I am not familiar with the comings and goings of Travellers but if they have kids with them how are those kids educated ? Serious question anyone know ?

like you and I, they have the right to be home schooled.

Whilst I appreciate that Jimmy how would a child's educational progress be monitored if their caravans were moving to another location quite frequently.`

Another few serious questions' how do Travellers pay for their clothes' food and petrol ? Oh and road tax ?

Do I have the right not to pay taxes?? And sheete wherever I want?

I think theres a massive common misconception that Nomadic gypsies don't pay taxes, the legal site 100 metres from mine in Pennington has about 15 white vans which are out everyday doing small jobs around the area, they filled in the huge pot holes down the side of one of our rugby pitches at Leigh RUFC last year for free, I spoke to and thanked them for doing it at the time, they pay their taxes through PAYE, not forgetting paying road tax, VAT on all their materials, petrol etc.

Do whatever makes you happy.

I doubt that my idea of them going out doing small jobs would tally with yours.

I dont follow....?

Really?

Really.

If you believe that is how the travelling ones normally work then fair do's, my experience is one of emptying diesel from vans overnight and leaving a right sheete tip behind them

gyp0's are a horrible breed of creatures who bring nothing but trouble what do they give back to society seriously.........nothing! As a kid I've been attacked by them on matter lane site, had my car vanalised them when working in strettford & the same has happened with my brothers car too in wiggin recently. They are not nice people with no common decency towards people & the enviroment they invade I'd be glad to see the back of them but unfortunately they're here to stay.

I think you'll find people like that wherever you go, I've been attacked upleigh, had my van broken into and the mirror kicked off my car in the last few years, non of the people responsible were Gypsies, they were all born and bred in Leigh, so does that make you and me a 'horrible breed of creatures'?

You can't tar everybody with the same brush, I knew it wouldn't be long before the casual racism kicked in.

Has anybody actually spoken to any of them?

Gypsies are not a race, they are groups of rootless, itinerant opportunists who generally create problems wherever they go.

I suppose that all depends on your definition of 'race', however, I do believe that your posts are based merely on the reputation that's been portrayed recently in the media, rather than by fact.

I think we should embrace our new friends, wish them well and get to know them, if they have no knowlege of rugby league I certainly wouldn't begrudge them receiving some form of dispensation from our BOM and gaining entrance to a few games with a price reduction on admission.