Luxury housing development - squatted by Cornish students 2 hours after coming onto the market

In a staggering display of bravado, a group of eighteen students legally occupied 3 newly completed detached luxury houses in a discreet rural location in West Cornwall on Sunday afternoon.

When approached by Rentfreecornwall, the students claimed that they could not afford anywhere to live, and dismissed suggestions that they were less worthy of squatting than local Cornish families.

'We have to pay out thousands of pounds on tuition fees, loans, tax, and costs associated with our coursework. Whilst a minority of students have wealthy parents and drive around in expensive cars, the rest of us mostly have to hold down a number of part time jobs to make ends meet. As soon as we graduate, the Government then expects us to spend the next 50 years paying off all the loans and at the same trying to find somewhere to live.'

The so-called IPOD (Insecure, Pressurised, Over-taxed and Debt ridden) generation is a relatively modern phenomenon, with many critics of the British housing market arguing a new peasant class is emerging within the Middle and Working classes.

Brazenly, the students had posed as potential buyers for the properties in order to do a 'reccie.'

'It was easy to find a suitable house to squat. The greedy property developers have flashy web sites, with all the information you need,' claimed a student. 'We did it by post code, though we would have prefered somewhere a bit nearer the coast.'

Added another: 'We plan to grow our own vegetables in the garden; that should save us more money. We're proud to be part of a new emerging frugal generation, that simply will not tolerate being shoved about for the amusement of selfish land barons.'