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It’s a cushy ole life for a British gypsy!

Published: 23 June, 2009, 13:00


Crab Casamicha (photo by Gabrielle Pickard)

Love them or loathe them, travelers in Britain are thriving, lapping up laws there to be exploited. With their population increasing dramatically, gypsies in the UK cannot be ignored.

 
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Count Cash June 23, 2009, 17:14 quote
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Not so cushy if you are a Romanian gypsy in the annexed northern Ireland, you know that bit of Ireland annexed by the British from southern Ireland. Then you get beaten up and forced from you homes! remember the British did a full annexation of this area. Of course I forgot annexation is ok if a western country does it! oh, so is torture, rape and invasion too!

christine townsley July 29, 2009, 00:42 quote
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i think its horrific the way travllers are treated by people and the council now days all my life i grew up in caravans or trailers as we call them and now because they do not build new sites here wich are safe and sacure we have to move in to houses wich we are not use to and give up on gypsy life i think they do far more english travllers tnan scottish ones they should treat them the same build as many sites here in scotland as they do england.

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