I daresay, like me, you have probably been watching 'My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding'. I wonder what is the purpose of this programme because it's certainly not to enamour taxpayers to the 'Traveller' way of life. In fact, everything I always disliked about the gypsy lifestyle has been proved correct.

Lavish weddings, downtrodden females, incoherent language. Ignorant men, dogs running wild, underfed horses. No, I am not talking about Erith, I am talking about the gypsies who have donated their time - for a huge wad of cash, no doubt - to stake their claim in the wonderful world of television.

Call me strange if you like - I've been called worse, after all - but it amazes me why anyone would want to live in a caravan instead of a house, bungalow or flat. Surely, it's bad enough when one hasn't enough cash to have a proper holiday and resorts to spending a week in a tin box on wheels in some spartan seaside town like Hastings, living on a diet of bread, jam and kippers. But to CHOOSE to live that way 365 days of the year? There must be something wrong with these people.

As I watch the show with Lady P., I am constantly bemused by the gypsy way of life. It is truly a confusing scenario. For instance, the girls are not allowed to go out alone and must always be accompanied by their female friends, yet they are allowed to go out attired in clothing reminiscent of a Kings Cross prostitute. Short skirts, low tops, loads of make-up. Some of the more crude of our society might even resort to calling them p-teasers.

What about the boys? Well, they're allowed to do just about anything they want. Their favourite pastimes include fighting, drinking, acquiring tattoos and behaving like Captain Caveman on a bad day.

The parents encourage this sort of behaviour and relish the view that their offspring will continue to carry on the tradition that men rule the roost and women do what they're told.

Naturally, the gypsies think they are hard done by. They insist that their natural way of life is being threatened and eradicated by the likes of you and me and that we don't understand their mindset. I wonder why they wonder why.

Most of the participants in the programme are of the Irish Traveller persuasion, which means the producers have deemed it necessary to place subtitles at the bottom of our TV screens every time one of them speaks. If you have watched Snatch - the Brad Pitt film I mean, as opposed to the average Amsterdam sex show - you'll know what I'm talking about. According to several sources in the show, they speak like this so that we - the taxpayers - can't understand what is being said when they are conning some old lady out of thousands of pounds for a dodgy driveway.

The saddest thing about all this is the way the gypsy girls and women are treated by their male counterparts. In Gypsy World, it is acceptable for young males to 'grab' females at weddings and similar social occasions in order to secure a mate. Gypsy males even resort to slapping the girls until they 'give in' and proffer a kiss. Is this really a civilised way to go on in 21st century Britain?

As I've said many times on news stories concerning Travellers, surely they should do some travelling instead of setting up illegal chalets on greenbelt land. Gypsy men stand by their selfish way of life, yet think nothing of filling up accident and emergency departments to get themselves patched up after an evening of drunken brawls and other debauchery - all at the expense of the taxpayer.

It has been heartbreaking to watch gainfully employed gypsy girls throwing away their careers to get married and forever live in pokey caravans with neanderthal males who subsequently treat them as slaves and babymakers.

It's evident that the girls soon go to seed and become carbon copies of their weary, wrinkled, fat mothers and grandmothers. Most importantly, it proves to us all that the gypsy way of life is no life at all.

Unless you are a man, of course.

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