A Tangled Web

Travel Sickness



This piece caught my eye this morning. Apparently, travelling communities in Dublin are continuing a protest against a concrete wall built to hem them in a specficied area. Last week, it was revealed that travellers here in the UK will have some protection against councils attempting to evict them from illegally occupied land. The South East has been particularly badly hit, with notable gypsy camps springing up in Essex and Cambridgeshire. The people I feel sorry for are long-established local communities who have to tolerate the presence of these people blighting any land they see fit to ensconce themselves on.



I don't like gypsies. I'm sorry if my opinions upset the more Lefty-leaning liberals on here, but my dislike stems from experience of these types in my own area. Quite why the individuals concerned can't bring themselves to live in houses like the rest of the human race is beyond me. In true Caesaresque style they come, they see and they conquer. One wakes up one morning to find adjacent fields sullied with filthy caravans, wild looking kids, and oodles of dirty clothing strung across makeshift washing lines. Whilst the local council endeavours to seek legal permission to have them removed, they set about scattering as much rubbish as possible so that we Council Tax payers will have to stump-up extra cash to clear away their legacy once they take their miserable cavalcades elsewhere. In the meantime, rough-looking men scour the local drinking holes challenging burly regulars to bare-knuckle boxing tournaments - redolent of 'Mickey One Punch' in the film Snatch. Bestowing additional rights on travelling communities just goes to show how morally corrupt elements of our legal system have become. Here's to hoping the authorities of Fingal County Council make their barricade permanent.