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Hatred in the Heart of Olde England

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They bought the land, we understand
With hard cash fair and square
But as they are not English folk
They cannot build their own park there
On land that they themselves own
As a blockade blocks the load
Of supplies for drainage and ancillary works
So they don't camp on the road
For their town is picturesque
In the heart of Old England
The truth's if your not white, English, Protestant
Your skin they cannot stand.

They will go to church on Sunday
Pompous righteous and proud
And boast how successful they are
How they gypsies were not allowed
To build a PROPER park, on land THEY own
By proper English folk
And as I read the comments of one
I thought how it was for racism a cloak
I live in an English house
That for some hundreds of years did stand
Built by Irish hands for English folk
Upon stolen land.

And the people dispossessed by Cromwell
And to Connaught could not go
And have walked the roads years since
The same hatred's they know.
England is equal they say for all
As long as your white
British and Protestant
Then you enjoy every right.
But should you not be so, alas
No rights is there for you
To be as bold to BUY your land!
What a thing for a gypsy to do!

You cannot camp upon the road
The locals don't like the stranger
Your children are running wild
And are a source of danger.
You are the least of Gods children
And for you they do not care
They wish you did not exist
Were not among them, were elsewhere
They glory of the beauty of England
But hate is in their heart
Pretty houses hide hateful minds
Keep THEM from ME apart!

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Tomás Ó Cárthaigh

Mon 10th May 2010 02:11

While there is a valid planning issue here, the issue is more ethnic than planning.

No offense is intended to decent British and English folk, the poem is written in anger and aimed at the old Tory imperial element that looks down on all those not British.

Incidently, under a law of James I, the Roma are the personal property of the Queen a are the swan of the lake, and to harm them is to damage the Royal property, a law brought in to protect Romanys in a bygone age...

It has never been repealed!

Idiotic planning laws forced on ordinary people should be resisted, but dont use Romanys as a scapegoat. Normal folk should suppor their "use" of the loopholes in the law to develop as they see fit their own homes, and spend as much time and effort in blockading the council who stop ordinary people adapting their homes as they do a gypsy camping on a field bought with their own cash.

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