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The Travellers don't seem to be ignoring the law... as much as picking and choosing which bits they prefer. Nice work if you can get it.
 
The Travellers don't seem to be ignoring the law... as much as picking and choosing which bits they prefer. Nice work if you can get it.

Ironic that a group of people who ignore the law, should seek the protection of the courts to help them break the law...
 
......and no doubt they are paying the costs of their court actions including all the ones they have lost over the last 10 years
 
Ironic that a group of people who ignore the law, should seek the protection of the courts to help them break the law...

Only Alanis Morissette would find this ironic.

They are clearly just using the law to their advantage, as do thousands of people every year - even criminals. And the court isn't helping them to break the law - it is seeking to ensure that Basildon Council complies with it.
 
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And the court isn't helping them to break the law - it is seeking to ensure that Basildon Council complies with it.
This is a very important point: The State (as represented by Basildon Council in this case) cannot ride roughshod over the rights of the individual - even if they are pikeys. However...

The very real frustration for the vast majority of UK citizens with a more conventional lifestyle is that this particular group of "travellers" quite obviously flout any number of laws with impunity, either because bringing them to book is considered "not in the public interest" or the case has been filed in the "problem too difficult" pile. Perhaps if Basildon Council had taken a more robust position 10 years ago instead of letting the poor, disadvantaged, alternative lifestyle chappies dig in - both physically and metaphorically - there wouldn't be all the hand-wringing and endless appeals today.
 
Every cloud has a silver lining. Look on it rather as a taxpayers' long term commitment to the "Fund for distressed members of the legal profession". God knows they need the money in these straightened financial times. Have you seen the annual fees for Eton College nowadays!
 
No, that's how you spell 'straightened', the problem is in the use of a homophone of 'straitened'.
 
Maybe the local council could arrange for them all to be supplied with spontaneously combusting Beko fridge freezers.
 
Ironic that a group of people who ignore the law, should seek the protection of the courts to help them break the law...

this reminded me of when jon gaunt was sacked from talksport. he claimed that his 'human rights had been breached' yet he made a career out of traducing anyone who used such legislation to there advantage.
 
The pikeys are out !
 

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