Irish travellers rounded up in Manchester.

You were quick enough to condone violence against Israeli football fans and even said they shouldn't be allowed to visit Europe. Good to see your more liberal side has re-established control.

The travelling community, like every other group, needs to take responsibility for their image and actions.
Theoretically, yes but traveller groups are so diverse, can anyone exercise control? Who ‘controls’ groups of football fans or similar? This why there is legislation giving police those powers. Intractable problem in my view.
When the Appleby horse fair is on, shopkeepers just shut up shop. Pubs are open but all the furniture is removed!
 
Last year’s. GCSE results showed
white Gypsy or Roma pupils had the lowest average score (20.3), followed by traveller of Irish heritage pupils (26.8).

I was not, in any way whatsoever, surprised by this.
My sister up in law was a peripatetic teacher assigned to the traveler community. They were not, she said, keen on lessons!
 
berber is considered a pejorative term,
almost like the n-word to some of them.
they are, in point of fact, called amazighs.
(berber is where the term barbarian derives from).

It’s derived from barbarian rather than the other way round isn’t it?

Agree with your sentiments :)
 
Dealt professionally with a few over the years.
Two in particular were very nice and polite (sisters). Almost (I imagine) Amish like in their approach to their wider community.
One had a congenital issue with her arm/hand. Probably from the interbreeding that went on. It reminded me of when I had my lad at Fairfield Hospital in Bury ...2 sisters married to 2 brothers and they had babies within a day of each other

The blokes that I dealt with were very different.
Not nice people, and one got done for fraud having signed on for years with absolute thousands in the bank.
 
That isn't a lawful excuse for discriminating against a whole group of people. Gangs of black or white kids stealing stuff doesn't mean police can turn away all white or black people.

They can disperse people who are travelling in large groups or engaging in ASB or they have intelligence which justifies their suspicions that these people are likely to commit ASB.
The police spent several decades treating all football supporters like shit. Why not treat other large groups the same?
 
Apparently 2 came to Manchester in a taxi from Nottingham.

I hope the taxi driver asked for the taxi fare first.
I picked two up from near the duchy site (Salford caravan site) going to Liverpool , £70 fare, got paid in two Irish £50 Notes , gave them their £30 change , their £50 notes were fake
 

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