The prestigious annual property awards held by Property Week in a five-star hotel were targeted by protesters.
Demonstrators outside the Grosvenor House hotel in Park Lane, London, had attempted to shut down the event on Tuesday night.
They dumped cow manure and live cockroaches as guests arrived for the black-tie bash.
Members of the group Sexual Avengers, which espouses ‘radical queer resistance’, were demanding affordable homes, rent controls, no Right to Buy for social tenants, and more support for homeless lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people.
They were also demonstrating against the ‘gentrification’ of parts of London and the displacement of communities.
A spokesperson for the group said: “We are at the mercy of the housing market, where landlords and letting agents condemn us to live in unsafe flats among filth and vermin.”
EYE has invited both Property Week and the event organisers, Metropolis, to comment.
Places at the swish awards dinner cost £400, with tables at £3,000.
One demonstrator held up a placard, telling attendees: “Your dinner costs more than my rent.”
A tweet on the Sexual Avengers twitter account said: “Sh***ing on their doorstep like they sh** on ours.”
This is the second time that this year’s Property Week awards have attracted controversy.
Last November, student judges of a new category, “the Student Accommodation Awards”, refused to make any award.
They said that student accommodation providers of, for example, private halls of residence, over-charged, provided the wrong sort of accommodation, and put their shareholders first.
The category was scrapped.
Perhaps if they didn’t act like filth and vermin, they’d not be treated as such? Just a thought!
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Affordable homes, rent controls, no right to buy and you missed out Letting agent fees??……you had one job!!
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Some people manage to find a way to make everything about themselves.
Go home and be productive. If anything this publicity stunt was a waste of manure and cockroaches that could have gone to grow plants and crops, and also feed pet snakes and spiders.
I look forward to a ‘plant rights’ and ‘pet snakes and spiders rights’ demonstration as a follow-up. Perhaps we at PIE can organise something?
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Oh Mr Harvey, we don’t want these blighters being productive and producing more little blighters!!!!
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“Your dinner costs more than my rent.” So they are looking to pay more rent, right?
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So….
“Members of the group Sexual Avengers, which espouses ‘radical queer resistance’, were demanding affordable homes, rent controls, no Right to Buy for social tenants, and more support for homeless lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people.
They were also demonstrating against the ‘gentrification’ of parts of London and the displacement of communities.”
Just a thought but aren’t these policies created by MPs and councils?? Not sure what control agents have over these??? Shouldn’t they be at Westminster or their local council office?
As for blaming agents for the above, they may as well have blamed Walt Disney and Mickey Mouse or Pepsi-Cola as they have as much control as agents on these policies.
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They’re protesting against gentrification, but don’t want to live in filth?
Can’t have it both ways, love.
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Here we go again …rent a mob, the 1% of the population who want the other 99% to change the way they live and work for their rights to be held above all else. Pathetic beyond words
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