Author ‘Gypsy’ Joe Smith says travellers who took over village cricket ground had ‘nowhere else to go’

Author Joe Smith has defended travellers who took over a village cricket ground in West Sussex.

Speaking to GB News, the writer, who once traded under the nickname "Gypsy Joe Smith", said families like the one he came from faced difficulties booking traditional camping sites.

He told the People's Channel: “If you're going to camp somewhere, you don’t go into an industrial estate with concrete. You've got kids; you go to a nice green field.

“They've gone to a nice green cricket field. They're camping there because they've got nowhere else to go.

“It’s half term, and the pitches clearly indicate they're not working. They're clearly taking a break because there's no work or vehicles in tow."

“As a group, if you tried to book onto a campsite, you would be point-blank turned down as a group. Even down to not necessarily a group but down to a postcode.

“I give an example. I'm one of six. My other siblings own their own land and have caravans or mobile homes. If they put in their postcode just to say a couple of motorhomes, they'd be refused,” he claimed.

“Not not even as big groups, even as one or two. So it's impossible to get into a campsite."

Watch the interview in full above...

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