Actually one of the few sane things that the past governments have done is pass a law protecting "primary abode", meaning that the banks could not take away peoples' homes. This has been renewed and currently will hold until December 2013. However, statements from some high-ranking conservative MPs and others attributed to the troika, suggest that this will be the final deadline and that afterwards, all hell might break loose...

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom - William Blake