Admins, I think racism is not allowed on HOL. Is there any chance you could ban the people I believe are making racist comments on today's Downhills Park post.
I have taken a screen shot and will be reporting them to the police.
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"It is not a coincidence or racism that drives people voice their grievances, it is through experience."
Indeed so, as I shall later outline.
In Haringey, as far as I can find, there are only two council sites for travellers with total capacity for 10 caravans/ trailers in the whole of the borough.
In recent years Haringay Council closed two sites with the loss of space for 22 trailers; they promised in return to open up four new sites but after years of commitments there have been no further sites opened.
As you say Michael the travellers on these sites pay rent, they also pay community charge and for all the services that they receive. The sites are regulated and if there were more council run sites then there would be less unregulated parking.
The other side (and few people realise this from some of the comments) is that the overwhelming majority of 'travellers' are living in houses. In Haringey 410 'travellers' live in houses, fairly equally split between Roma and Irish travellers, and Haringey has nearly the highest rate of housed travellers in London. I'm not sure if this is policy or result of not providing sites for trailers but the result is that there is a high rate of depression amongst housed travellers being split from their community and culture and an inability to work which being mobile enabled.
You are right Michael about extrapolating experiences to an entire culture or race; my experience from having a Roma family on an allotment plot near me is that they are caring, warm and generous, though we disagree politically on Brexit.
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