Reading the Travellers Rest.

Once again our friends at the Reading Politburo prove that if drinking sessions in Breweries need organising, Lovelock, Page and the rest of the team are not the people to call.

Having got a court injunction to ban travellers from 33 open spaces in our wonderful little Stalinist State, they miss the oldest trick the Pikies book which is to use the grass verges.

User of the collective Labour brain for the day, Tony Page then states: “The present injunction only refers to the council’s parks and open spaces but it doesn’t preclude us from looking at the same exercise for other open spaces and verges in the borough. Obviously that might involve a longer list.”

Wow Tony that is brilliant, it’s taken you god knows how many years to get the present set of injunctions in place despite the repeatedly high profile of this problem. So I guess with the urgency that surrounds the Southcote issue we could even see injunctions in place by 2020? Or is that asking a little too much from our caring council.

But while you are thinking that one over, why not try a few wooden stakes along the Roadside edge of the verges. It would most probably cost a whole lot less that the legal fees associated with court injunctions and would keep the travelers out. If they remove the stakes, that is Criminal Damage and the Police could take action against the offenders.

I know Tony, you had already thought of it and just weren’t going to tell us yet.