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There are very limited circumstances where it’s not legal to bar someone. The first is where where it’s a club and the barred person is a member, in which case there’s a contractual relationship.
So you can bar Seamus O’Reilly, Paddy Flanagan and Micky Wallace for behaving like a pack of dicks. But you can’t bar them for being Travellers.
Though I wouldn't use as blunt a tool as surname blacklisting I do trust my instincts regarding phone and email enquiries and I would be very dubious about someone walking in off the street these days. The last time I gave someone the benefit of the doubt resulted in a very unpleasant experience for another guest which could have ended very badly indeed. If we were ever taken to task regarding our right to take in who we please I would simply close the business, it's that important to me.
It's just Racism.
People were no different to normal Irish or English people.
Good and Bad people in EVERY community.
How race is viewed under UK law:
In the Equality Act, race can mean your colour, or your nationality (including your citizenship). It can also mean your ethnic or national origins, which may not be the same as your current nationality. For example, you may have Chinese national origins and be living in Britain with a British passport.
Race also covers ethnic and racial groups. This means a group of people who all share the same protected characteristic of ethnicity or race.
A racial group can be made up of two or more distinct racial groups, for example black Britons, British Asians, British Sikhs, British Jews, Romany Gypsies and Irish Travellers.
You may be discriminated against because of one or more aspects of your race, for example people born in Britain to Jamaican parents could be discriminated against because they are British citizens, or because of their Jamaican national origins.
Edit: bad idea, I forgot they can't read.
Sure, Travellers have low educational achievement. But how motivated would you be to engage academically if you knew that you would face overwhelming discrimination in any kind of employment outside your own community?
It seems that the travelling community is the last remaining one against which it’s socially acceptable to make sweeping assumptions. You wouldn’t dream of posting “Oh no! A (insert ethnic minority here) family has moved into our village!” on your local FB page. Yet somehow it’s acceptable to react to travellers setting up camp nearby as if the Visigoths have just turned up at the gates of Rome.
Fortunately, the police were in attendance due to the aforementioned punch up, and I did get my gear back but ended up two hundred quid down as another ‘mix up’ meant that party organiser refused to pay me, and the cheeky chappy also threatened to cut my throat from ear to ear if I didn’t fuck off home immediately. I reckon he thought I must be tired after such a tough gig and needed to go to bed for some rest.
On a more serious note I have to agree about this grouping of people and prejudicial selected entry.
I used to be in a minority group (about 50 years ago ) We were small ( in stature ) but every shop we were interested in had a big handwritten notice in the window ;
SCHOOLCHILDREN 2 AT A TIME ONLY !
Discriminating Bastards !