Up To Two Years In Prison For Vehicle Dwellers? Bristol Mayor Marvin Rees' Bid to 'Cleanse' St Werburgh's

Sun Aug 16 12:46:35 BST 2020

Up To Two Years In Prison For Vehicle Dwellers? 
Bristol Mayor Marvin Rees' Bid to Ethnically Cleanse St Werburgh's
Emacs!

<https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/road-descending-slum-drug-taking-21508013>Bristol's 
Labour Mayor Marvin Rees has employed an 
expensive London barrister, one of the UK's top 
public law and injunction lawyers, to try and ban 
travellers from the central Bristol parish of St 
Werburgh's. This means scores of individuals who 
have managed to get an affordable vehicle or 
caravan roof over their heads may now be 
criminalised for living in this part of the city.

Though 
<https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/st-werburghs-caravan-dwellers-told-to-leave/>businesses 
and a small number of residents have been 
complaining on and off for a decade or so about 
vehicle dwellers in the area, 
<https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/road-descending-slum-drug-taking-21508013>in 
February 2020 articles written by the Bristol 
Post chief reporter Conor Gogarty appeared in the 
local paper and the national Daily Mirror 
accusing, with only circumstantial photographic 
evidence, van-dwellers collectively of a host of 
crimes including drug use, graffiti, defecating 
in the street, crimes which are, in fact endemic 
right across the poorer quarters of the city. Not 
mentioned by Mr Gogarty in his articles is 
<https://thebristolcable.org/2019/07/im-benefiting-but-the-life-of-st-pauls-is-gone-gentrification-regeneration/>Bristol 
mayor Marvin Rees' closure of the city's public 
toilets and 
<https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-53553782>refusal 
of Marvin Rees' administration to provide even 
simple sanitary or rubbish facilities for 
van-dwellers in the form of portaloos or communal bins.

If the plaintiffs, 
<https://www.bristol.gov.uk/bristol-legal/contact-bristol-legal>Bristol 
City Council Legal Services Department 
represented by 
<https://www.11kbw.com/barristers/daniel-stilitz/>Mr 
Daniel Stilitz QC, are successful, it will mean 
signs going up on lampposts in the parish 
injuncting all van and caravan dwellers out of 
the area. Anyone discovered by Bristol City 
Council security, civil enforcement officers or 
police to be sleeping in a vehicle or caravan in 
St Werburgh's will be liable to be summonsed for 
contempt of court, facing a maximum sentence of two years in prison.

<https://thebristolcable.org/2019/07/im-benefiting-but-the-life-of-st-pauls-is-gone-gentrification-regeneration/>This 
quarter of the city is presently undergoing 
gentrification and some travellers believe that 
the council's move may be driven by property 
speculators who believe new flats will not sell 
for top prices if the area is seen to be 'teeming 
with travellers'. But Bristol is one of the most 
important traveller cities in the UK with many 
working on the South West annual festival circuit 
and spending the winter in the city. The 2020 
pandemic however has decimated cultural and 
creative industries and meant many travellers are 
spending summer in the city for the first time in 
decades raising the question that Marvin Rees and 
the city establishment see this one-off 
pandemic-induced traveller overload as a rare 
'opportunity' to target itinerants.

Indeed 
<https://england.shelter.org.uk/legal/security_of_tenure/gypsies_and_travellers/travellers_and_human_rights>travellers 
have been staying in Bristol for centuries and as 
such are a protected ethnic group under European, 
British and Bristol City Council's own human 
rights legislation/ethical standards.

Many have pointed out that whereas the previous 
independent mayor George Ferguson took a more 
tolerant view, trying to balance the needs of 
van-dwellers with the concerns of local residents 
wherever possible in the city, the present 
unelected Labour mayor Marvin Rees, who, due to 
SARS-CoV-2, did not stand for re-election as he 
was due to do in May 2020, has been working much 
more closely with local businesses, firmly taking 
their side in the long-running dispute.

<https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-53723536>In 
an apparently contradictory twist mayor Rees is 
this week also calling for compassion toward 
minorities in his 'City of Sanctuary', updated in 
2020 to a 'City of Hope' asking Bristol residents 
to take vulnerable homeless people into their own 
homes. On 11 August he was quoted by the BBC: "We 
have a great opportunity to make sure that no-one 
has to return to the streets following the 
Covid-19 crisis, and that includes people seeking asylum in our city."

