Own A Home Or Face Arrest

With the Bullingdon Club preoccupied by Gibraltar and its treacherous, swarthy, Argie-speaking northern neighbour, it has fallen to the communities secretary, Eric Pickles, to initiate the Government's latest attack on a community. Pickles has evidently resolved to avoid the abject political correctness of the Hungarian court which imprisoned some potential European allies of the British Conservative Party for taking positive action against seeing their country swamped. Pickles, who took a second home at the taxpayers' expense in order to spare his delicate constitution the trauma of a thirty-mile commute, is naturally discomfited by the existence of people who have no interest in land ownership, mortgages or George Osborne's Bubble to Buy schemes. A press release from his department described unauthorised traveller camps as a "blight"; the announcement was later reissued substituting the word "problem", although the Ministry for Community Cleansing insisted that the message had not been watered down. The message, apparently, is that travellers are not allowed to trash green belts. They are not, after all, developers; still less are they developers who fund the Conservative Party.