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Originally Posted by danielf
So is anyone going to ammend the thread title then? (the suggestion was to change gipsy's (sic) to Pikeys)
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Not so sic, really - as I was referring to the human rights - hence the 's.
I'm all for a change of thread title if that'll make it easier for everyone. I would just point out the title came about in response to
the BBC article which has the title:
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Law Lords reject key Gypsy case
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The case in question, btw, was to decide if the people illegally camped on public land could claim a breach of human rights.
Correctly, it has been decided that they could never consider the land as theirs, and consequently Councils have every right to evict them.
Considering that this case concerned the illegal camping on public land, is anyone still wanting to maintain that these people are 'proper Romany'? Because if that is the case, then the Romany are as much part of the problem as any other category of traveller.
Personally, I'd like to see sites designated for overnight stops, so that travellers can make stops without having no options. And I think for longer stays, they should make use of appropriate designated sites. I mean, they could become members of the Caravan Club. If they use the sites and then leave them as they found them (including leaving neighbour's property in place and intact) then no reasonable person could object.
But seeing them block up parking bays along roads and then leave behind several skips full of rubbish, is NOT the way to get acceptance from the community.
BTW - why do they always leave those gas cylinders behind? The deposit on those must run into hundreds of pounds. That can only mean that either they have more money than sense - in which case I'd like to know the source of their income and why they're not paying tax - or, more likely, in my view, they stole the cylinders in the first place, in which case trying to get the unpaid deposit on them would be rather stupid.