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<blockquote data-quote="SteveHants" data-source="post: 7498854" data-attributes="member: 3380"><p>Like most people on here, I have had mixed experiences with travellers, some very negative, many positive: I was "looked after" by the head of our local settled gypsy community as a child on the way back from sea fishing trips which ran out of our local pub when my dad couldn't make it, I have fond memories of being fed kit kat in the back of a transit whilst the men drunk cans on the way to the pub. It also meant that they were extremely polite to my family, with my mum being head of the local primary school often having had an errant child dragged back in by their mother to apologise to her for being naughty etc. </p><p></p><p>The thing I cannot stomach about this bill its it's attempts to criminalise an entire ethnic group for nothing other than existing. </p><p>Wherever nomadic and settled groups coexist, there is conflict, and this is often used to bring in draconian legislation of this nature - in almost every authoritarian far right society, it was the Gypsies that were targeted first. </p><p></p><p>"First they came for the Gypsies, but I did not speak out, for I was not a Gypsy....."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SteveHants, post: 7498854, member: 3380"] Like most people on here, I have had mixed experiences with travellers, some very negative, many positive: I was "looked after" by the head of our local settled gypsy community as a child on the way back from sea fishing trips which ran out of our local pub when my dad couldn't make it, I have fond memories of being fed kit kat in the back of a transit whilst the men drunk cans on the way to the pub. It also meant that they were extremely polite to my family, with my mum being head of the local primary school often having had an errant child dragged back in by their mother to apologise to her for being naughty etc. The thing I cannot stomach about this bill its it's attempts to criminalise an entire ethnic group for nothing other than existing. Wherever nomadic and settled groups coexist, there is conflict, and this is often used to bring in draconian legislation of this nature - in almost every authoritarian far right society, it was the Gypsies that were targeted first. "First they came for the Gypsies, but I did not speak out, for I was not a Gypsy....." [/QUOTE]
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