Equal Under The Law

It is highly debateable whether or not this country's Gypsies are an ethnic group, as the Roma being sent back to Eastern Europe from France certainly are. It is even more so whether or not many of those throwing up shanty towns in our countryside are Gypsies at all. But it is not debateable that, whoever and whatever they are, they must be subject to the same planning laws as the rest of us. Why didn't the last lot do this? Whatever happened to equality, not least regardless of ethnicity or class background?