The Romany are opposed to the LGBTQ+ community and lifestyle – associating such ideas with paedophilia and paederasty. The fear is of child sexual abuse being facilitated by the British State – a deficient activity outlawed in the USSR and Socialist Romania. Indeed, many of these Romany attitudes, which may or may not be correct, might stem from the times of Socialist reconstruction – 1945-1989 – and reflect a progression away from pre-modern modes of thoughts and behaviours.