The Mike Freer MP Police Commissioner 'Daft-gate' e-mails Mike freer now refusing to go on TV and Radio to explain himself and his unjust law

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From: FREER, Mike <mike.freer.mp@parliament.uk>
Date: Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 7:20 AM
Subject: Re: Invitation for direct democratic
To: Bohemian <thebarnetbohemians@gmail.com>

err no

email told them to phone and we would follow our usual procedures. which they seem unable to do. I am mightily peed off at the Police. I feel like sending the BIll to the Commissioner saying your daft advice landed us with this Bill.

of course this will inhibit every other demo as we will simply refuse to allow anyone onto our property.

so tempting to say - you are all numb-nuts as i am not the owner of the property and it is they you should be dealing with about your presence!

Mike Freer MP
Conservative Member of Parliament for Finchley & Golders Green
020 7219 7071 (Westminster)
020 8445 5875 (Finchley)
Sent from my iPad, working in the move

On 26 Nov 2013, at 23:47, "Bohemian" <thebarnetbohemians@gmail.comthebarnetbohemians@gmail.com

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Dear Mike

We appreciate you taking the time to communicate with us,
thank you for the permission from you and your office to conduct our peacefull protest on the front yard piece of land at 212 Ballards lane N12.

The protest at your constituency office is a result of us trying to engage with the parliamentary democratic process in which we followed your procedures,for a public consultation.
Lobbying campaigning and raising awareness,whereby 96% of the replies to the public Consultation said do not criminalise squatting.
Including  Judges, police and lawyers associations as well as homeless charities and housing NGOs  requesting the law not be enacted.
However your government chose to ignore their own  public consultation and press ahead undemocratically to criminalise sheltering (squatting) in empty buildings.

We are further concerned greatly by Chris Grayling the justice minister saying he may once again undemocratically criminalise non residential squatting.Which is one of the last safety nets for many homeless and landless people who are not helped by the housing system.

Part of serving your constituents is to represent all constituents including rich and poor this includes some of your homeless constituents currently evicted onto your front yard from a community centre around the corner the Bohemia.

We have many points of importance to raise with you around the issues of the Housing crisis,the rise in street homeless,the bedroom tax,the further criminalisation of non residential squatting etc
.
The law you co sponsored sec 144 Laspo act is unfair, unjust, undemocratic, unlawful, unaffordable and unworkable,and is causing great misery by removing an ancient and basic human right to shelter.

Also leading to an increased number of people freezing to death over winter.Many of your constituents are facing urgent housing/homeless and medical issues,which we hope you are willing to address.

We have had numerous liaisons with the inspectors from Colindale police of the past days (which we have filmed recorded and logged ) who are happy for our protest to continue.
Acknowledging that we are not breaking any laws and that we have rights to peacefully protest and assemble under ECHR articles 10 and 11.

That at all times we are endeavouring to be polite, courteous,co-operative with police requests through regular Liason.
We are keeping the area clean and tidy and are aiming to install some plants and window boxes to make the area more beautifull and attractive.
We are keeping the main access way very clear to your doorstep all times.
We have trained health and safety managers who are monitoring the situation.

We politely ask you to meet with us to discuss matters of great national importance such as the housing crisis which we feel your sec144 is exacerbating.
We would like to invite you to spend a few nights camped out with some of your homeless constituents to discuss these and many other issues,over a cup of tea, in an atmosphere of co-operative democratic discussion.

Having been ignored by your so called democratic public consultation, we have taken this act of peacefull protest to facilitate direct discussion and to stimulate the debate in the national media.

We are, having met with you and shared our views with each other,and some of our conditions met, happy to discuss an end date to our protest in a reasonable and proportionate manner without recourse to the law.
We hope to avoid unnecessary court time and expense.
We shall be advised in all the matters by our good friends Bindmans solicitors.

Looking forward to a discussion of solutions to the housing crisis that we can all work towards together.

