The schoolboy MP for Monmouth had asked the Heritage Lottery Fund for agrant to make a film about the settled community.
"Although large in number 'settled folk' often face prejudice andmisunderstanding from Gypsy Travellers when they come into contact withthem," he wrote.
He proposed a section in his film "about the cardboard circle whichsettled folk purchase annually from post offices and use to adorn theirvehicles - known as a tax disc."
Davies's predictable and laboured whimsy was in response to hisdiscovery of a 48,000 lottery grant towards the making of a filmabout the traditions of Gypsies and Travellers.
A visitor to Davies's web site had a more constructive idea. "When theyfinish the film perhaps you could watch it with the primary schoolchildren and gain some sort of education."
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