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British tourists who go to Amsterdam for rowdy weekend benders have been given support after a government crackdown - by the city's notorious sex workers.
Dutch tourist chiefs this week launched a controversial advert discouraging nuisance behaviour from boozy stag parties of young men from the UK visiting the city's famous red light district.
They have warned British men to 'Stay Away' from Amsterdam as part of a major new operation to clean up the city and rid it of rowdy and hedonistic behaviour.
But sex workers have come out in support of male British tourists with hundreds holding a protest against the campaign in support of Brits - saying that they are not associated with bad behaviour any more than any other nationality - and attacking the campaign as an attempt to gentrify the heart of the Dutch capital.
Tessa, 43, who touts for sex work from a window on the corner of a canal on Monnikestraat for 17 years said: 'It is unfair to blame just the English.
Brothel madam Mona, 58, who held up a sign saying she was proud to have a sex business on her property, said: 'My husband and I run a hotel'
Dutch tourist chiefs this week launched a controversial advert discouraging nuisance behaviour from boozy stag parties of young men from the UK
She spoke as 200 sex workers protested outside Amsterdam's City Hall against the 'Stay Away' campaign and the reduction of the hours they can operate from windows in the red light district.
They confronted Mayor Femke Halsema who was surrounded by police and minders as she heard of their anger and promised she would study their complaints.
Tessa added: 'Men can be rude and horrible from anywhere in the world.
'When I came to work today at 5pm there were two men vomiting outside because of drink - btu and they could have been from any country because that is what it is like here.
'Men come from all over the world to drink and have sex - and most are well behaved.
'Okay the British can be terrible when they are drunk, but so can the Dutch, Germans and men from Spain.
'It isn't about nationality when a drunk man tries to give you 20 Euros for sex when the price is 150 Euros and treats you as if you are not a human being.
'But I don't know why Englishmen have been chosen. Maybe because you left the EU?
'But it is not illegal to pay for sex here or smoke drugs in Amsterdam so the British men should not be thinking of stopping.
Protesters confronted Mayor Femke Halsema who was surrounded by police and minders as she heard of their anger and promised she would study their complaints
Sex workers also protested plans to shutter the city's historic red light district, to be moved to a new erotic centre, in Amsterdam
'We as sex workers know that the politicians want to close the red-light area. From this weekend we must start closing early.
'Usually, I work until 5am and I can be very busy until then. But from Friday we are closing at 3am and this is their way of starting to shut us down.
'There is much anger among the sex workers here and we have been holding protests outside City Hall.'
Sex worker Laura, 33, from Italy, said: 'I have never seen a man from Britain behaving badly, and I've been working here for six years.
'It is just propaganda by the politicians Anybody who likes to come to Amsterdam, must realise that they're trying to get rid of the red light district and taking the fun away from a lot of people. These politicians are killjoys.'
Brothel madam Mona, 58, who held up a sign saying she was proud to have a sex business on her property, said: 'My husband and I run a hotel.
'We have many British men who come to Amsterdam and stay with us to take part in stag parties or bachelor parties and meet the sex workers.
'We have never had any problems from them, expect for a few who may vomit ot sing loudly - and these are not crimes.
'Trying to stop the British men from coming, here is nothing short of discrimination.'
Brian Pitambalsingh, 60, who owns the Red Light bar said British male tourists were being 'picked on' to close down the sex district
Her husband Jan Broers, 85, who runs the Royal Taste Hotel in the heart of the red light district, said: ' British man, no problem. Young men cause problems. If they do, regardless from where in the world they are from. It is not down to where they come from.'
Brian Pitambalsingh, 60, who owns the Red Light bar said British male tourists were being 'picked on' to close down the sex district.
'This area has residents living above the windows and they want to turn it into an artistic suburb like the Left Bank in Paris.
'Many of these people who have bought properties here costing perhaps one million Euros could not have been unaware that sex was being sold under their noses or their homes.
'I feel they have come from the Dutch country towns and villages and want to re-create that kind of locality here.
'Selling sex or smoking weed is not a crime in this city and this stupid 'Stay Away' thing they are doing is unfair on the sex workers and the UK men.
'The British say prostitution is the 'oldest profession in the world,' so the crazy Amsterdam City Council has to understand it will continue for centuries and centuries no matter how much they try to interfere.
'The prostitutes are angry not only because
