MungoBrush wrote:Cannydc wrote:I guess it makes you as angry as it makes me.
I'm lucky enough not to live in a deprived area, but I've seen people sleeping in doorways in places like Bristol. Walked past wishing I could help properly.
I simply couldn't bear to see kids going hungry, or without shoes or proper clothes. It would break my heart.
Sometimes the casual acceptance of such conditions here in the green and pleasant UK is beyond my comprehension.
And there are rough sleepers in the city where I live as well
And there is a home for homeless people only a few metres from my home.
And I have stood behind 2 of them at an ATM while one said to the other “good, my benefits are in” and withdrew the whole £200 saying “it will be a good night tonight”
And I have seen those same 2 people in the park just opposite smoking crack cocaine just a few hours later
Some people refused to be helped.
That's nice.
£200 benefits for a single, homeless male. A couple of quotes from single homeless men for you to dwell on...
“I’ve got nothing. I can’t claim benefits, because I’ve no address…You used to be able to sign on and they would give you so much money every day. Not any more. That’s all gone. Doesn’t exist anymore, that. Doesn’t exist.” Paul, 56, Deansgate, Thursday evening.
“You can’t claim dole, because you need a letterbox to get ID, but you need ID to get a letterbox…So all is as left is to beg, yeah…[I’ve been doing this for] five years…At the beginning, I had bags and bags of stuff. I had all me ID and that…[but] because you can’t look after it all the time, you stash it and other homeless people find it and… [shrugs].” Darren, 44, outside the Arndale Centre on Tuesday.
“I’m not going to get any benefits until you (sic) get an address.” Tom, 24, near Piccadilly station, Tuesday evening.
And accommodation ?
Paul, aged 56. Deansgate on Thursday. Carrying his bag and sleeping bag on his back.
“The council closed most of the hostels down, so there’s only a couple of hostels now. There’s a couple of places that are really, really bad. You know what I mean. Mice-infested and they want to put people in them places.
There’s a church on tonight. They do a meal – give you food, a meal, things like that. You can have a shower there. You can see a doctor if you need to. That’s pretty good, but that they only do that once a week on a Thursday. There’s only a couple of places for people to get emergency accommodation. Simple as that."
I suspect your view of homelessness may not be quite in sync with the real world. A bit like your government. Oh, and JSA is just £73 a week.....
https://www.katebelgrave.com/2016/09/i- ... g-on-here/