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£70,000 'wasted' on telling pupils Elvis was a gypsy

MINISTERS were accused last night of wasting tax-payers’ money on a magazine for pupils which claims that Elvis Presley was a gypsy.

R: WHO? WHAT?

12.07.08, 3:16pm

Everybody know who is Elvis Presley and that was so marvelos. My 9 years-old niece know who is Elvis Presley ...
And if this history is a lie the author and who puts money must be behind the jail. The lies never must have any defender.

• Posted by: janetpt • Report Comment

£70,000 'WASTED' ON TELLING PUPILS ELVIS WAS A GYPSY

11.07.08, 7:28pm

Ha! this is just the latest tip of the iceberg. Check out the National Lottery fund allocation website. 16.9.2005. £229,989 a three year grant to produce a 'Travellers' magazine (issued free) to Travellers, social workers, police etc.
It will be interesting to see the next allocation in September should it transpire. May 2008 grant from 'The department of children, schools and families' £330,000 to create a national Gypsy & Traveller web portal. In this country Travellers have always faced prejudice but on the whole, they thrive and remain an insular society by choice. The majority have little or no knowledge of these people or the 'cause' they present in their name. Seems to me its yet another example of the 'politically correct' gravy train.

• Posted by: MrAyres • Report Comment

GET THEM OUT!

11.07.08, 12:06am

Why are we putting up with this subversion of our children ? Sex education for infants, racist if they don't like food or they call someone gay, not allowed to say Mum and Dad in some schools - and now this - and we are paying for all of it.
For goodness sake, let's do something, strike, bombard them with letters, anything - but let's get them out !
Get anyone in who refuses to enforce EU Equality and Diversty directives, they have ruined this Country, and many others too.

• Posted by: MERIT • Report Comment

THE WASTERS.

10.07.08, 10:45pm

Every day something happens to make this country look stupid and childish. Now we've got retards sucking up to the ethnic minorities, trying to make nonentities exciting. Using our money of course. People who can buy sixty grand motorhomes can settle on private land, plead poverty, turn a clean environment into a slum and increase the local housebreaking problem, are made to look like forgotten romantic heroes who need to be ego-boosted. This attack on white males is a cheap shot. It's us white males who have given the world everything it's got. EVERYTHING. One day the worm will turn, and there will be many nasties in UK life. Meanwhile everything is like a surreal, sick joke. The fantasy goes on, and the silly, silly people of the mentally deficient left refuse to learn how to swim while swanning around the titanic.

• Posted by: bluenote • Report Comment

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CLOSE ENCOUNTER

10.07.08, 10:41pm

WE had gysies set up camp on spare ground near us.

Immediately there were thefts from gardens, shed etc, I had ladders stolen.

When they were eventually forced off the land, what a disgusting mess was left, piles of rubbish, scrap etc, and worst of all used nappies piled in a heap covered in flies.

I think it must have taken about £70,000 to clean up and secure the site.

• Posted by: ELTIGRE • Report Comment

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WHO? WHAT?

10.07.08, 7:09pm

do the kids have the slightest idea who elvis is???

• Posted by: timblair • Report Comment

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DIVIDE & RULE

10.07.08, 6:13pm

It would seem to me to be another piece of propaganda to make children aware of differences, whether real or perceived, to have the opposite effect to the cuddly all-inclusive one they pretend.

Everything is done to have us fighting among ourselves.

As I point out in my latest article on the peer using the N-word:

www.thelabourparty.org -

Keith Vaz, the Labour chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee, said: “I regard this remark as racist, because it’s deeply offensive. It shows a lack of understanding and sensitivity to the ethnic community and seems to come from a throwback age when people used that kind of phrase as if it was normal. We will judge Mr Cameron on how he responds.”

What is the 'ethic community?'

Mr Vaz was born in Aden of Indian parentage, but he decides to turn the issue into a broader ethnic battle to try and make the most from Lord Dixon-Smith's unfortunate slip of the tongue.


• Posted by: StewartCowan • Report Comment

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GYPSY'S KISS OFF

10.07.08, 5:00pm

So Elvis had gypsy ancestors, eh? So what?...so did I. I don't, however, leave piles of garbage all over the place when I move on to another location. Neither, I guess, did Elvis...apart from his records and films, that is.

