Group to squat in Brighton park against changes in law (From The Argus)

“This act is draconian, unworkable, an attack on our way of living and some of the most vulnerable in our society. We will not take it lying down.

Oh happy days, it sounds like your going to do something about it..... NO sorry your going to sit in a park during the summer.
I hope the council can charge you for any costs incurred in your futile attempt to continue your parasitic existence

On the one hand they are claiming they are reduced to squatting because of a lack of affordable housing and on the other hand they are claiming that it is their way of life.

Squatters stating that the new law takes away their homes is absurd. They do not own any of the homes they squat in.

Squatters openly stating they will take over a city because their 'houses' are taken away is a declaration against law and order.

I'll grant you that the number of empty neglected properties is an abomination especially in the light of the housing crisis. But this drawing up of battle lines is the wrong way to go about it.

Mark my words, it'll be tears before bedtime before long.

"and the council will let them".... elected to serve ? good to see yet again they are letting down the vast majority of the good people of brighton ...NOT !

Someone go and check the Brighton park bylaws - i am sure there is something in there about this sort of thing

Amazing! A government is democratically voted in, passes a law that someone doesn't like, and they illegally protest against it supported by the loony local council. I had a lot of sympathy with the Greens before they were elected, but they sure do make any of the other parties look sensible!

Caroline Lucas has a fantastic insight into this, she earned her doctorate with a study of 'woman as reader in Elizabethan romance' I didn't know you could earn a doctorate with such a useful subject, it must give her such an edge in the modern political arena, we're so lucky to have her and the rest of the greens running the place

turtling. wrote:
Caroline Lucas has a fantastic insight into this, she earned her doctorate with a study of 'woman as reader in Elizabethan romance' I didn't know you could earn a doctorate with such a useful subject, it must give her such an edge in the modern political arena, we're so lucky to have her and the rest of the greens running the place

Ha ha. Nicely put.

kennydoit wrote:
Amazing! A government is democratically voted in, passes a law that someone doesn't like, and they illegally protest against it supported by the loony local council. I had a lot of sympathy with the Greens before they were elected, but they sure do make any of the other parties look sensible!

Lets be honest, you never had any sympathy for the Greens!

There does some to be something wrong when people go off on Holiday to find their house occupied on their return. There has been some organised criminal activity in London. Action on stopping this is long overdue, however this does come across to me as wealthy Tories protecting property in place of people.

Actually the Occupy camp pretty much closed down because the weather blew half the camp away. As far as I'm aware the assault wasn't actually committed by someone associated with the camp.

I do hope the benefits people will be there and stop MY taxes being paid to this rabble of utter filth.

I am sure all the time you are getting MY taxes, you have to be actively looking for work.

Just get a job you bunch of free loading, malingering, work-shy scum.

I assume if they are protesting and have no address they are considered Unavailable for work and therefore not entitled to job seekers allowance as they are not at their home address.
I will call the Benefit agency investigation team if the camp appears.

Caroline and Jason will be down there making sure they have money, food, IT access etc etc etc. I bet Caroline won't be checking they use biodegradable rubbish bags like she wants the rest of us to have. And the rest of the greens will be there squatting with them to show solidarity, expecially that one who hates gays.

The Squatters Network of Brighton. It should be called Scumbag Network of Brighton

In a rallying cry to supporters the group said: “They take our houses, so we’ll take their city”.

Have I missed something? “They take our houses, so we’ll take their city”! Whose houses! I didn’t think they owned them and whose city? They just take over a property trash it leaving the owner with the bill to clean it up and the City belongs to the residents that pay council tax. What do squatters pay?

It’s about time the council took strong action against these despots and the police should be allowed to bring in water cannon and get rid of them once and for all.

A protest at plans to make squatting illegal – and the city council will let them. Do the Greens not listen to us council tax payers? It seems the Greens policy is come to Brighton and do what you like.

I can’t wait until the next election to get them out!!!!

