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My understanding, from what everybody says here it is a backdoor way to exclude travelling people from their sites..... Done this way so they can avoid the accusation of 'discrimination or prejudice'  would that be accurate?

"Actually if you check the various laws relating to Human Rights and disrimination, it is a very fine line and one can spend hours debating it. "

Thats tosh, If I decide to not sell and give no reason that’s my call. I may say no smokers, no Man Utd fans, no one in red and that’s fine provided it isn’t a specifically reserved area such as age, sex and race. As I see it a caravan make is non of those, thus the seller can pick and choose.

  after you have had half your stuff stolen on site by travellers you would be wary to let the next lot on. in the new forest i was told a story by the site warden. one retired traveller now living in static now has post code books on . next week there to sons want to come on holiday and so on . ended up with five vans full . loads of things went missing no body saw a thing , but to top it all at the end of the week they did not go till the end of week SIX,  when it took the ploice plus baliff to move them.

  how many holidays did they spoil ;

   why dont they make a caravan in the uk as good as the imports that would stop us having to buy them

     regards slipnot

Zaccy I can see both sides in this debate seriously....

But let me put it like this if you the person selling the product refused to let somebody in because they were black, or were of the wrong religious persuation, then it would be a human rights issue!!  If you refuse somebody entry because they are a romany/traveller.... same deal I would imagine...... it would be the same thing discrimintion on the grounds of 'ethnic group' or nationality.  Perhaps a solicitor or barrister would be around to set me straight on this.

So to frame the arguement in the frame of the unit they are driving is much safer.....

ive never read so much trollop in my life about this subject. I run an electrical contract business with a large turnover, I have a hobby, as do 8 others on our site, several are in business, and all are respectable people. The truth is a lot of caravaners and park owners are self styled snobs, who have an assumed air of artifcial importance. They can stick their sites where the sun does not shine as far as Im concerned. The poor argument for the door on wrong side is pathetic, as is the person who quoted 99% of owners of these vans are travellers, get a life.

Cockoroosi I agree with your post.  A number of people, not all, seem to have a racist attitude towards all gypsies.  It must always be remembered that in all races there are good and bad, but it is always the bad we remember unfortunately.  Probably a case of a minority spoiling it for the majority.  Incidentally, does any one know how many gypsies are resident in Britain and what is the difference between a gypsy and a tinker?

We bought out first caravan from a gypsy who was up front about the condition of the caravan and charged us a fair price fot it.  A sinilar caravan in worse condition was at a dealers fro nearly £1000 more. 

There is a difference between gypsies and travellers. Genuine gipsies are very friendly and wouldn't do it across anyone. We had a shop and some of our best customers were gypsies. Unfortunately. we did have trouble with some of the travellers but like every group of people there is good and bad and regretably it is the bad who give all the others a bad name.

I don't think anyone knows how many people there are in this country anyway, let alone gypsies.!!!!!!!!

Quote: Originally posted by Wigtownwanderer on 13/3/2006

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Just as well the french, Spanish & other continentls don't take this view!!

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Despite us all suposedly being in europe so same rules apply think youll find the countries you mention are not that hot on insurance liability cover health & safety etc etc certainly not the spanish.