Squatter-hating media campaign begins...

[Paul Mobbs]

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-14564949

In the run-up to the proposals being published it looks like the media is 
being engineered in advance of the political debate.

In fact, I think this news item deserves a complaint to the Beeb because it 
gives the impression that new laws are required to remove squatters from 
occupied residential premises, when in fact that's already unlawful under the 
Criminal Law Act 1977. What the new proposals do is make squatting in 
*unoccupied* buildings an offence, and that wasn't properly reflected in the 
content of the report.


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