HJarss.."Tories protecting property in place of people."

An Englishman's home is his castle...

if any scruffy squatter tried to take over my home I would soon do something about it, and worry about consequences after!

Squatters trash homes, the pictures have been printed again and again and again of vandalized homes after they've left. Grafitti on the wall, rubbish piled up, damage to the walls. Who pays for the clean up? Yep us tax payers that's who. They don't improve the property ever and this is just a lie they peddle out each time. Squatters make nearby residents lives a misery with all night noise - this again has been reported again and again (look at the Wellington Road squat).

These people are not 'the most vulnerable in society', they are some of the most greedy, selfish and obnoxious people.

This law cannot come into force quick enough and I'm frankly amazed they've been allowed to get away with it for so long.

ray ellerton wrote:
HJarss.."Tories protecting property in place of people."

An Englishman's home is his castle...

if any scruffy squatter tried to take over my home I would soon do something about it, and worry about consequences after!

And I would wholeheartedly suppport you in chucking someone out of you home. That plainly is not right.

However, many buildings have been empty for donkey's years as developers sit on the land and speculate (Anston house for example has been empty for 20 years), others should have been returned to use but for no good reason stay empty (in the paper there was a house reported empty for 30 years in B&H!).

My point is that squatting is a little more complicated than the easy headlines suggest and it is the natural instinct of Tory politicians to firstly protect property instead of people.

Wrong is wrong. It is admittedly wrong to have badly needed roofs standing over empty rooms for years. However that is not going to stop by people squatting in a park because they claim those houses as their own.

All these squatters are doing is taking the focus of the problem, empty properties neglected for years, onto themselves, superannuated rebels without a cause who have, through the shenanigans of a substantial number of them managed to turn even the most sympathetic of bystanders against them.

The Greens would have shown themselves up as a mature party ready to take responsibility for a city by addressing the real issue rather than supporting these rabble-rousers.

What little empathy I had for the Greens has now disappeared for ever.
So here we go again.Brighton has become a haven for travellers/squatters
,demonstrators,drugg
ies,tenters.Thank you Green Council thats exactly why we voted you in.I think not.

ripmaxman wrote:
The Squatters Network of Brighton. It should be called Scumbag Network of Brighton

In a rallying cry to supporters the group said: “They take our houses, so we’ll take their city”.

Have I missed something? “They take our houses, so we’ll take their city”! Whose houses! I didn’t think they owned them and whose city? They just take over a property trash it leaving the owner with the bill to clean it up and the City belongs to the residents that pay council tax. What do squatters pay?

It’s about time the council took strong action against these despots and the police should be allowed to bring in water cannon and get rid of them once and for all.

A protest at plans to make squatting illegal – and the city council will let them. Do the Greens not listen to us council tax payers? It seems the Greens policy is come to Brighton and do what you like.

I can’t wait until the next election to get them out!!!!

Blame all the students (who thought that they were being 'trendy' and 'alternative' by voting Green) for the disaster that is the Green council

Why can't these so called protestors inherit a quarter of a million pounds and buy their own properties? All you have to do to own a property these days is have extremely wealthy and generous parents and these lazy squatters seem determined to not be born to them.

And if they don't want to own a property why can't they pay 60% of their salary paying someone else's mortgage instead by renting a flat?

Sort it out, guys! They're acting as if the current system is unfair and propped up for the rich. The banks own many of these empty properties and these layabouts are acting as if we own the banks themselves. Crazy!

Joshiman wrote:
What little empathy I had for the Greens has now disappeared for ever.
So here we go again.Brighton has become a haven for travellers/squatters

,demonstrators,drugg

ies,tenters.Thank you Green Council thats exactly why we voted you in.I think not.

I know. Before the Green party appeared there was not a single squatter in Brighton and Hove. But the day after they got into power huge boats and coaches shipped millions in to Brighton and now one in every two houses are squatted. And that's a fact!

