Saturday - July 09, 2011

never thought i’d see this. gypsies refuse council cash.

I never thought I’d see this and for those who read BMEWS and are aware of my feelings on the subject (not warm and fuzzy), it comes as quite a surprise.
In a conversation with a close friend yesterday, I was accused of being a cynic.
In truth, I am and no less so now.  However, after reading this I can understand the worry of the gypsies here.  This particular group is not all that far away from our town.  It isn’t in our neighborhood, don’t want to imply that. But still.

Gipsies refuse £1m boost to site because it might attract travellers

A group of gipsies is demanding that a council spends £1million on “good causes” rather than improve their caravan site because they fear travellers might be attracted to it.

By Andy Bloxham

Kent County Council planned to spend the money redeveloping the site near Aylesford which would increase the number of caravan sites from eight to 26.
But the current residents of the site claim that introducing new families would “cause a lot of tension”.

They insisted they would “stand up for our rights” when the plans go to a public consultation.

The proposals would see an increase in the number of pitches, upgraded washing facilities, a new playground for children and the construction of a screen around the site to reduce road noise from the busy A20 nearby.
The council announced the proposals earlier this week and said a planning application would be put to councillors later this month.

Public consultation will begin in August if councillors vote to approve it and work could start as early as April next year.
A spokesman for the travellers said: “We’re dead against the development.

“Moving loads of new families here could cause a lot of tension.”
He said the travellers living on the caravan site at the moment “get on well with locals” and said new families moving in would create “tensions” that could threaten that relationship.  He added: “Why can’t the council give the money to a better cause and leave us alone?”

Another traveller, who has lived on the site for more than 20 years, said: “We want to keep ourselves to ourselves.”
A third said: “We will all oppose it. We will go to the public consultation and we will stand up for our rights.”
One local resident who lives near the site but declined to be named said: “The travellers there at the moment are pretty good and I can understand how they don’t want an influx of new people as they have got used to life as it is.

“But it is astonishing they are actually opposing this as the money will ensure the place is totally revamped.”
There are estimated to be between 15,000 and 30,000 gipsies living in Britain.

Under race laws, gipsies are defined as a minority ethnic group and are therefore eligible for certain types of special treatment to meet their specific needs.
In 2009, NHS trial guidance was launched which recommended giving gipsies priority in hospitals and GPs’ surgeries to try to reduce inequality

SOURCE

I am no expert in the field, but I really question how the people who deem this group an ethnic minority, or ethnic anything, can do so when many “travellers” are Irish.
Most of the others who come from across the channel are Eastern European and I believe they are Caucasians as well.  Perhaps Lyndon will comment on this if I have it wrong.  I think the liberal left needed to make nice, diversity comes into play as well, and so they made a “Special Group” out of these folks.  And as you see by that last line above, they are to be given special treatment to accommodate their special status. Including hospital and doctor priority.  If they have been “unequal” then surely it’s only because they have made themselves so by their lifestyle and free choices.
Whatever … at least with one story I can find myself without anything to bitch about where these folks are concerned.  And that’s a good thing I guess but you know …
Stay Tuned.

Posted by peiper     on 07/09/2011 at 10:59 AM   
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