In a previous case two years ago in June 2018 
<https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/bristol-city-council-orders-van-1638502>Mr 
Rees successfully injuncted scores of 
van-dwellers in the Easton area of Bristol out of 
Greenbank Road next to Greenbank cemetery, with 
the mayor who also lives adjacent to the cemetery 
presumably being one of those calling for the 
travellers to be removed from just one road 
rather than a whole parish. Many are now 
wondering, if Marvin Rees obtains this 
injunction, from Greenbank displacing travellers 
to St Werburgh's to....? Where will the scores of 
van-dwellers be 'herded' to next?

Or will Marvin Rees decide that with large 
council-owned sites around the city centre fenced 
off and empty, he may now have a duty to open them up for travellers.

The case is due to conclude at Bristol's Civil Justice Centre in November.
<https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-53417115>
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Was Easton-born Bristol Post editor for the last 
fifteen years Mike Norton sacked over 
<https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/bristol-post-editor-slams-mayors-petty-and-childish-ridicule-of-local-democracy-reporter/>damning 
national coverage of Bristol mayor Marvin Rees' 
bullying local journalist Adam Postans? 
<https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/bristol-post-editor-slams-mayors-petty-and-childish-ridicule-of-local-democracy-reporter/>Bristol 
Post editor slams mayor's 'petty and childish' 
ridicule of local democracy reporter - 'That the 
people who run our city would behave in this way 
towards another human being, in plain sight, is 
reprehensible. 
<https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/bristol-mayor-marvin-rees-jokes-3629185>It 
is an abuse of the public platform which their 
roles bestow upon them. And thats the point 
here. Adam is not just a journalist. He 
represents the public, who pay his wages - and 
the wages of the people mocking him. When Mr Rees 
and his cronies ridiculed Adam, they were 
ridiculing all of us and our right to scrutinise 
council business. Adam, who has been a qualified 
journalist for 24 years, was the only reporter at 
the meeting. These people would clearly prefer 
his seat to remain unoccupied. They want to 
control the narrative of how the councils 
business is reported, laced with their own 
nuances and no mentions of overspends or attribution.

Reach PLC controls Express, Mirror and Bristol 
Post, editor for 15 years Mike Norton has 'left' 
The Post - Bristol Post newspaper job cuts 'a 
threat to democracy' - The National Union of 
Journalists has warned about the "threat to 
democracy" over the planned cuts. 
<https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-53417115>Redundancies 
at two local newspapers pose "a grave threat" to 
Bristol's democracy, a union has warned. All nine 
news reporters at the Bristol Post are at risk 
along with all staff at the Western Daily Press. 
"Fewer journalists means fewer people to question 
those in power," a spokesperson for the National 
Union of Journalists said. The owner of the two 
titles, Reach, said it was "proud" of its Bristol 
papers and the "vital role" they play. "Reach 
continues to consult with colleagues and trade 
unions over the proposed changes which are 
subject to a minimum-45 day statutory 
consultation period," the statement added. "The 
pandemic has seen significant declines in local 
advertising, so these changes are required and 
are about us operating more efficiently to 
protect local journalism and our news brands for 
the long-term." Reach, which was created in March 
2018 when Trinity Mirror bought the Daily Express 
and other titles, saw a 13% drop in revenue last 
year amid a continued decline in print newspaper 
sales. 'Grave threat': The firm, which also runs 
the Bristol Live website, announced the cuts 
earlier in July. In a meeting with staff on 
Wednesday, bosses told employees that 22 of 58 
at-risk posts would be going across titles in the 
South West. Nationally, Reach is cutting 550 
jobs. 
<https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-53417115>It 
comes after the editor of the Post, Mike Norton, 
left his job after 15 years in the role.

<https://needtoknow.news/2020/03/rockefeller-foundation-paper-published-in-2010-predicted-how-a-pandemic-can-be-used-as-an-excuse-to-establish-global-authoritarian-power/>
[]

Rockefeller Foundation 'Lock Step' Paper 
Published in 2010 Predicted How a Pandemic Could 
be Used as an Excuse to Establish Global 
Authoritarian Power - Need to Know news site  
Lockstep. China. Depopulation and Covid 19 - The 
report in question has the bland title, 
Scenarios for the Future of Technology and 
International Development. It was published in 
May 2010 in cooperation with the Global Business 
Network of futurologist Peter Schwartz

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