From the Telegraph

"A spokesman for Basildon Council, which has been accused by protesters of ethnic cleaning and "systematic racism", said that planning officials would inspect the site in the coming days to assess what, ifanything, the travellers had taken down, before any action to remove them was taken.

He said: "This is not a mass eviction, it is a planning issue. Once the site has been cleared of anything that has been built illegally, they can move back.

"They own the land and are entitled to be there.""




From the BBC

"The travellers own the site at Dale Farm, but half of its pitches - 51 - do not have planning permission and have been deemed illegal."




From the well known left-winger )not) Eric Pickles

"Councils would also be eligible to share a pot of cash to create more official sites.

Local authorities would still have a duty to assess the accommodation needs of gypsy travellers (comment from RB - which they simply do not observe) and help accommodate traveller sites - but ministers say they are in a far better position than central government to decide what is best."



This whole article from the Guardian is worth reading. Indeed it should be compulsory. So sensible that no doubt white man willbe unable to understand it: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/aug/29/dale-farm-evictions-travellers

Quite simply there is nowhere for travellers to go as a community, and there can be little or no doubt that the majority could not buy into the housing market even in these depressed times.