Roseanna McPhee
I grew up as part of a Tinker Accommodation Experiment in Perthshire (there were a number of them). This was a partnership between the council, the Church of Scotland and the local landlord, was sanctioned by St Andrew's House, Edinburgh.
The council and the church deemed this "to be a good opportunity to experiment with introducing tinkers to normal community life".
The implication here was one of superiority over the Gypsy/Traveller lifestyle which was seen as 'abnormal'. The term of reference 'tinker' was, and still is, offensive. People who have grown up with the daily insults of 'tinker', 'tink' or 'mink', don’t appreciate this terminology.
Is it really too difficult to call people Gypsies or Travellers?
Is it really too much to ask from society to be allowed to access a doctor, a form of accommodation or to go to school without suffering such victimisation?
Must people like myself who have experienced this and yet proceeded to gain degrees and professional qualifications forever be denied employment on the flimsiest of excuses?
Is there really no room for anyone except white, middle-class, heterosexual Christians at the potential inn?
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