Yes, it's going to be like a war zone tomorrow. Couldn't be happier.
I live around the corner and these people have caused issues for years in our community. Forget all this ethnic cleansing rubbish, the people campaigning on behalf of these animals haven't had to live alongside them for all this time.
+1 I grew uo far enough away in South Woodham not to experience it day to day, but they did like to pop down every so often to steal from asda.
Their biggest problem is they have pale skin, so nobody cares about them. You'll get no liberals protesting against racism for these people.
So ? everyone steals from asda.
Ethnic cleaning and racism, that is what the eviction is, apparently.
Ethnic cleaning and racism, that is what the eviction is, apparently.
In February 2005, rumours spread that the “clan” had bought more land at Billericay. The travellers denied owning it, but title deed checks revealed the new owners’ surnames, which matched theirs. The land was registered to a Wolverhampton address.
I got a phone number and called and asked for the owners by name. “They’re not here,” said a woman, but she gave me a mobile number. The man who answered denied owning the land, but it was enough for a splash.
A few weeks later a new traveller spokesman, Richard Sheridan, emerged. By chance I later noticed that his mobile number matched that of the man I had earlier called about the land.
Searches of electoral rolls on the internet brought up pages of the Sheridan travellers’ names for about 40 neighbouring homes on one estate. Travelling to Wolverhampton, I checked archived electoral rolls and discovered that the Sheridans had been housed by the council since the Eighties.
I checked deeds for Dale Farm: some of the travellers had used the same addresses to register land. It was proof that many of the Sheridans were not homeless – they had chosen to build illegally.
Villagers believed that it was a cynical ploy for profit, as the value of cheap green belt soars if it gets planning permission.
I had also spotted Sheridan names in newspaper reports about another big site, called Smithy Fen, in Cambridgeshire.
Looking through the planning files at South Cambridgeshire Council offices, I made a note of anything that could tie these people to Crays Hill. I also searched the Planning Inspector’s website, which threw up more sites in Essex, Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire.
Over many months I built up enough documentary evidence to tie up a number of people at Dale Farm as owning other land or being involved in similar legal battles elsewhere.
The final piece of the jigsaw was Rathkeale, a country town in Ireland, where a funeral took place after a fatal caravan fire at Dale Farm in 2005. I checked planning applications and title deeds and the Sheridan clan names came up linked to several homes in the town, worth around 250,000 euros.
The same fellow citizens who demanded places for their children at the local thriving Crays Hill Primary School who already had 230 pupils attending. This is despite of the school always being oversubscribed with local familes being added to a waiting list. The 'travellers' got their way of course. They used to bus the children to the school demanding and using 'human rights' arguments to have them schooled. Places were given. Given to children who hadn't been taught the basic human social rules. Once faced with feral unruly children who disrupted the whole school, local parents complained and asked for a return to order. They accepted that the school should teach these children but were fearful that the school could be destroyed in the future. Fast forward a few years and now we have a school were there are 120 'traveller' children registered and just 30 from the village. However, the school now has the highest absentee rate (53%) in the entire country. So much for the Camp Constant crew's assertion that the school would close if the 'travellers' were to travel. It is they that have destroyed the school. Shame on them!
I've lived near a legitimate ***** camp before and all they did was steal and vandalise everything. I dread to think what the illegal ones are like.
MW
Ethnic cleaning and racism, that is what the eviction is, apparently.
I think it's when you throw a bar of soap at them.
Yes, they own the land. They didn't have planning permission to build on half the land.
But they have applied for planning permission numerous times, yes?