This is all to do with the Green party and has nothing to do with the current economic climate being admirably dealt with by George Osbourne. And anybody thinking otherwise is a dolt.

I am all for the homeless being given homes to live in - but squatters are a different matter - they break into properties and wreck them - I had to deal with this when my mum's house in Hove was invaded by them just after she had to go into a care home as she has Alzheimer's and my dad, her main carer, died.
They stole items from the house, even though they promised me they'd leave them all untouched.
They are scum. They were all on drugs, filthy dirty, broke everything and had dogs with them to give them warnings if anyone came near, not because they were animal lovers. I really couldn't care less for any of them after what they did and the trouble they caused. Getting them out through the courts was a nightmare - the first judge gave them notice - in other words longer to leave - he didn't evict them?! The whole system is so wrong and so bad.

As always there are two sides to a story (minimum), however in this case its clear cut.

Let them surface in the gardens, occupy did the same (maybe the same people - at least some of them) and lets do the analysis, photos, biographies, benefit claims, employment etc and then lets have some fun.

This could be the start of the end game for these wasters - lets hope so!

The squatters network have only themselves to blame. Ten years ago I doubt so many people would passionately despise them. By taking over properties in residential areas, having loud drug fuelled parties, trashing buildings, leaving dog mess everywhere and sneering at everyone opposing them as being "born with a silver spoon" they have successfully turned the civilised world against them. Lets not forget two years ago someone got beaten to death in the squat round the back of Churchill Square. Enough is enough and well done to MP Mike Weatherly for successfully criminalising squatting.

As for the council allowing them to "occupy" a park, I say let them. Look at how little support Occupy Brighton got and their protest very quickly fizzled away.

I wonder how many will be our very own Brighton Inbreds?

Don't be too hasty to condemn them. They are simply hoping to cash in on precedent. Being a squat organiser in Brighton can get you ermine in the House of Lords.
Irrefutable fact.

Fercri Sakes wrote:

Joshiman wrote:
What little empathy I had for the Greens has now disappeared for ever.
So here we go again.Brighton has become a haven for travellers/squatters


,demonstrators,drugg


ies,tenters.Thank you Green Council thats exactly why we voted you in.I think not.

I know. Before the Green party appeared there was not a single squatter in Brighton and Hove. But the day after they got into power huge boats and coaches shipped millions in to Brighton and now one in every two houses are squatted. And that's a fact!

This is all to do with the Green party and has nothing to do with the current economic climate being admirably dealt with by George Osbourne. And anybody thinking otherwise is a dolt.

And apparently there were also no travellers and the traffic flowed smoothly before the one single cyclepath was built!

Fercri Sakes wrote:

Joshiman wrote:
What little empathy I had for the Greens has now disappeared for ever.
So here we go again.Brighton has become a haven for travellers/squatters


,demonstrators,drugg


ies,tenters.Thank you Green Council thats exactly why we voted you in.I think not.

I know. Before the Green party appeared there was not a single squatter in Brighton and Hove. But the day after they got into power huge boats and coaches shipped millions in to Brighton and now one in every two houses are squatted. And that's a fact!

This is all to do with the Green party and has nothing to do with the current economic climate being admirably dealt with by George Osbourne. And anybody thinking otherwise is a dolt.

And apparently there were also no travellers and the traffic flowed smoothly before the one single cyclepath was built!

"And apparently there were also no travellers and the traffic flowed smoothly before the one single cyclepath was built!"

Which single cyclepath would that be HJarrs? The £700,000 cycle path along the Old Shoreham Road that took many months to construct?

There is a charity called http://www.emptyhome
s.com/

They negotioate with local authorities, private owners and commercial companies who own empty properties and then bring them back into use.

mimseycal wrote:
"And apparently there were also no travellers and the traffic flowed smoothly before the one single cyclepath was built!"

Which single cyclepath would that be HJarrs? The £700,000 cycle path along the Old Shoreham Road that took many months to construct?

Yes, thats the one. Apparently, B&H council's contribution was less than half. However, for some it would seem it is the end of the world!

