This one was the cheapest, at a mere £15 million, which is perhaps why he had left it empty. “Our main priority is to highlight the large number of empty buildings in London and to try to ensure they don’t go to waste when there are so many homeless people,” Jed Miller, one of the anarchists who appeared in court to argue against the eviction, told journalists. “These offshore companies which own so many empty buildings in London are using them to minimize their tax liability. That is diverting money away from crucial services.”
