tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682550116445790117.post2871171414629687726..comments2024-03-23T09:59:53.293+00:00Comments on LINEN ON THE HEDGEROW: I really didn't want to comment on Dale Farm......Richard Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10826907710570316952noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682550116445790117.post-10899239498949531062011-09-07T23:42:36.645+01:002011-09-07T23:42:36.645+01:00You have my sympathy.
Tinkers take advantage of ...You have my sympathy. <br /><br />Tinkers take advantage of the liberal ethos in the UK to impose themselves with virtual impunity on any unfortunate community they choose. They have no respect for their neighbours and they get away with it because of the wet liberal ethos in this country. <br /><br />As you have learned, even the police don't want to know in case they are seen as not being 'politically correct'. <br /><br />In the meantime, travellers cause problems almost everywhere they go, while they live off the 'fat of the land' and put nothing back into society. <br /><br />They were a regular feature on our local common every July until the council put in bollards to block access for motor vehicles. <br /><br />A convoy of caravans used to roll up every first week in July without fail and take over the common which made it off-limits for the local community. They normally stayed for a month or so. When they left, the council had to send a clean-up squad around to clear up all their litter. During their residency, neighbours were careful to keep all access to their property locked. <br /><br />They turned up as normal in the July after the bollards had been put in and we enjoyed watching them try unsuccessfully to gain access to the common for about two hours. They left after this and, to everybody’s great relief, have not been seen since.<br /><br />They are just as much a problem in Ireland. A farmer in Co. Waterford woke up one morning to find that one of his fields had been occupied overnight by a band of tinkers. He tried all the normal legal methods to move them on but to no avail. <br /><br />In the end, he hired a JCB and dug a deep trench across the entrance to the field which stopped all movement of motor vehicles – even 4X4’s. The travellers were enraged and complained to the local council. Their main complaint was that emergency services would not be able to gain access if one of the babbies (sic) was taken ill. <br /><br />The council, after due consideration, informed them that the farmer was perfectly entitled to dig a trench in his own field. They were gone the next day! This is a true story.<br /><br />I don’t think you are being unchristian in your attitude. Quite the reverse – it is the tinkers who are being unchristian in how they take advantage of honest hard-working people.Bohmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02433739876590377301noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682550116445790117.post-30791653754970249702011-09-07T22:06:46.514+01:002011-09-07T22:06:46.514+01:00The way I see it, when "Travellers" come...The way I see it, when "Travellers" come on to farmers land they usually leave behind a mess and damage to farmland,distress to the local residence who have been victims in one way or another from theft, break ins, very loud noises/music that go on into the small hours, aggression and intimidation over very small situations.<br />They do not pay towards the upkeep of society, which most residential population have to, although they enjoy electricity,water and other amenities.<br />This life style of the Traveller is a dishonest existance, quite likely not lacking in comforts the earlier travellers experienced.<br />They have plenty of hard cash, big expensive cars and 4x4's. How do they get this wealth and why are they not made to put something back into the "community pot" No integrity! They may feel happier if they did contribute and maybe this would create more love for those outside their own society, who they show great contempt towards in the main. <br /><br />We've had experience over the years and seen the effects but not at such close range as you. Our sympathies.momangelicahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08982875216331629413noreply@blogger.com