Spanish locksmiths and fireman refuse to help banks evict people

Graham_Devon

I like this story. Banks evicting people from their homes in Spain are finding it increasingly difficult to go about their business.

Locksmiths who used to work on their behalf have now resigned from doing the job of entering the premises.

The banks and landlords turned to the firemen. The firemen, on arriving at a scene where they ad to evict an 85 year old lady from her home joined the crowd in protest instead of undertaking the eviction.

"We come to the aid of people in emergencies. It is contradictory to help the banks that are putting people's lives in danger by evicting them," said Antonio del Rio, a labour union representative for the Catalonia fire service.

"The only thing we do is help citizens," said Pedro Campos, a Madrid-based fireman.

Sometimes it doesn't take much for the human aspect to make such a mockery of the financial system. I find it very humbling.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/9888042/Spanish-firemen-and-locksmiths-refuse-to-evict-homeowners.html

ILW

So the locksmiths go bust as well. People should be evicted if they do not pay their bills.
We just seem to have lost the plot in this country.

spacey2012

Would never work in "why should they when I " Britain.
Country full of jealous little *****.

Graham_Devon

ILW wrote: »

So the locksmiths go bust as well. People should be evicted if they do not pay their bills.
We just seem to have lost the plot in this country.

To a point, yes.

But I think with Spain and Greece it's gone past the point of normality. Landlords now want more and more money from people in rent to cover their backsides for their own losses, making it nigh on impossible for normal people to pay these bills.

The point in many of these scenarios is where do you start? Do you blame the person who took out a mortgage to secure a home? Or do you blame the banks for letting them take that mortgage out? Or do you blame the EU for just rolling over the problems time after time?

Either way, the Spanish bubble was bigger than ours, and all based on greed. Landlords and banks are now finding themselves loosing in a big way and trying to take more and more from the little man in order to cover their losses.

It's gone to far now though in places like Spain. Suicides are increasing as a direct result of such problems, hence companies and public services refusing to work with the banks.

It doens't have to be this way though. If the EU would just let it go, a lot of this extended pain for the little person in order to prop up the system wouldn't have to happen.

vivatifosi

With locksmiths they run their own businesses and its a matter of their own conscience and opinion. With firefighters though I can't see why they'd be involved in the first place. Hard pressed public services should not be coming to the aid of a private enterprise anyway (except of course where there's a fire in a private enterprise..).

dryhat

Declaring their job is to “serve the public” and not be “puppets of the bank or its servants in the government,” Spanish firefighters joined protesters from Stop Desahucios to halt the eviction of Aurelia Rey, an 85-year-old woman who was one month's behind on her rent.

Excellent news.
Well done firemen.

Alongside this, mass demonstrations are happening all over spain and europe and largely going unreported by the MSM.

spacey2012

Who sets these bills and at what point do the people stand up and say we can pay no more, we do ALL the work, the rich are taking the pee, manipulating costs and we want the right to live.
They are few, the people are many many times more, millions times more and once they work that out, they can demand a better slice of the cake and why shouldn't they, they made it all.
Sitting watching a few elites stuff it in their bloated mouths whilst you go hungry is enough to wake anyone up.
The days of them manipulating politicians in to making endless laws to punish the working people are useless if those people refuse to cooperate.
It will arrive here, we are just a few stations down the line.
the Cutting of the UK's credit status is the rumbling on the tracks.

Thrugelmir

dryhat wrote: »

Alongside this, mass demonstrations are happening all over spain and europe and largely going unreported by the MSM.

No one want to report the rise of anti German feeling in Greece and the Nationalist traits with it. As harbours the views and events of history some 70 years ago.

The EU in part was created to dispel this in the future.

ruggedtoast

Great, the less people cooperate with these parasites the better. This kind of stuff terrifies governments because their paymasters start to suffer real anxiety that they are losing control.

Carl31

I do agree that if people cant cover their bills they should pay the consequence

However, the economic management of a country is not down to joe public, its not really their fault that the powers that be around the world have failed the people. Those that made the mess should offer the soloution

grizzly1911

Carl31 wrote: »

I do agree that if people cant cover their bills they should pay the consequence

However, the economic management of a country is not down to joe public, its not really their fault that the powers that be around the world have failed the people. Those that made the mess should offer the soloution

The Banks failed. Did they pay their dues?

It is only those that have trousered the "profits" that can facilitate the solution.