Even less then half the cost would have paid for quite a few pavements, not to mention potholes, to be fixed.

No HJarrs, not the end of the world ... then again, judging by the reaction of the local electorate ... not the brightest decision ever really ;) So I suppose it could be considered in keeping with them deciding to 'let' this bunch take over Victoria Gardens as well.

Can we council taxpayers have the portion of our tax that covers this park refunded as we cant use it with those filthy people there?

D360 wrote:
The squatters network have only themselves to blame. Ten years ago I doubt so many people would passionately despise them. By taking over properties in residential areas, having loud drug fuelled parties, trashing buildings, leaving dog mess everywhere and sneering at everyone opposing them as being "born with a silver spoon" they have successfully turned the civilised world against them. Lets not forget two years ago someone got beaten to death in the squat round the back of Churchill Square. Enough is enough and well done to MP Mike Weatherly for successfully criminalising squatting.

As for the council allowing them to "occupy" a park, I say let them. Look at how little support Occupy Brighton got and their protest very quickly fizzled away.

Unfortunately, I believe it cost a significant amount to clear up after the Occupy Brighton lot last time. Just as with travellers - both groups are parasites on the law-abiding community.

Why should they be allowed to suck money out of the system that socially-responsible groups would not expect to be given? And why don't the council seemingly ever seek to get this money back?

Great, so we're going to have exactly the same problems in Victoria park that we had when the Occupy wasters squatted there; drinking and drug-taking, anti-social behaviour, rubbish scattered all over the park and individuals defecating into carrier bags and dumping them in the bushes.

Just what do we have to do to get rid of the Greens NOW?

"Attack on our way of living...."
I ask you. Really?

This law cannot be implemented soon enough. These people are essentially saying that theft is their way of life. They should be locked up like any other person guilty of stealing. It's really very simple.

And don't spout that rubbish about unoccupied property back at me. I don't go in my garage that often, but that doesn't mean I should expect to find a bunch of freeloaders living in it the next time I pop down there.

NickBrt wrote:
Can we council taxpayers have the portion of our tax that covers this park refunded as we cant use it with those filthy people there?

Yes we should and charge their supporters the amount decent people have to pay.

"I know. Before the Green party appeared there was not a single squatter in Brighton and Hove. But the day after they got into power huge boats and coaches shipped millions in to Brighton and now one in every two houses are squatted. And that's a fact!"

Well said.Maybe millions was a bit of a misprint and exageration.But I agree with you Brighton is now the hub for extremist lazy demonstrators.Glad you agree and think like the the majority of hard working residents ion Brighton.

mimseycal wrote:
"And apparently there were also no travellers and the traffic flowed smoothly before the one single cyclepath was built!"

Which single cyclepath would that be HJarrs? The £700,000 cycle path along the Old Shoreham Road that took many months to construct?

That cycle path cost us less than that. And what is £400K these days? You couldn't buy a single house on Dyke Road for that!

You're moaning about a mile-long modern cycle path that employed a number of people to design and construct and will allow thousands of people to cycle safely on it for many years to come. All for the cost of one of the terraced houses next to it.

Quite ironic stats on this story about squatters.

HJarrs wrote:

mimseycal wrote:
"And apparently there were also no travellers and the traffic flowed smoothly before the one single cyclepath was built!"

Which single cyclepath would that be HJarrs? The £700,000 cycle path along the Old Shoreham Road that took many months to construct?

Yes, thats the one. Apparently, B&H council's contribution was less than half. However, for some it would seem it is the end of the world!

The remainder was paid by the quango Sustrans. Sustrans is 90% funded by taxpayers money so we paid for about 95% of it. I have not seen a single young person using the cycle lane. I suggest the Argus sends a reporter between 8 and 10AM and 3 and 5PM once a week to monitor usage. It won't matter though, Greens value cycle lanes rather than residents who need daily care.

