Is it any less demeaning when you have to sit at the front of the bus?

I guess not, but it sure is more convenient. Via Marathon Pundit:

Gipsies [sic] and travellers should be given priority in NHS (National Health Service) hospitals and GP surgeries, doctors have been told.

They will be fast-tracked for doctors, nurses and even some dentist appointments above all other patients.

GPs have also been told to see any travellers who simply walk in without an appointment, even if all consultation times for the day are full.

They will also be given longer consultations than other patients. Five or ten minutes is the average but travellers will be given 20 minutes and allowed to bring relatives into the consulting rooms.

“Travellers” refers to another people who traditionally wander, rather than stay put in one place. Irish, these ones. Gypsies, well, you know who they are:

But wait! There’s more! Via Instapundit:

Terror law used to stop thousands ‘just to balance racial statistics’

Thousands of people are being stopped and searched by the police under their counter-­terrorism powers – simply to ­provide a racial balance in official statistics, the government’s official anti-terror law watchdog has revealed.

Thank goodness that sort of thing doesn’t happen on this side of the pond, huh?