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Originally Posted by ScaredWebWarrior
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Originally Posted by Stuart C
The travellers (AFAIK, they aren't actually gypsies, and there is a difference) squatted illegally on land, and were refused an appeal. This is right.
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Travellers/gypsies/pikeys/**** - is there a meaningful distinction?
All I've ever seen is dirty people in clean caravans with way-too-expensive and/or should-be-written-off vehicles camping on land that isn't theirs (or anyone else's) to camp on. And if/when they leave, the place looks like landfill. I don't care what you want to call them - I know them by what they do.
So councils can keep trying to evict them. With the police being limp-wristed, spineless good-for-nothings in cases like this, this verdict doesn't change anything, unfortunately. |
The kind of people that the media refer to as gypsies *are* what I would call Pikies. True gypsies (seemingly a dying breed) do try and live in harmony with their neighbours.
I am not defending Pikies, I hate them. I just don't like the fact that the media (and therefore most of the population, including, apparently, nearly everyone who has posted in this thread) don't draw a distinction between the two.