Travellers

[Dicky Ticker]

How can somebody be classed as a traveller when they have built a fechin bungalow on ground without permission.They have no more intention of travelling than flying in the air---I travel more than they do but I have to pay rates and taxes for us to supply schooling and medical health for them
Do any bona fida travellers actually exist?

i.e.Crayshill --vs-- Basildon Council

[454697819]

petrol bomb, that normally disposes of buildings and its contents..

I dont understand our permanent travelers sites either.. paid for by us..

[The Idle Biker]

this is going to be a long thread, hard hats on, take cover......

[454697819]

this is going to be a long thread, hard hats on, take cover......

not really, think the op has the same opinion as most..

[Berlin]

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[davepreston]

do ya like dawgs

[toxic]

do ya like dawgs


As a matter of fact...

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[Littlepeahead]

It really REALLY annoys me that my Essex council tax pays for these scumbags. Wouldn't it be great if we could all work cash in hand, pay no mortgage or rent, income tax, NI, Council tax, water rates etc. yet still expect to get free school places, medical care and benefits. They probably even use the Blue Cross vet for their horrible vicious dogs.

Did I mention I'm not keen on travellers?

[Quedos]

Permanent travellers site = all of them in the one place as opposed to being scattered all over the place make S***holes of numerous places.
the kids never went to school - all home schooled, never registered with docs or dentists and very few on benefits. These guys have a culture of not wanting to be trace (or accountable)
Yes it can make it like a ghetto or no mans land but there are very rarely any problems with them and they sort out their own problems.
I had a good working relationship with our site despite being told never apporach them as they will never want help. Our lot were pleasent and helpful Happy for somewhere to call home with help if needed. the place was always clean - cleaner than the council streets!! its downfall was when another lot turned up and wrecked the place to the extent that it had to be closed and we're back to travellers all overthe place again.

As for building without permission - it happens a lot more than you think after all who is really going to complain and complain for the next 20 years.
Technically in our house there was a muck with Lands registery and we had to sit for 20 years praying we didn't get complaints or a contest to the land despite buying the house.

[Ceri JC]

My understanding is that the travelling community attribute them becoming static to "the man" making it too hard for them to find sites when travelling. Personally, I don't know what the problem is; I was stealth camping less than a week ago and I do it all the time and have never had any problem or be moved on. Oh wait, maybe it's because when I travel I camp out of site of the road, don't stay in the same place for more than one night. I arrive after dark, am gone before the sun is up properly, leave the site tidier than when I found it and whilst I'm there, make a point of going unseen and unheard.

[punyXpress]

Bet you dont live near Mildenhall, Q
"Man Arrested Over Travellers' Site Shootings
A man has been arrested in connection with a double shooting on a travellers' site near Mildenhall in Suffolk.
http://news.sky.com/sky-news/content/StaticFile/jpg/2011/Mar/Week3/15953274.jpg Police at the scene in Willow Park where two men were shot dead.


The 38-year-old attended a police station outside Suffolk on Wednesday night, where he was being held on suspicion of murder.
His arrest came around 24 hours after police were called to Willow Park on Beck Row on Tuesday after reports of gunfire.
When they arrived following the call at 10.15pm, they found the body of one man on the ground.
A second was found inside a burning car 20 metres away. Both had been shot. Neither has yet been identified."


Well, THEY seem like a nice bunch!

[-Ralph-]

Yes it can make it like a ghetto or no mans land but there are very rarely any problems with them and they sort out their own problems

Sorry Q, dunno what the travellers you've come across are like, but this is not the same world everybody else lives in, as I'm sure this thread will testament. With travellers, gypsys, pikeys, whatever the differences are and whatever you want to call them I don't care, the only experiences I have ever seen or heard about involve a mini crime wave and a hell of a mess left behind if they do move on (taking with them a few of the local caravans, and leaving their own behind as burnt out shells).

The only travellers I like are the ones down here that travel alone as a single family unit and make their money by selling art and crafts at the roadside. They tend to be quite quiet, honest, and hard working people of high morals.

[Bri w]

One of the large building companies, Persimmon I think, bought an old school near us and demolished it a couple of years back. Then, as the recession bit, and they decided not to build. Every few months we end up with a site over the road. Typically they arrive a couple of days before a Bank holiday, giving themselves a couple of extra days before they're moved on. Sadly they've arrived early for Easter and have been there just over a week.

During their time here shoplifting in the local Sainbury's goes through the roof, Barb works there. There's agro in the pub next to Sainbury's, kicked off big style last Friday. And various other traders suffer, e.g. a mother daughter went into the hairdressers and had the full treatment then refused to pay. The hairdresser now takes payment before starting any work.

Staffing in the supermarket is doubled on an evening, Barb's getting loads of O/T. The pub has bouncers on the door... and for the umpteenth time I don't want the block paving lifting and tarmac putting down, and I'm not selling the f~@%&ing dog!

Now P!$$ OFF!

[Littlepeahead]

I'm sure it's just a coincidence that as soon at the pikeys set up near the stables where we kept our horses that the food and tack started going missing.

[punyXpress]

Morning travel report - delays due to signalling problems.
Why don't they just say the pikeys have nicked the cables?

[pookie]

well someone is going around drilling out petrol tanks , its 5 in the last 2 weeks.

Also a few people were removing the metal work from an old boat down the boat club..shameful really.

[yorkie_chris]

Anyone got a mortar? That would give them the hint.

[punyXpress]

. . . or what you used on the wasps?