And still. Nobody seems to want to ask why travellers on the whole, just as any group, are negatively stereotyped in the first place?

If you want to be accepted by society you need to be part of society. The signs referred to, very rare, rather historical and I suspect having hens teeth status in Bristol, are not nice, rather repugnant hence not used these days, and borne of ignorance.

However, and as bad as it can sound, if we invest in public health programs to protect the population, then it can only work if all people buy into it. In the meantime, TB and measles are clustering in traveller groups. Bare hard facts and if not dealt with soon, such signs may become real again rather than in the minds of those who don't even live here.

I'm happy of course to accept the coincidence of my old factory unit being broken into whilst ever there was a camp at the end of the industrial estate.

Sorry, but those who decry "Tories and bankers" whilst defending the tax, social responsibility and reputation of travellers need to look deeply at the moral compass they use to decide who to hate and who to defend.