The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #164082 Message #3922659
Posted By: Iains
07-May-18 - 07:16 AM
Thread Name: BS: London is a war zone!
Subject: RE: BS: London is a war zone!
Well Jimmy those travellers you insist on supporting here are a few facts.
Suicide rate six times higher than the general population.(12% of all traveller deaths)
The highest infant mortality rate among any community(3.5 times normal)
The lowest educational achievement
The highest unemployment rate (84%)
only 13 per cent of Traveller children complete second-level education compared to 92 per cent in the settled community.
Travellers make up 0.6 per cent of the population yet account for 10 per cent of the male prisoner population and 22 per cent of the female prison population.
Almost 10 per cent of the people under probation supervision are Travellers,
Traveller males have a lifeexpectancy 15 years shorter than settled males, II years for traveller women.
Travellers with mental and physical health problems three times higher that the general population
If insisting on living in a caravan achieves the statistics above then I would suggest that perhaps travellers need to try living in houses like other people, stop bleating they are misunderstood and discriminated against and leave their anachronistic lifestyle behind. The statistics suggest that insisting on retaining a nomadic lifestyle will eventually exterminate them.
If I kept my children away from education I would be prosecuted, for travellers it is ignored. Why is that?
Perhaps the local authorities should take the children into care to guarantee them the health and educational resources that are devoted to the rest of the general population, or do the "uman rights" of travellers over ride concerns for the child?
Does care automatically become labelled racist in such a situation, or is it simply a cop out by dis-interested councils afraid to grasp the nettle?