If it Walks Like a Duck

August 21, 2017 Longrider General News, misanthropy, Political 13

And Quacks like a duck…

This story conforms to a racist stereotype, that Travellers are thieving troublemakers.

Well, if they didn’t conform to the stereotype, there wouldn’t be a problem, would there? (And it’s got fuck all to do with race – Irish travellers are Caucasian, much like the majority of UK inhabitants, so go fuck yourself with your race mongering)

Despite growing tolerance in most spheres, modern Britain is permanently locked down against a minority that wishes to live in a slightly different way.

Perhaps because people really don’t like the increase in crime and the shit they leave behind?

Travellers have been moved on for decades but in an era of preposterous land prices, there is less physical space than ever to accommodate them.

They choose to live differently. Fine. That doesn’t mean that we owe them anything, we don’t owe them accommodation – and when they stay near here, the sea of litter that covers the common has to be cleared up. And it isn’t them who does it.

How does it feel to be constantly refused service, or find bars mysteriously closing early? If I was repeatedly thwarted by “the rules”, I’d want to break them. I suspect most of us would be the same.

Most of us are law-abiding people who do not intimidate shopkeepers or steal from them. If you are looking for sympathy here, you are on stony ground. He’s getting a pasting below the line, so even the Guardianista are hostile. Heh!

13 Comments

  1. Well to be fair the columnist has written a pile o shoite and he was being very quickly called out on it by commenters for the few minutes they stupidly left the comments section on.

    But you have to wonder at the quality of the sub editing that this piece if inflammatory click bait was even allowed to be published. Surely even the Grauniad must have realised what a stupid article it was.

  2. “I went camping on the Norfolk coast for free last week. I stoked a fire and watched the Perseid meteor shower, thanks to a generous friend who let my group stay in his garden.”

    I note that the friend didn’t want the guy in the house, apparently.

  3. Travellers might as well be a different species or , more accurately, an alien race and that is not meant in anyways negatively. I think a lot of the Gadje/Traveller interface problems are due to a lack of understanding of one crucial fact:
    Years ago I spent an evening drinking with a bunch of travellers my age (18) -they were amazed a ‘gadje’ might know some Romani (even though they spoke mostly shelta). Very quickly I realised that these young men,my peers, were infact Throw Backs. They had an entirely different way of thinking and of seeing the world. If you like some 300 years out of date. They belong to a time and a world that the rest of us only know from the History channel.

      • ” doesn’t justify their behaviour” and there we have it. Why would you expect them to behave in the way our society would wish ,when the only things they want from our society are those bits left unguarded or not bolted down? Expecting them to conform to our ‘norms’ would be akin to expecting Great Granddad Orange Man to accept the Pope might actually be a nice guy (for the want of a better analogy off the top of my head- and traveller mentality is about as historical as that of Orange Order ‘thought’).

        • Which is fine and dandy. However, when I travel to foreign lands where the rules are different, I am expecting to have to comply. Same applies here. If they won’t or can’t, then I fail to see why we should be expected to bend for them. Fuck ’em.

  4. Invading land, public or private should be a criminal offence. I do hope after we leave the EU that we deport all of these tinkers back to their homeland.

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