Stickability pays, but only a little in China

It’s amazing that the Chinese government let that couple in Wenling stay put whilst a motorway was built around them because they were offered £22,000 for a house which had cost them £60,000 to build. It’s rather sad that they had to accept a paltry £26,000. No doubt the difference vanished into some waxwork’s secret bank account. But at least they weren’t served tea laced with something radioactive and deadly, which seems to be the Russian government’s preferred solution for inconvenient people.