Guest Post: Call to Protest on Monday against Award for Basildon Council Leader's 'Brutal' Dale Farm Eviction and Council Cuts.

Guest Post from the Traveller Solidarity Network

Last October at Dale Farm we saw the largest and most expensive forced eviction in recent British history. Basildon Council Leader Tony Ball and Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government Eric Pickles managed to find many £millions for this historic feat. In the brutal process 82 families were made homeless and left to live in appalling and overcrowded conditions. A council was also left worse off and with a swollen homeless population. This is still the case today.

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