Loud cheers this morning from the tax paying classes as the ‘provisional wing of the Tax Payers Alliance’ (we”ll never improve on that description from Guido!) move into the apparently abandoned and derelict ‘main home’ of Labour MPs Alan and Ann Keen.
Hounslow Council had earlier threatened to take possession of the house under the Labour legislation designed to penalise those nasty capitalist property developers….. but the squatters have beaten them to it.
Photographer ‘Chromazone51′ was invited in by the ‘new’ inhabitants, and emerged with a remarkable set of photographs showing the lifestyle of a ‘two MPs salary’ family in the their main home. Quite why they have a plastic statue of a man’s torso in their living room is any one’s guess, I don’t like to speculate. Tempted to, but No!
Even the squatters are complaining about the state of the place!
Here in France the Calais Police have been fighting pitched battles with a group of anarchists who were determined to enable 2,ooo economic migrants to beat the security designed to prevent them entering Britain. So far they have arrested 47 anarchists. In a typically French move, 2,000 specially trained riot police have arrived in the town – one for each of the migrants. They don’t believe in failing for lack of manpower over here.
There is more than a whiff of anarchy in the air these days – the government is obviously aware of it, the police have been receiving better training and equipment than the armed forces lately.
Last night e-mail messages and personal callers were offering the squatters champagne and unlimited supplies of food – Matt Davies is drumming up support for a march on parliament.
Gordon Brown would do well to ponder on this middle class support for anarchy and law breaking. Last night it was announced that receipts of income tax from the docile middle class fell short of the amount paid out in benefits. If the tax payers decide to go on strike, or leave the country, he will have a riot that will make the French Revolution look like a Sunday picnic.
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Excellent wheeze, just hope they are in it for the long run.
Anarchy is a word well known, and easily used when matters become complicated and difficult to explain. But from history at least we know how easy it is for territorities to descend into fractured groupings in conflict. In some cases it might be rule by Warlords (aka in modern urbanism criminals etc.) or predatory tribalism, and “tribe” does not necessarily mean ethnicity, it might be association or unstable groupings.
97% of life is already lived with no thought of “governance,” so why ever not?
Demetrius’ point is well-taken, but as Jocelyn Hogg points out in /The Firm/ these scuzzy gangs of today are , precisely, equivalwent to the warlords of the Black Ages — who /are/ the forebears of the aristocracies of today, these quack “knighthoods,” and even the present rash, of bogus postmodern Life Peers.
Here in Minnesota, and of course as biologically I can “do” difference and happen to be able to get along with Mexicans, I have offered the modest proposal that a(n expensive!) “state university” “administrator” and their family, or an attorney & git, clear off to Cuba or Oaxaca, for say every dozen or so Spics let in. I get so God-damned tired of this unrelieved diet of splintery, dry white meat…!
Link’s gone haywire, Anna.
Sink me, the effing thing’s clapped out over here, too, the SOBs must have thought me & the other two of ‘The Minnesota Three” (Libertarians here, ALL of us!) was about to pile into an airliner and wing over for the do!
‘Tis a dead link for sure, you wouldn’t suppose that…?
Nah, can’t be…that ain’t cricket.
Yeah, the link is no more Anna.
A friend of mine squatted a 5 bedroom detached in Clapham in the early 1970s. I remember him telling me how if he could remain there undisturbed for longer than “yey” many years it would be his, all his…mwaahahahaha..ect ect…according to law at that time. Anyway as the years rolled by and he got closer and closer to his goal his level of paranoia increased in direct proportion to his disbelief that he could ever get away with it. Over the years I looked on, open mouthed, as the security got heavier and heavier, this was before cctv but did include steel gates and doors. It had turned into a prison pretty much by the final 6 weeks and the very last night before he “owned” it he was twitching and spitting in the corner… He did get to own it and and never ever found out who actually had previously owned the property. Rory appeared to think he had got something for free. I, however, watched him age visibly through the entire process and decided to get a mortgage instead.
mmm I can see the headlines now
Taxpayers go on strike….
Its never going to happen
I don’t know Henry North London, some fairly docile middle class types refused to pay their poll tax and caused a bit of mayhem. Maybe their younger generation would be willing to try a bit of the same.