They call me The Wanderer, yeah The Wanderer...

I've been struggling to understand this countrys sudden surge of interest in Gypsies. Actually no, not Gypsies...pikeys. Because that is what they are. Dirty scummy pikeys leeching off the system.

Gypsy originates from the Greek word for Egyptian. It was widely believed that Romanies (Gypsies) originated in Egypt. You'll notice on job application forms that they are now recognised as an "ethnic group". Real Romani people don't like being described as Gyspies because they see it as derogatory. Judging from Channel 4's recent spate of Gypsy programmes, I can understand why. These people aren't real Romanies, they're Irish Travellers who pretend to the camera that they're true-hearted people, embodying the traditions of Romanies (most of which are pretty unsavoury anyway!), but to me they come across as the many pikeys I've met before; dirty, uneducated, tax-dodging, scumbags. Why does Channel 4 romantacise these cretins? Is Channel 4 run by a family of pikeys? It wouldn't surprise me. I once knew someone who spent thousands of pounds one year, just cleaning up all the shit from his back garden when pikeys hitched up their scummy caravans in the field at the back of his house. They would throw all their litter, and various stolen bits of crap they no longer wanted, over his fence. Did the police follow up on it? Did they hell.

I read an article in the Sunday papers about scrap metal and how the Government are going to declare it illegal for people to sell to scrap metal merchants. Their reasoning is that it will help them catch the people who are going around stealing metals to make money. The reporter who was undercover in this article said he spoke to an "Irish traveller" who declared the law would mean nothing to him and he would continue to steal and squander for as long as he lived. That pretty much says it all.

What really confuses me, is that these "Big fat gypsy weddings" are costing them (us) hundreds of thousands of pounds. Hey Mr Tax Man, how do you reckon these work-shy, tax-shy people made this possible? I reckon ole Harry Redknapp should go get some advice from these people, he could be on to a winner....