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We're not all equal before the law
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John Prescott's "Trespassers Charter" telling Councils and Police to lay off illegal travellers sites is only encouraging more law-breaking.
Yesterday a High Court judge gave a traveller the right to park his caravans on green belt land near Dorking in Surrey, ("an area of outstanding natural beauty"), because of his "aversion to houses" - they gave him claustrophobia!
So yet again its one more example of one law for travellers, one law for ordinary decent law-abiding citizens - all encouraged by a Labour minister.
Yesterday a High Court judge gave a traveller the right to park his caravans on green belt land near Dorking in Surrey, ("an area of outstanding natural beauty"), because of his "aversion to houses" - they gave him claustrophobia!
So yet again its one more example of one law for travellers, one law for ordinary decent law-abiding citizens - all encouraged by a Labour minister.
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The "law" is just someone`s opinion backed up by extreme violence.
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All the same, there is lots of land to park on, but where I live they have parked up next to a natural beauty spot, the main attraction to Groby (my village) from rural tourism in fact. There is plenty of grassland around that isn't really used and there are several fields that are just weeds and such that they could go on, but no, lets park on the beauty spot. Sure, it gives them a nice garden view, but it's a view that is supposed to be for everyone, and as such you can't develop homes on it. Unless you have a beautiful looking caravan, and have all your excrement in buckets which you throw over the fence or into the lake.
Some travellers are buying land, hoping to get planning permission not so they can settle but because they can sell it on to developers for a huge profit.
If I tried this I'd soon be hauled to court, but if you're a traveller nobody touches you.
why should any camps be set up??? why cant they be regulated like everyone else. buy there own house, if they dont want a house, then they can go and buy there own land, then they can do with it what they please, but they shouldnt be GIVEN anything, other than what every otrher british taxpayers is given, which is usually just a lot of red tape and runaround
That's exactly the problem!
Yeah, red tape and runaround. Thats the meaning of life......
:eek2:
But surely giving them hard standing camps would be cheaper than giving them council housing?
Perhaps Mr. Prescott is demonstrating concepts which you fail to incorporate into your all too BNP-oriented world view, namely "mercy", "compassion" and "tolerance". How telling that these concepts are so clearly absent from your legalistic rhetoric.
1) despite what the Daily Mail says the Gypsy policy is about equality under the law in that gypsises should not be treated differently from anyone else just becuase some gypsies are criminals
2) its also about the fact it is no business of the state how people choose to live their lives.
The trouble with the Conservative Party currently is that they have forgotten traditional Tory values and have been hijacked by a disreputable rogue.
Why, Michael 'Something of a Twat' Howard.
And he has the cheek to complain... :rolleyes:
and if the laws were enforced too
Unfortunately they can't. There have been several high profile cases recently of travellers buying land, being refused permission to live on it, living on it anyway and being evicted from their own land.
I'm sure there are some lovely travellers out and about. If anyone spots them could you send them over my way please?