{"id":4819,"date":"2021-08-19T22:36:42","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T22:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4819"},"modified":"2021-08-19T22:36:42","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T22:36:42","slug":"gypsies-and-travellers-under-threat-from-new-policing-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/archives\/4819","title":{"rendered":"Gypsies and Travellers Under Threat From New Policing Law?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Gypsies and Travellers Under Threat From New Policing Law? BBC Newsnight at Appleby Horse Fair\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vrwYOqcBNHA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The UK\u2019s Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller communities are voicing deep concern about the Government\u2019s new policing bill, with many saying it is a threat to their way of life. The law will make trespass a criminal offence and give the police the powers to seize the homes of travelling people. At Appleby Horse Fair, BBC Newsnight is told by community leaders that the bill is tantamount to \u2018ethnic cleansing\u2019. The Government says that travellers\u2019 property will only be under threat if they refuse to move from unauthorised sites and are causing harm. Emir Nader reports and Sally Chesworth produced this film. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Broadcast BBC Newsnight 17 August 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK\u2019s Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller communities are voicing deep concern about the Government\u2019s new policing bill, with many saying it is a threat to their way of life. The law will make trespass a criminal offence and give the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/archives\/4819\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[783,784,41,303,185,222],"class_list":["post-4819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1","tag-appleby","tag-fair","tag-horse","tag-killthebill","tag-law","tag-travellers-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4820,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4819\/revisions\/4820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}