[Crimson Dynamo]

Liberal commentator Matthew Parris says travellers must be told their way of
life is over and they have no place in modern Britain after a group takes over a
car park near his Peak District home

• Matthew Parris calls to stop 'forcing local authorities to create Traveller sites'
• Ex-Tory MP says there is 'simply no place for the true nomad in modern Britain'
• He delivered his broadside after a group set up camp in a town near his cottage

'There is simply no place for the true nomad in modern Britain,' he writes in
his latest Times column.

'It isn't their fault, it isn't our fault,' he writes. 'But life here involves having
an address, being contactable, keeping children in school, paying tax on your
property, accepting responsibility for a defined patch of real estate as
proprietor or tenant.

The way we live in this country is cruel to the British Traveller.'

He concludes: 'I would have to tell him that his way of life is finished. It
cannot be otherwise.'

He writes: 'We should stop forcing local authorities to create Traveller sites,
phase out the 'ethnic minority' rights of people who are not a race but a
doomed mindset.'

Calling for social housing to be provided for Traveller families, he adds that if
any refuse, there should be 'a gradual squeeze on anyone who tries without
permission to park their home on public property or the property of others'.



He adds: 'This should be done with as much humanity as is consistent with
telling a group of people honestly that their lifestyle offers them and their
children no future, but their country wants to help them change it. There is a
place for them but no longer for their way of living. Is there a party, is there
a politician in Britain, with the courage to say so?'

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