Now, for those of you who do not live in the UK, you probably have not heard about the Dale farm eviction. Over the past ten years, Basildon council have been pushing to get illegal travellers off part of the site at Dale farm. Half of the site is legal and the people that have settled there have planning permission to have their homes on the grounds. The other half is green belt land and the travellers on this part of the land do not have permission to settle on it. Recently in the news there has been so much commotion over the story as the council finally pushes to evict them from the land. After so many legal battles and problems, the residents finally faced eviction yesterday (19th October) Whilst I do not hate travelers and accept the way they live, I think that it is correct for them to be evicted from this land. Sky news seem to report this story in a way that the travellers are innocent and that the council should just give them this land to build on as they have been there for ten years but the way that I see it is, if you give them this land to settle on when the council has said no originally then you will have to give all the other travellers the and that they have been occupying across the country for however long. These people that settled there knew that it was illegal to stay there so why should they be given land just because they are kicking up a fuss when they are being asked to leave? If I or any other member of the UK public were to do the same thing then we would also face eviction so, I do not see why these people should receive any different treatment. What they are doing is wrong and that is the end of the matter.
The other thing that really annoys me with this whole situation is that the people on Dale Farm (more so the protesters that have come in rather than the people living there) say that the police are being harsh and violent towards them and that it is unacceptable, creating tension between the two. I completely stand with the police on this matter. How can they say that the police are being violent when it is these protesters and some of the settlers there that have been throwing objects, hitting police with spades and poles and setting caravans alight, using them as barriers? For the police to correctly deal with these people, they are going to have to use force. I think personally the longer that this situation goes on for, the worse the travellers look. I understand that they believe that they have no where to go but the council has given them options. Just because these options are not the ones that the travellers want, does not give them any reason to act in the way that they are. I know that some people will disagree with my opinion but I really do not see why these people think that what they are doing is acceptable.
Signing out, Thatmfeeling
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