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Originally Posted by ExistenceIsSuffering
What name would you prefer to call these people ? I hope not the insulting one that the thread started with.
As for how much land should be set aside, surely that should be decided independently of the amount other boroughs have decided on. It should be "How much is right?" not "How little can we get away with".
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No one had even mentioned the word *****, until you decided to have a little moan, and question what term Ken Moss would use, if he didn't use the term he did, traveller.
Like it or lump it, irrespective of who they are, Romani gypsies, Irish tinkers, or middle class English crusties who travel from protest to protest, the term ***** is now widely used for any transient people who illegally camp on land, and very often leave havoc and mess in their wake.
Since travellers per se aren't any particular race, the term therefore isn't racist.
The term might be derogatory, but as was pointed out, some sensitive ninny in Burnley might consider the tag Dingle, similarly derogatory.
Bless their sensitive Dingle soul.