Authorities find 26 people living in rented 3 bed in London

AtreuS said:
This has been going on for years.

Seems in this case it was possibly non working men but i have an example i saw first hand.

When i worked in a factory in rochdale doing summer work about 6 years ago i met some pakistani lads who were living with 20+ other lads in 2 terrace houses knocked together. The roof was used for sleeping space, they all worked in shifts, shared beds and put money in for a big ever cooking pot of rice/curry etc.... shared bills and so on.

They seemed happy.. all wages left were sent home and they said if they lived like this for 2 or 3 years they could go home to the small village and live like a king for the rest of their lives!

This is why immigrants who live like this can work for below min wage. They do not have to live "properly" like we would expect to, so can work for far less wages.

This is one of the reasons why so called "lazy english" will not or cannot do the same job for the same money. ( of course there are lots of lazy chavs but this kind of thing does happen, and id wager it happens a lot more than people would assume )

If we all lived 20 to a house we could i am sure! :p
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Similar story here though it was most Polish, some Lithuanians and Romanians IIRC - they'd come over for 2-3 years work all the overtime, etc. they could get, live 20 to a tiny flat hot bunking, etc. to live as cheaply as possible and send money back home sp they could go back and then afford a reasonable house and live comfortably for years back home.
 
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Caged said:
Why do you assume that the most important aspect of this is the nationality of the people involved as opposed to the landlord breaking the law?

Also I have no idea how you propose to deport citizens of an EU country who haven't committed a crime...
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I didn't say either one was more important. I just said it was interesting that one important detail was omitted by the Graun, with the implication being that they have an agenda.

And yes they have almost definitely have committed a crime. Do you really think that out of those 26 people none of them were in receipt of any kind of benefit or tax credit, and of those who were do you really think they let the relevant authorities know about their 25 housemates? Not doing so would constitute benefit fraud. And I wonder if there were children living their as well. Possible case of child neglect if so.
 
20 quid a week to stay in london, I bet their gutted about that coming to an end. Its too dangerous but some of those will be on the street now
 
No sympathy from me. I think they could probably all afford a better standard of living they just choose to live like that so that they can send more money home. I think they earn £1000s a week begging in London and live like that to save money. They also don't have the same expectation of standard of living. Even if they won the lottery their house would be a mess with 5 to a room.
 
That weird bunk bed is a bit creepy - imagine being on the single top bunk with a couple going at it in the double below...
 
kissenger said:
I didn't say either one was more important. I just said it was interesting that one important detail was omitted by the Graun, with the implication being that they have an agenda.

And yes they have almost definitely have committed a crime. Do you really think that out of those 26 people none of them were in receipt of any kind of benefit or tax credit, and of those who were do you really think they let the relevant authorities know about their 25 housemates? Not doing so would constitute benefit fraud. And I wonder if there were children living their as well. Possible case of child neglect if so.
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I'm glad that we convict people based on your spidey-sense.
 
£180 a week to live in a room shared with another family. In East Ham. I wouldn't pay £180 a week to live in East Ham in a palace.

Joking aside I hope they throw the book at the landlord.
 
Conditions looks fairly decent from the picture shown in the article. It's an inevitable product of the UK housing market.
 
He must have made an absolute killing!
Disgusting as it is, unfortunately its what people are willing to go through to earn a "living" :(
 
No one stayed at a crappy youth hostel then ? :p

Again people with immigration agendas target the occupants rather that the scum landlord for breaking the laws.
 
If they can make it all the way from Romania to the UK for a better life, then if they weren't happy with the arrangement once here they could easily fix it.

The landlord is just earning a living to feed their family.
 
kissenger said:
I didn't say either one was more important. I just said it was interesting that one important detail was omitted by the Graun, with the implication being that they have an agenda.

And yes they have almost definitely have committed a crime. Do you really think that out of those 26 people none of them were in receipt of any kind of benefit or tax credit, and of those who were do you really think they let the relevant authorities know about their 25 housemates? Not doing so would constitute benefit fraud. And I wonder if there were children living their as well. Possible case of child neglect if so.
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What was the other newspaper out of interest? The one with nationality front and centre? Why isn't it that that newspaper had an agenda, showing the nationality so prominently?
 
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