there have been a number of settlements of new age travellers in buses and vans around the city's boundaries for years
i have the impression that new age travellers first multiplied at about the same time that the poll tax was introduced and when people in local and national government tacitly agreed to stop building enough council houses because it was thought that market forces would allow the problem to solve itself
so-called travellers frequently park their glossy fleets of expensive caravans and vehicles on the city's playing fields & brownfield development sites ... this week there is a huge encampment at patcham place by the london road
tents are harder to site because individuals are more vulnerable to harassment and vandalism, but a few have appeared on this little unwanted triangle of pebble beach next to the marina
it can't be much fun living in a tent
is this a symptom of this government's inability to deal fairly with the poor ?
perhaps being new labour isn't the same thing as being a socialist
