Dale Farm residents who 'have nowhere to go' if evicted.......

[joeluke]

.......many actually own property in Ireland

http://www.dailymail....and-NOT-homeless.html

Why are we pussyfooting around these scrounging, tax avoiding law breakers?

Send in the heavy mob, clear the horde of great unwashed (aka socialists/tree huggers/do gooders) massed at the camp entrance, then round up the gypsies and put them on the first ferry back to Ireland

[rov1100]

Just to clarify something. On most of the big caravan parks the caravans are not owned by the park itself but are privately owned. The owner make most of his outlay during the peak period and then tries to recoup some of his possible losses out of season.

[albaqwerty]

ooh Em, don't say that.

It's my understaind half of the land has planning permission and the other half doesn't. After 10 years of legal wrangles, who is paying for this? The local Council Tax payer I presume and I would be very very angry if those taxes were diverted from education, policing, street-cleaning, street-lighting to name but a few

[naomi24]

rov, some of the people at Dale Farm might pay rates, but do you honestly think other travellers set up on someone else's land and then go an register with the local council? And where do their electricity and water supplies come from? Someone else's source - so no, they don't pay bills - so they're hardly likely to volunteer to pay for a space on a caravan site when they can live for free at the expense of others.

I think you're probably right, em.

[emmie]

Alba, the taxpayers that's who. The millions it costs to clean up when they go, that point was raised more than once, by different councils. And the thing that made me see red was that caravans do have toilet facilities, and most have washing, showers too, so why would it be necessary for anyone to use the park, bushes to go to the loo, and then leave all the detritus there for someone to clean up, disgusting.

[albaqwerty]

I did mention that Em:)

I think it is obscene that either they or the media are calling them travellers.

They are squatters.

You are right about the showers/toilet facilities.

[jomifl]

I used to live on a caravan site populated by many 'travellers'. At one time I employed a member of a traveller famly. I know my opinion of travellers is jaundiced by having lived amongst them but at risk of offending Jake the peg I have to say that it would be no loss to the country if they travelled off overnight and never returned.

[sandyRoe]

When the authorities do eventually get into the site I wonder how many slaves will be granted their manumission?