Pete Burrett
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Interesting. Use of the word 'frothy' (or associated terminology) to describe people with certain views seems to be the new vogue. Has it finally replaced 'snowflake'? That was a particular favourite of mine.
PS Personal opinion: the 'travelling community' (and exactly who that includes seems vague) often seem to perceive themselves as hard done by outsiders, always the butt of unwarranted criticism and victims of modern apartheid. You'd have to be very, very stupid to think that every member of that community displayed loutish behaviour, but a proportion of them clearly do. In Lincolnshire there's a sizeable such community. One family were recently imprisoned for abducting vulnerable people and using them as slave labour. Vacated traveller sites always seem to look a mess, and local news reports abound of citizens being ripped off by tarmacking / roofing / landscaping gangs from that community. My conclusion is that there is certainly an underclass of scummy travellers who, unfortunately, to many eyes represent the wider travelling community. The response of the average citizen is to tar them all with the same brush, which may be inaccurate but is entirely understandable.
PS Personal opinion: the 'travelling community' (and exactly who that includes seems vague) often seem to perceive themselves as hard done by outsiders, always the butt of unwarranted criticism and victims of modern apartheid. You'd have to be very, very stupid to think that every member of that community displayed loutish behaviour, but a proportion of them clearly do. In Lincolnshire there's a sizeable such community. One family were recently imprisoned for abducting vulnerable people and using them as slave labour. Vacated traveller sites always seem to look a mess, and local news reports abound of citizens being ripped off by tarmacking / roofing / landscaping gangs from that community. My conclusion is that there is certainly an underclass of scummy travellers who, unfortunately, to many eyes represent the wider travelling community. The response of the average citizen is to tar them all with the same brush, which may be inaccurate but is entirely understandable.