Kitchen Nightmare as squatters move into Gordon Ramsay’s £13m London pub and refuse to budge

17 comments

1. I’m sure I read somewhere about a fella who goes in and squats with people. But is such a bad housemate that the squatters move out.

2. No doubt former public school pupils who have wanted for nothing their whole lives

3. Squatters are the absolute worst.

   You’re not enlightened.

   You’re not sticking it to the man.

   You’re not changing society.

   You’re a scumbag.

4. How is no law broken? If I went into a pub, destroyed stuff and refused to leave… Surely at a minimum I would be arrested for Criminal damage? If they have used his ingredients surely that is theft? I don’t understand it

5. Need more Judge Dredd types on the streets. Stick em in the cubes.

6. Seems like they didn’t actually go to the bother of having someone occupy it and are paying the price.

7. Seen a massive increase of negative squatter stories on reddit recently.

8. Can Ramsay’s organisation not simply hire security folks to physically carry these wankers out?! 

9. Won’t budge ay? I’m sure somebody must have an electric cattle prod.

10. No idea how the police just can’t remove them for trespassing.

11. People should be allowed to use force to eject squatters.

12. I didn’t think you could squat it pubs , I would’ve thought the police could arrest them or move them on

13. Just go in there and boot them out. Fuck squatters they’re all bums

14. If said what I really felt my comment would be removed by the mods

15. If I was Gordon I would be hiring someone to go in and make life a misery until they left, constantly making so much noise at all hours that they can’t sleep, making the place gross and unsanitary, stealing all of the already stolen goods, standing over people while they sleep or being incredibly creepy and unhinged in general. I don’t think it would take too long.

16. I understand the civil vs criminal law conflict, but I don’t understand WHY this isn’t made a criminal offence. I have no care for the profits of a huge buisness, but equally it’s such a backwards system that seems to protect the wrong doer over the victim.

    There can be both protection for renters from shitty landlords AND the police power to remove wastemen like this. They don’t have to be in conflict.

17. That’s not how squatting works, just so you know.

    That being said, trespass is a civil matter and very slow to deal with.