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Gypsy lives matter too

Britain’s Gypsies and travellers demand justice

They have long been on the wrong end of the law

Jul 23rd 2020 | NEWBRIDGE, SOMERSET

“WE ARE THE white blacks,” declares Joseph Jones, a Romany gypsy who is vice-chair of the Gypsy Council, a civil-rights group, and has been campaigning for the rights of gypsies and travellers since the 1970s. The recent success of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement has influenced the way the council is approaching new threats of government action.

Outsiders are common targets for populists, and nomadic people are the ultimate outsiders. The Tory manifesto promised to make it a criminal offence to set up an illegal campsite and give the police greater powers to seize travellers’ vehicles. The announcement in July by Priti Patel, the home secretary, that the government would take new measures in the autumn was therefore not a surprise.

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