The Vagrancy Act of 1824 is finally abolished in favour something far more Dickensian. Last Chance to see my live show Heroes and Villains go to www.jonathanpi... for tickets.
Illegals getting hotels. I seen it myself. My coworker is Ukrainian woman with 2 kids, she gets her subsidised living in UK home and she's working in Tesco. Last month she went to Ukraine to see her husband and dentist for kids. And I'm also working as truck driver in Tesco, I pay UK taxes over 16 years and I still cannot afford UK mortgage.
@@yannikoloff7659illegals aren’t getting hotels. Asylum seekers aren’t illegal. Illegal immigrants get deported. That’s black and white by the way, not an opinion. If you have an issue with asylum seekers being in hotels, maybe look at the government who are deliberately processing them 10x slower than last time we had roughly the same number.
@@yannikoloff7659 'Weapons 4 Ukraine (& military industrial complex)' -- the 6 min 14 sec video by Matt Orfalea and the 1.28 'George Carlin on Our Similarities' by Ammar Khan
@@yannikoloff7659 You are full of shite! A product of Murdoch, Barclay Brothers and the Tory Propaganda Machine! Try thinking for yourself (if you are capable) for once!
Not a bad idea on the surface. You likley couldn't fine the individual, in some London boroughs that'd be prohibitively expensive. So you fine the parties, now you're fining "left" wing parties more than right. So you fine the council, now you're taking even more money from poor areas...... Why not tax the wealthiest and house homeless people?
@@seekingabsolution1907 the American plantation owners learned to appreciate prison labor back during the colonial days, when the UK government would round-up the Irish and send them over as indentured political prisoners.
I once used to watch Jonathan Pie for a bit of a giggle, increasingly he just sounds like the one sane voice screaming into the cacophony of insanity that is modern politics.
I was just about to say the same thing. The outrage used to be satirical, now it’s actual commentary. We need Pie to stand in an actual election, if only to be the Malcolm Tucker the country needs.
Yet again, Johnathan Pie totally nails it. This bill just showst how disgusting the conservative party really is.They truly are the excrement on the shoes of Britain.
Unfortunately the Labour Party won’t be much better, tbh I think even worse… money rules and they all have too much of it. As long as this is the thing they never will do laws that put them into a bad position but us because we pay for them
@@sc29607 Yes, if we think back to "new Labour" and how they ruled by communication and not by actions. I see the same issue, but not as extreme, in Denmark (and rest of Europe) where all parties suck up to the middle elctorate and only try to pleace that group without going after the extreme rich...
They are all the same regardless of party, the only interest these people have is maintaining their comfortable little lives, they have zero clue or experience with hardship and financial struggles and dont care to try to understand given they think we are all scum and below them
Yet it has been a consistent thing in Britain for nearly 200 years. No one alive today has lived in a time when being homeless was not a serious crime in Britain.
I work in a mental health hospital. A while back I encountered a lad on the ward I went to school with. He'd been in and out prison from when we left school some 20 years ago. When he was discharged he would commit offences that he knew would get him sent back to prison. I asked why he wanted to be in prison. "I know the rules there, I know what to expect. I've known nothing else." Essentially the guy had become institutionalised. The only other time I have encountered such levels of institutionalisation is when I cared for people who had been in the old long stay hospitals (asylums essentially) or one woman who I cared for years ago who had been moved around 5 different concentration camps as a child. Even Enoch Powell saw the harm such institutionalisation had done. We can debate all day about the the rights and wrongs of his approach to that, but, at least he recognised a problem. These Tories - and I would argue every neolib from Thatcher onward (inc Blair and Starmer) - fails to see how anybody could turn a profit from it so don't bother. We should be dealing with this because these a people with lives and we should be recognising their humanity. "Evil begins when you start to treat people as things" - Terry Pratchett.