Cyril Bolleaux wrote:

HJarrs wrote:

mimseycal wrote:
"And apparently there were also no travellers and the traffic flowed smoothly before the one single cyclepath was built!"

Which single cyclepath would that be HJarrs? The £700,000 cycle path along the Old Shoreham Road that took many months to construct?

Yes, thats the one. Apparently, B&H council's contribution was less than half. However, for some it would seem it is the end of the world!

The remainder was paid by the quango Sustrans. Sustrans is 90% funded by taxpayers money so we paid for about 95% of it. I have not seen a single young person using the cycle lane. I suggest the Argus sends a reporter between 8 and 10AM and 3 and 5PM once a week to monitor usage. It won't matter though, Greens value cycle lanes rather than residents who need daily care.

God, you stuck-up haters really annoy me.

I've seen kids use this lane and I'm sorry you haven't.

There is no traffic issue now that the lanes have been built so now bikes, pedestrians and cars can travel safely along this one stretch of road.

All for the price of a terraced house.

But you're kind of right. As a tax payer I'm so annoyed we haven't used any of our Trident nuclear missiles!! So many billions a year and nobody uses them. Myabe you should complain about that instead? :)

Fercri Sakes wrote:

mimseycal wrote:
"And apparently there were also no travellers and the traffic flowed smoothly before the one single cyclepath was built!"

Which single cyclepath would that be HJarrs? The £700,000 cycle path along the Old Shoreham Road that took many months to construct?

That cycle path cost us less than that. And what is £400K these days? You couldn't buy a single house on Dyke Road for that!

You're moaning about a mile-long modern cycle path that employed a number of people to design and construct and will allow thousands of people to cycle safely on it for many years to come. All for the cost of one of the terraced houses next to it.

Quite ironic stats on this story about squatters.

Whoa! I did not bring up the cycle path in connection with this article. HJarrs did for some reason as justification for ... what (I am not entirely sure).

Fercri Sakes wrote:

Cyril Bolleaux wrote:

HJarrs wrote:

mimseycal wrote:
"And apparently there were also no travellers and the traffic flowed smoothly before the one single cyclepath was built!"

Which single cyclepath would that be HJarrs? The £700,000 cycle path along the Old Shoreham Road that took many months to construct?

Yes, thats the one. Apparently, B&H council's contribution was less than half. However, for some it would seem it is the end of the world!

The remainder was paid by the quango Sustrans. Sustrans is 90% funded by taxpayers money so we paid for about 95% of it. I have not seen a single young person using the cycle lane. I suggest the Argus sends a reporter between 8 and 10AM and 3 and 5PM once a week to monitor usage. It won't matter though, Greens value cycle lanes rather than residents who need daily care.

God, you stuck-up haters really annoy me.

I've seen kids use this lane and I'm sorry you haven't.

There is no traffic issue now that the lanes have been built so now bikes, pedestrians and cars can travel safely along this one stretch of road.

All for the price of a terraced house.

But you're kind of right. As a tax payer I'm so annoyed we haven't used any of our Trident nuclear missiles!! So many billions a year and nobody uses them. Myabe you should complain about that instead? :)

Are you a street drinker? You write like one.

Fertilizer muck spreading machine on the ready.

Cyril Bolleaux wrote:

Fercri Sakes wrote:

Cyril Bolleaux wrote:

HJarrs wrote:

mimseycal wrote:
"And apparently there were also no travellers and the traffic flowed smoothly before the one single cyclepath was built!"

Which single cyclepath would that be HJarrs? The £700,000 cycle path along the Old Shoreham Road that took many months to construct?

Yes, thats the one. Apparently, B&H council's contribution was less than half. However, for some it would seem it is the end of the world!

The remainder was paid by the quango Sustrans. Sustrans is 90% funded by taxpayers money so we paid for about 95% of it. I have not seen a single young person using the cycle lane. I suggest the Argus sends a reporter between 8 and 10AM and 3 and 5PM once a week to monitor usage. It won't matter though, Greens value cycle lanes rather than residents who need daily care.

