Justice delayed is....?

There is no doubt about the legal position regarding this eviction of "travellers" from the site at Dale Farm (see post of 2nd September) but the moral or humanitarian position is not so clear.  The most disturbing aspect is that it has taken ten years to reach the present situation - which, apart from anything else, means there will be children there who have never known any other home.  And of course you have the perennial problem with evictions of this sort - where do they go?  Are you simply moving the problem on to somewhere else? Whatever happened to the idea that local authorities were obliged to provide sites for travellers? Like I say, the legal position is clear, but I can't help feeling that the underlying problem is being swept under the carpet, and until it is brought out into the open and talked about, we shall continue to see troublesome evictions like this one.