https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/14/uk-politicians-accused-of-racist-rhetoric-against-travellers
UK politicians accused of racist rhetoric against Travellers
MPs and councillors have branded group illiterate and violent over past two years
Fact:
1)According to one survey, cited by Ofsted (2003), 33% of Traveller pupils were gaining Level 2 in English at the end of Key Stage 1 (ages 6-7), as against a national average of 84% to 86%, whereas at Key Stage 3 (ages 11-14), 16% of Traveller pupils gained a Level 5 plus at English, compared to a national average of 64%
2)A 2007 presentation by Roberts and colleagues on the health of Gypsies and Travellers in Wrexham reported that 61 per cent of married English Gypsy women and 81 per cent of married Irish Traveller women interviewed for the study had experienced direct domestic abuse. Nevertheless, no further information is available on whether the methods of identifying or recruiting women may have influenced these figures. Lord Avebury's (2003) review of local authority homelessness strategies noted that three local authorities referred to high levels of domestic violence, based on information provided at homelessness application interviews, but no further information or statistics were provided.
They are illiterate, they are violent! irrefutable statistics. What is racist about that?
To this can be added higher levels of illness, suicide, premature death and infant mortality.
The statistics are readily available and can be easily checked.


In Ealing, a Conservative councillor, Joanna Dabrowska, launched a petition in December 2018 calling on the council to adopt a borough-wide injunction. Dabrowska wrote in a blog that there was currently “one rule for Travellers, one rule for the rest of us,”

In response to a request for comment, Dabrowska said:

“I would like to ask everyone and anyone: why do some people feel encamping without authority, flytipping, antisocial behaviour etc on public land is acceptable?”