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Do You Think 17.5 Million Of Public Money Spent On Bailiffs To Remove Some Travellers Is A Good Use?

I mean this is what is estimated the local council will spend to evict some families of there land over some issue with planning law. Yet the Tories are looking at watering down planning law for developments on green belt for private developers. It will cost taxpayers as well for rehousing of families with kids and the elderly i say a waste of money and bloody hypocrisy!

Update:

R C yes i see your point but i say this could of been dealt with another way its there land the council could of seen sense and allowed the development saving the public money in evicting them and rehousing and also making sure the kids get a proper education.Also the tories are quite happy watering down planning law so it looks like when it comes private firms to make profit.

Update 2:

Yes SW11 but i say cheaper to leave them alone this is just pointless posturing to please the right wing press and as i said the issue of upholding the law is flexible when it comes to being rich and poor.

Update 3:

No Paul its not political posturing but a sense of hypocrisy in this country and also a loathing of the bigotry which the right wing press are fuelling. As i said the issue of the law is a smoke screen as this Government is planning to water down the law to help Property Developers i believe this will not be to help the poor with social housing though. I still say it would be cheaper to be flexible here and let them stay and enforce any tax which is expected. But of course there nasty travellers not wealth developers so no get out clause for them.

Update 4:

Marcus thanks for your enlightened comment a nice bit of honest racism.

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  • R C
    Lv 5
    10 years ago
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    If you look at the money in terms of this single issue then the answer is probably no. The cost is born because the law has to be applied equally to all without favour.

    If you allow some people to break the law because it is too expensive or inconvenient to enforce then you will always be compromised in further decisions.

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    The simplest, cheapest and fairest option would have been for those 'travellers' (sic) who are now so petulantly shouting about their 'rights' to have obeyed the law from the outset. It is only because of their selfishness that the taxpayer has had to stump up so much money. The idea that because of the cost, these people should, unlike others, be allowed to break the law is ludicrous.

    I sense there is more of a political rather than financial motive in the mind of the questioner here, just as busloads of others with a political agenda have been volunteering to man the fortress of Dale Farm. If you don't like the law then campaign for it to be changed by all means but please, none of this bleeding heart liberal nonsense about these 'disadvantaged' people. It is pure silliness.

  • 10 years ago

    When a govt is so tied up in red tape and a multitude of laws that conflict with each other then everything takes more time and costs more than it is worth & justice is denied the good men and punishment never given to the bad and evil triumphs over good which should never happen.

    P

  • ?
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    The Church did certainly use the pagan holiday date for Christmas, yet no longer so it ought to "stress conversions." extremely, Dec. twenty 5th became into the party of the days lengthening as quickly as lower back, which to the pagans meant that the sunlight god could convey mild and heat temperature to the earth, as quickly as greater. via co-opting this date, the Church made it the party of the mild of the worldwide, Jesus Christ. It wasn't carried out to stress conversions, yet extremely to make it much less complicated for Christians to rejoice alongside their pagan acquaintances without elevating suspicions that they, the Christians, have been denigrating/no longer worshiping the sunlight god, that ought to get them killed. the only conspiracy became into of the pagan officers against Christians. Easter is the 1st Sunday following Passover, in basic terms because it became into while Jesus celebrated it along with his Apostles, so there's no longer something pagan approximately that. in basic terms the call Easter comes from a pagan source, however the holiday is predicated on the Jewish calendar no longer on any Roman god or goddess worship.

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  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    HOW MUCH!! It would have been cheaper to pay them to leave the site. What services will be cut to make up for this expensive charade.That or the Council Tax will go up big time next year for the law abiding residents in the borough.

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    I managed to find out today that only part of the site had no planning permission, and it was built on waste land - what a misuse of council money

  • 10 years ago

    It would have been cheaper to napalm the pikey bastards

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    that money could have been sent to pakistan to fund terrorism i suppose.

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