Exodus Victory

Luton's Exodus Collective have managed to defeat a last minute attempt to evict them from a farmstead they have occupied since 1992. The eviction notice had been entirely unexpected given that Exodus had successfully pitched for the property in auction in 1998. However, with no legal binding on completion of sale until contracts and deposits had been exchanged, the Department decided to pull out of the deal after extensive lobbying from Tory MP Jonathan Sayeed (Mid Beds). The attempted eviction was subsequently planned for the morning of November 5th and hundreds of activists from around the country prepared for an emergency mobilisation after news of the threat swept round the country.

However, following Exodus's personal appeal to Lord Whitty, Sayeed's campaign to evict the farm faltered just two days before the planned arrival of bailiffs. Sayeed said that he was "furious", but there is now nothing that Sayeed can do to alter Exodus's legal possession of the 17 acre farm.