I keep saying, you need all of the town people to show up at council, and when they accuse one of you of being a racist, have a Sparticus moment:
“I’m racist.”
“No, I’M racist.”
(leading to the chants of everyone there for about 5 minutes yelling “I’m racist!")
When it dies down, take the microphone and ask the council, “Now that we’ve established that fact, let us know your plan and schedule for full eviction of the illegal residents known as ‘the travellers’. If you can’t do that, then we’ll throw all you lot out of your seats of power tonight, call a special election right here and now, and we’ll put some of us in. We can certainly do a better job than you assholes have so far. Don’t think we can do that? THINK AGAIN.”
And then sit down.
These fuckwads in power need to start feeling scared of the citizens they claim to serve.