What a day! Over the weekend a traveller encampment was moved off a Council site and ended up on NHS land in Surbiton. The local residents were not very happy as you can imagine.

I went over today to try and speak to the travellers but there was no one around and they had already stuck up notices that under such and such act they were now the legal occupiers of the land and would take legal action against those who entered.

The nursery next door were very worried about this, naturally, and we have offered to help with the parents. We also out out about a 1,000 leaflets around the area getting people to write to the NHS trust in Tooting to get them to take legal action now. I am just a little worried that given the bureaucracy that the NHS is that they might take some time to get the wheels in motion. Nothing wrong with a little bit of people power.

One resident who I spoke to tells me that he rang the Lib Dem canidate's office and they asked whether he could make an appointment!!

First hustings are being held tomorrow evening at New Malden Methodist Church at 8.00pm.