lets not forget; in prison, while its not a nice experience; you have access to basic amenities. Water, food and shelter. If you are homeless; your chance of getting a job is slim. If you have been incarcerated, its even worse. So then what? you can choose between rough sleeping and being targeted and hurt… or… get back behind bars. Is it ideal? nope. Is it “freeriding” nope. There is no way out beyond just dying on the street… so the best you can do is to get yourself back… and then of course you get yourself adapted to that life, those rules, those norms. Slowly the life in a cell and not in a comfy room in your home does not seem that bad. i mean… compared to sleep on the street in the cold and rain… the fact that there is no way out is the saddest part of it. So now putting homeless people behind bars… well… we will now intentionally put them on the same path… not helping them… but to turn them into criminals… and the cost of all that is now 100% the tax payers… which is ironic because this government seems to be dead set on cutting benefits for everyone… and yet we are going to create the most expensive one because you smell. note: being in prison is not a benefit, but we could pay for these people’s housing and some … and it would be still cheaper than keeping them locked away… “noone is left behind” (aka; you all go to jail)
I agree it's not profitable to neocons but surely the expense they go to trying to blame/cover and isolate is expensive. Will imprisonment only occur in the cbd of London or all areas. Will they push the problems to the outer suburbs and rural areas?
Listening to homeless people's stories it's rarely about money. It's about becoming isolated and alone. With no network for support it's incredibly difficult to navigate the low points in your life. People used to live with their families, in multi generational homes, in a community where everyone knew their name. There were no homeless then.
I was homeless for 5 years. I mean living in a cardboard box in winter level of homeless. Speaking as someone who has gone through homelessness and experienced the worst which that can bring, locking them up and punishing the most vulnerable of people is not the answer. Compassion and empathy is. Having real solutions is. Rehab, supported living, are the answers. I will never understand why people vote tory. I will never understand it.
Both parties are as bad as each other. I remember Labour feeding at the trough during the Blair years. I remember the utter disdain that the Tories had for the common man during the Major years. And then, I had enough of being a tax-slave to people who hate me. I emigrated in 2015 to central Europe. No regrets. "A plague o' both your houses." - Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet.
@@threethrushes Homelessness dropped considerably under the last Labour government because they addressed many of the problems that often lead to it and had support for those who fell through the cracks so to speak. The health and social care sectors were funded far better than they are now, or were before them. They weren't perfect, no government is, but they're far, far, FAR less shitty than the Tories. History has proven this time and time again. Tories break things, Labour get in and fix it, people get bored or complain they aren't being fixed fast enough, then vote Tory again. Rinse and repeat. We're a stupid country as a whole, always voting against our best interests. Just look at Brexit.
I can understand the rich voting Tory, what I don't understand is how a normal working class person can vote tory, its like turkeys voting for Christmas.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Let’s not forget that a large number of homeless are ex-military, with numerous reasons for ending up where they are. Many broken systems letting down those who deserve better. Well done Tories.
nothing new. That's literally what zero tolerance drug laws are. Make peoples' coping strategies illegal. In america they've used that to make a hidden slave state of forced labour where prisoners are responsible for a significant proprtion of american manufacturing GDP for which they are paid literal cents a day.
Because the politicians are the ones making the rules. Why would they outlaw something they all do? To a one, every member of parliament is some mix of inept, corrupt, and outright malicious.
Because they write the laws and vote on them. Why would they ever write one which could convict themselves? It'd never get further than a first reading. We can demand, till we are blue in the face, but being a "self-serving cockwombe" is synonymous with modern British politicians.
@@SteveWhippIt’s almost like giving anyone power corrupts them and makes them act in their own self-interest so the proposal of a “democratic state” is conclusively a failure.
I work with the homeless and the most vulnerable in society and they are terrified. Terrified. Imagine frightening people who are at their most in need. DISGUSTING.
