Posted on 04/13/2024 8:25:01 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
It's not just happening in the United States. Recently, at least six squatters broke into celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay's temporarily closed London pub, boarded up the windows, barred the doors, and refused to leave.
At least six freeloaders broke into Ramsay’s York and Albany hotel and gastropub, which is for sale for $16.1 million, boarded up the windows, locked the door with kitchen utensils and glued the locks.
The chef is trying to sign over the building in a multi-million-dollar deal, The Sun reports. Ramsay stars in the "Hell's Kitchen, The American Dream" reality show and Next Level Chef on Fox.
Shocking photographs show the squatters holed up in the trendy pub, one of whom can be seen barefoot and sprawled across on a black leather sofa.
The pub was closed while the negotiation of a new lease was underway, when the gang of squatters bypassed security and took over the building. The squatters are citing an oddity in U.K. law that differentiates between residential and commercial properties where occupation is concerned.
The occupation of a person’s non-residential property without their permission is not itself a crime in the U.K., though police can take action if crimes are subsequently committed, including damaging the property or stealing from it, according to Wales Online.
"Take notice that we occupy this property and at all times there is at least one person in occupation," the notice reads, according to The Sun.
"Any entry or attempt to enter into these premises without our permission is therefore a criminal offense as any one of us who is in physical possession is opposed to such entry without our permission . . . if you attempt to enter by violence or by threatening violence, we will prosecute you."
As a British commenter might say: The bloody cheek of these people!
On the official British government website, a section on "Squatting and the Law" appears to agree with this report, stating in part:
A non-residential property is any building or land that is not designed to be lived in.
Simply being on another person’s non-residential property without their permission is not usually a crime. The police can take action if squatters commit other crimes when entering or staying in a property.
It's hard to imagine that trespassing in and of itself is not a crime in the United Kingdom, not to mention occupying private property with no lease. While U.S. states are slowly coming around to take legal steps to prevent this practice, the Brits might be a few steps behind.
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It seems that in the United Kingdom, it's allowable to essentially steal commercial property, as long as one doesn't commit any other crime in the process. I'm no legal expert but, in this case, the fact that the people boarded up windows and glued locks shut would constitute, at the very least, vandalism and destruction of property, but that evidently isn't enough of a crime. This begs the question, though, as to what other options might be open to Ramsay: Shutting off power and water, or perhaps fumigation. But then, with the current state of the British government, it wouldn't be surprising to find that Ramsay would be the one in trouble in such a case.
This is an intolerable situation, no matter which side of the Atlantic it occurs on. It's inconceivable that this possibility exists in British law; the government has utterly failed Gordon Ramsay and his business here, and has also utterly failed in one of the two basic purposes of government: To protect the liberty and property of the citizens.
Plank #1 of the Communist Manifesto: Abolition of private property in land an application of all rents of land to public purpose.
Thanks for the pub, comrade. Now scram.
I hope he hires the Kray brothers for this problem.
That said Ramsey is an @$$ who thinks he’s a bad@$$.
Almost like it’s a coordinated strategy.
Yes, and an @$$ who if he votes, does so for the same who created the sort of problem he is now in but he won't recognize it and will therefore loudly vote again for more of the same.
It should be 100% legal to kill squatters on sight.
I’m thinking it’s only a matter time until our squatters realize they have an angle to take over occupied homes.
While the occupants are away at work or whatever, the squatter breaks in and proceeds to make itself comfortable. When the owner or occupant returns the police will be called, of course.
When the police come out the squatter simply makes a verbal claim of residency over 30 days. At that point the cop is very unlikely to attempt to “investigate” the squatter’s claim, but will simply declare the matter to be “civil” and leave. Now you have a stranger in your house who you can’t get police assistance with until disproving his claim of residency in a legal process.
It’s going to happen, I bet.
I would think however they got in, gluing locks and nails or whatever used in boarding up windows likely caused some level of damage so The squatters broke that law mentioned.
Now you know why the turd rolling liberals are so desperate to take out the Second Amendment. Commie libs hate property rights. The bass turds believe that everything is up for the taking. Just help yourself. That is, except for their stuff. That belongs to them only.
Once all the vaxxed die off over the next 2-3 years, the squatters will take over everything.... There will be very few, if any, left to stop them.
When you see your local RAT rep, be sure to thank them for the “replacement”. spit.
Doctor Zhivago is on Tubi this month. I tell people to watch it because it deals with such concepts. A lady I work with migrated from Russia back in the 1980s. Her husband was a private in the army and when they were boarding their flight to leave Russia, the authorities confiscated their photo albums of him in his army uniform because they were state secrets and they took her grandmother’s wedding ring because it belonged to the state.
I remember asking her about appealing the ring confiscation and she said it would have meant staying for a couple more years and could be confiscated again the next time they ready to leave. They got out because they were Christian and it took them about 10 years from starting the process to being able to leave.
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