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My son was born in a trailer on a legal Nottinghamshire County Council Traveller site in 2008 just after Lord John Mann, our local MP published his Anti-Social Behaviour Handbook.
We saw an immediate increase of hate related incidents.
We saw an immediate increase of hate related incidents.
Here is the single page on Travellers not even using the excepted title of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller, thus denying many people's ethnicity.
Here is the page in context on the table of contents.
Mann wants you to class Gypsy, Roma and Travellers as purely an anti-social behaviour problem equivalent to Neighbours from Hell, Noisy Neighbours and Harassment.
Mann wants you to class Gypsy, Roma and Travellers as purely an anti-social behaviour problem equivalent to Neighbours from Hell, Noisy Neighbours and Harassment.
And here is LordJohn Mann's introduction, where John makes no mention of the Roma being among one of the most discriminated against people in Europe, who lost between a quarter and half of their European population during the Nazi Holocaust.
Lord John Mann obviously believes in a Hierarchy of Racism, making him believe he is fighting Racism by fighting antisemitism but only in one political party whilst throwing other minorities under the bus of public opinion, because nobody likes The Gypsy, Roma and Travellers.
A @skwawkbox article explaining further than my personal experience. https://skwawkbox.org/2017/08/27/moderate-labour-mp-interviewed-by-police-over-hate-incident-pamphlet/
Another report on John Mann's apparent racism against Gypsy, Roma and Travellers and how this alone, never mind his support for Phil Woolas, is enough to make him unsuitable for any role fighting any form of racism. https://www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/antisemitism-tsar/
Also worth looking at this video as Lord John Mann saying he funded the investigation that led to the independent Equality and Human Rights Commission Inquiry.
I agree with Mann but I say there should be consequences for all racists.
I agree with Mann but I say there should be consequences for all racists.
This is really important at the moment as the Conservative Government are planning to criminalise trespass using hatred of the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities as a smokescreen.
This law changes our fundamental relationship with the land we are born in.
This law changes our fundamental relationship with the land we are born in.
As Socialists if your Solidarity doesn't include the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities it isn't really Solidarity at all.
This is your chance to stand up and fight for your land or sit back and watch a whole way of life extinguished.
Your choice, choose wisely.
Solidarity.
This is your chance to stand up and fight for your land or sit back and watch a whole way of life extinguished.
Your choice, choose wisely.
Solidarity.
Another source here questioning Lord John Mann and his position as an an Independent Advisor on Antisemitism.
It turns out it may not be that independent and is oddly funded. https://dralexmay.wordpress.com/2020/12/12/not-so-independent-adviser-to-government-on-antisemitism/
It turns out it may not be that independent and is oddly funded. https://dralexmay.wordpress.com/2020/12/12/not-so-independent-adviser-to-government-on-antisemitism/