I was a police officer in Brighton. I ran a shift and my superintendent passed me the problem of 'offensive rough sleepers' causing problems in a grassed area in town, denying tourists a place to enjoy. They often got drunk and swore. Rather than heavy-handed policing, I dedicated two police officers, with a sergeant to overview, and within a couple of months they were all but gone, but not by arresting them or making their lives a misery, but by organising local support groups for the down and outs, including churches, the brilliant Sally Ann, and such. They got fed, they got housed. Many had things they could do with their time. The calls to our control room of people behaving badly dropped to all but inconsequential. The success of the little venture surprised me as well as my superintendent. The two officers garnered a lot of intelligence from these 'smelly people' and a murder suspect was named and with a location in Scotland, within two days of the body being found. The incident room had no suspect. It was such a brilliant idea that the superintendent stepped in, saying it was a waste of police time, so I took them off what was then intelligence gathering and by the next summer, the problem had returned. Whatever. But if two police officers can do that, then why not a dedicated team from each council bothered by the consequence of government decisions? I used to be more or less apolitical. I'd vote for the person most likely to help my constituency. Not any more. Anything but the tory bastards.
Except that if you help the homeless back into society, they'll be able to pay into the economy, so indirectly someone is making a profit. (Even if they're on benefits, instead of in decent-enough-to-not-need-benefits paying work, they're still using government money to pay for things, which goes into the economy. Which in turn goes into shareholders pockets, many shareholders of which just happen to be in the government. Hence, profit).
They see all public services as an inconvenience. No one can get rich out of them. That's why all of our public services in this country are failing, every single one through lack of investment and neglect. They do not care one jot. Once they can show public owned services have failed it paves the way to privatisation. They would privatise it all if they could, NHS, Schools, social services, the police, fire service. They see them as a burden.
@@neilbirch8431I have friends who can back this up (I’m aware this is anecdotal evidence but it’s been official policy for most of my life) i.e. that every public service, whether healthcare, education or anything else, is viewed as a cost to be minimised, and governments are ‘successful’ based on how little they spend while still keeping the institution afloat.
@@neilbirch8431True, but it doesn't make sense. If it was profitable, it wouldn't be a public service. Privatising a public service doesn't make it profitable. One could go full Fascist and say that if it isn't profitable, it isn't needed anyway. But that would be ignoring that public services also benefit the private sector, in that it saves them expenses and supplies them with workers and paying customers.
@@davidwuhrer6704 of course it does, the company let's say Police UK would be a private company and run for profit. Employees would be on short term contracts at 20k a year, it would be run as cheaply as possible. Individuals would pay for police attendance to their crimes. The contacts would be given to mates of the politicians and they would all have shares in the company. They can then manipulate the share price whenever they wanted. Just look at privatised prisons in this country. A race to the bottom, riddled with corruption because employees are not valued and paid poorly. I also don't think the owners of private hospitals in the USA are complaining about their profits. If you can't afford treatment! Tough!
I feel terrible passing beggars, how am I supposed to explain to them that I'm about £200 away from being in their position each month. This country is just horrible now, what the Tories have done to us is horrible.
It isn't a solution to the problem, and wasn't intended to be one. It's a desperate dog whistle, to rally a few last votes from anyone who is stupid enough to think that criminalising a behavior is a necessary and sufficient condition to expunge it from society.
I'd make a joke about criminalizing a behaviour that isn't deterrable through punishment to highlight the absurdity but It is hard to remember a behaviour that someone hasn't tried to criminalise. How about vomiting. Imagine criminalizing vomiting?
@@seekingabsolution1907 it's on the same level tbh. Being homeless is an affliction. It's like criminalising someone for leaving tire marks when they go past in their wheelchair. Absurd, cruel, and totally in keeping with the essence of the modern Tory party.
I have a feeling that they don't actually want to be reelected. They're trying to get everyone to vote Labour, so that they're the ones who have to announce the end of the nhs & other public services. They've brought this country to its knees & they know it
I've watched a fair bit of Rishi Sunak recently and he seems to answer almost every question directed at him with something like, "That's true but at least I am delivering for the British people." He's not yet, in my experience, given an explanation of exactly what he is delivering.
He's delivering a dystopian nightmare whereby the 5% get to watch, with great amusement, the other 95% fight and scrap each other over the crumbs from their table..We still live in a feudal system in this country and it has been thus since the dark ages.
