"I think our conversation is finished" Never had a doubt it would be You fit Billy Connolly's description of a policeman perfectly – "if you want to frighten him, ask him a question" You people will not accept the consequences of your bigoted hatred – in this case, ethnic cleansing Ake, supposing your quaint description of what real Travellers are, were true – what do YOU propose should happen to those who don't fit your rosy image - this perhaps? From the note to 'Winds of Change' in the MacColl songbook While collecting information for the above Radio-Ballad, producer Charles Parker interviewed Alderman Harry Watton, J.P., of Birmingham: Watton: How far does it come in your mind before you say: 'I have done everything I possibly can ... and I will help the broad mass of these people, but there are some I can do nothing with whatsoever.' Then doesn't the time arise in one's mind when one has to say: 'All right, one has to exterminate the impossibles ...' Parker: Exterminate - that's a terrible word. Surely you don't ... mean that ...? Watton: Why not? Jim Carroll
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