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| Janet Whitaker and Kate Green write: Mark Seddon noted that Rodney Bickerstaffe championed the cause of Travellers. Rodney felt so strongly about this that he became president of the Labour Campaign for Travellers’ Rights. | |
| In a submission to parliament, where we chair the all-party group for Gypsies, Travellers and Roma, he wrote in 2004 that: “A litmus test of society’s commitment to fairness and equality is how it treats the most excluded. Current evidence suggests that we are failing with regard to the Gypsy and Traveller community.” He maintained this commitment throughout his life, appearing regularly and speaking at campaigning events, considering it an essential part of his concern for social justice. | In a submission to parliament, where we chair the all-party group for Gypsies, Travellers and Roma, he wrote in 2004 that: “A litmus test of society’s commitment to fairness and equality is how it treats the most excluded. Current evidence suggests that we are failing with regard to the Gypsy and Traveller community.” He maintained this commitment throughout his life, appearing regularly and speaking at campaigning events, considering it an essential part of his concern for social justice. |
| John Akker writes: Rodney Bickerstaffe hugely underplayed the many things that he did. For example, he told me as an aside that he had given thousands of pounds from his own Unison pension to the National Pensioners Convention so it could continue. | John Akker writes: Rodney Bickerstaffe hugely underplayed the many things that he did. For example, he told me as an aside that he had given thousands of pounds from his own Unison pension to the National Pensioners Convention so it could continue. |