Foreigner calls U.K. "Soft Touch"

[Jimbeaux]

Is this article face value or is there media embellishment here?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1344634/La...

[anonymous-user]

Jimbeaux said:

is there media embellishment here?

dailymail.co.uk

Yup

Having said that, seeing this:



Did make me want to do this:

[Jimbeaux]

Image deleted, what was it? On another note, those soap dodgers have zero appreciation for that house or the history/lives that existed there before them. tts.

[TazR6]

Why the hell are the utilities still on? Who will be responsible for the payments? No doubt the owner. Also, I have no doubt the owner will not be legally be able to turn off gas, water and electricity.

Soft touch? He has been taught well.

[FourWheelDrift]

Owner needs to get a few hired helpers with menace and personally evict them. Then what will happen, they go and cry to the police that they were evicted from the house, doubt it. The owner can make up any story he likes, like "they left when asked" because once he's back inside they can't re-enter. Of course the hired help offering to drop them off back home via a 31,000ft rapid descent from the cargo bay of an aircraft over Latvia might persuade them just to bugger off quietly.

I think he needs........

[ShadownINja]

Until someone squats in Cameron's house (is it empty?), then nothing will change.

[Thom987]

I know what I would do if it was my property. They certainly wouldnt think I was a soft touch.

[anonymous-user]

Jimbeaux said:

Image deleted, what was it?

Sly Stallone firing a Tommy Gun

[Jimbeaux]

Symbolica said:

Jimbeaux said:

Image deleted, what was it?

Sly Stallone firing a Tommy Gun

There can't be anything wrong with that.

[EDLT]

I know London is expensive, but £10 million? It looks like someone has knocked through a semi-detached.

[Victor McDade]

Why do we have such weak laws in place to counter this?

Shirley as soon as the owner rings the police and states 'I haven't given them permission to be in the house' then they should be arrested and taken away straight away.

[Jimbeaux]

Victor McDade said:

Why do we have such weak laws in place to counter this?

Shirley as soon as the owner rings the police and states 'I haven't given them permission to be in the house' then they should be arrested and taken away straight away.

I know such laws are sticky, we have similar trouble in certain states here. However, this seems just too much over the top to be all true. Is it?

Edited by Jimbeaux on Thursday 6th January 21:06

[hidetheelephants]

Squats often 'go on fire'. Very sad.

[MrsMiggins]

Daily Mail can't get anything right. This is not a UK issue, it's an England & Wales issue. Squatting is illegal in Scotland. Fine and/or jail time if you're caught up here.

[EDLT]

MrsMiggins said:

Daily Mail can't get anything right. This is not a UK issue, it's an England & Wales issue. Squatting is illegal in Scotland. Fine and/or jail time if you're caught up here.

How did they pass that without violating some human rights act?

[MrsMiggins]

I think the law dates from the 1800s.

ETA: I just googled and a very helpful website which offers advice to new squatters (yes, really!) says it was 1865. It also advises on what steps you should take once you're squatting to make sure it's really difficult to get you back out.

Edited by MrsMiggins on Thursday 6th January 22:10

[Rofly Lollers]

Not so soft in NI...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-1208...

A homeless man who squatted in a Belfast apartment over Christmas to escape the freezing weather has been jailed for six months.

Robert Lewandowski, 29, used keys he had stolen weeks earlier to move into the south Belfast flat once a woman who lived there left for the holidays.

The Polish national was said to have taken nothing during a four-day stay.

[FourWheelDrift]

MrsMiggins said:

It also advises on what steps you should take once you're squatting to make sure it's really difficult to get you back out.

There's always a way to get anyone out.

"Knock, Knock. Hello my immigrant friends we have some free money here for you"

[MrsMiggins]

I'm sure there are ways, and there are ways. I'd imagine having some large angry friends is quicker than court.

[supersingle]

I know this story is a perfect PH/mail story but there are serious issues in the UK with the affordability of housing.

The rentier class are creaming off more and more from our productive enterprise. It's hardly surprising when people say "feck working in a NMW job, I'm gonna freeload instead".

We need cheap housing again. That's going to mean taking power from the nations landowners and actually building on some of our countryside. NIMBYs aren't going to like it.