Friday 23 September 2011

'Dale Farm'

I am amazed at the stupidity of people in this country (and by being able to vote, we have got the politicians we deserve). Here is what has happened at the nice sounding Dale Farm site. A group of Travellers (who are reluctant, it seems, to travel) bought a plot of land. They had planning permission to build on some of it. They exceeded the terms of that permission and have been pursued by the law.

Hardly rushed, the situation today is the result of ten years of to-ing and fro-ing. That is it. But whining Lefties are pitching up saying something is unfair, but we are not sure what. A cry goes up that there are not enough pitches for them. Why should the authorities provide any?

The only contact I have had with people who claim to be Travellers have been when a group camped in a Mercury Communications car park and proceeded to attempt to break into cars of the staff. Told to clear off by my wife, they came back and loosened the wheel nuts on her car. The other incident was when a group occupied a business estate over the road and all the garages were rifled in the nearby streets, mine included.

Oh and our council had to build high berms as we have large grassed verges around here and Travellers tended to use them. For a short while to live on and then to leave whatever detritus they didn't want when they moved on. There may be many lovely people in their community, but the Travellers are disliked for very real reasons. They might want to address that, before spouting off that any laws they don't like shouldn't apply to them.

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