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unlurked Wrote:

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> Haha. Good. Take away a community asset to line

> the pockets of fat cats! Hope they stay and

> expand. Maybe this tactic is whats needed at

> Prettys on NorthX. .



I agree with unlurked too!

Good on them, quite an apt place to squat too if you ask me. During such a housing crisis and a time where the market is completely unaffordable even to the working population I'm all for it. On the condition that they don't wreck the places they squat in, I'm for people taking over vacant buildings and putting them in to use.

singalto Wrote:

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> Obviously it can but if the squatters did it it

> could be unsafe and the electricy board is hardly

> going to do it for free power.



Or they could be paying for the power? Many squatters will set up an account with the board and pay the bills.


Good on them.

Jeremy Wrote:

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> I'm not really a big supporter of squatters, but I

> guess that's what happens when you leave a

> building empty for a long period of time.



I'm totally against squatters that take over a property (house) that the owner wants to use, but in cases like this I have no problem with it.

Does anyone remember when a bunch of squatters took over a house on Goose Green? They posted on here as the "goose green team" or something. I think they lasted about five days, until they all went home to their parents because they missed hot showers and mum's cooking.

When I came to London from Merseyside in the mid-1980's, there were loads of us and we were all squatting.


We had the electricitry and gas hooked up pretty quickly by British Gas and whoever the electricity company was back then and we paid bills, beleive it or not!


No problem having hot baths/showers living in a squat or cooking real food.


We even fixed the places up and stayed in them for years. We were economic migrants from Thatcher's Northern wastelands and as soon as any of us were able to get a tenancy (because the areas we mainly squatted were hard to let council flats which had been empty for years) we even paid rent too!

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