God, you stuck-up haters really annoy me.

I've seen kids use this lane and I'm sorry you haven't.

There is no traffic issue now that the lanes have been built so now bikes, pedestrians and cars can travel safely along this one stretch of road.

All for the price of a terraced house.

But you're kind of right. As a tax payer I'm so annoyed we haven't used any of our Trident nuclear missiles!! So many billions a year and nobody uses them. Myabe you should complain about that instead? :)

Are you a street drinker? You write like one.

How dare you! I have never drunk a street in my life. Although I did swig a cul-de-sac once.

Lets get a royal rumble arranged:

Travellers vs Squatters

Winners get a years free dog food

Am I the only one who thinks the squatters have a point? However it needs to be a mass, co-ordinated protest at the seat of government, not a little camp in a seaside resort. It sounds like they're going to make the same mistakes as the useless Brighton 'Occupy' protestors. What a wasted opportunity that was.

Jimmy Stewart's Imaginary Rabbit wrote:
Am I the only one who thinks the squatters have a point? However it needs to be a mass, co-ordinated protest at the seat of government, not a little camp in a seaside resort. It sounds like they're going to make the same mistakes as the useless Brighton 'Occupy' protestors. What a wasted opportunity that was.

They are from the same stable as SmashEDO it seems ;)

Jimmy Stewart's Imaginary Rabbit wrote:
Am I the only one who thinks the squatters have a point? However it needs to be a mass, co-ordinated protest at the seat of government, not a little camp in a seaside resort. It sounds like they're going to make the same mistakes as the useless Brighton 'Occupy' protestors. What a wasted opportunity that was.

Posh kids Jemima and Sebastian will have an absolute hoot staying at the new Victoria Park camp; mummy has bought them a tent from 'The North Face' (Sebastian wanted the very best, of course) and daddy will be down to Victoria Park twice a week in the Volvo to bring food round.

Jemima is going to bring her iPad so that she can Tweet to all her chums at Pony Club.

Jemima and Sebastian support the rights of squatters 100%, and will stay at the camp until the anti-squatting laws are repealed (or until it gets cold and starts raining...)

I still think that several problems could be solved in one go if travellers parked their vans in Green Loony's gardens and then squatters took them over. That way the Green Loons help the squatters and the travellers can go home to their houses up North and in Ireland and we get our parks and gardens back - job done.

Turn the hoses on them!

I really need a car, can't afford one at the moment, but there is a nice Audi TT at the end of my road that hasn't moved from where it's parked for about a fortnight now - I reckon the owners are on hols. I think I might just hotwire it - it's just sat there going nowhere. Why not?

What is it that some people think that because a home is not being used that this entitles others to just "appropriate" it? Homes can end up sitting empty for some time for all sorts of reasons. Homes that are locked in probate when someone passes away, held up by a legal system that can take time to release assets to beneficiaries, especially in the case where no will was made by the deceased. Properties can end up sitting empty for an extended period while they are being improved or converted, or fall into disrepair and are owned by people who cannot immediately afford to make them habitable again. ALL sorts of reasons! Or, someone just makes the grave mistake of taking an extended holiday! Where does this sense of entitlement come from, where some people feel it's there right to just take over and live in a property that is, at that present time, for any number of reasons, unoccupied? As frustrating as it is to be homeless, to have to go without ANYTHING that we can't afford, how can anyone believe that a solution is to just simply "take someone else's"?! Legalised squatting is legalised stealing, plain and simple.

I remember watching a street protest of squatters in Brighton a few months back, and maybe someone can explain to me why the vast majority of the people protesting appeared to be people who had made a conscious choice to opt out of societal norms... i.e. pink dreadlocked and tattooed folks who seem to want to make no effort towards doing what we ALL have to do, whether we like it or not, to conform in a way that would make us employable and financially independent? I have a job where I have to look professional and business-like - not through choice of course! But it's just "the way things are"! Most of us, when we come out of adolescence, are hit with that rude awakening. This "way of life" that they talk about! There is no such thing as a "way of life" where something comes for nothing! Do people really need to be told this I wonder?

