It's almost inevitable that as soon as there's a weekend Public Holiday (when all bureaucrats are away in Tuscany), the 'Travellers' turn-up overnight with their diggers, caravans, tarmac lorries, and thuggish behaviour, and make yet another field into a trailer park and rubbish tip, in a military-style takeover. This time it was in Felsted in Essex (below).
These folk take absolutely no notice of rules, regulations, or even laws. They do as they please, and stick two fingers up at authority; they even sell the individual plots in advance. And the most amazing thing is that 'authority' does nothing to stop it; not even to tell them to get-out, and repair all the damage.
Easy Solution: All their cars and caravans should be immediately towed-away, and if the field wasn't returned to how it was within 48 hours, everything would be crushed. The 'travellers' themselves would be imprisoned until everything was back to normal.
The effing cheek of these people really annoys me. You wouldn't believe the process ordinary folk have to go through, even to alter a garden shed; these people could build a whole bloody city illegally and no-one says anything.
Why do we allow such things. We have a well-trained Army who could enforce laws, and we have over a Million young people on the dole who could help remove all the campers. Where's the difficulty?
It sounds as though your blood pressure is rising.
ReplyDeleteWe had one of these people in a field opposite the bottom of the garden in Shropshire. When I approached the man about what he was doing, he threatened me in a really nasty way. People in the village said I was crazy even talking to him !!!
DeleteThe Traveller Community is like a nation within a nation. We gorjas have never understood them. Though my thinking on many things is quite liberal, when it comes to Travellers, I certainly would not want them setting up camp in my neck of the woods. It must be awful for the gorjas who live nearby.
ReplyDeleteOne of them settled in a small field at the bottom of our garden, and threatened to tear my guts out. He was a BIG guy too.
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You'd need a well trained army to move them on I imagine. Things could turn nasty very fast. Are there areas where they're allowed and encouraged to camp?
ReplyDeleteYes, there are. Usually they're only short stay camps, but there are plenty of them. If they don't wish to 'travel' any more, then they should settle down, and buy a home. They're rich enough.
DeleteI suspect that they had already bought the field, as they did with one elsewhere that I read about, so it was theirs, but the total lack of action by the planning authorities beggars belief. As you say, we law abiding citizens can't even put up a garden shed or anything else without permission.
ReplyDeleteYes, they buy in advance, sell plots online, then move in over a weekend (whilst no-one's watching).
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