You seem to be arguing against yourself here.
There is a housing crisis in Britain and Ireland - one created by crooked and incompetent politicians and avaricious investment bankers who have driven the western world to the brink of financial ruin. It's not beyond the bounds of reason that we will soon be seeing many thousands of families from the settled community evicted from their homes because they cannot pay their morgages - will you cry "illegal" if they start squatting in empty property in order to put a roof over their childrens' heads, as has happened in the past?
Still no answer as to what should happen to those evicted - didn't really expect one.
Try again - which law is it most important to uphold - the one that turns people out of their homes and throws them on the side of the road or the one that leves them to live on a piece o land that was once used as a scrap yard - or if neither, what is your suggestion of an alternative?
It is extremely misleading to say that Travellers have "chosen" to stop Travelling - they have been forced to do so by the government making it impossible to do so.
Why now - this has been happening for over a two decades; from a 1995 study from Leicester University (http://webjcli.ncl.ac.uk/articles3/onions3.html):

"Summary
Despite the recognition that Gypsies constitute a racial group for the purposes of the Race Relations Act 1976, they have persistently suffered discrimination and prejudice from the rest of society. The Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 (hereinafter CJPOA) contains provisions which will reduce the number of authorised Gypsy sites available in an attempt to discourage the nomadic way of life which has been central to the lives of many Gypsies for over five-hundred years. The effect of this legislation will be to worsen the hostility shown towards the Gypsy community. It is also likely to have severe implications for the welfare of the Gypsy family unit. Ultimately however, a comparison with other European jurisdictions will illustrate that this legislation will not succeed in persuading Gypsies to abandon their traditions because it is founded on a myth, namely that Gypsies are simply a social bonding of nomads with no distinctive culture or group identity."   

And still no comment on the legality of Bluesman's goose-stepping racist diatribes - or doesn't your insistence that the law be upheld cover racism?
Jim Carroll