Yours sincerely

Phoenix
Daniel
Mordecai
Petra
Peter
Graham
Dom
Mark
Bohemia Caretakers








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On 26 Nov 2013, at 15:54, "FREER, Mike" <mike.freer.mp@parliament.ukmike.freer.mp@parliament.uk

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Mike Freer MP
Conservative Member of Parliament for Finchley & Golders Green
House of Commons
London SW1A 0AA
020 7219 7071 (Westminster) & 020 8445 5875 (Constituency)


Dear Sir,

I write in reference to your protest and encampment at my constituency office.  I have 74,000 electors to serve and your protest/encampment outside my office is inhibiting my ability to serve my constituents.  I appreciate you feel your point is important, but I must stress that I am trying to deal with constituents who are facing urgent medical issues and child protection issues to name but two.  My constituents are being deterred from calling at my office.  Having made your point through your protest, I now politely ask you to stop.  If you are a constituent, you can, as you have been advised by my office, e-mail or telephone 0207 219 7071 to make an appointment and in accordance with our usual procedures, an appointment would be offered.

Mike Freer MP
Conservative Member of Parliament for Finchley & Golders Green
020 7219 7071 (Westminster)
020 8445 5875 (Finchley)
Sent from my iPad, working in the move

Evening Standard Tory MP Mike Freer calls police ‘daft’ and protesters ‘numb-nuts’ in email gaffe

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/tory-mp-mike-freer-calls-police-daft-and-protesters-numbnuts-in-email-gaffe-8972282.html

Tory MP Mike Freer calls police ‘daft’ and protesters ‘numb-nuts’ in email gaffe

A Tory MP’s attempt to placate a group of protesters camped outside his office backfired after he copied them in on an email in which called them “numb-nuts” and branded the police “daft”.

Last week, a dozen members of the Occupy movement launched a protest at the office of Finchley and Golders Green MP Mike Freer, who helped draw up the new law against squatting in empty residential buildings.

Mr Freer’s staff initially followed police advice and gave the protesters permission to camp in the driveway to stop them blocking the pavement outside his office on Ballards Lane in Finchley, which was Baroness Thatcher’s former constituency HQ.

However, they later retracted this and hired bailiffs to force them out.

The group had vowed to stay until Mr Freer spent a night camping with them and he politely invited the protesters via email to meet him to discuss their concerns, which they agreed to do.

However, in an email to office colleagues that was apparently sent to the protesters by accident, he wrote: “I am mightily peed off at the Police. I feel like sending the Bill to the Commissioner saying your fat advice landed us with the Bill. Of course this will inhibit every other demo as we will simply refuse to allow anyone onto our property.

“So tempting to say — you are all numb-nuts as I am not the owner of the property and it is they you should be dealing with about your presence.”

The “bill” was for the private bailiffs who arrived at dawn yesterday to remove campaigners and their furniture. The group has now set up camp across the road and around 50 protesters staged a demonstration last night that was broadcast online.

Protester Pete Phoenix, 43, said: “It isn’t a nice way to refer to your constituents. We have been politely co-operating with the police and we have been very respectful in our protest. We weren’t trespassing as he gave us permission. He has been disrespectful to people trying to have their say.”

Mr Freer said: “The squatters and the camp were disrupting my constituency office and its presence was intimidating. A polite request for the squatters to leave was ignored as were instructions on how to arrange an appointment. It was decided that we had no alternative but to lawfully remove the squatters from the property.”

A Met Police spokesman said it would not be commenting on the email.

Guardian on mike freer MP email daft gate,embarrassment at Tory HQ

Tory MP calls police 'daft' in email mistakenly sent to squatters at his HQ

'I am mightily pee'd off at police,' wrote Mike Freer over protest at suburban office where Margaret Thatcher launched her career http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/nov/28/tory-mp-mike-freer-police-daftGuardian article link

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• The Guardian, Thursday 28 November 2013 22.52 GMT 

The squatters, including Pete Phoenix (centre), had been sleeping in tents pitched outside Mike Freer's constituency office. Photograph: Velar Grant/Demotix/Corbis

The Conservative MP in Margaret Thatcher's former constituency has made damning comments about police officers who have been overseeing a week-long housing protest on the forecourt of his constituency office – in an email intended for a colleague but instead sent to the protesters.

