Gypsies and Travellers experience severe and continued discrimination in education, health, employment and the criminal justice system despite a number of legal protections. “Great Britain is still like the American Deep South for black people was in the 1950s. Discrimination against Gypsies and Travellers appears to be the last “respectable” form of racism.” (Chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality) (BBC News 17.10.04. www.news.bbc.co.uk)