Irish travellers convicted on slavery charges by English court - VIDEO

Hmmm, Ciara, sounds like you being increasingly drawn towards the dark side of the force. Remember, once you embrace the dark side, forever will it control your destiny...

YoungPike: ha, ha, ha!

Curitiba, Im exactly like that.

I have no idea why theyre called Travellers as they dont travel!

Curitiba: In my experience the English don't think we're ALL travellers. They're open-minded enough to realise that we're also brawlers, drunkards, fiddlers and terrorists!

Apparently 'Travellers' is the term they themselves are most comfortable with. They used to be know as itinerants, (as well as the two other less than complimentary terms mentioned). Although they used to work with tin, they say they never dealth with the carcasses of dead animals. I suspect this case is pay back for the Dale Farm debacle. Alas, since they're less nomadic than they used to be, (courtesy of the positive discrimination of Local Authority housing preferential policy), it's doubtful if the term traveller holds anymore. And since most of these Connor's were born in England, it's doubtful if they can be considered Irish. Despite being direct descendants of evicted tenant farmers of rackrenting English landlords over time, it's not ethnicist to say that they are deeply dysfunctional people who do victimhood and dependency very convincingly. Wherever the go, trouble inevitably follows. There are plenty of islands off the coast of both Ireland and Britain. Why can't be settled there by the repective authorities, instead of inflicting them upon inarticulate local authority working class tenants whose lives are made a misery by their lifestyle of choice - drinking, whoring and fighting.

Won't be long before we get posts denouncing the persecution of these fine Irish folk by the murderous prejudiced British justice system.I say -"Free the Luton Four"

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I've got English friends too Ciara. Very nice people, their English ancestors go back hundreds of years. Bit of a racist rant you're having about minority folk there, never knew you were like that, I'm shocked!

Curitiba, funny that because none of my English friends think like that. Maybe its just because you keep telling your mates that youre irish. they are probably so sick of hearing that so they think youre some gypo migrants.

Totally embarrassing. When English people think of Irish people these days, they automatically assume we are all travellers. Then this sort of thing happens and they simply assume we are all like that. That ridiculous TV programme "Big Fat Gypsy Weddings" doesn't help either.

So I am right Sparklet-just trying to learn your PC!

Ooh Murph..you'd get a rap on the knuckles for using that term in the UK as Travellers have been granted the status of an ethnic group, and therefore racist charges can be brought against anyone who contravenes the Race Relations Act.

Is Travelers the politically correct term for tinkers or knackers?