Wednesday - June 26, 2013

Hit The Road Gypos

I can’t believe I’m stealing a march on Peiper, and getting in a UK Gypsies story before he does.

Dozens of Romanian immigrants were evicted from a former football club in London in a dawn raid today by police, Border Agency and local council officials.

A total of 68 people who had been living on the former Hendon Football Club site in north west London were roused while they slept in what resembled a ‘shanty town’ at the site and told to leave.

The squatters, said to be Romanian, were offered free flights home if they agreed to leave their camp, where they have been living for several months, immediately after the 5am raid.

A spokeswoman for Barnet Council said around 20 people were believed to have agreed to fly home, while the rest refused the offer.

The old football club in Claremont Road, Cricklewood, has been occupied by the Romanians, most of them men, for several months in what is the third occupation of the site since the football club moved out in 2009.

The freehold of the former football club site is owned by Barnet Council, which has been involved in a legal wrangle in its attempt to sell it to the current leaseholder, a property developer.

The sale of the freehold to the leaseholder, Montclare Developments Ltd, was finally cleared on Monday, and the site will now be cleared for development.

A Home Office spokesman told MailOnline: ‘Immigration Enforcement officers today assisted with a Metropolitan Police operation targeting a number of rough sleepers living at a site in Hendon, north London.

‘Immigration papers were served on a number of individuals of Eastern European origin, some of whom have indicated they are willing to return to their home country voluntarily. We will now be dealing with those accordingly.

‘We are involved in scores of operations like this every day, tackling illegal immigration, sham marriages and illegal working.

‘Where foreign nationals with no permission to be in the UK refuse to return home voluntarily we will take action to remove them.  This includes those from within the European Economic Area who have been in the country for longer than three months and are not working, studying or self-sufficient, as required by EU law.’

My goodness. Could John Bull be growing a set of fangs at last?? Maybe not, seeing as they’re been so nice and giving out free air tickets.

Personally I would have just handed out the used swim trunks and pointed the take away truck towards the Channel.

Posted by Drew458     on 06/26/2013 at 08:49 AM   
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