Sadly the last of the old Public Baths were done away with in the later 1970s, mostly to be replaced by the corporate retail outlets that crushed family owned shops (the cornerstone of commerce) out of existence. I would never have run a shop, too damned hard, but I miss having them around. It's all getting a bit Soviet in the UK these days, dull, grey and inhumane, but the left and right do tend to 'meet round the back' to reassure one another of the virtues of totalitarianism.
@@Norfolkandchance886 I don't know, it feels like they're trying to take us back to those times. Jacob Rees-mog is directly out of the 19th century. The Right Honourable Member for 1852.
And public toilets. They're nearly all closed in the UK now. That was for our benefit. Not mine getting nicked for peeing in a back lane after midnight 😂😂😂
I volunteer with a charity that helps homeless and the vulnerably housed (those close to homelessness). They lost all government funding so rely solely on donations and volunteers. No one person I have spoken to who uses this charities services are there as a lifestyle choice. They have been failed.
Was homeless in America for two years. I am no addict. I hold four university degrees. I could no longer afford housing after greedy wankers bought up the town and raised rents. It's disgusting how snooty and heartless the new wealthy people are when they don't want the homeless on the streets because it negatively affects tourism. I was 70 when I went homeless.
@cantin8697 Someone who is over 70 years old grew up in a time when tuition fees were a couple hundred per year. My dad made enough money working for the post office in the summer to pay for his whole year. Meanwhile I make $150k a year, and the other day I thought about maybe getting a law degree again, and realized I can't afford law school. It's four times more expensive than it was 15 years ago the last time I thought about it.
@cantin8697 scholarships. Paid zero for my MFA degree as the university paid for housing, tuition, everything including a trip to Italy for research My first bachelors was a zillion years ago when state tuition was $95/semester. Got one grad loan to get me thru a summer. Paid it off in 6 months after I graduated. Worked my freaking ass off for those degrees. . 😆 🤣
@@therocketboostDo you blame him? You've got toxic twats on both sides of the divide who just love the opportunity to pile on to those with different perspectives.
@@therocketboost it’s almost as though, as a content creator, he’s focusing on producing the content he wants to produce and is talking about the topics that he feels he can contribute something useful to…
I served in the Army for 7 years. I became homeless the moment I left. They'd better not give me a weapon again,as I can't guarantee it's won't be aimed at them💯🇬🇧💂
They closed 95% of the public toilets in England. And you try asking to use the loo in an establishment, if you're homeless. There is an obvious consequence to doing this, and they'll damn sure keep fining you if you don't go in your trousers.
@@MortMe0430 Indeed. And, even more astounding, like all sadists, they enjoy it. It is "cruel and unusual punishment" for the completely innocent, like some Tory sport. NONE of this makes them sad. That would require empathy, which they do not possess.
Punishing the poorest while rewarding the greediest and richest is really screwed up. The voters who support this and the present government are just as culpable and guilty.
Perhaps some of the politicians should go out and sleep rough for a month without any help and see how they feel about it then. No washing, no clean clothes, no medical help, no nothing apart from abuse. See how they feel after that! God it makes me sick!!!
Said with passion, you're absolutely correct. To be Conservative nowadays is shameful and the whole self-serving low tax for millionaires bollocks needs criminalising.
Plenty empty houses that a quick fix up could house a good amount of homeless people. Have some donations to pay for their water bill so they can have a shower and a working toilet and there you go. Half the issue solved, since they'd have an address they can get mail which means they can apply for jobs etc etc
Unfortunately most of the prisons are privatised, or have partially privatised some services.. So criminalising homelessness is good for shareholders. About the only thing the Conservatives care about.
@@stevegaulter1437 There's also the part where there aren't actually enough prisons either, because that's yet another sector the Tories have run into the ground and not bothered to build more of. Like homes.
It's like their genius plan to send people to the middle of Africa for the crime of being foreign and crossing over the channel on a small boat. They may as well give every single one of these people they intend on sending there £2million. It'd be cheaper. At least then when the Daily Heil report lies that immigrants are all given free houses and cars, it will actually be true.