Anyway end of rant! Stuff comes to those who either work, or win the lottery. The latter happens to very few. On yer bikes, make it happen for yourselves like the rest of us bleedin' mortgage and rent slaves! "Possession is nine tenths of the law" - an inescapable reality for us all.

Can Caroline and Jason tell us how many squatters live in their homes and if none why not?

Read in the Argus a few months back that 1 in 5 homeless people in Sussex were ex-services.
Some will be squatters.

Rabble, filth & scum?
I'm proud of you Brighton

NickBrt wrote:
Can Caroline and Jason tell us how many squatters live in their homes and if none why not?

Maybe Caroline '5 Homes' Lucas and her multi-millionaire husband Richard Savage can house some squatters?

Maxwell's Ghost says...
2:10pm Sun 12 Aug 12

I assume if they are protesting and have no address they are considered Unavailable for work and therefore not entitled to job seekers allowance as they are not at their home address.
I will call the Benefit agency investigation team if the camp appears.”


YOU CALL IT NFA - NO FIXED ABODE!! YOU ARE STILL OK TO SIGN ON FOR JSA OR ESA. PLEASE GET FACTS RIGHT BEFORE SHOUTING ON HERE MAX!!!!
AS FOR SQUATTERS MOST COME FROM MIDDLE CLASS FAMILYS AND SO NOT WANT TO GO WITH THE NORM OF LIFE!!!!!

KarenT wrote:
I really need a car, can't afford one at the moment, but there is a nice Audi TT at the end of my road that hasn't moved from where it's parked for about a fortnight now - I reckon the owners are on hols. I think I might just hotwire it - it's just sat there going nowhere. Why not? What is it that some people think that because a home is not being used that this entitles others to just "appropriate" it? Homes can end up sitting empty for some time for all sorts of reasons. Homes that are locked in probate when someone passes away, held up by a legal system that can take time to release assets to beneficiaries, especially in the case where no will was made by the deceased. Properties can end up sitting empty for an extended period while they are being improved or converted, or fall into disrepair and are owned by people who cannot immediately afford to make them habitable again. ALL sorts of reasons! Or, someone just makes the grave mistake of taking an extended holiday! Where does this sense of entitlement come from, where some people feel it's there right to just take over and live in a property that is, at that present time, for any number of reasons, unoccupied? As frustrating as it is to be homeless, to have to go without ANYTHING that we can't afford, how can anyone believe that a solution is to just simply "take someone else's"?! Legalised squatting is legalised stealing, plain and simple. I remember watching a street protest of squatters in Brighton a few months back, and maybe someone can explain to me why the vast majority of the people protesting appeared to be people who had made a conscious choice to opt out of societal norms... i.e. pink dreadlocked and tattooed folks who seem to want to make no effort towards doing what we ALL have to do, whether we like it or not, to conform in a way that would make us employable and financially independent? I have a job where I have to look professional and business-like - not through choice of course! But it's just "the way things are"! Most of us, when we come out of adolescence, are hit with that rude awakening. This "way of life" that they talk about! There is no such thing as a "way of life" where something comes for nothing! Do people really need to be told this I wonder? Anyway end of rant! Stuff comes to those who either work, or win the lottery. The latter happens to very few. On yer bikes, make it happen for yourselves like the rest of us bleedin' mortgage and rent slaves! "Possession is nine tenths of the law" - an inescapable reality for us all.

Their mob mentality is stronger when they are together, forgetting it's harder for decision makers to take a group of people seriously when they all wear military jackets and have semi-shaved haircuts / rats tail combos -> the occupy camping holiday was like a Super Hans appreciation society

Goodbye soap dodgers goodbye pikeys

Fertilizer,muck spreading machines to the ready steady nearly go.