EU and Gypsies

A friend of mine sent me this article and labeled it

“Lunatics taking over the asylum”

The EU is paying for a seminar on Human rights for Gypsies and Travellers.

 Here is a list of the speakers all paid for us the Tax payers not the  Gypsy fraternity who pay little or no Tax

Typical Bureaucratic Fas, with all these speakers being paid a handsome sum to discuss these people who flout the Law of the Country. EVEN MORE REASON TO GET OUT OF THE EU

What about the rights of the ordinary hardworking Englishman, who pays his taxes, lives by the letter of the law., what of their rights?

I do not have a lot of time for Travellers but I rather associate with them then those speakers and the EU who hide under the mantle of respectability and take Dane geld to keep themselves gobbling at the trough of money and hypocrisy

Andrew Stunell OBE MP
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,
Department for Communities and Local Government 



Andrew George MP
Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Gypsies, Roma and Travellers

Speakers include:

Bill Forrester
Head of Gypsy and Traveller Unit, Kent County Council;
Chair, National Association of Gypsy and Traveller Officers (NAGTO)

Caroline Cormack
Head of Affordable Housing Delivery, 
Homes and Communities Agency

Dr Nicola Higgins
Gypsy and Traveller Unit,
Department for Communities and Local Government

Siân Sankey
Policy Manager, Chartered Institute of Housing



Penny Dane
Community Development Worker (Gypsies & Travellers),
Plymouth & Devon Racial Equality Council

ACC Janette McCormick
National Lead for Gypsies and Travellers, ACPO

Siobhan Spencer MBE
Coordinator, Derbyshire Gypsy Liaison Group;
Co-Director, The National Federation of Gypsy Liaison Groups



Shaynie Larwood
Lead Nurse Gypsy and Traveller Health,
NHS Cambridgeshire 



Rose Wilson
Team for Traveller Education,
Cambridgeshire County Council 



Michael Hargraves
Head of Planning and Accommodation Policy, 
Irish Traveller Movement in Britian



Pauline Burton
Gypsy and Travellers' Liaison Office,
Leicestershire County Council



Tom McCready
Traveller, Derbyshire Gypsy Liaison Group, 



Kealey Sly
English Roma Gypsy

 

Gary Fagg
Manager, Futures at Knightstone



Gary Brewer
Manager of the Gypsy and Traveller Service,
Oxfordshire County Council 



Jo McKean
Welfare Liaison Officer, 
South Gloucestershire Council



Christina Cravioto
Support and Housing Worker, 
Knightstone Housing

The Council of Europe's Commissioner for Human Rights, has told the UK Government it is failing to safeguard the human rights of the UK's Gypsy and Traveller population. In a letter published in The Independent to Communities Secretary Eric Pickles, the Council points to the eviction of travellers from Dale Farm as evidence of violation of international human rights conventions.

Local authority cuts to the number of Traveller sites, enable by the Government's Localism Bill, had been a contributory factor to the violation of Travellers' rights to adequate housing, enshrined in the European Convention of Human Rights, the Commissioner says.

"The events of October 2011 at Dale Farm in Basildon, Essex... powerfully illustrates these concerns," he adds.

Delivering Services for Gypsies and Travellers is the national conference for all those working in Gypsy and Traveller services. Taking place on Thursday 22nd March 2012 at Westminster Studio, London SW1 it will explore emerging trends, address the latest policy and encourage the sharing of best practice.