They Are Back, Travellers Hit Kingswells.

Our Mess Making Friends Return To Kingswells

As if by magic and my last post , rogue travellers have yet again set up site at Aberdeen's biggest park and ride site.
Last year this meant that security guards had to be hired at a cost to the tax payer of £1000 a week, the toilets at the site were also locked a lot of the time to prevent abuse of the facilities by the travellers. One of the workers at the site was threatened , and the number of people using the site dropped, so yet again less money coming into council coffers. After these travellers left last year (after a good few months) the council were then faced with a large clean up bill to remove building and garden waste.
So I am sat at home waiting for the usual leaflet to drop through the door, or the knock of doom, which usually results in some fluorescent jacketed man aggressively telling me that my gutters need doing, or kerbs turned. I would hate to think about how someone elderly could be intimidated into accepting some of the services on offer, and how much they would pay just to have the security of closing their own front door.
But yet Aberdeen City Council still see fit to pursue 4 more halting sites for these none tax contributors to society.
Why cant they provide a field in the country, rather than sites near to our towns, where our vulnerable are within easy reach of whatever money making scheme the travellers are involved in. We at Aberdeen First don't mind the traditional travellers, but what we do mind is these society drop-outs who are more often than not involved in criminal activities, or at best very dubious money making schemes.
We the tax payers should not be paying for them. It's their choice of lifestyle, if they want to live within city limits they should get a house, job, and pay taxes like the rest of us, it's called personal responsibility. It's time the council removed the tax payer funded crutches that prop up these lifestyles at the expense of other law abiding, tax paying citizens.

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