Is It Time To Give Police/ Local Authorities Powers To Move These Parasites On?

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-45479975
I would also give them powers to confiscate their Porsches and Mercs to pay for clearing up the ton of rubbish they invariably leave behind. Better start a count down 5.....

[mushroom25]

there's a load rocked up in the station car park at Northampton overnight. if I overstay my ticket, park indigo (who operate the facility) are quick to send me a £60 fine. will they excess the travellers? what do you think?

[dannyk13]

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/941777/travellers-gypsies-caravans-trespass-laws-police-local-authorities-unauthorised-sites

[Gladeian]

Certainly. In the area where I live about 100 of these lawless thugs arrived in many motor homes and caravans and occupied a local authority car park in the centre of the town. They then ran amok in local pubs stealing alcohol and causing mayhem and damage. The various licensed premises were forced to close so lost a considerable amount of business as a result. Police require powers and the necessary motivation to move them immediately. And yes, confiscation of their property to pay for the restoration of the ground they occupied should be done. There will be doubtless a few big show-downs and will require a large force of officers to start this new approach but eventually the "travellers" will do just that and move to approved areas for them.

[ToraToraTora]

Perhaps Laurs Pidcock will put them up: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/864356/Labour-Conservative-Gypsy-Travellers-Laura-Pidcock-House-of-Commons-Philip-Davies

[ummmm]

Northampton also...they keep rocking up in our local parks. Sunday football had to be cancelled as they pitched on the football pitch.

[ummmm]

In Ireland all the pubs close if travellers come into town.

[ToraToraTora]

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[ummmm]

What's the count down for?

[SparklyKid]

I think TTT is waiting for the " Oh they are all lovely people, we let them stay on our land, such nice folks"

[ludwig]

The article says that they've made deliberate trespass a criminal offence in Ireland.

That seems entirely reasonable to me and we should do the same.

[ummmm]

Should be.

They put bollards up round our local park and they just pulled them up.

[dave50]

How do they tax and insure their vehicles (if of course they actually do) if they have no permanent address?

[Jackdaw33]

When I was young, if anyone spotted a fleet of caravans, horse-drawn in those days, people would run round the houses shouting, "The tinkers are coming, lock all your doors".

[youngmafbog]

The law should be changed to like the Irish one.

However there are laws against littering and criminal damage, let alone theft but plod just dont want to know.

Easier to prosecute wolf whistlers or some hate crime I suppose.

[New Judge]

"In Ireland all the pubs close if travellers come into town."

I shouldn't think that happens too frequently. Most of the Irish "travellers" seemed to have travelled to England.

"How do they tax and insure their vehicles (if of course they actually do) if they have no permanent address?"

They don't. Visit your local Magistrates' Court and you will find the occasional "traveller" who has turned up to face motoring charges. This is usually because they have been caught on suspicion of driving whilst disqualified (their faces being known to local plod and their vehicles sometimes "marked") and brought to court in custody. Their defence will be that they have not been disqualified. Each will have a dozen aliases and two dozen alternative dates of birth (as well, of course, being of "No Fixed Abode"). The authorities have absolutely no chance of successfully enforcing the law against them.

[youngmafbog]

"The authorities have absolutely no chance of successfully enforcing the law against them."

Take fingerprints and DNA. Job done P*** banged up.

[ummmm]

NJ - It does happen often.

[ToraToraTora]

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[ummmm]

How old are you? TTT. grow up!

[ToraToraTora]

stop trolling love eh, go and have a harry.