It seems somewhat bizarre that Jim Carroll argues that Irish Pikeys have been part of the agricultural landscape for hundreds of years and that Pikey culture is a legitimate and part of the British heritage and needs to be accommodated. Part of the agricultural landscape Jim?

Of course, because caravan sites and scrapyards always feature in Turner's bucolic portraits of the British countryside.

The claims of "racism" are based on an incredibly dishonest intellectual fiction, one which governments are afraid of tackling. 

Pikeys are not by most definitions a race or ethnic group. They are Irish and English people who have at some point chosen to live tax free lives, and who tend to marry within their group.

This subculture, being nomadic, is by definition going to come into conflict with settled cultures – the two cannot co-exist easily – which is why they have always created hostility in Ireland and England.

Essentially your "race" tag is a scam, because if one defines an ethnic group by their behaviour, then any criticism of that behaviour becomes racist.

You are digging an even bigger hole for yourself this morning I see. Are you in government by any chance over there in the land of milk and honey and a bankrupt government ?