It's clear you don't know about travelling heritage. If it was as easy as buying land and getting planning permission, when your a traveller it is so difficult, and this thread proves this, they are such a misunderstood community tarred with a bad brush. Do you think that if it was that easy there would be such uproar about the whole situation do you think these people want to put there children an elderly people trough all this. This happens so much but Dale farm has had a lot of publicity that's why everyone all of a sudden thinks it's ok to comment on it. I'm sure your children and yourself have never been FORCED to move schools.
Do you think it's easy to get a child who is a traveller into a school it's hard enough for me n you it's ten times harder for them, and then when they are accepted from a paper work perspective do you think they and there families are excepted by there local communities from this thread alone you can see how difficult it is.
I have this knowledge as my family are Irish travellers though I was bought up settled in a house so I see both sides and have witnessed with my own eyes the prejudice that travelling people meet in a day to day basis.
The Dale farm residents are willing to go but surely the land is at much better use now and is much better for the local residents than when it was a scrap yard....that the council used to dump on. See the guardian link in my previous post.
On the news today there was a local resident saying how he can't sell his house because the site backs on to it. Would it be acceptable for me to go on television and say I can't sell my house because an Asian, black, Italian family back onto my garden. I think not that would be racism.
What shocks me about this discussion is that there's not one person with an insight into these people's lives or anyone saying ok they were wrong but so are the councils for not providing enough sites. Instead people think it's rude how travelling people use the NHS and there children go to our schools and it's an absolute disgrace