Squatters occupy Royal Mint
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Gromit
International Man of Misery
I'm more impressed by that group who utilise the law about occupying a building for 7 years and you get to keep it and then they turn it over to the homeless.
They take advantage of the fact that many buildings are bought with dodgy money, foreign criminals. So the owners don't really pay attention or don't want the police to get involved.
Thats truly fighting the system and winning. Wish i could find a link about them. I heard about them on the radio.
These people who do these things with maximum media publicity (like this mint thing)... well they never achieve anything. Except of course to impress their peers. Hmm i wonder if that the real goal all along despite what lies they may tell themselves and others that they are actually fighting the system.
They take advantage of the fact that many buildings are bought with dodgy money, foreign criminals. So the owners don't really pay attention or don't want the police to get involved.
Thats truly fighting the system and winning. Wish i could find a link about them. I heard about them on the radio.
These people who do these things with maximum media publicity (like this mint thing)... well they never achieve anything. Except of course to impress their peers. Hmm i wonder if that the real goal all along despite what lies they may tell themselves and others that they are actually fighting the system.
Ground Elder
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Adverse possession The rest of your post isn't worth responding to 
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
Went down there just now. There isn't a lot going on at the moment—a number of signs with slogans about debt and housing in the front windows, some security wandering around, three police dog vans.
I didn't realise how large the site actually is. The old front building is just a small part of it; there are I think three other massive ugly office buildings behind it, all empty (saw a few lights on). Oh and there's a housing development being built next to it by the DLR station which, once complete, will I'm sure provide loads of affordable property for the local residents of Tower Hamlets.
I didn't realise how large the site actually is. The old front building is just a small part of it; there are I think three other massive ugly office buildings behind it, all empty (saw a few lights on). Oh and there's a housing development being built next to it by the DLR station which, once complete, will I'm sure provide loads of affordable property for the local residents of Tower Hamlets.
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Gromit
International Man of Misery
We've had these sorts of protests for the last 20 years. The fact there is another happening right now is proof that they've achieved absolutely nothing.
None of this means that i don't want the system to change. I'd love for housing to be managed more like the french do with price controls n shit. I'd love for everyone to have affordable housing.
Squatting in a building with a sign hasn't achieved it and never will.
Gromit
International Man of Misery
The answer for when you have no answer because nothing i have said is wrong.
I'd say come back in a year and show me how this protest changed housing in britain but i don't need to. There was protests like this last year and nothing has changed has it? Well has it?
Gromit
International Man of Misery
Here, you can have two for that
They are the one you should be facepalming.
If a strategy has been proven to be ineffective then change your strategy.
If the only result your action achieves is to get you in the papers and you chose that action then obviously getting into the papers was your only goal.
This thread, them being all over the press and housing being one of the major issues of this parliament, the New Era, Sweets Way stuff etc etc - just because change is slow you don't stop drawing attention to stuff that needs to change.
Go away and have a think for once
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
read an atlantic article the other day that made a similar point I had not considered wrt Occupy NY fizzling out-- for the frst time in a while and had put income disparity/inequality etc in the main news discourse. Not that it hadn't been discussed (and lived!) among people but as part of the 'public debate' the media thinks its having, suddenly inequality was news.
Gromit
International Man of Misery
Occupy was effective because it was the first time it had been done and was done on a huge scale. The large support it generated was a good litmus paper test of public opinion about a recent acute issue. Bankers dropping us all in the shit.
Housing is a long standing chronic issue that yes is a major issue in this parliament but thats hardly a first now is it? Its been a major issue many times previously and the government has been largely ineffective in addressing it because to do so would be to affect their own wealth and the wealth of their political fund donors.
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
The "security" there are County Enforcement Group - County Bailiff Company Bexley Kent - Your Property is our Business - who specialise in evictions. I'm not sure the dog vehicles are actually police... checking my photos, they're certainly done up to _look_ like police, but I can't see any markings.
likesfish
You can't park here sir
Not police, dogs are purely for show. If said dog attacked anyone handler and firm would be in biblical levels of poo. Plus who ever hired said fuckwits
No fee no win being a thing.
Plus the plod have no sense of humour about fake plod at the best of times.
Fine for being a seen wandering about actually having them turn up at any sort of incident well its going to end really really badly.
No fee no win being a thing.
Plus the plod have no sense of humour about fake plod at the best of times.
Fine for being a seen wandering about actually having them turn up at any sort of incident well its going to end really really badly.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
You don't get to keep a building if you occupy it for seven years.
And even if you did, it would still be such a risky strategy as to be not worth bothering with. If you got evicted after six and a half years then that's a lot of time and energy for nothing. Also targeting buildings owned by crooks, terrorists and other wrong uns may make it less likely that police or bailiffs will be brought in but it also makes it much more likely that a minibus full of coked-up, balaclava'd goons will come in the night and smash you and your mates into paste with metal bars.
If you want to go and squat a building owned by international gangsters, you go right the fuck ahead. If all you want to do is talk shit about what other people should be doing, maybe just go away.
Ground Elder
Well-Known Member
How will housing policy ever change if these people keep getting evicted? 
Royal Mint squatters leave building after court ruling
Royal Mint squatters leave building after court ruling
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
Lol @ "danger of a rave"—the site is massively locked down. It used to be the Royal Mint ffs, it's not exactly easy to get into. I'm quite surprised they managed to get in there in the first place tbh; somebody must have been slacking.
Gromit
International Man of Misery
No its 12 years or 10 years based on when squatting started.
Plus you have to change the locks which these guys haven't done.
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
Yeah, hundreds of drug-crazed anarchists could have tunnelled in. That's well known to happen if you announce something on Facebook, or don't.
Gromit
International Man of Misery
It happened to me once. The Facebook post had the postcode slightly wrong. Eventually i so got sick of answering the door and arguing that no the rave wasn't in my house that I put a notice in the window stating that it had been moved to another random address that i made up.
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
You should have been living in an ex government building with six metre spiked walls and a gatehouse. Surrounded by security guards with dogs. That would have solved the problem.
Monkeygrinder's Organ
Dodgy geezer swilling vapid lager
God, imagine turning up for a rave and finding out you were stuck at gromit's house. Worst rave ever.
Gromit
International Man of Misery
I used to DJ for a south Wales radio station and was in charge of the tunes for a party bus to The Naughty Reunion (where everyone enjoyed my choons).God, imagine turning up for a rave and finding out you were stuck at gromit's house. Worst rave ever.
Musically it would be a good rave but my house is tiny so it wouldn't be that great unless I could manage a Leefest setup in the garden..
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