SNP plan reparation for travellers

[Wishbone]

Saw front page headlines for an article in the EEN today where the SNP aim to pay reparation to gypsies/travellers/diddiecoys (take your pick) for the poor treatment they received including circa 1946 when they were housed in old army barracks. I thought I'd start things off with a Bounce collection for this worthy cause and I will start the ball rolling with a donation of Fcuk All.

 

[blue toon hibby]

Saw front page headlines for an article in the EEN today where the SNP aim to pay reparation to gypsies/travellers/diddiecoys (take your pick) for the poor treatment they received including circa 1946 when they were housed in old army barracks. I thought I'd start things off with a Bounce collection for this worthy cause and I will start the ball rolling with a donation of Fcuk All.

I’ll match your generous donation. It can go towards cleaning up the mess they leave behind.

 

[paigntonhibby]

Saw front page headlines for an article in the EEN today where the SNP aim to pay reparation to gypsies/travellers/diddiecoys (take your pick) for the poor treatment they received including circa 1946 when they were housed in old army barracks. I thought I'd start things off with a Bounce collection for this worthy cause and I will start the ball rolling with a donation of Fcuk All.

I would like to contribute a sweet to go with your fuck all

 

[Cabbageman]

Really? Where is the scottish gov planning on getting the money for this? Absolute fucking nonsense if it goes ahead

 

[Jack]

I worked in a area that sort of touched on the health and wellbeing of the travelling community. They are generally an unhealthy lot with shockingly poor life expectancy.

It was all about setting targets for providing them with decent pitches in their own sites in each council area. They would have access to healthcare and schooling for the kids etc. Not every council was on board but that's to be expected - with everything council touch

Nice toilet blocks, this that and the other.

I'm all for that.

After the first visits the places were wrecked, plumbing and associated furniture smashed or stolen. Place left a disgusting mess. A bloody shame.

With the mess they make and the wanton destruction they leave behind I'm afraid I've lost any sympathy I had for them at one time.

If the Scottish Government has money they should wave it in front of them and say 'Here's what you could have had but we need to spend it on the damage you've caused around the countryside.'

 

[gun ainm]

Scotland's "Tinker Experiment" broke families apart. For decades, Gypsy and Traveller families were forced off the roads under threat of having their children taken away. Folk were crammed into freezing, overcrowded nissan huts —only for authorities to use those exact state-imposed conditions as an excuse to rip their children away anyway. Just because they disapproved of the culture of travelling and the freedom of people to chose that. Imo that's a basic human right and an injustice, I don't know what appropriate compensation would or should be but that injustice should be recognised.

 

[gun ainm]

I worked in a area that sort of touched on the health and wellbeing of the travelling community. They are generally an unhealthy lot with shockingly poor life expectancy.

It was all about setting targets for providing them with decent pitches in their own sites in each council area. They would have access to healthcare and schooling for the kids etc. Not every council was on board but that's to be expected - with everything council touch

Nice toilet blocks, this that and the other.

I'm all for that.

After the first visits the places were wrecked, plumbing and associated furniture smashed or stolen. Place left a disgusting mess. A bloody shame.

With the mess they make and the wanton destruction they leave behind I'm afraid I've lost any sympathy I had for them at one time.

If the Scottish Government has money they should wave it in front of them and say 'Here's what you could have had but we need to spend it on the damage you've caused around the countryside.'

Did anyone actually codesign solutions to the problems which travellers undoubtedly face? Although no doubt well intentioned this was really part of wider forced assimilation and persecution by the state

 

[emerald green]

They have visited heriot watt research park 3 times in the last few years. The domestic staff at my organisation fair enjoyed cleaning up their faeces. That's all the faeces they left everywhere in the open bike "shed", which they decided was a suitable place.