“pete from plymouth should not be so quick to tar all travellers with the same brush. I have had first hand experience with the travelling community and found everyone to be friendly and pleasant to be around. ther is good and bad in all walks of life. They are all hard working and spotlessly clean. As for the mess that gets left around by some who pull onto private land i think you will find most are Irish. All travellers should be provided with somewhere to live as you are. Many have bought their own land have have been refused permission to live there. What that about then??? Political claptrap. Folk dont like it as they tend to keep themselves to themselves. As for crime going up, well i dont think thats possible in plymouth really. If i was thinking of living on a travellers site i certainly wouldnt want to live in plymouth. It is a dump afterall. GIVE THEM THEIR SITE.......”

“pete was taken to casualty just after 8pm for ranting himself into a brain haemorrhage - only joking.

He uses a lot of keystrokes about his own unsatisfactory experiences, some time in the past, with an unidentified group of travellers and even more on professing his personal hatred for them all based on his unique experiences, but other than that he doesn't seem to make any particular point. It's no more than the usual simplistic vitriol.

Those of us who disagree with him are told we don't know what we're talking about - He actually has the nerve to question our authority to form opinions based on our experiences and knowledge while freely ramming his own down our necks.

He makes himself look very daft indeed.”

“I cover many counties in my work as an engineer,i also know of,and pass regularly, traveller/gypsie camps.And i can confirm that at almost every one that i pass,there is whithin a quater of a mile of the camps piles of s**t and fly tipping that at the end of a workin` day they couldn`t have bothered or pay to have disposed of properly.If not it`s the s*it and nappys the kids have thrown over the perimiters of the fences or walls surrounding them.Mark my words,if these scum are on your door step or within one quater of a mile your lives will be affected,with either noise,traffic,fly tipping,trespassing of kids and adults on your property touting for work! usually "your drive wants relaying,your trees want trimmin` ya garden landscapin`! Don`t fall for cold callin` OR mobile phone no`s only on vans! DO NOT! GIVE THEM WORK! it will be substanderd and if you wish to complain,they will be unobtainable.FACT!”

“you people don"t understand our way of life,we only want are freedom,we pay our way,the council don"t pay are rents, are clan our all selfemployed,for god sake,you live so let use.please give our people a chance to prove themself. make these camps for true gyspys only,not for the dirty travellers.may good go with them,gyspybaron7.”

“Good argument Ted ... how can they argue that ? except they say "they must obey orders from above " .... fight for the democracy and fight for the rights of people who will haveto live beside this kind of rubbish what is being imposed on them ... its absolute disgrace that this kind of thing is being imposed on local villagers - and to try to make them feel guilty in the name of racism is just as bad ... just the same as anyone who has different views is scared of being called a terrorist .... what a country this has become !!!!!!”

“If we still live in a democracy then the people affected by the set up of these camps should be able to have a vote on simply yes or no if they accept a campsite closeby. If the vote is no as I suspect then the council should bow down and report back to the Labour controlled government stating the people have spoken. Ultimately they should listen, after all these people voted them in.”

“Once again .... so called democracy at work ... the majority dont want it - but minority groups get their way ... and they wonder why people are fed up and dissolusioned ? just another example of pc ruining this country ...”

“For the LAST TIME Herald THEY ARE NOT GYPSIES! They are a bunch of people who allegedly seek an alternative travelling lifestyle but a) Don't want to travel so for some reason require a permanent site? and b) Are not that alternative that they do not want to claim state benefits.
These people are not Romany Gypsies a traditional travelling people from Eastern Europe, they are a bunch of dole scrounging hippy types who are living off the UK tax payer. I'm totally in sympathy with the people of Efford and if they choose to march in protest I will certainly join them.”

“it just annoys me that there are people on here who say they have rights...yes they do...the right to pay tax and be good people...yet i have yet to see that right exersised.....yes there may be some good in gypsys so why not show it? i speak from past encounters with them and ill bet the people who say these people have right are A. living nowhere near the proposed site or B.have dealt with them in some way in the past!!!”

“pete plymouth-- Don't waste your time defending yourself against people like Tom, probably one of them himself, after all they seem to have everything else we work hard for so they most likely have a computer aswell.

I'll shall sit back and wait for him to rant at me now. Idiot.”