It’s obvious to anyone other than a hideous bigot that all sorts of people are bad neighbours, middle class, working class, all ethnicities… and not just ‘gipsies’ as the Mail seems to believe.
The people in this article may be a nuisance but is there any need to point out that they are gypsies? Is there any need to use this family to continue this paper’s vile stereotypes about travelling people?
First come the attempts to portray this as some kind of utopia with everyone living together before the big bad gipsy family turns up…
In the peace and quiet of a summer’s evening, family life in Totteridge — where professional couples pay up to £1million for a substantial home a stone’s throw from good schools, shops, restaurants and trains direct to the city — appears to be a picture of idyllic suburbia.
So only middle class people should be allowed in Totteridge, good to know that.
John and Serena Connors and their seven children — an Irish traveller family — have been in residence at this five-bedroom £1million home since February, when they were moved by Barnet Council into privately-owned accommodation under the Local Housing Allowance scheme.
So not ‘gipsies’ then, is there any distinction in the eyes of the Mail?
Since then, there have been several cases highlighted by the Daily Mail where families, living off benefits, have been rehomed in some of the most exclusive and expensive neighbourhoods in Britain — all at the taxpayers’ expense.
Yes, we know, you already said that poor people shouldn’t be allowed in nice neighbourhoods, regardless of the fact that they obviously have been re-homed in a big house because they have 9 children. I know, let’s put them in a bedsit instead, that’ll help you sleep better at night.
This is not snobbery. As Hannah’s solicitor husband Jeremy puts it: ‘We don’t have a problem living next door to anyone. We don’t care who pays their rent or what they do for a living as long as they’re decent neighbours. But these people aren’t even decent human beings.’
It may not be snobbery from you, but the Daily Mail has turned a story of woe for you into another part of their bigotry towards ‘gipsies’
Who’d expect anything else?
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