The travellers parked up at a nearby industrial estate
Posted on 07/30/2009 2:30:49 PM PDT by Lorianne
All through the night they stood at the gates, ready to repel the invasion.
The old RAF camp had never seen an army like this, not in all its years of proud service.
There was a nurse, a lorry driver, a shopkeeper and ambulanceman, several young mothers with children at their side and a Staffordshire bull terrier called Kandie.
It might not have looked like a task force assembling for action. But yesterday, in the drenching rain of a West Country morning, it became the front line in a war against a formidable new enemy the traveller.
In a landmark action to stop the blight that has hit so many communities, residents of a housing estate that now occupies the former RAF Locking have barricaded themselves into the 100-acre site and mounted a 24-hour guard. Every car coming in or out of the estate near Weston-super-Mare was checked.
Anyone lingering outside the perimeter fence was stopped and politely questioned. At random intervals, the unlikely figure of an elderly man in a high-visibility jacket patrolled the grounds in a four-wheel-drive vehicle, checking for breaches of security.
To anyone who has never experienced a traveller invasion, all this may seem a little over the top.
But last weekend, after 15 or 20 caravans were evicted from a nearby field, some of the gipsies drove around the Locking site and took photographs.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
I dunno - the owner looks at that beautifully groomed ground and thinks “lawn,” the travelers think “campsite.” I think “unmarked grave” but maybe that’s just me...
Well, Duh!
Where've you been?
From my own personal experience I have found gypsies to be total scum.
“When gypsies tell you theyre trash, you know thats trouble.”
So,...how did Obammy feel about being turned away?
Wait a minute!!!
Where are the Police here?????
Has the British Government succumbed to the darkness????
Law Enforcement in England is pathetic.
Not because of the officers but because of the socialism that infest the government.
The officers are busy checking to see that people use the right bins for recycling. Then they are also busy hiding from the muslims to make sure that they do not get accussed of being anti-muslim by merely speaking to one.
Then the travellers’ young men showed up and said,
“We’ve got guns.”
Now if they tried that here, dozens of local menfolk would have replied, “We’ve got guns, too. Let’s get it on!”
But in the utterly disarmed U.K., the travellers’ guns pose a real threat.
It SHOULD have drawn the immediate attention of the U.K. police, who are usually busying themselves breaking down citizen’s doors to confiscate someone’s tired old shotgun on which the burdensome license had accidentally expired.
But in the disgustingly PC U.K., nothing will be done about this. Which makes this crowd of local guardians (mostly women and children by the pix) even more incredibly courageous.
You few brave Britons! Come to America! We need you.
I was an AF brat and lived in England for 5 years as a child. We used to have gypsies come around selling stuff. I remember one swarthy guy in particular who was selling bags of onions. I was only 6 and he creeped me out!
I’m curous if any Freepers on here are travelers.
Then again, we can also enjoy the thread where the Brits at the exchange literally tossed out protesters with the expletive of "Sod off Swampy".
Their vengeful retort was to the affect that (para) 'we didn't expect that' and 'they were mean'.
I had a run in a few years back with some Irish Travelers in the Bay area that were doing the same thing. I am happy to say they were all deported. Got them for working without a visa of course they never actually did any work just took peoples money and split.
Thanks for the info!
The police in England seem mostly tasked with the protection of petty criminals and Moslem thugs.
Travellers’ thread ping!
One of many positive and encouraging reader comments at the Daily Mail site:
True British fighting spirit. It brought tears to my eyes reading this. This is what we need more of in this country.
these travellers/gypo’s need to have more opposition like this as of right now they walk into an area and take ot over thus ruining the place.
Good for these people who stood up
It is nice to see that there are still areas which stand up for their neighbourhood
At bloomin' last, says I. The travellers are no more gypsy than I am, I would do the genealogical research on 'em for free. Just give me the name and date of birth of their grandparents. LOL.
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