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The end is nigh for Dale Farm travellers

RalphC

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Just in from the high courts.....

 

Happy Days..... :)

 

Residents of Dale Farm have been refused permission to appeal against a High Court ruling giving Basildon Council the go-ahead to evict them.

 

Travellers asked for leave to appeal against a decision last week to allow the council to clear 49 plots.

 

Lord Justice Sullivan, at the Court of Appeal, said travellers could not challenge the decision by Mr Justice Ouseley.

 

A travellers' spokeswoman said: "This looks like the end of the road."

 

Dale Farm resident Kathleen McCarthy added: "We'll have to fight the bailiffs off. We're already in lockdown."

 

The travellers, who own Dale Farm, have been locked in a 10-year legal dispute with the council over plots which do not have planning permission.

 

Forty-nine plots on roughly half of the 54-plot site at Crays Hill are illegal.

 

Following the judgement, Basildon Council said it would not be giving any further notice of when the eviction would start.

 

It also made a final request for residents to "leave peacefully and in an orderly fashion".

Council leader Tony Ball said: "Since last Wednesday evening the residents at Dale Farm have been living on borrowed time.

 

"I made it very clear following Mr Justice Ouseley's judgment that they should now leave peacefully and in a safe and orderly fashion.

 

"I also made it clear that the so-called supporters should also pack up their belongings and leave the site.

 

"If they have the travellers' best interest at heart they will either leave the area now or confine their activities to helping the travellers to leave over the coming days."

 

He added: "We are required to give 48 hours' notice to three plots and that we will do, but the rest of the site will now be cleared at a time of our choosing.

 

"Our job is now to clear this site in a safe and dignified manner and this is what we intend to do."

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I think if the un-sympathetic Basildon Council try to ride roughshod over the beleaguered Travellers and try to force them off the land when they clearly have nowhere else to go then, mark my words, there could be serious trouble in the next week or so

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Why should they be sympathetic to a bunch of criminals (judge said they were breaking the law) who refuse to abide by the law?

 

They are not homless as they have refused spaces even on the site next door!

 

I hope the full force of the law is brought down on them if they refuse to co-operate in accordance with the law of the land.

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I think if the un-sympathetic Basildon Council try to ride roughshod over the beleaguered Travellers and try to force them off the land when they clearly have nowhere else to go then, mark my words, there could be serious trouble in the next week or so

If they have nowhere else to go, they could always try Ireland, the place their accents suggest they originate from.

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If they have nowhere else to go, they could always try Ireland, the place their accents suggest they originate from.

 

I seem to recall reading that Ireland do not want them back.

If they come from Southern Ireland they must have had a passport to enter the UK, and I would imagine it would be illegal to refuse them entry under EEC law, and certainly human rights legislation.

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If they have nowhere else to go, they could always try Ireland, the place their accents suggest they originate from.

 

I seem to recall reading that Ireland do not want them back.

If they come from Southern Ireland they must have had a passport to enter the UK, and I would imagine it would be illegal to refuse them entry under EEC law, and certainly human rights legislation.

 

The Irish have never needed a passport to enter the UK. My own parents came over in the 50s and neither of them ever owned a passport.

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Totally open travel between GB and Eire.

 

What's the betting if they leave peacefully, they'll camp in front of Basildon Council Offices and demand somewhere to live as 'displaced homeless people' ?

 

If it works for the Romanians, it should certainly work for previous residents of GB !

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You need photographic ID - but many airlines will not let you fly without a passport. Going by land/sea should be easier without a passport. Mind you last time I did it I was conducting a funeral over there, having taken the hearse/deceased from London!

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You need photographic ID - but many airlines will not let you fly without a passport. Going by land/sea should be easier without a passport. Mind you last time I did it I was conducting a funeral over there, having taken the hearse/deceased from London!

 

I guess you are dead right!

 

Sorry - awful joke.

 

:bolt:

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I see that it's all kicking off down at Dale Farm this fine morning, what a surprise!

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Not happy days for the police and bailiffs who must be fearing for their lives right now. IMO for their own safety the police should have the water and electricity turned off at the site, and an exclusion order put in place to stop anyone entering the site with supplies.

 

Watching all those so called middle class idiots protesting about the plight of the law breakers who have probably never made any financial contribution to society is hard to understand, and I wonder how they would react if the travellers set up camp close to their smug little world.

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The electricity was turned off I believe

You seem well informed!

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11:56 Three arrests have been made and six people injured, police and ambulance workers have confirmed.

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I wouldn't mind betting that there is a death or two by the end of today, Basildon Council will then have blood on their hands

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