The way the Conservative Party works, is they take a basic idea that people want, and they somehow, turn it into the worst possible variation of that basic idea and then act like they’ve solved the problem.
That is also BOTH parties in the US. They continuously choose the worst possible options in THE MOST expensive way possible! It is ALL now beyond asinine and is just plain evil and needlessly cruel (with all of the power formerly associated with those words, before they were watered down by propaganda, intended here) JUST because they can...and...BONUS... they also made themselves and their inherent criminality completely legal, but for anyone who is NOT chosen to be ok by them (mostly financiers and the other big's who make the world a much worse place in every way possible), however they find to survive inside of the uber-creepy new world order, is made COMPLETELY criminalized! But by them? no price will ever be paid, they just stay in their militarily-protected bubble, on the very taxpayers that they are purposefully destroying.
They act like they've solved the problem that they themselves created by saying they are making the biggest investments in history after they made the biggest cuts in history to that same department a few years earlier ! Their 'investments' are just a percentage of the cuts they made yet they seem to think that's the best thing to do and are surprised when people call them liars and only doing it to improve their image !
It takes more effort for them to do the worse thing in almost all situations when they're making policies. They have to go out of their way to be cruel, but that's the point. To be cruel.
It is called 'responsibilisation' in sociology (and critical criminology). The government makes you responsible for not having a job when there are none - even though it is their job to ensure the economy flourishes and so jobs are aplenty (just one example).
The government has really called things more difficult for its citizens, and we can't sit back and bear all the consequences of the bad governance. It's obvious we are headed for inflation,it is always the poor who take the hit.
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I live in a monarchy, and am usually with you on the 'don't they have enough money already?' side. However this queen reigned a commonwealth of over 50 countries for more than 70 years. Assuming your figure of $ 200 million is correct, that's about £ 165 million. So about 2,5 pounds per Briton, or about 4 pounds per supporter of the monarchy. Imo that's acceptable, as I see this as the single most positive moment / gathering of the last decade with regard to British standing or influence in the world. Many foreigners love British Royalty, so this might actually be a pretty good investment.
Becoming homeless can happen to anyone at anytime. It doesn’t discriminate. Besides incarceration (prison) or being forced to be a refugee, being homeless rates in the top three of worst outcomes I can imagine happening in my life. Thank you once more Jonathan. Wish there were more honest people like you.
I talked to a chap the other day. He's been homeless for half a dozen or more years. He said he had trouble with addiction for a long time, including when he was living with his mum, and acting as her carer. When she died, one of his brothers proposed a trust find for him (from the inheritance) that would pay a living allowance weekly. But in the end another brother arranged for his inheritance to simply "disappear".
Life choices landed me in Germany 30+ yrs ago. Moving from London to a small provincial city, was a shock. But i'm continually in shock at what my family n friends have to deal with in the UK. As always i start laughing at Jonathans character ripping into a theme, but mostly the smiles slid off my face after a minute or 2. Respect...all power to your arm 🙏✊️
Margaret Thatcher once said "There is no such thing as community" implying that it's every man/woman for him/herself. Later, she abandoned the disadvantaged to "Care in the community", thereby creating the problem. I bet she was really pleased with herself
I know loads of ex-Servicemen who sleep on the street. They have been let down by multiple governments over the years, all ignored the Forces Covenant. Many of these ex-Servicemen have PTSD from their service and this leads to major mental health issues. So much for Care in the Community that Tony Bliar brought in.
I'm sorry mate but care in the community started with Major. I remember the sick joke at the time 'care in the community', one that clearly doesn't care as homelessness grew. When Blair came in, the number of homeless on the streets definitely reduced in my area. '
I sympathise with all that you said except your incorrect statement that Blair brought in Care in the Community. The Care In The Community Act was voted through Parliament in 1990 (not sure if it was in Thatcher's or Major's time as PM - Major replaced Thatcher in 1990) and it was implemented in 1993 under Major, four years before Labour were voted in. That said, Blair didn't repeal or improve it significantly.
