Yes, I’m getting heartily fed up with the support that the Dale Farm residents are getting. Any suggestion that they are being treated any differently from you or me is just tosh.

Yes they own the land but they have to obey local planning and building regs just like the rest of us.

How many times have you seen reports about people who have ignored planning regs and built a house in the wrong position, with its roof too high or even twisted the purpose of the building only to be told that they have to demolish their pride and joy.

Its harsh application of the law but it applies to all.

So lets stop all the bleeding hearts whining that these folks are hard done by.

And lets trash the suggestion that this is a form of “ethnic cleansing” as I heard on the radio earlier today. Thats just laughable. I understood from reports that the Dale Farm residents were of Irish descent. I wasn’t aware that there were any Irish population purges taking place.

And just take a look at the “activists” that are jumping on the bad-wagon, directing things from behind the front line. One of the activists, Ellie – who was speaking to the BBC on her mobile – said she was standing up for the rights of “the brave and beautiful people” who are resident at Dale Farm.

These are the brave and beautiful people who police intelligence indicated were stockpiling “bottles, liquids and bricks”. All of which were used on the police this morning.

Dramatic scenes there were on the TV earlier today. Flames and columns of smoke all from two caravans that the residents had prepared in readiness to use as barricades.

And let us not forget that these “the brave and beautiful people” have turned down the “alternative bricks and mortar accommodation” offered to them.

The sooner the council have this site cleared the better.