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they are low life lawless scum that need moving on. If you or I tried it you'd be moved on instantly why are they not?
Islay, have you ever had any direct experience of these parasites? The people live around that site will have had everything that isn't bolted down stolen for a start.
Yes frequently in Norfolk, london and Northern Ireland - and as I have several times before said - I have never had an issue with them.
Surely a question to be asking your local councillors, MP's .
Islay, if you have direct experience of these people and have never had an issue with them, you I would suggest are ... erm ... unique.
What we need is some kind of traveler mayor who all travellers have elected, a go between if you will, someone who has experienced traveller life and civvy street, a conduit so at troubled times like theses we can have a sit down and straighten with views to solutions where everyone is happy.
A non violent straightener
My thoughts on this are if the Council confiscated their vehicles and homes would the Council then be responsible for housing them. Do they move them on so that they are somebody else's problem?
.....or they could join the human race!
They are in essence what the Americans call Trailer Trash.
They say they don't want to cause any hassle to anyone and yet they will leave a mountain of rubbish behind for other people to clear up !! Isn't that hassle ??
It's not hassle, just a small part of a rich and diverse country where everyone is accepted by everybody else.

Until a bin bag full of used Pampers or worse comes over the fence.
So what have they done wrong?

Where to begin. Where do they dispose of their sewage? Where do they dispose of their household rubbish? Where do they dispose of the rubbish they have been paid to collect?

“If its private property then they are trespassing and there is a law that covers that.”

Unless it’s criminal trespass (which it isn’t) their occupation of the land is purely a civil matter. It is notoriously difficult to evict somebody from private land and involves court orders having to be sought and actioned. The police play no part in this process and will only attend, if asked, to keep the peace when private bailiffs attend to carry out the writ (at a cost to the landowner). To understand this, Islay, imagine you owned a small field which you used from time to time. If travellers pitch up on it you will have to go to the Court, explain why you want them moved, obtain a writ of possession and then either serve it yourself and hope they obey it or pay bailiffs to serve it on your behalf. Fair?

There is no justification for treating travellers with special dispensation. They chose their lifestyle and so must deal with the attendant inconveniences that go with it (such as, er…continually having to travel). But they want no part of mainstream society.
"But they want no part of mainstream society"

Not stricly true, NJ

They are happy to use (and abuse) every part of mainstream society that is useful to them (roads, fuel, telecoms, benefits etc etc).

What they *are* absolutely clear on is that they will never ever contribute anything whatsoever to the costs of providing this infrastructure.
well perhaps apologists like islay should volunteer to let them on to their land eh?
SD: "They are happy to use (and abuse) every part of mainstream society that is useful to them (roads, fuel, telecoms, benefits etc etc). " - you forgot, hand wringing gullible lefties.
Council owned land has a slightly different way of dealing with these things. Because it is 'public' land the councils are usually very cagey about getting rid.

It is also the case that if you can show willfull damage, i.e. Fences, chains and barriers destroyed then that can help speed things up.

Private land is a different matter.

If the landowner and a policeman attend within 24 hours the landowner then asks them to vacate now (by giving them a time limit say by morning or anything they are giving them permission to stay ergo you don't give any time).

If they don't leave then the police are able to make them leave.

If you don't make it within the 24 hours the landowner has to go through the rigmarole of court. Which can take weeks and weeks.

However all the above is only useful if the local police act. If they are not fully convergent with the law OR interpret it squiff, they do nothing and wash their hands of it.
Islay is not unique at all Naomi, I have been around travellers all my life, they have wintered on our ground and my current partner is a Romanian Roma, and I've never had more issues with them than with any other type of people and in some regards a good deal less. There are many types of traveller and like every other social or racial group some are good, some are bad and most are right in the middle, you all seem to be missing this in your frenzy to lump everyone together.
Fair enough then, Islay's not unique, just part of a vanishingly small group.
Apparently.
kvalidir, ok, you're one of two. I don't see anyone here in a frenzy.

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