From the above article, the following FACTS:-

1. The travellers, or tinkers as you prefer to call them, pay rent, council tax and utility costs and, like housing tenants, can be evicted for arrears.

2. The site in question has for some time been considered sub standard, and was scheduled for a refurb for some time, at a cost of £250,000, not the half million YOU posted as FACT.

3. It appears that the travellers were victims of vandalism by locals, not, as you claimed the instigators.

4. None of the travellers were locked out of the site, which was secured after all had already left, presumably for the sake of self preservation. So would you, if you risked waking in the small hours to find your bed on fire.

These are reported facts, as stated by the responsible authority, and they do rather expose your unsupported opinions to ridicule, Ake.

Don T.