A European body which investigates the welfare of minority groups will visit travellers at Dale Farm in Crays Hill just days before a crucial council vote.
Representatives of the Council of Europe are to visit travellers as part of a fact-finding mission.
They will interview families before deciding if they should go public with objections to Basildon Council's £13million eviction plan.
There’s some
doubt that they’ll go public then?
Grattan Puxon, a campaigner for the families said they were buoyed by the visit.
He said: “Families at Dale Farm now hope that lack of funding for the eviction together with this timely European investigation will sway councillors to vote at least for a delay to the long-planned clearance.”
The ‘Echo’ isn’t allowing comments on this story. Wonder why?
9 comments:
What business is it of the EUs?
We have layers of local government and a parliament and a Supreme Court and the Equalities Act 2010, and the HRA, all of which are perfectly capable, thank you, of balancing the protection of minorities with the interests of the wider electorate in the area.
It may be the encampment must be cleared. It may be Essex CC should make land available on a plotlander basis - there's nothing unusual about that in the county, it has a documented history of it.
What ever happens, it needs to be clear that this is for us to decide, not the EU. There's a short-cut to ensuring that.
While we are about it, we should save £70 million by abolishing the EHRC. We don't need it for the reasons given above and we do need the 70m, if only to buy some uncontroversial land to park caravans on.
Point of order, the Council of Europe is not the EU Council. So, this mission has nothing to do with the EU.
Still bloody ridiculous.
How on earth can an eviction cost THIRTEEN MILLION POUNDS ???
You simply give those due to be evicted 12 hours notice to quit .. they are after all "Travellers" so they should be well versed in packing their belongings ..
And if the site hasn't been vacated by then, move in with Bulldozers (and they aren't that expensive to hire) ..
As for subsequently cleaning the site .. I'm sure there are plenty of "volunteers" currently serving "Community Pay-Back" sentences who could be bussed in to do the work (and Coaches aren't that expensive to hire either) ..
Methinks Taxpayers are being taken for yet another "Ta-ta" here ..
As for the Euro "prod-noses", they should simply be stopped at the Police cordon & refused access .. None of their bloody business anyway ..
A fair point of order.
And still none of their business, either.
£13m is an incredible sum. What on earth are they doing?
Latest update ..
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1363812/Travellers-eviction-UKs-biggest-illegal-site-cost-taxpayer-staggering-18m.html
I really do despair for the future of this country .. I used to long for Grandchildren .. but on second thoughts, perhaps not .. I wouldn't want them growing up in a country which values itinerant ne're-do-wells more highly than its working & taxpaying citizens ..
"What ever happens, it needs to be clear that this is for us to decide..."
Spot on.
"...the Council of Europe is not the EU Council. So, this mission has nothing to do with the EU."
It's all one thing, BE, no matter what each separate tentacle decides to call itself.
"How on earth can an eviction cost THIRTEEN MILLION POUNDS ???"
I'd love to know how they are estimating that too....
they would need a recovery garage to collect the vans. Heavy lifts are about £100-150 per recovery truck per hour. Each recovery would take about 2 hrs. Storage is about £40 a day and the vans have to be kept for 7 days.
Simply recovering 100 caravans would cost £50,000. The rest is probably legal costs......
Dear Ms Predator
The EU own us, so they can do what they like. We are livestock to be milked, fleeced and when they deem appropriate, slaughtered at their discretion.
The Council of Europe are based in Strasbourg and comprise 47 member states. It 'owns' the European Court of Human Rights. It has a flag which is the star strangled banner of the EU and an anthem which is the wordless Ode to Joy. So not much difference really. I dare say that some faceless bureaucrat in an anonymous office in a modern block in downtown Brussels or Strasbourg will one day pen a brief regulation which will make it an executive arm of the EU which will be passed by the Council of Europe and the EU 'parliament' with barely a nod or a raised eyebrow. And probably the other 20 states will become full members of the EU at the same time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Europe
Dale Farm may be viewed on Google Maps at 51.595948,0.4737.
Streetview images are available. The scale of the place may account for the cost – all those families to be re-housed at the taxpayers’ expense.
DP
Post a Comment