Travellers Set Up Camp By Coronavirus Testing Centre

[fender62]

so travellers can travel and setup at will, when and wherever..but joe public gets fined or a telling off, double standards here, why is this allowed, it makes a mockery of so called lockdown.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8293163/Travellers-set-camp-council-car-parks-yards-coronavirus-testing-centre.html

[Mamyalynne]

I didn't think you could call on the Military to do such jobs, Travellers are the responsibility of the Local Authority.

[Mozz71]

It's ironic that the folk here who are demanding action the most are the ones who seem to go quietest when questioned about what should be done.

[Canary42]

/// Yeh but no but they are effnic minorities ///

I cannot find any such evidence in the article.

[sanmac]

Roamans?

[fender62]

you could ban them from driving, confiscate there cars, finger prints them all and see if there's any match on police databases for wanted
criminals, child endangerment, public nuisance, illegal parking, find faults with vehicles, thus have to be destroyed or repaired, then find more faults with vehicles, then crush them while they watch.

[Mozz71]

I've a better idea Fender. Force them to dig their own graves, make them lay in them, dowse them in paraffin and toast marshmallows over their fiery corpses.

Only slightly more outrageous than your suggestion.

[Theland]

Seriously, it is way past time that this nomad existence was outlawed, and there is no netter time to do than now.

[retrocop]

//Only slightly more outrageous than your suggestion. //

Don't be too hard on yourself Mozz.

[Theland]

I bet any attempt to rid our country of their parasitic activities would be highly popular politically, and only leftist extremists would cry foul.
I dream in hope.

[Mozz71]

How would you advocate "ridding our country" of the TL? If they're English citizens, we wouldn't be able to deport them. And if you're suggesting a more permanent definition of "ridding" I think you may find there would be slightly more than leftist extremists against that idea.

[Theland]

Simple. Settle them in one place and prohibit their roaming lifestyle as an anti social offence, punishable by fines and imprisonment.

[emmie]

perhaps so they can get tested, stranger things have happened....

[naomi24]

00:38 & 02:51. Sick.

[malagabob]

“Simple. Settle them in one place and prohibit their roaming lifestyle as an anti social offence, punishable by fines and imprisonment.”
How would you ID them. most give false names and haven’t got passports and driving licences anyway.

[Zacs-Master]

I know, make ‘em download an app!

[Old_Geezer]

Perhaps they set up there to volunteer for testing and act as guinea pigs for new vaccines/cures.

[douglas9401]

Almos, OG. Their legendary immunity to every law and social norm known to civilisation has caused scientists to ask whether they can shrug off the bug too.

They're being tested for antisocial bodies.

[CrapAtCryptics]

They`re probably expecting a free test soon so they want to be at the front of the queue.

[ToraToraTora]

Mozz 00:38 why is Fender's suggestion at 00:26 so outrageous? Fender bang on. I've been saying for years that we should give the council powers to confiscate their Porsches etc to pay for the damage they cause and powers to move them on without hissing about in court for a week. Maybe they'd join the human race then.

[AuntPollyGrey]

Ok time for a bit of education on the 'Travellers'. Firstly they do class themselves as an ethnic minority -usually when in Court, as they are 'Romany'. This gives them certain rights which the rest of us can't get, such as buying land, building rickety stables then placing 5 caravans on the land to look after the 'stock'.
They all have either proper homes or live on permanent sites. Some of the homes would make your eyes water, as would some of the huge permanent caravans they live in. Around Easter time they all prepare to go on the road, some all summer, some just for the odd weekend or to attend one of the many Horse fairs around the UK. Appleby probably being one of the most well known. They meet up in Tribes of family members and usually stick together until they all return to their permanent homes in September. Like I say, some return to their base in between Fairs.
Not all Travellers are true Romany, but most follow the rule that if its not tied down its fair game for being relieved of its owner. While on their annual 'holidays' they leave their temporary stops in a dreadful state along with plenty of police incident numbers. We are on one of the ancient routes to Appleby and see it every year -thankfully or hopefully , not this year but it would not surprise me if they manage to get around the lockdown. We see them arrive on the moors maybe 50 miles from Appleby with their beautiful caravans on the back of low loaders, horses in £150k wagons and off they go, causing traffic jams up the A66 and thieving. I would love to say, of course not all of them are like that, but unfortunately they are.