I'm not condoning what the dirty protesters do, but I can understand why.
First of all they are supposed to have council property as designated camping/ stopping places.
Many councils not just don't provide enough, but some almost nothing.
Some places are concrete slabs with no greenery for horses to graze. Yes, some do still have horses.
The ethnic cleansing in the 60's forcing travellers into brick houses when they had lived in areas for centuries. Look at The New Forest.
The gypsies did a huge service in world war 2, keeping the Nazis out of England.
They tried to instal a group in the forest, but didn't succeed as the Germans had no idea of the language difference and how it evolved.
In addition, Gypsies fought in the wars alongside the gorger communities, every family lost relatives just the same.
Luckily Romany were ok in the UK, but across the rest of Europe a quarter of the population of Romany were murdered by the Nazis.
They were considered as less than Jews, they were called "untouchables".
I have Jewish and Romany ancestry, my family lost many.
Here's the ethnic cleansing in Kent in 1960's.
A far cry from this.
My ancestors 