Another Mp Having To Apologise For Being Correct!

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-41048560
Predictable howls from the yuman rites brigade, what about the rights of the rest of us that are abused by these vermin? I'd vote for him.
"Mr Ross came under fire from human rights groups and the travelling community over the comments." - nooooo!

[ToraToraTora]

...Before the usual suspects remind me I'm referring to the lawless lowlife travelers, not the fluffy bunny wonder Gypsies ok!

[FinnyMick]

Thieving scum round here, no garden ornament is safe. Send them all back to Ireland.

[ChillDoubt]

As the generic term for them is banned on here by the AB filter(rhymes with crikey) I'll use the term used by Viz magazine: TGB's.

One actually threatened me on my way into work a few weeks ago for taking pictures of them parked all round the hospital entrance, blocking other motorists.
Pure lawless scum, no other words for them.

[ludwig]

// Before the usual suspects remind me I'm referring to the lawless lowlife travelers, not the fluffy bunny wonder Gypsies ok! //

That's exactly what the MP should have said at the time, then he wouldn't have needed to apologise later.

[ToraToraTora]

just semantic bowlocks though ludwig, everyone knows what is meant by "travelers" goes without saying.

[anotheoldgit]

With travellers/gypsies (or any other way they could be described) being a particular problem in his constituency, is it little wonder they would have been foremost in his mind, when asked the question what would be his number one priority if he was prime minister?

Perhaps not the most important issue to be taken on for a Prime Minister, but then given that power why not? These abusers of decent society should have been taken in hand years ago.

[ummmm]

They've set up camp in a local park. On facebook this morning someone posted to the police that they drive through football matches for fun.

I had one knock at the door a few days ago saying my house needed pointing. Met him and his friend/brother/cousin the next day in the shop and the shop wouldn't serve them cigarettes as they didn't have ID. So one of them threw money at me and told me to buy them for him.

They weren't Irish btw...

[naomi24]

And did you, ummmm?

[ummmm]

No. And when he asked had I had a word with my husband about the pointing I asked for a business card. Funnily enough they didn't have one.

[naomi24]

No surprise.

[naomi24]

//what about the rights of the rest of us that are abused by these vermin? //

Presumably our rights aren't rights.

[youngmafbog]

Law abiding, tax paying citizens dont have rights as far as the right-on liberal left are concerned.

And pleeeez. No smartarse remarks about we all break the law somehow.

[Mamyalynne]

I'm sure the majority of people agree something needs to be done and certainly more than is at present.

He has thought on the hoof and put it at the top of his list, an absolute gift for those who like to pick things apart.

[youngmafbog]

It is looking like the tide is starting to turn. Ordinary folk are fed up with this PC nonsense, crims treated as victims and a judiciary not fit for purpose.

It must be quite difficult for an MP, their constituents will be bashing their ears to get things changed but their peers and the liberal left will be there to shout on social media and the press with some sort of name calling usually ending in 'ist'

[ToraToraTora]

hang on ummmm you were defending them the other day. PMSL

[Mamyalynne]

I'll get the mop - again.

[hereIam]

ymb I don't think the tide is starting to turn, I think it gets worse every day. Nobody can say anything these days without fear of offending SOMEONE ....

[ummmm]

TTT - I have never defended them. I've said that we had a group of travellers use our pub who caused no problems. And I've acknowledged that not all travellers are from the same ilk but not defended them.

I said in the other thread that they shut down towns in Ireland when they roll in. They cause trouble, wreck pubs, invade public spaces and leave a mess.

[cassa333]

Predictable howls because we know we are not allowed to upset the traveller community. And an MP having the temerity to say something that is blindingly obvious is simply not allowed.

By highlighting the shortcomings of a 'minority' he is alienating them from society and furthering the hate against them.

It doesn't matter that they fleece money out of vulnerable people, don't pay taxes, expect anything they want as a right. That crime shoots up wherever they lay their cap and leave (NOT metaphorical but actual) tons of rubbish, excrement and assorted rubble is by the by.

If they were law abiding citizens contributing to society we wouldn't be having this conversation. That fact we are says it all really.

[andy-hughes]

TTT - //just semantic bowlocks though ludwig, everyone knows what is meant by "travelers" goes without saying. //

Er, no it's not.

You can't say 'Nazis' when you meant Germans, you can't say 'Ku Klux Klan' when you meant citizens of Mississippi, and you can't say 'Gypsys' when you mean law-breaking travellers.

Oh, and to be clear, you can't say 'expense-fiddling trough-gobbling out-of-touch posh-boy namby-pambys' - when you mean MP's!