Travellers Should Travel
Today it was reported that the travellers evicted from the site of the London Olympics, have had six three-bedroom houses built for them on a gated development in East London, paid for of course by the taxpayer.
Each home also includes a large garden and a driveway big enough to take a caravan which has enraged local residents who feel that the gypsies are being given special treatment.
A spokesman for the new site confirmed that 450 residents needed to be relocated from the site which included the gypsy families, who he claims will be charged rent for the property and a charge to keep a caravan on their drive. The rent has been allegedly set at the ridiculous price of £104.66 per week and £91.23 for the parked caravan.
The traveller families involved had already lost a High Court battle against their eviction from the council-owned site in Hackney Wick, shortly afterwards the work began on the new houses.
Surely, travellers, as the name suggests, should be travelling. They lost their court case against eviction and then they are rewarded with a new home, that’s after the tax payer has already paid for court fees no doubt!
Surely they only need the driveway as that is where the caravan is too be parked so they could rent out the house to people that really do need some help, like the thousands of hard-workers out there that struggle to make ends meet.
2 comments so far
1 Self Defense Products // Feb 19, 2009 at 8:56 am
I Think these homes must be beautiful……
2 Alexandra // Feb 19, 2009 at 7:39 pm
And here we are honest and tax-paying people who have a baby in a 1 bedroom flat that we own. But, the council has not given us a larger place. No, we had to empty out our savings in order to build an extension so our son would have his own bedroom. It does not pay to work in this country…and their pathetic rent is less than what we pay for our mortgage!!!