You claimed much more than that and you've had evidence that they were, and almost certainly are still common throughout Britain; common enough for Mrs Thatcher's favourite civil servant to refer to them in his magnificent book and cite one of them as being used as a test case in court which set a legal precedent (or does he count as another of those "agenda ridden spokespersons trying to justify their pay-packets"
You are obviously not going to have the good grace to accept the indisputable evidence placed before you in huge amounts (or even to refer to it), so I suggest we leave this as another case of your denigrating yet another ethnic minority by denying the facts of their persecution, and leave it there.
Jim Carroll