And for twenty six years without the authorities knowing.? https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...lty-of-enslaving-homeless-and-disabled-people Scandalous in modern Britain imo .
It is scandalous but its easy to see how it can happen The slavers were travellers so always on the move, they selected their victims carefully - ones with learning difficulties and homeless so they wouldnt be people who would be missed or know how to get out of the situation they were in Makes my blood boil that we live amongst thugs who exploit people like this
Like bullying oaps into work doing they don't require. Can't believe they sensationalised the barn rats on tv as charming. Act like a rat, get treated like a rat.
Heard about this on the radio today. Based on my own experiences, someone has yet to convince me to raise my low opinion of travellers.
Trouble is, we don't live amongst them. They don't integrate with us unless there is something in it for them, and seem to be outside the law too, so as you rightly say, it's difficult to keep tabs on them. They look down their noses at non travellers and see us as fair game for their perverse sense of "honesty". Lots of people have a downer on Asians, and Eastern Europeans, but these lot are as bad as anybody, if not worse.
@fitzytyke2 I've taught quite a few traveller children and they and their families have all been lovely. This isn't me in any way extrapolating that to all travellers as there's good and bad in all groups. I'm certain there will be bad ones that I've never met (the story above is proof of that) and there will also be lovely ones that you've never met. The ones I have had direct contact with have been extremely proud of their travelling routes and love to tell stories about their lives. They did make my attendance figures absolutely shocking though as they often went for weeks at a time attending travelling fairs or simply just moved on but stayed on my register for months afterwards.
