Immigrants Travellers and Crooks? Difficult subjects to discuss in U.K. without falling foul of some law or other - and so easy of course to become a victim of that horrendously bumbling and sometimes apparently crass, European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). But I want to write about these Groups anyway.
My intention is to be absolutely considerate.....oh and by the way I use the word "Travellers" because I have an uncomfortable feeling that to refer to them as "Gypsies", however fondly, might get me into serious trouble. Likewise I use the word "Immigrants" (to the U.K.) whilst noting that they are often called "Emigrants" (from their country of origin) as a safer option when it comes to potential referrals to the ECHR. Would "Migrant" be even safer I wonder? Finally I settle upon the word "Crook" in the hope that it is still a reasonable description of someone breaking the law and will not therefore turn me into one.
You come across loads of people who have an intense dislike of Immigrants and Travellers and Crooks. But nowadays it's routine for such categories to claim the dislike is discrimination and to muster support from the liberal-minded sorts peppering life and government in the U.K. just now. And in a surprising number of cases which go the whole hog, it seems they are correct !! Which, of course, is why I perceive many decisions of the ECHR as bumbling and crass.
Travellers occupying land without planning permission, or immigrants making their way into the country by hiding in lorries are acting illegally.
That's why people grow a dislike of such people. It's not discrimination because of who they are, it's a dislike of their illegal activities.
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