#GRT

[lesbiansandgayssupporttheminers]

I want to write a little bit about structural racism in the UK against Travellers, and the Labour Party's complicity with this because I think it might help explain why that letter from Diane Abbott disturbed me so much.

Romani and Irish Travellers in the UK experience discrimination all the time. They'll be barred from shops and pubs, they experience discrimination from the police, they experience racial abuse. If they are living a nomadic lifestyle, they struggle to access schools and hospitals. Educational outcomes for Romani students are the worst in England by a large margin, followed by Irish Travellers. They're also over represented in the prison population compared to the proportion of the general population they make up.

Irish Travellers are generally "white/white passing" although they are a distinct ethnic group from the settled Irish. However, not all Romani people are "white passing" and some see themselves as PoC. Both groups have fought for a long time to be recognised officially as ethnic minorities and to gain legal protections.

In 2022, the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts act was passed. This is the "bill" that was the focus of the "kill the bill" protests, and lots was written about the restrictions it placed on protestors. However, part 4 of the bill related to unauthorised encampments. Although the law does not specifically name any ethnic groups, it effectively criminalises the traditional nomadic traveller lifestyle.

It creates an offence of residing in a vehicle (this would include a caravan) on land without permission. It allows the police to seize the vehicle, even prior to the offence being committed. It allows the police to impose fines and prison sentences.

Although the bill itself does not name any particular ethnic group, much of the advice and communication around the bill does. This is because it's clearly designed to target certain groups who live a traditional nomadic lifestyle. It's designed to make them homeless, and force them into housing- essentially forced assimilation. The British have been trying to do this to Romani and Irish Travellers for centuries.

This law was passed by the Tories, but one thing people don't know is that Starmer whipped the Labour party against most sections of the bill. He allowed a free vote on Section 4- the section that specifically related to "unauthorised encampments".

Around the same time, in 2021, his party produced local election leaflets which mentioned "traveller incursions"- eventually they admitted the leaflets were racist and destroyed them. It's not the first time, and won't be the last, that Labour use racism against these groups to win points with the electorate.

In this context, Abbott is part of a system which is systematically discriminating against Romani and Irish Travellers- yes, Labour aren't the party in power, but they are a part of the system enabling this to happen.

So, I read her letter in that context. I read her minimisation of the struggles of the most marginalised ethnic groups in our society in that context (I don't want to make this "who has things worst" but it's nonetheless true). At best, she's throwing them under the bus to make a point she thinks will be popular with her supporters. At worst, she's actively affirming her own party's racist policies.

"It doesn't matter if we criminalise their way of life, because it's not "real" racism".

She is someone seen to be on the left, seen to be anti-racist, and she's effectively saying this prejudice is acceptable.

#uk politics #diane abbott #labour #racism #GRT #is the backlash more severe because she's black and a woman and on the left #well maybe #But there's also an awful lot of gaslighting going on towards Romani Irish Travellers and Jewish people on twitter #who don't have her institutional power #a timely reminder #politicians are not your friends

[gougarfem]

friendly reminder that 74% of GP surgeries were found to refuse to register ethnic gypsy, roma and traveller patients on the basis of being GRT.

friendly reminder that in order to access any non-emergency healthcare in the UK you must be registered with a GP surgery.

why aren't we included in conversations about healthcare equality?

#lav.txt #grt #romani tag #wish more ppl would spread awareness

[transgenderpolls]

#trans #transgender #ftm #mtf #testosterone #estrogen #grt #nonbinary #polls #submission

[arcadebroke]

#tundra.life_88 #ハコスカ #nissan #skyline #grt #design #automotive #jdm

[djuvlipen]

Irish traveller woman misgenders a trans identified man.

He replies by calling her a "flower selling gyppo" and saying she deserves to be discriminated against for being a traveller. So according to transactivist logic, transphobia is never justifiable, but racism is justifiable if it targets a woman who misgendered a man.

If anyone needs more proof this is a racist movement.

#Travellers #Grt #Tra racism

[niyana-the-ambiguous-mobian]

My first post of 2024, gotta make it bounce.

....mount

COUNT

Damn it

#I'm sleep deprived as hell rn and I'm not editing anything #taking what i going #grt #close enough

[contentking24]

"I think there’s an element for those of us amongst the trans and gender non-conforming community - and this goes for me as a transmasc as well - where the way we interact with gender and perform gender is very much linked to our experiences with Gypsy and Traveler gender roles. So again, a big example of this would be how some of Cherry Valentine's drag performances were explicitly inspired by the visual coding of Gypsy and Traveller women. And so I've noticed that when I want to present more feminine, the way that I visually code that isn't a gorger (a word used to describe people who aren’t Romany) feminine, it's a Gypsy feminine.

I think a lot of my transness might be linked to my disconnect from the gender roles that are expected of me and I've joked to members of Traveller Pride that I'm trans in a very specifically gypsy way. Yes, I'm trans masculine, and that means trans masculine in the way that if I had longer hair, it would be slicked back with hair gel and I'd have boxing glove charms hanging on the front of my van."

#lgbtqia #grt #gypsy #roma #traveller #queer #trans #trans masc

[boanerges20]

WorldSBK. Remy Gardner #87. GYTR GRT Yamaha Team.

