The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #159092   Message #3768542
Posted By: GUEST,ND
27-Jan-16 - 10:54 AM
Thread Name: BS: Irish Travellers on the move
Subject: RE: BS: Irish Travellers on the move
Don't know if I have missed something, in which case, excuse me, but the only recommendation I picked up was your approval in an early post of sites at Winterbourne and Swindon. Assuming similar sites were to be more generally created, what would be your criteria for siting? Do we take a "traditional" view and put them one day's horse and cart distance apart, or accept progress and stretch that to a lorry and trailer journey? Do we provide them on traditional routes or should there be universal coverage of the country? Do we need to know the numbers of travellers affected and are they generally or locally distributed?
You refer in a number of mails to bigotry, so I looked it up. My dictionary defines a bigot as, "A person obstinately and unreasonably holding some creed or view and intolerant towards others". Does it only apply to those questioning your views?