The Finchley MP Mike Freer describes advice from the Metropolitan police about how to manage the protest as "daft". The protesters have nicknamed the disclosure as "Daftgate".

Freer was already facing embarrassment about the week-long housing protest in his front yard. Since last Friday protesters had set up two tents and a gazebo and slogans have been filling the forecourt. Many of his constituents have come along to support the week-long protest.

In the email – seen by the Guardian – he calls the protesters "numb-nuts" and the police "daft", saying: "I am mightily pee'd off at the police. I feel like sending the bill to the commissioner saying your daft advice landed us with this bill."

The six protesters camped on the forecourt for the past week were removed by bailiffs at 6.30am on Friday.

Pete Phoenix, one of the demonstrators, said the protest focused on legislation, introduced last year, that made squatting in empty residential buildings a criminal offence (it was previously a civil offence).

Freer is an architect of the law – section 144 of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders (Laspo) Act 2012.

Phoenix said: "With 1.5m empty properties in the UK and a rising problem of homelessness – estimated at 400,000 hidden homeless – the time and effort being put into criminalising sheltering in empty properties (squatting) goes against common sense.

"These laws are a further example of attempts by the current government to penalise the poor while tax evaders and corporate profiteers run away with the stolen wealth of the country."

The protesters say Freer's office allowed them to protest on the forecourt last Friday. They then construed this invitation as a licence to remain and the standoff between the two parties began.

When the bailiffs arrived, they gave the protesters a notice in the name of Finchley and Golders Green Conservative association asking them to vacate the premises under common law, a rarely used legal route.

Freer said: "The squatters and the camp were disrupting my constituency office and its presence was intimidating. A polite request for the squatters to leave was ignored as were instructions on how to arrange an appointment; it was decided we had no alternative but to lawfully remove the squatters from the property."

Paul Ridge, a solicitor at Bindmans, who has been advising the protesters, said: "The manner of the eviction was very unusual. It seems that self-help remedies under common law were applied instead of going to court to seek an eviction order.

"Mike Freer may not like what has happened but the police behaved entirely properly during this protest. Police are not there to adjudicate between two parties who disagree but to uphold the law.

"The key issue here is about the right to protest. The police were clearly satisfied that no criminal offence had been committed."

A Met spokesman said: "Barnet officers were at the constituency premises of MP Mike Freer this morning whilst bailiffs moved the protesters on. Officers from Barnet were there to prevent a breach of the peace. No arrests were made."

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Tory MP mike Freers email travesty top Tory tyranny own goal - occupy London GA at mikes office Tory HQ

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Occupy London General Assembly on the Housing Crisis Thursday November 28, 2013 at Mike Freer MPs Tory HQ Barnet 212 Ballards Lane East Finchley. (Margaret Thatchers old office)

Occupy London General Assembly on the Housing Crisis 

Thursday  November 28, 2013 at Mike Freer  MPs Tory HQ Barnet 212 Ballards Lane East Finchley.

(Margaret Thatchers old office)

National Call Out to Occupy your MP

If you're affected by the Cuts, high rents, benefit caps, the anti-squatting law,the bedroom tax,or workfare slave labour.

Find your local MP and occupy outside their office.

 The General Assembly calls for: 

1) The repeal of section 144 the law that criminalises sheltering in empty buildings (squatting) and the repeal of the LASPO Act.which has removed our rights to Legal Aid.

Www.squashcampaign.org petition to repeal sec.144

2) The 1.5 million empty buildings in the UK to be used for homes, community centres and to create employment.

3) a National Housing debate on the housing crisis in the media and online.

4) That no  one freeze to death in the winter when there are so many empty buildings. 31,000 people died this year from fuel poverty homed and homeless.

The big six companies energy profits are up 500% in three years to 1 .2 billion.

We call for the renationalisation of the energy companies.