#motorcycle #world superbike #wsbk #remy gardner #87 #gytr #grt #yamaha #team #sport bike #racing #motorsports #moto love #lifestyle

[dragynkeep]

seeing a bunch of radfems in the grt tag like pls. terfs don't even see us as women, get the boot off your neck.

#grt #gypsy roma traveller #minceiri #ais.txt #radf3m ideology is inherently racist! #& will never lead to the intersectionality truly needed #to tackle racism from gadje

[afttrglw]

IM GOING TO SEE TAYLOR ON NOVEMBER 10 I CANT BELIEVE IT IM SO HAPPY YOU DONT UNDERSTAND

#taylor swift #swifties #taylornation #the eras tour #the eras tour taylor swift #buenos aires #grt

[doomspaniels]

What does TFaTB stand for?

Hey there! I'm Guinevere's Royal Treasurer (GRT), I belong to Guinevere, the red wocker. Tristan's Fetch and Tug Buddy (TFaTB), my spouse, belongs to Tristan, the black and white ticked American cocker.[*]

I try to type out our full titles each time I use them, then shorten them to GRT and TFaTB after that. I apologize if it's not entirely clear ❤️ Though I hoped that including them in my blog description would make up for any confusion.

[*] Yes, Tristan has assigned himself the job of looking after me, and he's not even my dog. He'll tell me so, too. I just need that much help, I guess 😅

#ask #Guinevere's Royal Treasurer #grt #Tristan's Fetch and Tug Buddy #TFaTB

[zikbitume]

@GTWorldChEu

And congratulations to our

@nuerburgring

Silver:

@GrasserRacing

#car #silver #grt #grasser racing team #fanatec #gt world challenge #gt world #gtworldcheu #gtworld #nuburgring

[soulmusicsongs]

Doctor Doctor - Dr. Music (Dr. Music, 1973)

#Doctor Doctor #Soul #Soul Music #Soul Music Songs #Music #Music Songs #1973 #Instrumental #Dr. Music #GRT #Jazz Funk #Youtube

[jawmidnight]

#grt #street racing #need for speed #2 fast 2 furious

[djuvlipen]

News story about Romany in Britain - https://apple.news/AYjsHBP4nTfGHkPe4rHJmAA

I don't think this is the exact source you sent but I found an article about that same news story.

A Romany Gypsy woman will take on the government at the High Court next week over its “discriminatory” Policing Act.

Wendy Smith has been granted permission to challenge part of the 2022 Police, Crime and Sentencing Act (PSCS) that introduced powers to fine, arrest, imprison and seize the homes of Gypsies and Travellers living in roadside camps.

Backed by charity Friends, Families and Travellers (FFT) and human rights campaign group Liberty, Smith will argue the law is discriminatory because it targets minority ethnic communities who have no alternative stopping places. The two-day judicial review will begin on Tuesday.

FFT chief executive Sarah Mann said: “You cannot use the full force of the law to tell people where they can’t go without offering alternatives for where they can.”

The hugely controversial Policing Act, passed under former home secretary Priti Patel, also introduced powers to crack down on protests, primarily by climate activists, and sparked the UK’s Kill the Bill movement. openDemocracy revealed in 2022 that the bill was dreamed up by Policy Exchange, a secretive right-wing think tank funded by US oil giant ExxonMobil.

FFT and Liberty will act as ‘interveners’ in the case – someone who can join proceedings because they may be affected by the outcome. FFT has consistently raised concerns about the act’s legal standing, as well as its “draconian attack” on Gypsies and Travellers.

Smith is being represented by Chris Johnson of Community Law Partnership (CLP), along with Marc Willers and Ollie Persey of Garden Court Chambers (GCC).

Willers said: “Nomadism is an intrinsic part of the traditional way of life of Gypsies and Travellers that the government has a duty to respect and facilitate. The obvious and rational solution is to provide more designated transit sites and stopping places.

“Instead, in 2022, the government took the decision to strengthen existing enforcement powers.

“My client now has the opportunity to challenge that decision and to persuade the court that the new powers have a disproportionate effect on Gypsies and Travellers and unlawfully discriminate against them.”

The legal challenge will set out empirical and anecdotal evidence of the “chilling” impact of the new powers on the ability to maintain a nomadic way of life.

Liberty’s head of legal casework, Louise Whitfield, said the powers were “discriminatory and disproportionate”.

“The act gives the police vague, sweeping powers to do things like seize vehicles – potentially leaving families, including children, destitute,” she said. “It also completely ignores the chronic national shortage of places where Gypsies and Travellers can stop or reside, or the fact the police already have ample powers to remove people from land.

“Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities are among the most persecuted and marginalised communities in the UK. Instead of criminalising an entire way of life for Gypsies and Travellers, the government should be seeking to make sure their rights are respected and upheld.”

#UK #GRT #traveller rights

[deanrheims]

Across the stars we sailed so far, In spaceships bright and new, To find a land so strange and grand, A place we never knew. #GRTfuturism #GypsyTraveller #IrishTraveller #ScottishTraveller #RomanyGypsy #art #digitalart #AIArtwork #GRT #scifi #scifiart #ai #landscape #nature #Countryside #spaceship #horses #campsite #nomad #vanlife #deanrheims #colorful #beautiful https://www.instagram.com/p/CqTgChYq_76/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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