From The Daily Mail:
A farmer who wants to give travellers her land for free because she hates her neighbours was confronted by irate locals today and told: 'We are not up our own a****'...
Mrs Watson made her controversial offer after a local council turned down her application to building temporary accommodation for stable workers on her two and a half acre plot.
She insists that travellers would have better luck making a similar planning application.
Today she said she had been 'flooded' with requests from travellers who wanted to take her up on her offer of buying the plot which she says is worth around £350,000.
One suspects that the new building really would only have been 'temporary accommodation for stable workers' for a year or two, after which it would be sold as a normal house, but so what?
Sadly, the article does not tell us what a typical house would cost in the village. Her plot would be worth £350,000 if she had planning for a couple of houses, but she doesn't.
Big Green Bills
2 hours ago
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One report had her saying that she hopes the travellers will ruin the village. If this is correct, then she is surely suggesting that these gentle, peaceful, nomadic peoples are really troublesome, thieving, scum who take great delight in demanding their rights while abrogating any responsibility for the mess, stink, and crime that follows in their wake. As travellers are classed as a protected species (but not the slaves they imprison for years), then why isn't she being prosecuted for false insinuations? Does not the laws of libel and slander apply in her world?
PS, you can only defame individuals (a civil matter). If you slag off a category of people, it might be "hate speech" which is a different thing (a criminal matter).
Some travellers set up camp near the pitch where my wife's team plays. She told me that the smell is so bad that she finds it difficult to concentrate on playing.
I've dealt with gypsies for years and never had any trouble with any of them, except one who was a complete arsehole, but then there's always one, wherever in society you look. A friend of mine's experience is the same. All the local farmers, however, hate them and the feeling is mutual. Not surprising, really, that the gypsies lose no opportunity to relieve them of stuff. Funnily enough, I have found that the more like a gypsy site a farm looks, the more the farmer hates the gypsies.
She's going to have an unfortunate accident one day - runaway tractor or something.
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