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300-400 Irish travellers in illegal British campsite: should they be evicted?

Dionysus

The deadline for the 300-400 Irish traveller families living on an illegal campsite in Basildon, Essex is seven days away: if they have not left by 31 August they will be evicted. Many travellers have been offered alternative accommodation, and the cost of the clean-up after them is expected to reach £9.5 million.

Over on The Irish Times this afternoon it seems that Amnesty International has stepped in asking for the eviction to be stopped: Call to halt travellers' UK eviction.

I can't imagine Amnesty being inundated with donations from that locality now. Anyway, there is some 1000 travellers living in the campsite, which is divided into a legal and illegal section. It is the largest traveller camp in Britain and is known as Dale Farm (cue remedial jokes about ice cream).

Dale Farm Travellers' Camp

Do you think they should be forcibly removed from the site if they refuse to leave it by 31 August?

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FatherLen

yes

orourkeda

absolutely.

Paarse Krokodil

No, they might come back to Ireland.

Padraig Mor

**** them out.

fedor.2.

God i hope they dont come back to Ireland

gaz wac

For such a big group of Travellers, they sure aint doing alot of travelling !

My name is URL

They're not being turfed out just for a laugh. The place isn't suitable for accommodating so many people. If they want to stay they should go through the proper channels and ensure that they adhere to council regulations.

Cee-Jay-Cee

They should be allowed to stay as they'll probably come back over here and do whatever it is they do...which we all know but arent allowed to say.

stovelid

Dionysus wrote: »

and the cost of the clean-up after them is expected to reach £9.5 million.

They're just misunderstood.

MagicMarker

Blast them with soapy water.

LondonIrish90

The key word in the thread title being illegal, so yes they should definately be evicted.

No matter how ignorant of the law they are, it still applies to them.

IvySlayer

I hope the Government over there have the balls to evict them. Remember a few years ago when we had to pay travellers to get off council property?

orourkeda

My name is URL wrote: »

They're not being turfed out just for a laugh. The place isn't suitable for accommodating so many people. If they want to stay they should go through the proper channels and ensure that they adhere to council regulations.

This is travellers we are talking about here.

ballsymchugh

Paarse Krokodil wrote: »

No, they might come back to Ireland.

most 'irish' travellers in the uk have hardly been to ireland in the first place. they are so cut off from the rest of the community (more or less self imposed) that they just keep the irish accents that their ancestors had.

and yes, they should be evicted.

Opelfruit

Dionysus wrote: »

It is the largest traveller camp in Britain and is known as Dale Farm (cue remedial jokes about ice cream).

"I could murder a Fat Frog", said Padraig Nally.

aujopimur

Where's the key to my bulldozer, I'm on my way to help.

Dionysus

Opelfruit wrote: »

"I could murder a Fat Frog", said Padraig Nally.

Creative!

My name is URL

orourkeda wrote: »

This is travellers we are talking about here.

Aye, but believe it or not; many of them do comply with the wishes of town councils and police etc. There's plenty of legal halting sites in the UK.

mahamageehad

If it's an illegal place and other UK citizens would be turfed out then these travellers should also be evicted!

I hate the hypocrisy of most of the people who defend travellers- one the one hand they want them to have ever right any other citizen has, on the other hand they want to rules to be bent to suit them. fück em out i say.

prinz

Absolutely. Evict any in an illegal position.

cocoshovel

Of course....as long as they don't come back here.

hardCopy

I can't see any reason not to evict.

Was anybody on AH really going to speak up for them?

Standard Toaster

My name is URL wrote: »

They're not being turfed out just for a laugh. The place isn't suitable for accommodating so many people. If they want to stay they should go through the proper channels and ensure that they adhere to council regulations.

Doesn't look too bad?

It's the Sheridan clan of travellers that own the plot. It's the other 86 families living there are the issue, living in an unauthorized site.

Just because they're Travellers doesn't mean they're above the law.
They were givin a chance to get alternative accommodation for them and they balls that up. Turf them out.

CorkMan

"Sure they had nowhere to go, society refused them".

*pulls radio power cable out of wall*

Stench Blossoms

Isn't that where Paddy Doherty lives?

He could move the rest of his family into the Big Brother house

dax121

i heard of a farmer go into a field full of pikies with his tractor, slurry tank and shot gun beside him. tells the boys hey im spreading slurrry id advise ye to move on. they shouting at him you cant do that boss. farmer replys it my field ill do what i want.
turns on the slurry tank and the pikies move on their way with all their stuff. class

Dionysus

dax121 wrote: »

i heard of a farmer go into a field full of pikies with his tractor, slurry tank and shot gun beside him. tells the boys hey im spreading slurrry id advise ye to move on. they shouting at him you cant do that boss. farmer replys it my field ill do what i want.
turns on the slurry tank and the pikies move on their way with all their stuff. class

I'd be surprised if some of them left only with their own stuff.

KittyeeTrix

Opelfruit wrote: »

"I could murder a Fat Frog", said Padraig Nally.

Hehe........ Brilliant!!:D

Dionysus

Standard Toaster wrote: »

Doesn't look too bad?

Nice use of technology there, ya nosy fecker.

My name is URL

Standard Toaster wrote: »

Doesn't look too bad?

It's the Sheridan clan of travellers that own the plot. It's the other 86 families living there are the issue, living in an unauthorized site.

Just because they're Travellers doesn't mean they're above the law.
They were givin a chance to get alternative accommodation for them and they balls that up. Turf them out.

Doesn't look too bad at all there. I remember seeing a program about the place a couple of years ago and it looked squalid. But yeah, they don't have permission to be there and are quite rightly going to be evicted. I dunno why it took 10 years.. I can understand their reluctance to leave after being there for so long, but it's their own doing.