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

Dionysus · 24-08-2011 12:46PM #1

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?

FatherLen · 24-08-2011 12:47PM

yes

orourkeda · 24-08-2011 12:48PM

absolutely.

Paarse Krokodil · 24-08-2011 12:49PM

No, they might come back to Ireland.

Padraig Mor · 24-08-2011 12:49PM

**** them out.

fedor.2. · 24-08-2011 12:49PM

God i hope they dont come back to Ireland

gaz wac · 24-08-2011 12:50PM

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

My name is URL · 24-08-2011 12:55PM

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 · 24-08-2011 12:59PM

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 · 24-08-2011 01:00PM

Dionysus wrote: »

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

They're just misunderstood.

MagicMarker · 24-08-2011 01:03PM

Blast them with soapy water.

LondonIrish90 · 24-08-2011 01:04PM

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 · 24-08-2011 01:06PM

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 · 24-08-2011 01:06PM

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 · 24-08-2011 01:06PM

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 · 24-08-2011 01:13PM

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 · 24-08-2011 01:15PM

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

Dionysus · 24-08-2011 01:15PM

Opelfruit wrote: »

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

Creative!

My name is URL · 24-08-2011 01:27PM

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 · 24-08-2011 01:33PM

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 · 24-08-2011 01:36PM

Absolutely. Evict any in an illegal position.

cocoshovel · 24-08-2011 01:40PM

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

hardCopy · 24-08-2011 01:46PM

I can't see any reason not to evict.

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

Standard Toaster · 24-08-2011 01:47PM

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 · 24-08-2011 01:50PM

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

*pulls radio power cable out of wall*

Stench Blossoms · 24-08-2011 01:54PM

Isn't that where Paddy Doherty lives?

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

dax121 · 24-08-2011 02:01PM

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 · 24-08-2011 02:04PM

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 · 24-08-2011 02:04PM

Opelfruit wrote: »

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

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

Dionysus · 24-08-2011 02:06PM

Standard Toaster wrote: »

Doesn't look too bad?

Nice use of technology there, ya nosy fecker.

My name is URL · 24-08-2011 02:07PM

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.

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

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