So squatting has been made illegal in the UK...

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12 Sep 2012, 3:16 am

I think this is really sad. According to Shelter someone becomes homeless in the UK every 2 minutes. There are currently over a million homeless people in Britain. At the same time there are 930,000 empty homes. Successive government policies have made this situation worse, not better, and with the upcoming changing to disability benefits, housing benefit and social housing rules it's going to get a lot a worse. It seems to me that the UK no longer cares about vulnerable people :(



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13 Sep 2012, 5:27 am

piroflip wrote:
Some here make squatters out to be down on their luck victims.
Whereas of course they are free loading, verminous, parasites.
About time the law was changed.
Next they need to change the law on thieving "gypsy" travellers in the UK.


MotherKnowsBest wrote:
I think this is really sad. According to Shelter someone becomes homeless in the UK every 2 minutes. There are currently over a million homeless people in Britain. At the same time there are 930,000 empty homes. Successive government policies have made this situation worse, not better, and with the upcoming changing to disability benefits, housing benefit and social housing rules it's going to get a lot a worse. It seems to me that the UK no longer cares about vulnerable people :(



And here ladies and gentlemen is the difference between true left wing people and true right wing.

One views their privilege and property as the most important in all existence while so little regard for the well being of their fellow man they treat them as an infectious disease that should be eradicated and the other actually gives a s**t about other people.



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13 Sep 2012, 11:58 am

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14 Sep 2012, 12:22 pm

There where several high-profile cases of squatters forcing vacationing owners out of houses that they lived in, so I'm not surprised that they'd make a law to address it. Of course in those cases, they usually also used some fraud, so I'm not sure how effective it'll be.



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14 Sep 2012, 2:36 pm

Mootoo wrote:
Do you reckon in the future, when all wealth is consolidated by a single entity, 99% of all buildings will be empty and 99% of all people will be homeless?

The world is becoming awesome!


They're still homeless if they are squatting.


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14 Sep 2012, 2:50 pm

I know some refuse to leave and trespassing is illegal. So they have to make a law against squatting to protect owners. But how can the police do nothing about it? They can't arrest them for squatting? Isn't that like trespassing?


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14 Sep 2012, 3:21 pm

What will they do now? They are going to have some weak as hell legs!


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15 Sep 2012, 3:13 pm

DC wrote:
piroflip wrote:
Some here make squatters out to be down on their luck victims.
Whereas of course they are free loading, verminous, parasites.
About time the law was changed.
Next they need to change the law on thieving "gypsy" travellers in the UK.


MotherKnowsBest wrote:
I think this is really sad. According to Shelter someone becomes homeless in the UK every 2 minutes. There are currently over a million homeless people in Britain. At the same time there are 930,000 empty homes. Successive government policies have made this situation worse, not better, and with the upcoming changing to disability benefits, housing benefit and social housing rules it's going to get a lot a worse. It seems to me that the UK no longer cares about vulnerable people :(



And here ladies and gentlemen is the difference between true left wing people and true right wing.

One views their privilege and property as the most important in all existence while so little regard for the well being of their fellow man they treat them as an infectious disease that should be eradicated and the other actually gives a sh** about other people.


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16 Sep 2012, 5:31 pm

Squatters deserve to be booted out. Also, housing should not be stupidly expensive.



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16 Sep 2012, 6:20 pm

DC wrote:

And here ladies and gentlemen is the difference between true left wing people and true right wing.

One views their privilege and property as the most important in all existence while so little regard for the well being of their fellow man they treat them as an infectious disease that should be eradicated and the other actually gives a sh** about other people.


I don't think politics has anything to do with it. I can see both sides and agree with both arguments, so where does that leave me? Am I left, or am I right? Am I neither, or am I both?