I agree with you kennyp. You sound as if you have also witnessed what happens when these kind of people descend on the area in which you live.
Everyone single one i have witnessed does as they like, if anyone challenges/opposes them they are instantly tagged as racist. The police themselves referred to them as Ferrule.
As i said earlier i could go on for hours about everything that has happened in our area.
I just get frustrated really but i'm only young and as you can imagine have better things to think about 😆
It;s one of those arguments that will never been concluded!
EDIT: double post 😳
For Pete's sake lads leave them alone. What is wrong with you people. Live and let live and all that. Nothing wrong with people making their own way in this world. Even if a few people get badly hurt on the way, taxes go unpaid and a lot of people suffer, what odds?
Nobody is gonna stop them.
I saw it where I used to live over on the west coast. There are decent travellers, mainly in the north-east, but sad to say that my experience of them has generally been pretty poor.
I hate to tarnish one group of people with the same brush, but these are as close as I'll ever get to doing it.
Strange thing is though, certain parts of their lifestyle do have a huge appeal. It's just the way many of them go about it is so utterly wrong.
Anyway, I'm off to bed now. Have to get up in the morning to work to earn some money to tax and insure my car........oh if only there were some other way 🙂
Irish travellers moved into our front yard at home (three families) when my elderly Father refused to pay the £2000 demanded they threatened him with violence. Police and the local Council did nothing; they were too concerned about the travellers 'welfare'
I shot two of their dogs and turned gun on them - they left.
I find them a very understanding race.......
I hate gypos.
I classify that as anyone that owns a caravan by the way.
So if everyone watched the actual programme this thread was intended to be about, why hasn't anyone mentioned the paedo aspect?
It seems to be a cultural norm within the Roma community to sell their daughters into marriage at 12 or 13, and then party the day after she's LOST her virginity. Isn't that known as sexual grooming?
I called them dirty, they were. I called them thieving, they were. I called them Gypos, they were. I guess it's fair to generalise their community and refer to them as paedos, cos they are.
Or should we simply be more understanding of their cultural traditions? Maybe they could apply for a Wedding dress grant, but hang on a second wouldn't the wedding dress already be VAT exempt because they are under 16? Maybe Mothercare could bring out a range of wedding dresses in areas with high Roma numbers?
I guess it's fair to generalise their community and refer to them as paedos, cos they are.
By that "logic " enfht you are a rapist then as some people in your community have raped people. Some of them are paedos so you/we/all of us must be too.
Still seem a resonable conclusion then?
I guess it's fair to generalise their community and refer to them as paedos, cos they are.
And I guess it's fair to call you a moronic bigoted f**wit, cos you are.
Funny that.
Ahh, the voice of reason
Thats right, stick up for the Paedos cos they "stuck up" for you no doubt..
Junkyard if my community found it acceptable to rape people then YES you could refer to me as a rapist. Albeit a generalisation but that's what happens when you have a group of individuals who share common traits and beliefs. Jeez you guys are stooopid
Thats right, stick up for the Paedos cos they "stuck up" for you no doubt..
Gosh....... you are an even bigger moron than I thought.
By that "logic " enfht you are a rapist then as some people in your community have raped people. Some of them are paedos so you/we/all of us must be too.
Still seem a resonable conclusion then?
Talk about struggling to twist things to suit your argument. If it was tradition or a custom to rape or be a paedo in Britain then yes that would be correct. The point enfht seemed to be making was that in Romani tradition or a custom it is quite acceptable.
[url= http://www.geocities.com/~patrin/marriage.htm ]Customs and Traditions or Roamnis[/url]
"Roma expect females to be virgins when they marry and to remain faithful to their husbands until death. The potential for defilement is greatly heightened at marriage because Roma perceive it as the end of a woman's innocence. Traditionally, marriages for Roma have occurred early, after age nine but usually before age fourteen. Gajikane influence has undermined this tradition in many countries."
Gosh....... you are an even bigger moron than I thought.
Oh stop, I'm blushing 😆
Some Europrat decided that discrimination against people who go about the union in caravans nicking stuff, making a mess, getting their kids educated FOC, blighting the value of homes, costing honest tax payers a packet whilst ignoring all the rules and avoiding taxes should be regarded as racist! WTF?
Racism is a different issue - period.
Any race has the option to rent or buy a home and integrate whilst contributing to the public purse. Most do, so why are these people regarded as any different? How about they have some respect for the culture and laws of the countries in which they are "travelling"??
If the children of these people are being forced onto crime, perhaps they should be taken into care if the parents can't control them!
