[Escapee]

Around here the council sold the site because they failed to control it. They built them a nice shower and toilet block, and in turn many connected up their cables to obtain free electric.

Before the sale, it was rumoured that every pitch had rent in long term arrears. The question was asked of the Labour council by an independent councillor, but the council refused to separate the figures from the rest of the arrears figures. The result was that the level of rent arrears owed by the dwellers was hidden from the local council tax payer.

My father did some driving for a local company who had a contract with the local tax inspectors office. On more than one occasion he was asked by the inspector to be taken to an address, when he explained that it was the local travellers site the inspectors would cross that one off the list.

The fact that in Cardiff the Police used to give the ones on Rover Way at least 24 hours notice if they had a warrant to search the site says it all.