until
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