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This will make me illegal, at all times, anywhere. Even with landowner permission. Even roadside. Even as clean, quiet and respectful as I may be. My home can be destroyed. Just *in case* I were to decide to start making a mess (after all this time). 1/ https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-consults-on-new-police-powers-to-criminalise-unauthorised-encampments
"But it says it's about unauthorised encampment", I hear you say...
You don't know this do you. Oh dear. Unauthorised doesn't mean the landowner dislikes your presence. It means the council haven't given you planning permission.
It means I can stop nowhere. 2/
You don't know this do you. Oh dear. Unauthorised doesn't mean the landowner dislikes your presence. It means the council haven't given you planning permission.
It means I can stop nowhere. 2/
It means the day it goes live, my door can be put through by police, I can be dragged off to jail, meaning my kids will be taken into care, and my home, my only asset in this world, that I paid for with everything I had, including blood and tears, can be destroyed. 3/
With it goes my enhanced disclosure DBS and any hope of ever working again.
Honestly. I won't survive that. I can't live without my kids and I can't live trapped and broken to nothing. I don't want to.
I would rather die than lose every single part of my self all at once. 4/
Honestly. I won't survive that. I can't live without my kids and I can't live trapped and broken to nothing. I don't want to.
I would rather die than lose every single part of my self all at once. 4/
I know how I would go. That day would be the end of me.
You maybe don't understand what the kids mean to me. Hell, if you followed me for any time you already know how much I fret about the epileptic one. This wouldn't be one, this would be all.
I can't. Don't ask me to. 5/
You maybe don't understand what the kids mean to me. Hell, if you followed me for any time you already know how much I fret about the epileptic one. This wouldn't be one, this would be all.
I can't. Don't ask me to. 5/
So if this happens, maybe you will wake one day in a world I no longer share.
What you won't wake up to is a world in which police have any greater powers over noise, or mess, or anti social behaviour, or non compliant vehicles. Because this proposal addresses none of them.
6/
What you won't wake up to is a world in which police have any greater powers over noise, or mess, or anti social behaviour, or non compliant vehicles. Because this proposal addresses none of them.
6/
What it does address is what I am doing right now. Residing in a vehicle, with a car beside. Minding my own business.
It criminalises me. It gives the state the right to strip me of my property, my home, my career, my family, my love, my future and my hope.
7/
It criminalises me. It gives the state the right to strip me of my property, my home, my career, my family, my love, my future and my hope.
7/
It's a dog whistle to bigots. It's a pretend act of community. It will fundamentally change your rights forever too.
But it will really truly harm me.
I did everything you asked of me, society. But I'm still not human.
Tonight the rage finally gives over to tears.
/End
But it will really truly harm me.
I did everything you asked of me, society. But I'm still not human.
Tonight the rage finally gives over to tears.
/End
Full proposals- download the consultation document linked. It's grim reading. https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/strengthening-police-powers-to-tackle-unauthorised-encampments
Meaning of "Pogrom" from @CambridgeWords.
That's what this is. It's a pogrom. It's an anti Gypsy, anti Traveller pogrom.
In the UK.
In 2019
That's what this is. It's a pogrom. It's an anti Gypsy, anti Traveller pogrom.
In the UK.
In 2019
It is opposed by the police
https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/14/police-oppose-traveller-and-gypsy-camp-crackdown-foi-shows?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Copy_to_clipboard&__twitter_impression=true
https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/14/police-oppose-traveller-and-gypsy-camp-crackdown-foi-shows?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Copy_to_clipboard&__twitter_impression=true
It is against their own rules! https://twitter.com/GeorgeMonbiot/status/1195023898833756160?s=19
It is opposed by the Shadow Home Secretary https://twitter.com/HackneyAbbott/status/1194968280764686339?s=19
The community organised behind #operationtravellervote https://twitter.com/GypsyTravellerM/status/1190217680491630592?s=19
The Pope speaks out in our defence https://twitter.com/GypsyTravellerM/status/1196374311235403777?s=19
And #OperationTravellerVote gets the attention of the Shadow Chancellor, with support from Jeremy Corbyn, who assure us they won't do this to us. https://twitter.com/chelsmcdonagh/status/1198569643419611138?s=19
Our friends at #OperationBlackVote speak up for us https://twitter.com/OpBlackVote/status/1192077492976267264?s=19
And our friends in the Jewish community speak for us too, like Dr Toby Simpson of the Wiener Holocaust Library. https://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/shoah-library-brands-governments-stance-on-traveller-communities-shameful/
The boater registration drive @Votey_McVote highlight the cause regularly. Boaters and Travellers are often from the same families. https://twitter.com/Votey_McVote/status/1198245516678770689?s=19
The "consultation" is exposed as a sham when they put it directly in the #ToryManifesto, months before the "consultation" closes in March.
The @TheCanaryUK then do an article on it, which makes me famous 
https://twitter.com/TheCanaryUK/status/1199106741817921536?s=19
https://twitter.com/TheCanaryUK/status/1199106741817921536?s=19
And some top quality analysis of the law was published by @mwillersqc of @gardencourtlaw here https://twitter.com/gardencourtlaw/status/1196459704437944321?s=19
Not forgetting the most experienced voices of all. Our own. https://twitter.com/TLRPplanning/status/1195728936375848960?s=19
If you got this far down the thread you're looking for factual information. Thank you for going to the trouble.
You should know we need more sites, desperately. We also want you to look at the win-win, cheap, fair solution that is Negotiated Stopping https://www.negotiatedstopping.co.uk/
You should know we need more sites, desperately. We also want you to look at the win-win, cheap, fair solution that is Negotiated Stopping https://www.negotiatedstopping.co.uk/
Speaking of Manifestos, the Labour Manifesto has addressed Gypsy Roma and Traveller racism too. https://twitter.com/learning2dad/status/1199352082240851969?s=19
Plenty of criticism for the unworkably slippery and duplicitous questions. No matter what way you answer this, I am criminal for existing. https://twitter.com/tankiejack/status/1199424200823496707?s=19
Patel doubling down on policy and giving it a hard misrepresentation. https://www.expressandstar.com/news/politics/general-election-2019/2019/11/27/priti-patel-vows-to-end-the-misery-of-illegal-traveller-camps/
Support from the leader of the opposition leaves me in no doubt who's on our side: https://twitter.com/jeremycorbyn/status/1200675327636385792?s=19
