Pity the poor family who lost their home to Gypsy squatters over the Christmas holidays.
The police were more interested in accusing them of being racists than they were in helping them get back their home.
Thankfully, the story has a happy ending. The Gypsies have now gone home — to a house 100 yards down the road — to “stay with relatives”.
Is the term racist losing its meaning through overuse, I wonder? A bit like the term terrorist which is now used to describe anything from a tourist photographing a building within the M25 to an octogenarian heckling at a Labour party conference.
Either way, thank you to our reader, Lisa, for reporting this one.
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January 22, 2010 at 3:05 pm |
disgrace. These people should be revoked of any `human rights’ on the spot and chucked out on the street by the police. `Squatters Rights’ and all that is what is wrong with this country, the goverment are too scared of Brussels to do anything about it.
F**k these scum, and f**k brussels aswell.
March 1, 2010 at 1:11 am |
i agree that the term racists is over used it was once used to the ones which
punished the the different now it is used for anyone which describes anyone which is different (not in negative term) like black sorry if it offends anyone but but the term white is used as no offensive but i was not born in the world where black was not used as a negative term and now the pc term of the day is used by the people which are not racist or ‘too pc’ to use it but people who are scared of using any term taboo of the day which describes any people in question which make them racist. (im sorry if this post offends anyone but im just tryin the put my point that people shud be described as wot they are and people shud respect wot they are in this day and age.)
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March 9, 2010 at 12:38 pm |
All points could be easily solved by eliminating arbitrary discrimination: both negative and positive.
I’ve just started a debate at: http://blog.thebigqs.co.uk/ on whether or not Britain is ‘broken’ if anyone wants to take a look.
Rob (www.thebigqs.co.uk)
March 25, 2010 at 11:32 pm |
Mick: what has Brussels got to do with this? Squatters have been part of british culture since well before entry to the EEC. Remove human rights? Rather than just move them out? You are the scum.
Jaxxes: the only offensive thing about your post is the dreadful grammar. And if you read the article, it sounds like the couple were spouting racist nonsense and the police probably called it correctly.
You people are what’s broke about Britain. Yay!