Joseph Cottrell-Boyce of the Travellers Project at the Irish Chaplaincy in Britain, reacts to the coalition’s new planning policy for Gypsy and Traveller sites.
Joseph Cottrell-Boyce of the Travellers Project at the Irish Chaplaincy in Britain, reacts to the coalition’s new planning policy for Gypsy and Traveller sites.
Richard Howitt MEP explains how Tory Basildon Council had him focibly ejected from Dale Farm - despite him informing them and the police of his presence.
Kevin Meagher covers the eviction at Dale Farm, and asks what the police meant by “intelligence” they had about the tactics of protestors and the defences they had erected, which saw officers “fully equipped” to counter them.
Kevin Meagher reports on the apparent end of the Dale Farm saga and Basildon Council's pyrrhic victory over the travellers.
Basildon’s Council’s hired spin doctor - on loan from the nastiest of nasty councils, Tory Westminster - complains about the “emotive” tactics of Dale Farm Travellers.