I'm an American been living in New Zealand for the past 7yrs--the number of people declaring themselves to be "not Royalists" makes me think they'd all make grand Yankees circa 1776!
What has become of Great Britain... I, as a German, admired the British for several good reasons, I was thankful that Brits helped to rid Europe from Nazis and Faschists, for their culture, I admired there politeness. Nowadays only money counts. What kind of a rich society have we now? Where we have a few billionaires and millions of poor people. I cannot believe what Jonathan said..., that people can be punished for not having a shower, or a home... in one of the oldest democracies in the world...!!!! Did Jonathan talk about Russia? What kind of society do we have - but not only in Great Britain...
The UK lost it's way a generation or two back, and it isn't trending in a positive direction. The greedy few decided to enrich themselves at the expense of everyone else. They demoralised the population with unfettered immigration. They anaesthetised the population with Netflix, Primark, and reality TV. They bribed the middle classes with higher house prices. I emigrated in 2015.
Is this seriously happening? If they gave everyone access to bathrooms (in shelters, for example), then there may be a conversation to be had about what to do when some people refuse (though imprisoning them still seems a bit much). But while they don’t have much of a choice, how can you punish them? This is getting more and more dystopian.
The concept of aporophobia was coined by the philosopher Dr Adela Cortina in 1995 and entered the Spanish RAE dictionary in 2017, defined as a "phobia of poor and disadvantaged people." According to Dr Cortina herself, aporophobia refers to a "rejection, aversion, fear, and contempt towards the poor and the helpless..."
@@jasonuren3479 it seems to apply to a lot of people on the right of politics. Meanwhile on the extreme left they seem to venerate the dispossessed which is equally moronic
@@hippo319 Not sure if the soviets even count as left anymore in today's moronic ideological climate, but they criminalized being homeless too, so I find the notion of the left going the opposite way is somewhat funny to me.
I'm the emperor of homelessness...some of us aren't slaves..I live in a wardrobe.always available for work...cheers Mr pie for your kindness.blessings.
Fining the destitute is a proud old tradition in the States, but even we keep it down around $500. Wtf, UK. Fining the homeless is just clinically insane.
Social care in the UK: It's the safety net that's been patched more times than a favorite old quilt. Who's stitching up solutions to ensure dignity and support for all?
Fun fact - the house of commons historically smelt of piss for a significant portion of time because of a lack of bathroom facilities and old politicians having weak bladders and they would reguarly piss themselves in the pews... Perfect segue into your video title there Mr Pie...
If they try to get some shelter in a tent, it's very likely that the local council will clear THAT away and destroy their few posiessions. I think even DICKINS himself would be shocked that Britain has actually got WORSE since his time.
Apparently the council had to come out and say they had noting to do with it, it was apparently all arranged by the delinquent bums and stiffs in westminster. Anyone who thought that theft was illegal, even for the political pipsqueaks, hasn't been following the news.
The Netherlands has 180 homeless people per 100.000 inhabitants. On a population of 17,8 million people, that's about 32.000 people. And that includes various groups of people without their own homes. People who sleep outside or in a car, squatters, people who sleep in shelters, even people without their own home, who are temporarily living with family or friends. You still sometimes see some poor man or woman sleeping under a viaduct, but generally I think we have it fairly well-handled here. And whilst it's getting harder to find a home because there's just not enough room to build homes (unless we shrink our farming sector...), we are making it work for the most part. The UK has 561 homeless people per 100.000 inhabitants. On a population of 67,5 million people, that's about 378.000 people. And whilst part of that is due to the higher population, the rate is also more than 3x as high. If the rates were the same, that would amount to 120.500 homeless people. As someone who's been homeless and has had friends who have been homeless, my tip is don't look down on homeless people. You never know what landed them in that situation. Don't generalize them as criminals and drug addicts. Because with some twists of misfortune that could've been you and it still might be you at some point in your life, and you wouldn't want people looking down on you either.
