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Pub chain is forced to pay out £24,000 after banning travellers who wanted a drink
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A group of travellers who were banned from a Wetherspoon's pub have been awarded thousands of pounds in compensation after a court ruled that the chain racially discriminated against them.
Gipsies who were attending a conference of travellers in north London tried to have a drink in the Coronet on Holloway Road, but were denied entry.
Today a judge ruled that the delegates - who include a police inspector, a priest and a solicitor - were the victims of discrimination because they were barred solely on the grounds of their race.
JD Wetherspoon, the company behind the chain of budget pubs, could face a £1million legal bill over the incident, which took place after the annual meeting of the Irish Traveller Movement in Britain in November 2011.
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Rightly so!
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Precisely this. They're a peaceful and law abiding group of people.
No more trouble than any other group, they do get picked on I feel. Like if they leave site and the amount of rubbish is often used against them. Its no more rubbish than you'll see walking round the average estate anyway.
An quite often its bagged and left in the center of the site for collection.
You could change race by becoming a traveller, if you so wished.
I don't think such a move is precluded by any DNA check on ethnicity. Not sure what they'd be looking for anyway.
Quite.
They never indulge in criminal activity of any kind. They earn their money tarmaccing driveways expertly at a very fair price. They pay their taxes, make sure that their children attend school, always abide by planning regulations, do not organise illegal dog fights, keep slaves in sheds, or encourage their boy children to indulge in bare-knuckle boxing from an early age.
Really chaps, what's not to love?
If these people faced illegal discrimination because they were travellers, and hence belonged to a protected group - could someone please explain how travellers qualify for these professions?
Perhaps they were there to speak at the conference in their professional capacity. Often conferences have external speakers.
I've met travellers and they were nice friendly people.
Crap like that needs to really be dealt with
These days however I'm afraid their negative reputation is largely well deserved.
i don`t know a traveller who wouldn`t give you the shirt off his back, i learnt a lot about being unselfish from travelling folk.
Sadly, all mine and my families experience of travellers have been nothing but negative. Takes all sorts I suppose, and we have only come across the bad sort.
Really?
You must have nice travellers where you are, my experience with them is the complete opposite, and the reputation they get is well deserved.
I once worked with a 'traveller' in a factory and as a thick, thuggish, bullying scumbag he really lived up to the stereotype.
yes really.
best neighbours too, i used to get hampers every bank holiday from next door but one, when they lived there, always with a little bit of dope chucked in from the old man, their families and extended families from all over were in and out of my house for years.
the now widow of the family has been to gaza and afghanistan doing missionary work. she`s one of the biggest hearted and least judgemental people i know and her life has been really, really hard.