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[Nickbat]

This is not right. Not right at all. How is it morally acceptable to give the squatters legal aid to defend their (unlawful) occupation of someone's house?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1361061/Father-John-Hamilton-Brown-begs-squatters-letterbox.html

 

[Jimbob]

coinciedently I had just read..

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-12591366

agreeing the whole squaters rights thing is wrong.

[Sir Tigger KC]

Pah!! 

There was also an article the other day, where a council was trying to evict a couple for non payment of rent to the tune of about £3500, and the judge refused to grant the eviction order because it would breach their right to a family life................. 

[Varche]

I agree too. These "fringe of society" folk seem to have more rights than normal law abiding folk. I would be beside myself with rage if I found people squatting in my house and had to wait till the courts evicted them. I would want the police round there and then to evict them.
Also how can it be a criminal as well as civil offence in Scotland but not in England. Yet another damn difference in Great Britain. who let that slip through? That is another thing that gets my goat - treatment of British people is different depending on where in Britain you live!

[Banjax]

I agree too. These "fringe of society" folk seem to have more rights than normal law abiding folk. I would be beside myself with rage if I found people squatting in my house and had to wait till the courts evicted them. I would want the police round there and then to evict them.
Also how can it be a criminal as well as civil offence in Scotland but not in England. Yet another damn difference in Great Britain. who let that slip through? That is another thing that gets my goat - treatment of British people is different depending on where in Britain you live!

ask anyone up here and they all think the law that protects squatters in england and wales is crazy - surely the government could have stopped it by now - makes no sense - deeply unfair and deeply frustrating.


ps - that tip cost £1million? people are nuts 

[Martin_1962]

Enter your OWN house, take up residence, evict turds with the help of some large mates.

How can they regain entry if they are NOT in the house?

[Dishevelled Den]

Is it any wonder I keep saying that we're washed up as a nation?

There is a very effective answer to such nonsense however. 8-)

[Varche]

Is it any wonder I keep saying that we're washed up as a nation?

There is a very effective answer to such nonsense however. 8-)

What suicide? Move to New Zealand or Belize? Vote UKIP? Take to the streets and complain en masse?

[Gaffers]

There is a very effective answer to such nonsense however. 8-)

Yes, tear gas 

Once they run out you can walk in with a gas mask on, their 'legal' claim to the building is broken 

[albitz]

Pah!! 

There was also an article the other day, where a council was trying to evict a couple for non payment of rent to the tune of about £3500, and the judge refused to grant the eviction order because it would breach their right to a family life................. 

Yep - If you live in social housing and pay your rent, then these days your a mug.Simply stop paying rent and let the legal process go all the way to the EU court of yumin rites, and they decree it is a breach of your rights to take away your home. Seemples.

[Sir Tigger KC]

Think that approach would work with the mortgage comapany? 

[Varche]

The ECHR isn't all bad. There is a little publicesed or known of huge injustice in my opinion that has been refered to them.

Our government refuses to index link pensions paid to British citizens who choose (after a lifetime of working and paying into the system and in many cases fighting for the liberal country we now have) to live in Australia. Yet they do for the Americas, Europe and so on.

I hope they win. That is another scandal.

[Dishevelled Den]

Is it any wonder I keep saying that we're washed up as a nation?

There is a very effective answer to such nonsense however. 8-)

What suicide? Move to New Zealand or Belize? Vote UKIP? Take to the streets and complain en masse?

    If you have to ask V - you really don't need to know.

[albitz]

I agree too. These "fringe of society" folk seem to have more rights than normal law abiding folk. I would be beside myself with rage if I found people squatting in my house and had to wait till the courts evicted them. I would want the police round there and then to evict them.
Also how can it be a criminal as well as civil offence in Scotland but not in England. Yet another damn difference in Great Britain. who let that slip through? That is another thing that gets my goat - treatment of British people is different depending on where in Britain you live!

ask anyone up here and they all think the law that protects squatters in england and wales is crazy - surely the government could have stopped it by now - makes no sense - deeply unfair and deeply frustrating.


ps - that tip cost £1million? people are nuts 

It could be just a matter of time before some squatters in Scotland test Scottish law in the court of yumin rites.
P.S. A million quid doesnt buy much of a house in London these days.In fact, if its close to the centre, your probably looking at a 3 bed flat. Unless its in the west end in which case youd be lucky to find a one bed flat.
http://www.primelocation.com/uk-property-for-sale/search/path/uk.england.london/?np=900000&xp=1250000&s=120

[Kevin Wood]

There is a very effective answer to such nonsense however. 8-)

Yes, tear gas 

Once they run out you can walk in with a gas mask on, their 'legal' claim to the building is broken 

Just reverse Jimbob up to the letter box and watch them scarper.

Kevin