'Travellers' fighting eviction from Dale Farm......

[joeluke]

.....seem to be all women and children

Where are all their brave menfolk hiding?

[ummmm]

A majority of them were born in England. Don't let the accents fool you.

[sandyRoe]

Boo, Ireland has dealt with them. That's why they're in Essex now.

[sandyRoe]

There's always two sides to every story.
http://dalefarm.wordpress.com/

[B00]

Can't read that Sandy, i'd get too annoyed.

Bloody puddings...quite happy to flout the law then by jingo look at 'em now, using it for all their worth, hypocrites!

[cecil39]

saw a prog on tv the other night about the fact that they own dozens of houses in Ireland that no body lives in, so maybe they know they can get more benifits over here from the gullible British? they definately have some where to go if they are made to, most of them are quite rich anyway, they would hardly have to club together to aford a B&B, scum the lot of them.

[cupid04]

Have they actually left empty houses in Ireland? If so it would be funny if the
tables were turned and when they got back to their houses they couldn't get
in because of squatters! And how do they manage to get away with claiming
benefits when they own their own homes?

[joeluke]

cupid

http://www.dailymail....and-NOT-homeless.html

[askyourgran]

Thats a thought cupid, anyone want a holiday in ireland, free accommodation.

[owdhamer]

It will be women and kids fighting eviction the men are out stealing or p ing it up

[getonwithit]

They all own 90% of a village in southern Ireland and head back there for 8 weeks over Xmas

[modeller]

Did you know each kid has 10 or more first names and surnames.
I used to deal with them and the kids sometimes forgot which name they were supposed to be using .

[ELVIS68]

The women are just as rough as the blokes, in looks and fighting

The men don`t like showing their faces on TV incase they are recognised when they go out on the thief, except for celeb pikey.. Paddy Docherty, who, by the way insists all the flash cars and caravans are not paid for but are on hire purchase, yeh right!

[birdie1971]

Having been involved in the arrests of several members of the travelling community during my tenure in Greater Manchester Police, I think I am as qualified as anyone else to speak about them. The simple matter is that they consider themselves to be separate from the rest of society and as such, see no reason why the laws that apply to the rest of us should also apply to them. From my interviews with travellers, criminality is not regarded as being bad or wrong as long as it is being perpetrated by travellers against non-travellers or corporate entities. Criminality is the norm. Theft is regarded as a tradition – be that theft of materials and goods or theft of money by the means of a deception.

Recently, some members of the travelling community have graduated from petty crime into the much more serious matter of slavery. The four people currently being charged with false imprisonment and slavery, if found guilty, are thoroughly evil. Assuming these allegations are proven to be correct in a court of law, what does that say about the rest of community in which they live? Are we seriously to believe that in this extremely close-knit community, no one else knew that non-travellers were being held against their will and were being used as slave labour? It beggars belief.

To the people who believe that travellers are just happy go lucky, salt of the earth characters who travel around the country scratching a living by doing good deeds, selling heather and being no trouble to anyone, they need to wake up and smell the coffee.