5) Housing is a fundamental human right and property rights should not trump those rights.

6) Solutions to the housing crisis  need to be put into action, all cooperating to make this happen.

To be sent to all MPs, press lists and social media.

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Mike freer Mp not wanting any more direct Democracy debates on his doorstep sent in the heavies to evict under old Norman common law, we have more big baillifs than you.bindmans solicitors say its regrettable that top Tory MP did not follow usual legal process, he has taken the law into his own hands. To forcefully evict a peacefull protest.
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The group have set up camp on the driveway of the office - now used by Conservative MP Mike Freer- and are refusing to leave until he spends a night camping with them.

One of the group of around a dozen activists said they had chosen to target the location because of its history as the birthplace of Thatcherism. 

Dom, 27, who did not give his second name, said: “The Conservative Party has done a lot of harm to this country so this being Margaret Thatcher’s office adds to our reason for being here.” “Mike Freer is partly responsible for the criminalising of squatting while more than one million homes are empty. It used to be a civil matter but now you could face time in jail. It makes it difficult for people to find shelter. Squatting can save people’s lives.”

Another, Daniel Gardonyi, 32, vowed they would stay camped outside the office of the Finchley and Golders Green MP until Mr Freer joined them.

“Mike Freer tried to kick us out. We will stay until he comes and speaks with us and sleeps in a tent to see what it is like, so he can relate to the homeless,” he said.

But Mr Freer called the protest “futile” as he had not been at his constituency office since Friday.

“They arrived on Friday and protested outside my office but they hadn’t worked out I would be in Westminster like every other MP.

“They have rung the buzzer of the office but that’s the sum of all contact. They have a view and I disagree with it. Camping outside my front door is not going to persuade me to change my mind.

“I supported the criminalisation of squatting because it was a big problem in my constituency. I don’t think it was right that hard working families that have saved would come home from holiday or having a house refurbished and would find someone else living in it.”

The activists claimed they had been given verbal permission to camp in the driveway but Mr Freer denied this.

“Initially it was fine but by camping they are intimidating and deterring my constituents from coming to the door. I’m hoping they will see sense and we are considering our next step,” he said.

Baroness Thatcher’s political career officially began when she was elected as MP for Finchley in 1959. She served the constituency throughout her time as Prime Minister and only stepped down two years after leaving Downing Street.

Mrs Angry on the Mike Freer Mp Margaret Thatcher occupy camp .... Hard hitting and hilarious

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Mike Freer anti squatter is squatted Guardian article

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Diary: Biter bit. The anti-squatter's anti-squatter is squatted

Red faces, high tension at Margaret Thatcher House

 Monday 25 November 2013 23.00 GMT

Not for turning: squatters outside Margaret Thatcher House, in Finchley. Photograph: Richard Soans/ Richard Soans/Demotix/Corbis

Hugh Muir

• No man is an island, as they say, and MPs will have this in mind as they pronounce in parliament. The general can very quickly become specific; chickens come home to roost. It was Finchley MP Mike Freer's destiny perhaps to become the driving force behind the government's tough new anti-squatting legislation. But tough as it is, it isn't helping him with the squatters who have for the past four days occupied the yard outside his constituency office, Margaret Thatcher House, once the seat of power of Baroness Thatcher. For all the new legal powers, it's complicated. The squatters say officials in Freer's office told them they could protest in the forecourt rather than languish on the pavement. And that, the squatters say, represents a licence. And that means they're staying. Freer and his people are looking up the rules and trying to sort it out. Might be another job for parliament.

