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Are 'travellers' Scum?
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I posted a question earlier, but it has been removed - I assume because I used a word that rhymes with 'likey'. Apparently that word is racist (even though 'travellers' are as white as I am and belong to the same race as me).
Whatever....
Ignoring, if we can, AB's over developed social conscience that censors something that doesn't warrant censoring (I CAN'T be racist to people of my own race), my original question remains - do these detritus have any redeeming features?
I'm pretty sure I've kept within AB's rules, so I hope this question won't be deleted/censored.
I posted a question earlier, but it has been removed - I assume because I used a word that rhymes with 'likey'. Apparently that word is racist (even though 'travellers' are as white as I am and belong to the same race as me).
Whatever....
Ignoring, if we can, AB's over developed social conscience that censors something that doesn't warrant censoring (I CAN'T be racist to people of my own race), my original question remains - do these detritus have any redeeming features?
I'm pretty sure I've kept within AB's rules, so I hope this question won't be deleted/censored.
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Typical Daily Wail reporting too!
Headline: "Travellers turn abandoned London retail centre into an illegal dumping ground . . ."
. . . but look further for their evidence:
Statement 1: "Travellers in caravans have reportedly been living on the London site since the beginning of February"
Statement 2: "It is unknown whether the men dumping rubbish on the site were part of the traveller group"
So what it actually boils down to is that travellers are living on a brown field site (which many people would see as far better than, say, them moving onto public playing fields) and that some people are also using that site for illegally dumping waste. There appears to be no evidence at all to link the two things together!
Headline: "Travellers turn abandoned London retail centre into an illegal dumping ground . . ."
. . . but look further for their evidence:
Statement 1: "Travellers in caravans have reportedly been living on the London site since the beginning of February"
Statement 2: "It is unknown whether the men dumping rubbish on the site were part of the traveller group"
So what it actually boils down to is that travellers are living on a brown field site (which many people would see as far better than, say, them moving onto public playing fields) and that some people are also using that site for illegally dumping waste. There appears to be no evidence at all to link the two things together!
Yes, they are scum and I speak from experience. There used to be a large plot of land near to where I live which has now thankfully been built on. They used to camp out on there and we were all angered by this as we used to get robbed, they defecated along the river path daily leaving toilet paper behind as well. The used to drive large vehicles without tax discs on, but when this was pointed out to the police they wouldn't act !!! They were cruel to their dogs and always left at least two poor, cowering ones behind when they finally decamped and once they even stole my neighbour's little yorkie, but my neighbour went onto the site, found him tied to a caravan and brought him back home. I repeat, scum !!
Well on the plus side they purport to be good Christians.
Just because they have the same skin tone doesn’t mean they are the same race. I could be wrong in this but I thought (true) travellers were an ethnic minority?
However I did use the term Desktop used just yesterday. Everyone knew who I meant and no one cared that I used the term. To the non PC brigade they are just descriptive terms that identify groups. PC has made the term racist.
However back to the OP.
As an ethnic minority they have bagged themselves a few legal concessions. Such as being able to circumvent the planning laws and they also seem to be able to trot around conning old people out of extortionate amounts of money for crap tarmac ing. The police and authorities for their part are so PC and frightened about being called racist they stand back for fear of doing anything. Only doing their job when the they absolutely have to.
That’s not to say they never do anything but that more often than not the wheels of justice run very very slowly when minorities are the subject of investigation.
I would make them pick it all up and take it to the dump and pay for the privilege like the rest of the country. Or dump it all 8n their caravans.
I don’t know what the solution is because these people don’t care about laws.
Just because they have the same skin tone doesn’t mean they are the same race. I could be wrong in this but I thought (true) travellers were an ethnic minority?
However I did use the term Desktop used just yesterday. Everyone knew who I meant and no one cared that I used the term. To the non PC brigade they are just descriptive terms that identify groups. PC has made the term racist.
However back to the OP.
As an ethnic minority they have bagged themselves a few legal concessions. Such as being able to circumvent the planning laws and they also seem to be able to trot around conning old people out of extortionate amounts of money for crap tarmac ing. The police and authorities for their part are so PC and frightened about being called racist they stand back for fear of doing anything. Only doing their job when the they absolutely have to.
That’s not to say they never do anything but that more often than not the wheels of justice run very very slowly when minorities are the subject of investigation.
I would make them pick it all up and take it to the dump and pay for the privilege like the rest of the country. Or dump it all 8n their caravans.
I don’t know what the solution is because these people don’t care about laws.
I can’t recollect having seen any here, the only time the travellers come is once a year in June ,Race week its known here because they have a Pitmens derby at Newcastle race course, the travellers arrive for a huge funfair fondly called ‘ The Hoppings ‘ and have done this since 1882, but as for them setting up camps near us, No, never and from what HereIam says, I’m so pleased they haven’t !
It was a nightmare time Bobbs, we used to dread the arrival of the caravans and huge cars they all seemed able to afford. The police were always called, but honestly, they were useless. What sickened us all the most was the human waste along the river path and for me personally the poor dogs always left behind which ran away and we could never catch them. A starving, terrified greyhound broke my heart once and no matter how near I go to it with my coaxing, soothing voice, it still ran from me. Haunts me still that dog. The RSPCA were alerted, but I never knew who found it, if anyone. We now have a nice array of shops on the site and it's a pleasure to go there.
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