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February 19th, 2012 · 8 Comments

20% of Britain’s caravan-dwelling Travellers are statutorily homeless

Astonishing that, isn’t it?

People who decide to live in caravans don’t have houses.

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8 responses so far ↓

  • 1 DocBud // Feb 19, 2012 at 2:11 pm

    “That Gypsies and Travellers have a life expectancy 10 – 12 years below the national average.”

    every cloud

  • 2 Surreptitious Evil // Feb 19, 2012 at 2:15 pm

    I also like the (currently) “42 comments”. Which is actually 8 comments and 34 true believers tweeting about it – mostly the title & link without any additional comment.

  • 3 Anon // Feb 19, 2012 at 2:21 pm

    “But there is something particularly distasteful about adding to the already bulging cannon of stereotypes and slurs which the Travelling community has to endure”

    Thing is, I’ve never had an argument with someone about their experiences of travellers moving in near them. No-one’s ever said “look, I know people say this about travellers, but we had some that moved into the field next door and there was no increase in crime and when they left, they took all their rubbish with them”.

  • 4 ukliberty // Feb 19, 2012 at 2:35 pm

    I also like the (currently) “42 comments”. Which is actually 8 comments and 34 true believers tweeting about it – mostly the title & link without any additional comment.

    Yes – ridiculous vanity thing. And very misleading. Some of them have hundreds of ‘comments’, which is people just clicking retweet.

  • 5 Rob // Feb 19, 2012 at 6:13 pm

    Even practising fucking slavery hasn’t been enough to break the Left’s love of travellers.

  • 6 So Much For Subtlety // Feb 19, 2012 at 11:23 pm

    Rob – “Even practising fucking slavery hasn’t been enough to break the Left’s love of travellers.”

    c.f. Stalin. Seamus Milne still regrets the loss.

    Besides, I think it is a because not a despite.

  • 7 johnny bonk // Feb 20, 2012 at 10:08 am

    @DocBud – bad taste, not necessary.

  • 8 Agammamon // Feb 20, 2012 at 7:46 pm

    I like how the article talks about “statutorially homeless”. Because the statute can be modified, they’ll never have to worry about running out of homeless to worry about.

    Kind of like the difference between poverty and “relative poverty”.

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