@@Kat-mu8wq I'm not generally amused by racist nonsense. So I dug through some official UKgov statistics. From official statistics July to September 2023: The majority of households owed a prevention or relief duty were where the lead applicant was White (64.1%), followed by households where the lead applicant was Black (11.1%) or Asian (7.4%). The number of households owed a prevention or relief duty where the lead applicant was: Belonging to an Other [footnote 1] ethnic group increased by 46.7% to 3,800 households Asian increased by 23.8% to 5,780 Black increased by 16.7% to 8,670 Of Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups increased by 13.9% to 2,710. These statistics should also be compared to ethnic makeup of the population. Which in the UK is 87,1% White, 7% Asian, 3% Black and 2% Mixed. Which means that despite being only 13% of the population, nearly HALF of homeless people are non-white people. Your argument is nonsense and just serves as a tool to push your hateful opinion. If you only want to solve homelessness for white people, then you're a racist. Don't try to subsume my comments under your ideological beliefs. My comments come from a place of love and compassion for my fellow human beings. Have a nice day.
I love the way he tells it how it is, and then signs of by telling it how they want it to be told: "it's always a difficult tightrope [...] , but many think this bill goes too far"
i heard that ex servicemen have had their pension stripped as they have increased the service period from a min of 3 years to 5 years to get it. Shocking !
We have Charles Booth's poverty maps of 1889 to thank for moralising about poverty and disadvantage. Setting out to prove poverty was not as bad as some were claiming, he found more poverty in London than had been suggested. However, because there was lots of alcohol use with these impoverished populations, he decided they must have brought this fate upon themselves. No consideration for the fact that people with such difficult lives might be numbing the pain. No proof of cause or correlation, just 'his opinion' and it has stuck.
Sadly that is just an example of what 'politics' is; 'opinions'. It is what we resort to when we don't know, and if some bloody intellectual finds out and tells us we resort to Ideology (lots of big words, in other contexts it is called obfuscation). We actually know about the condition these people are suffering from, neurologically it shows up as shrivelled connections between the amygdala and other brain regions, Frans De Walls research suggests the root cause is likely poor parenting. One has to be careful explaining this to the afflicted, it frightens them and that tends to result in vindictive aggression.
Shit why didn't I choose to marry a billionaire? Oh, yes, it's because I'm not willing to be a soulless shill for my whole life, I guess that is the requirement.
Two former world players trying to outdo themselves: The 1824 UK Vagrancy Act abolished and replaced with something far worse; meanwhile, in the same week, in the US an 1864 abortion act revived and enforced in Arizona
Nailed it, as we in Australia just experienced at Bondi Junction where I used to frequent Daily, The 40 yr old Male was homeless and suffered mental Health issues from his teens Should not of occurred But did This will be issue.for Every one Every day
I recently made a lifestyle choice to be section 21'd from a private rental, then scammed out of rent money by my next potential landlord. This meant I didn't have the upfront money for the next rental. My lifestyle choice of course. I am a teetotal, non-drug using, non-smoking citizen who still works in his 60s. My workload depleted due to covid and it took a long while for my health to return properly, possibly because fear pushed me out to work when I shouldn't have. Yes, I made other poor choices on the financial front, I acknowledge, so had too small a contingency plan to see me through the poor health of an epidemic. I now, very gratefully, rent a room week-by-week in the halfway house of a homeless charity, but do fund my own rent in full on a weekly pay basis. It's a big improvement on sleeping in the cab of an old van and cadging the odd night on a friend's sofa. It appears that someone was a bit uncomfortable about a diabetic in his 60s drifting into street homelessness. It feels a bit odd that I may be classed as vulnerable because my head is still 25 in many ways.
this country is medieval in its attitude , a total disgrace i am ashamed to witness these crimes against decent human beings ... if they were cute puppies or kittens people would be up in arms Celebrities would offer one of there many homes .... no they already did this but not for our own people
Whilst brutally honest and factual as always, I wept when you described the realities of homelessness. I see it daily here, in the good ol' USA. Thank you.