As part of his election campaign to win a council seat, Carl Lewis started a petition to evict travellers from an illegal caravan park.
He spent hours circulating leaflets that highlighted the problem of the 'itinerant travellers' and his concerns struck a chord with residents.
But those two rather ordinary, functional words have brought the wrath of the Commission for Racial Equality down on his head.
Last night the CRE announced it was launching legal proceedings against Mr Lewis because it believes his campaign material is racially discriminating.His petition - which secured almost 1,000 signatures before he handed it over to Swansea Council - reads: "Petition against any proposed itinerant travellers' site within Llansamlet and the Swansea Vale area."
The CRE, which receives £ 19million funding from the Government every year, claims the use of the term 'itinerant travellers' in his campaign material breaches section 31 of the Race Relations Act.
**And any guesses as to who used to be in the CRE? Our old pal and history revisionist Trevor Phillips
The Cre are trying to throw their weight about here, if they succeed in this attempt to prosecute, will they then be taking action against all the people who signed his petition on the grounds of mind crimes?
What I want to know is quite when did an alternative lifestyle choice like being a pikey, sorry itinerant traveller, er sorry again gypsy oh and since when did "travellers" become an ethnic racial group? Lets be honest here, few if any of these people can claim to be ethnic Romani people. Instead what we have is an alternative poll tax dodging lifestyle, consisting of cash in hand work, dubious driveway tarmacking, fly tipping and other assorted crimes against the common good.
The moonbats at the CRE argue: It said the words describe the ethnic origin of the group and could lead to discrimination. Instead, the CRE says, the petition should draw attention to the caravans, rather than the people in them.
But those pikey's who inhabit the caravans are the problem, not the caravans in of themselves. The caravans do not extort money with menaces from OAP's who have just had their driveway resurfaced.
Bosses at CRE Wales have instructed lawyers to start proceedings against Mr Lewis. He will be called before a judge in a county court where he will be told to stop using the term 'itinerant travellers' or face further legal action.
This will lead to a situation where debate on pikey's, sorry travellers is suppressed, anyone who dares to speak against the council or their handling of this issue will be wondering if thanks to a slip of the tongue or the wrong terminology they will end up before the justice.
"We need to break the cycle of prejudice and exclusion which is preventing some in our local communities from understanding how proper solutions to the accommodation needs of gypsies and travellers are to the benefit of all and can build positive relations between the settled and travelling members of local communities."
Well maybe if they went through proper planning applications and followed the laws of the land like the settled community largely does then relations would be a tad more positive. Oh and a popular hobby amongst pikey's is collecting; mainly dogs, horses, scrap metal and stolen goods.
Its best to avoid them like the plague, or do a Tony Martin & shotgun the buggers.
'What are you doing in my kitchen you pikey bastard?'
'Having it away with your goodies'
'Ah I see' KABOOM!!!!
Copyright Tony Martin 2003
The new flag of the UK as approved by the Commission for Racial Equality. This features the old racist union flag(to be phased out as the native population is replaced), with the CRE/New Labour approved sword of Islam (designed to celebrate multicultural Britain in the 21st century) and written above that sword is Gordon Browns choice for the motto for the UK.
The translation of which is below:
لا إله إلا الله محمد رسول الله
la ilaha illa llahu muhammadun rasulu llah
"There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is his Messenger"
**John of Gwent has also covered this story on the lovely pikey's so pay him a visit here
Lastly if any of the tossposts employed -by my tax money I will point out - read this then here is a joke for them: What have pikeys got in common with cigarettes? The both smell, come in packs of 10 or 20 and are barred from every pub in the land.
Tags: Itinerant Travellers, PIKEYS, Gypsies, Carl Lewis, Cool Britannia, Political Correctness, Tony Martin
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I was in Reading a few months back, and a colleague explained "Pikeys" to me when I asked about all the barriers bordering the various carparks. He said they were "Pikey barriers" as they were meant to keep the Pikeys from setting up camp in the carparks overnight.
Very odd.
Pikey barriers, like it. Shall no doubt be posting something on that at some point... :-)
How come trevor phillips has never had a proper job in his life? Even the electorate of London preferred Ken Livingstone to this life-long QUANGO employee.
We used to call them "Hedge Pigs" where I came from in Surrey. Pikey sounds good though.
Seriously, how can they descibe Pikey's as a race? It's plain daft. The Pikey community is made up of Romany, Irish and English Hedge Pigs. In reality they are just people who prefer to live in caravans, steal for a living and behave like parasites.
I could buy a caravan tomorrow, move to a lay by and call myself a Pikey and then demand all the protection this government now gives them. Hown can I suddenly be described as a "Race"? I would just be an Englishman with a caravan living in a lay by - just like the rest of them.
The only Pikeys I'd ever consider to be a separate race are the Romany Gypsys.
Still, this will keep Trevor Phillips in a job so he doesn't actually have to do much for a living.
Never heard the "Hedge Pigs" one before, like it though.
I thought 'hedge pig' was the term for 'hedgehog' you know those spikey haired flea-ridden things that crawl around your garden at dead of night until they freeze in the car headlights ... on the other hand, maybe not so bad a description.
Incidentally I tried commenting on the original newspaper article two days ago. They didn't bother putting my comments up though.
John, hedge pig is perfect for them. Oh and Fatso, yeah its this sort of stuff that keeps that arse Phillips employed.
In the real world he would just be another unemployed black man.
"Moonbat"? Bats from the moon?? AWESOME.
Being a romani gypsy and having been called a pikey myself many times i take great offence when a group of people are depicted as low life scum who rob elderly?
Now if you all got off your high horse and actually maybe visited a few gypsy you'd realise that were not all the same we " can " actually work for a living and don't steal tarmac where ever yoyu get that idea from.
But what else could i expect from racist kennicks.
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