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Guardian article on Mike Freer Margaret thatchers yard occupation

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Mike freer MP squat law protest Demotix photos n article

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Mike Freer MP front yard occupied come support

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Homes for all campaign repeal section 144 anti-squat law demonstration : Friday 22nd nov 11-6 pm. Outside of the Conservative MP Mike Freer constituency office

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To show discontent with the law that causes the poor to freeze to death in winter. whatever they say Squatting will stay www.SquashCampaign.org called by the Friern Barnet library and bohemian squatters network it

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Tonight 6:30pm all london squatters meeting, followed by film and peoples kitchen 195 mare st hackney

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Friern Barnet library Squatters Confront Mike Freer MP About His Campaign Against Squatting When: 11:00am - 6:00pm Friday 22 of November

Friern Barnet library Squatters Confront
Mike Freer MP About His Campaign Against Squatting

When: 11:00am - 6:00pm Friday 22 of November

Where: 4 Ballads Lane and Granville Rd

This Friday, squatters, community members and housing campaigners will demonstrate outside Mike Freer MP's constituency office in Barnet. The demonstration is response to the recent violent eviction of the Bohemia, a popular squatted social centre nearby. The demonstration is also a call for an immediate repeal of section 144 and full adequate investment in social housing rather than criminalising the homeless.

For more information: www.squashcampaign.org

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Victory to bohemians Case adjourned till 18th nov network it www.ourbohemia.co.uk long live the community centre come and help

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Bohemia community project in court mon 4th box 10am at barnet county court regents park rd finchley central tube come support

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Halloween music night tonight at Bohemia and help needed court case Monday 4th nov 10 am #savethebohemia

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Press release from Housing Action Southwark & Lambeth - 28th October: Housing activists have occupied a property owned by Southwark council which was due to be auctioned today at a starting price of £2.3 million.

Press release from Housing Action Southwark & Lambeth - 28th October: 

Housing activists have occupied a property owned by Southwark council which was due to be auctioned today at a starting price of £2.3 million. 

They have occupied the building to stop the sell-off of yet more public housing stock when the borough faces a severe housing crisis with almost 25,000 people on the housing waiting list and increasing numbers of people forced to sleep rough on London’s streets. 

The occupation is also a challenge to section 114 of the Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act (LASPO) introduced last September which criminalised squatting in residential properties. This law has meant that homeless people seeking shelter in empty buildings can find themselves with a prison sentence. 
Sarah Morris, a local housing campaigner involved in the occupation said: 

“We have occupied this building to stop yet more council housing being sold off to private developers. Southwark council has a waiting list with 25,000 people in need of quality, secure, and truly affordable housing that this building once was. In the face of such housing need in the borough, London, and the whole of the UK this sale of council housing is madness. The attempted sale of this building is a part of the social cleansing that is happening across London where local working class residents are being forced out so that wealthier people can buy it up. We hope that by taking direct action, we can stop the sale of these homes so that they remain a public good rather than another empty building owned by a property speculator. 

“The squatting of this residential building is significant because it is a challenge to the law introduced last year which criminalises homeless people through the banning of squatting residential buildings. Community led occupations such as our own to defend our council housing could be made illegal if this punitive law is extended.” 

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Occupation against Southwark sell-off still going at Park Street - 28th October: 

Today, Housing Action Southwark and Lambeth people were involved in the occupation of 21 & 23 Park street buildings in protest at Southwark council’s sell off of these council houses. See our press release from earlier [above]. Sadly, the buildings were sold off this afternoon for almost £3 million, diminishing Southwark’s public housing stock. Through this sell off Southwark council have shown their complete lack of interest in ensuring quality, secure and truly affordable housing for residents and have made it clear that they do not think people on low incomes should be able to live in the Borough area. 

On the plus side, the protest occupation is still going strong. Although the police did visit this afternoon with the intention of removing the protestors, the police acknowledged that the law brought in last year to criminalise squatting in residential properties did not apply in this instance as this is a political occupation – section 114 of Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act makes it a criminal offence to live in a residential building, occupying it in protest is not the same as living in it. This is an important challenge to section 114 and shows a potential loophole for people to occupy residential buildings. 

If you can, get down to 21 & 23 Park street, just off Borough market, to show your support. Donations of food would be welcome. 

Housing Action Southwark and Lambeth are meeting this Wednesday, 6.30pm at Renton Close Community Centre, Brixton Hill where we discuss our housing problems, provide support for each other and discuss collective action.

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