George Galloway speaks to a lawyer on gypsies

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From BBC News:

Once it was nothing more than a symbolic structure marking the entrance to the illegal travellers' camp.

Now the scaffold barricade at Dale Farm in Essex has been reinforced.

A watchtower stands on its top layer, and an extra pair of gates has been installed.

The travellers camping on the six-acre site near Basildon without planning permission always said they would defy the council eviction notice to leave.

And as the hours tick by to the deadline to move out at midnight on Wednesday, there is no apparent sign of anyone packing up.

At her pretty and immaculately-kept mobile home, Mary-Ann McCarthy plays court to a celebrity - the actress Vanessa Redgrave - and the world's media.

Over the years, she has been the public face of the travellers.

Some gypsies tire of the media attention now, others want their voices heard.
Violence predicted

They argue they should be allowed to stay because they own the land. They want to stay together as a family group, and are vehemently opposed to living in conventional bricks and mortar.

At the weekend, numbers inside Dale Farm were boosted by the arrival of supporters who have set up a protest called Camp Constant.

The party atmosphere of the bank holiday visitors has gone now. A core group of activists remains, perhaps 40 at most.

Jake Fulton is one of the Camp Constant protesters who will defy the bailiffs. He thinks there will be violence, but says they will not be the ones to start it.

Outside the camp, most local residents in the village of Cray's Hill no longer want to speak publicly about living alongside hundreds of travellers. They fear reprisals.

After years of legal battles, the eviction will go ahead some time in September. But at present there is no outward sign of the massive eviction operation being co-ordinated by Basildon Council.

The council is preparing for the worse - hence the hefty £19m price tag - more than £50,000 per traveller.

It could take six weeks to secure the site and return it to a green field. But until the operation begins, the scale of any resistance will not be known.


George Galloway speaks to a lawyer on the gypsy issue from a legal perspective. The lawyer (or aspiring lawyer) claims that Galloway and Vanessa Redgrave are somehow fighting a lost cause because he has seen people on a daily basis who have to demolish buildings that they have built without permission from the local councils.

The caller then asks why should a certain group be given preferential treatment. Galloway answers this by saying they DO get exceptionally BAD treatment.

Originally broadcasted on talkSPORT 2nd September 2011.

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