This traveller issue has become clouded by liberal thinking idiots. The type who say that you are a bigot and a racist when you don't agree with them. My advice is to them is to get a dictionary out!
It's simple - the lifesytle travellers choose is unacceptable and anti-social. The lawlessness that this transient lifestyle supports should simply be banned. It gradually gains credibility as the idiot liberal thought police relentlessly bully the rest of the population tolerating this nonsense by making us feel bad about common sense and fair play! Stuff them!
If you come from Ireland, Romania etc and want to live in Britain, do what the rest of the population do - get a permanent place to live in!!
Caravans should only be used for holidays, or temporary places to live whilst proper accomodation is being sought. Permanent caravan sites are an eyesore and planning permission is granted on the ridiculous premise that these dwellings are temporary. Half our coast line is spoilt by acres of rows of powdercoated aluminium boxes. They have been there for over 40 years in some cases. In my book this is permanent! If these half wit planners had given this matter some thought, we could have built some attractive dwellings, but no, stupidity reigns. Only in Britain!
I'm sick of the namby pamby human rights brigade who have no idea about the practicatilies of life and who endlessly discriminate against the passive law abiding majority.
How about some fxxking fair play???
Well I'm glad things have moved on and it has become clear that we are talking about Romani people which are indisputably, a specific racial group - no more pretence eh ?
To denounce the Romani people as pedophiles is clearly racist. And to do so publicly, would probably constitute inciting racial hatred. And therefore be illegal.
I don't know or care about the "Roma" culture. I have no idea where this so called group orignated. What I do know is that we have to look forwards rather than backwards.
You live in a country, you live by it's laws and behave in a social manner.
Looking for ways to make yourself a "special case" is a cop out.
Toe the line, muck in, integrate, or sod off!
Racism and discrimination is negative stereotyping all of a people as being the same - which is what you do.
No one is saying that some of the travelling community do not flout the law. No one is saying that this is not extremely irksome to many folk.
However there are many of the travelling community who live within the law and who are routinely discriminated against. that is where the racism comes in.
My experience of London is its full of thieves and muggers . Would it be right to say all Londoners are thieves and muggers?
Two good things to come out of this miserable bumsquirt of a thread:
The police themselves referred to them as Ferrule.
and
rolfharris - Member
I hate gypos.I classify that as anyone that owns a caravan by the way.
🙂
You have no idea "that is all" None whatsoever!
You have no idea "that is all" None whatsoever!
What about the law ? No, I'm pretty confident that inciting racial hatred publicly is illegal. Posters have been very clear that they are specifically talking about Romani people - a clearly recognised racial group.
None at all and TJ, I take it you did watch the programme in question and haven't just posted on this thread without reference to the original context?
It seems like the ethnicity thing is an excuse for Daily Mail style hand wringing and outrage; treat criminals as criminals, not as ethnic groups. If a TV journalist can get the kind of evidence seen, why can't the relevant authorities?
If they were seen as a criminal gang rather than a 'special' case, then the solution is a relatively simple legal one; follow the cash, nick the baddies.
Ian - no - I saw a few minutes of it and that was enough. You will note I haven't argued against any "facts" from the programme - just at the vile racist attitudes shown by some of the posters.
As I said ages ago:
To say that some of the Roma / Gypsies / travellers are nasty thieving gits without morals is not racist as it is clearly true. To say they all are is clearly racist and untrue. To call them all dirty thieving paedos is clearly racist and arguably illegal.
A clear distinct difference which seems to be too hard for some on here to grasp.
All londoners are muggers
[i]No, I'm pretty confident that inciting racial hatred publicly is illegal[/i]
Indeed, but your concept of what inciting racial hatred is appears to be somewhat hysterically distorted in much the same way as some people on here have believed that touching someone constitutes the criminal offence of assault.
To denounce the Romani people as pedophiles is clearly racist. And to do so publicly, would probably constitute inciting racial hatred. And therefore be illegal.
It's like talking to schoolkid. In Britain it is illegal to have s£x under the age of 16 if it's there tradition to do it from the age of 9 and preferably before the age of 14 then that is under-age s£x which is commonly known as being paedophile. Fact......
And my beef is with dirty tossers with no respect for the countryside or other people I don't care whether they are Romani, Irish or British TBA. If they park their caravans on land that's not theirs and turn it into a sh1te hole then I don't have much time for them. They parked on a field down the road from us a while back, they were they 1 night left no end of crap and broke into the car park donation boxes, nice people? The Appleby Horse fair bring all the crap up.
Ian - unfortunatly you are wrong. Touching without consent is assault. clear basic legal definition.