[jean paul]

Simon Dudley Mr. Empathy Friend to the .. #homeless #society #sociopaths #world

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/feb/14/windsor-council-drops-plans-to-fine-rough-sleepers-after-outcry

[Steve]

The Social Security system in the UK

The Bullingdon Club rich-kids in Britain (Cameron, Osborne, Johnson etc) have attacked and demonised the poorest and most vulnerable, the jobless, homeless and disabled year after year, into ever more extreme levels of depravation and fear while they and the elite banker parasites they serve are allowed to do what they like.

British journalist Sonia Paulton, one of the tragically few worthy of the name, wrote an excellent demolition of the welfare cuts that have brought great depravation and suffering to sick and disabled people in the UK:

So these cuts will now become law and, as a nation weeps, the details are sorrowful when applied to reality. Here’s an example -

Any disabled or sick person who has been given more than six months to live and is unable to financially support themselves, will be sent out to work. If they refuse, or back out of a scheme, then they will be subject to benefit sanctions. Next up in the reforms will be an increase in multiple testing of patients, including those with Alzheimer’s and Multiple Sclerosis, to see if they are fit for work. They will be tested repeatedly. It will cost a great deal of money to administer and it will wear already sick people to a pulp. And as for children who dare to be born disabled, well that assistance previously available to them has been wiped out in The Tories Armageddon on the poor.

Bloody disgusting!!!

Bullingdon Club initiation ceremony claim: New members of David Cameron's old club 'burn £50 note in front of beggar'


https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/bu...im-1725912

[awakened53]

Too true Steve
The Tories have a hatred of the disabled and the poor
They are treated like second class citizens.
It is an absolute disgrace

[ManicStreetPreacher]

Can you spare some change to pay my fine? Up there with marching young troughs to a cash machine to pay for anti--social behaviour.

I was briefly homeless myself and I don't recall ever having a spare £100.

[Charlotte4711]

Well we as citizens let them get away with it! I’m not sitting here professing to bang on no10’s door every day but if we just read the news and go “oh no that’s terrible” then they continue their reign of evil!

The people of this country need to stand up to it! I’m not even sure the govt. listen, care or notice (judging by 60,000+ marchers in London last week & barely a muttering in the news) but we have to do something!

Every time they make a new law or policy the people suffer & they benefit! They are screwing this country up so much! I’m even tempted to vote labour lol lol lol

[ContemplationInTranquility]

There is a terrible problem of homelessness here in Ireland and the government here seems not to give a damn. The government has been promising to do something about the poor state of public services for several years now. They have just announced something called Project for Ireland which is basically the old promises in new packaging with a nice bow on the top. I'm probably just being cynical and now it has a new name all of it will be carried out and everything will be wonderful.

[Steve]

Eradicating homelessness in Finland: the Housing First programme

In 2007, Finland's government decided to adopt a new approach to dealing with homelessness. Setting themselves the ambitious aim of halving long-term homelessness by 2011 and eradicating it by 2015, a working group developed and implemented an integrated strategy based on the Housing First model. Housing First follows the principle of providing each homeless person with permanent housing, accompanied by individually tailored health and support services.


https://www.centreforpublicimpact.org/ca...-programme

[awakened53]

How Britain’s premier shopping destination is gripped by homeless crisis: Doorways of Oxford Street stores are taken over by boxes and sleeping bags as number of rough sleepers rises


Harrowing photos have revealed the shocking scale of the homelessness crisis gripping Oxford Street as the number of rough sleepers rises across London.

Images taken at daybreak today show large numbers of people lying on makeshift mattresses in shop doorways, with five set up outside one menswear store alone.

Others can be seen using cardboard boxes, umbrellas and upturned shopping trollies to try to screen off an area where they can shelter from the wind and rain.

While still considered Britain’s premier shopping destination, the twin impacts of Covid and the shift to online shopping have left Oxford Street a shadow of its former self – with a rash of empty shops and tacky American candy stores replacing household names including Topshop and Debenhams.

The road has also been hit by London’s worsening homelessness crisis, with the number of people sleeping rough in the capital over spring and early summer up 12 per cent on the same period last year.

Read more: How Britain’s premier shopping destination is gripped by homeless crisis: Doorways of Oxford Street stores are taken over by boxes and sleeping bags as number of rough sleepers rises