Now despite his claims about not having a clue about my ethnicity/heritage/call it what you will, he should remember me actually telling him in person at the "street surgery", however he seems to have a twisted recollection of this and maybe his made up stuff pushed the truth straight out his other ear. There is always the possibility that as usual he didn't listen to a word said by a mere "sackable" member of the public.
Here's some of tim's great idea of how we should treat the travelling community (which we should remember are recognised as a ethnic or cultural group under the HRA):
-All registration numbers should be checked despite no crimes being committed by the owners of these vehicles.
-A hotline, yes, if you see someone who looks like a traveller, be sure to call him and report them, even if they have committed no crime and are driving a legally registered, taxed and insured vehicle on a public road.
-Once on site, they should be held prisoner and not permitted to leave the site to work.
-When travellers arrive we should monitor their every move.
Yes, he really loves travelling folk, now swap the word "traveller" for any other protected ethnic or cultural group and see if you think that this should be viewed as acceptable material for an MP to be distributing on his website that you and I are funding.
Protection under the HRA doesn't worry Tim, he makes this clear as well:
Yes, he also wants the power to be able to seize their property and wants to bring in new laws to make the burden of proof required to convict travellers of crimes, lower than that applied to other ethnic or cultural groups.
Obviously it is difficult to radically alter established legal procedures and laws, but that doesn't bother Tim, he's looking for ways to sidestep them instead:
Yes, he wants to know how the ROI get around the HRA in order to adopt a "zero tolerance policy" that he appears jealous of and wants to impose here.
There is plenty more if you have a cursory glance of the web under "Tim Loughton Travellers", and this is the man that stood in Parliament and stated that he "personally resent(s) any suggestion that (he) is racist. Racism is an insidious cancer against which (he) has always fought", yet he generalises about an entire ethnic or cultural group without worrying what the law abiding majority of that group may find offensive.
And before believing that he is only referring to travellers staying on illegal sites in this area, you should be aware that there are no legally designated sites, and so not only is he targeting the entire travelling community but he is concentrating his hatred towards homeless members of it.
He's not alone in this I might add, all of the local Tories seem to be happy to pick up their pitchforks and join his "crusades" against myself and any other traveller who sticks their head above the parapet, and has the audacity to speak out against his intolerance.
K
