From Priti Patel's police bill to a racist local Labour leaflet, Gypsies, Roma and Travellers are facing attacks from all sides. If GRT culture is stamped out, then everyone else’s liberties will be just one step behind, writes Jake Bowers.
From the violent eviction of travellers from Dale Farm in 2011 to more recent scaremongering over an influx of Roma ‘child snatchers’ and ‘beggars’ over the New Year, Travellers and Gypsies continue to be the media’s favourite folk devils and antiziganism shows no signs of ceasing to be the most socially acceptable form of racism. […]
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