• Posted by: gimleteye7 • Report Comment

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"THIEVING BUNCH OF ROGUES" EH? WELL NOW THAT NO ONE'S GOING TO JAIL FOR STEALING, I GUESS THEY'LL BE JOINED BY THE LILY WHITE "OTHER THAN GYPSIES"

10.07.08, 3:51pm

What's wrong with the tunnel vision here? Seems to me that this bunch of "rogues" is a far lesser evil than the pure bred English yobs ruling the streets, not to mention the all-English teenagers killing each other with knives. Let's not getting into the thousands of pure blooded drunks flooding the hospital emergency rooms each week. Are you folks for real? As long as you bury your heads in the sand these horrific problems will keep on growing.

As for ....DID YOU MENTION THEIR RIGHTS?
10.07.08, 11:00am
The right to squat on someone elses property.
The right to ignore planning laws.
The right to avoid paying taxes.
The right to intimidate people.
The right to leave piles of crap when they move on.
The right not to pay for cleaning up after themselves.
• Posted by: jonocynic9 ........
THEY HAVE THE SAME RIGHTS THAT YOU HAVE AND THE YOBS HAVE, AND THE SOCCER FANS HAD WHEN THEY TOOK APART MANCHESTER -- same lawlessness under a different name. Deal with the issue and not the snobbish viewpoint. The class system in Britain was supposed to be dead as a dodo. Not for some. Reverse snobbery. Get real.

• Posted by: Pendragon • Report Comment

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LISTEN UP XENOPHOBES AND HATERS OF GYPSIES ...

10.07.08, 3:36pm

What the heck's wrong with being a gypsy? That's for starters. What the heck's wrong with being anything? Who is anyone to look down his or her nose at anyone. Truth to tell, Elvis would have laughed his head off at the fuss over this, but he wouldn't have appreciated the insinuation that a magazine was handed out to any school children implying that being a gypsy detracted from his standing.

Listen up! Elvis is a legend. He is adored in the USA, and Graceland in Tennessee is flooded with visitors all year, people anxious to get close to this great entertainer of all time, if only to see his incredible wardrobe up close, the awards he won, anything Elvis. I am an all time fan of this super performer and could care less what blood flowed through his veins, simply wish it still flowed and he was still alive. I mourn his too-soon departure from this world.

As for have your say ... not available? Why

Here goe with the McCanns -- (quote) "A joint statement issued by the McCanns said: "This is wonderful news ... each and every one is helping to make Europe a safer place for children. SURE, AND IT WOULD BE A SAFER PLACE EVERYWHERE, ESPECIALLY PORTUGAL, IF PARENTS WATCHED THEIR KIDS!!! The McCanns beggar belief. If each and everyone, including the McCanns, did what is right and necessary on holiday that would be a great help - and in their case there would have been one lost child less had they been on the ball.

Here goes re Prince William - he and his brother Harry are turning out to be real performers. Diana brought these "boys" up well, and Charles followed suit. Two bright stars in the Royal Family. Love them!

• Posted by: Pendragon • Report Comment

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NEW LABOUR WASTING TAXPAYERS MONEY

10.07.08, 11:06am

They will get their Just Rewards when they are totally Anihilated at the next Election.

• Posted by: EmperorMing • Report Comment

DID YOU MENTION THEIR RIGHTS?

10.07.08, 11:00am

The right to squat on someone elses property.
The right to ignore planning laws.
The right to avoid paying taxes.
The right to intimidate people.
The right to leave piles of crap when they move on.
The right not to pay for cleaning up after themselves.
Bored now....

• Posted by: jonocynic9 • Report Comment

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THEY THROW OUR MONEY AWAY

10.07.08, 10:45am

This is just one of the many schemes that Labour throw money at.So next time someone asks David Cameron Where he will get the money for tax cuts he has the answer cut waste on stupid ideas.

• Posted by: retiredmale • Report Comment

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10.07.08, 10:23am

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• Posted by: endre • Report Comment

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NU-LABOUR PLAYING FAST AND LOOSE WITH TAX'S PAYERS MONEY

10.07.08, 9:23am

The more money/ revenue this wasteful inept government receives the move things they find to waste it on.

Sneaky Gordon Brown would do well to get back to the need following the funds principle, rather than Nu-Labours practice of allowing funds trying to find a need!

• Posted by: TicToc • Report Comment

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