‘No blacks, no dogs,no Gypsies’
Gypsies and Travellers in the UK are uniting to form a nationwide coalition to fight what they describe as rapidly escalating levels of racism and discrimination. The leaders of the nation’s largest Gypsy and Traveller organisations will hold an unprecedented gathering later this month with the aim of bringing together the country’s 300,000 Roma, Irish, Welsh and English Gypsies and Travellers in a national federation. Two of the UK’s largest Gypsy and Traveller associations – the Gypsy Council and the…