Council warns MP couple over home
Married Labour MPs Ann and Alan Keen have been given a month to stop their local council repossessing their home 10 miles from the House of Commons.

What? Haven’t they been paying their rent or rates I thought when I saw this. But no, its far more sinister.

In a letter seen by the BBC, Hounslow Council tells the couple “urgent action” is needed to explain why their main home in Brentford is unoccupied.
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A source at the council – which is run by the Conservatives – told the BBC that the Brentford property had remained empty for seven months.
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If the council does not get a satisfactory response from the Keens, it then has the power to issue an Empty Dwelling Management Order which would allow the council to take possession of the property and bring it back into use.

What’s this, they can take your house if you don’t use it. WTF has it got to do with anyone what you do with your property as long as its not a danger to other people.

Such orders became law five years ago in order to give local councils the power to take possession of empty properties and bring them back into use.

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I should have known, the most authoritarian Government we’ve ever had in peace time is in to State sponsored theft again. What is it with them that they can’t abide people doing things they don’t approve of without wanting to legislate? It wouldn’t be so bad if it was compulsory purchase, which I could just about accept, but “take possession” is just weasel words for theft.

The problem is that these two are a nasty piece of selfish, thieving, troughers who will get no sympathy:

The couple’s designated second home is a flat in Waterloo, two stops on the Jubilee underground line from Westminster.

Alan Keen is MP for Feltham and Heston while Ann Keen is MP for neighbouring Brentford and Isleworth.

According to the Daily Telegraph, the couple bought the central London flat in 2002 and have, between them, claimed more than £30,000 towards it in each of the past four years.

The couple told the newspaper that under the second home allowance rules, married MPs were entitled to separately claim for a property that they share and live in together.

Much as I despise them, this is typical of the way the State now operate. Bring in an authoritarian law but say it will only be used against the bad guys – that way the Daily Mail and the rest of the MSM don’t comment. Use it a couple of times in high profile cases – drug dealers, paedo’s and troughing MP’s and then quietly start using against ordinary citizens.

The next thing we’ll know is that we have to justify leaving our houses for a 3 month trip to Aus or NZ or similar without coming back to find that the local council is solving the homeless immigrant problem by “taking possession” of you house.

If the economy wasn’t in such a mess I would say that the boy Dave should be spending his first 100 day’s repealing all the pernicious authoritarian passed by Nu Labour.