Came back to the UK for a weekend and can't believe the number of homeless around London streets, remember when I stick a fiver in your tin its PAYE none of that corp tax and dividends nonsense.
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Back in the UK for a weekend and can't believe the number of homeless
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Back in the UK for a weekend and can't believe the number of homeless
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Originally posted by motoukenin View PostCame back to the UK for a weekend and can't believe the number of homeless around London streets, remember when I stick a fiver in your tin its PAYE none of that corp tax and dividends nonsense. -
They're not homeless. That's the first rung of the housing ladder these days, a cardboard box.Maybe tomorrow, I'll want to settle down. Until tomorrow, I'll just keep moving on.Comment
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This is why Corbyn is popular. I remember when homeless people were drunk tramps that had given up on life and chosen the Tenants Super lifestyle.
Now they are regular folk - a lot of them, an unacceptable amount of them that ultimately points at a failure at the government/society level.
An inability to discern between the plasma screen Xbox layabouts on benefits and those that genuinely need help and support after being made redundant etc is an illustration of how dysfunctional our government and civil service are.
Hopefully the Tories will start doing something about it in an effort to try and outmaneuver Corbyn - or Corbyn will win on this and many other points. I'm not suggesting a massive move to the left but somewhere a bit closer to the middle should do it."Is someone you don't like allowed to say something you don't like? If that is the case then we have free speech."- Elon MuskComment
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Originally posted by motoukenin View PostCame back to the UK for a weekend and can't believe the number of homeless around London streets, remember when I stick a fiver in your tin its PAYE none of that corp tax and dividends nonsense.Comment
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We volunteer at a winter homeless shelter. Due to resources we can only open in the winter but we give them somewhere safe and warm to sleep for as long as we can provided they stay off alcohol and drugs for the night. Last winter when one of our regulars did not come in she was found dead the next morning in the town centre. It is pretty harrowing stuff at times.Comment
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Originally posted by CoolCat View PostLots of ex IT workers displaced from the workforce by the lax immigration controls and mass issue of intra company transfer visas to the Indian outsourcers
Indeed. I used to be able to 'code HTML for food' but now even DHL require a multitude of tech skills in exchange for a bit of KFC.Maybe tomorrow, I'll want to settle down. Until tomorrow, I'll just keep moving on.Comment
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Originally posted by CoolCat View PostLots of ex IT workers displaced from the workforce by the lax immigration controls and mass issue of intra company transfer visas to the Indian outsourcersI'm alright JackComment
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Originally posted by MyUserName View PostWe volunteer at a winter homeless shelter. Due to resources we can only open in the winter but we give them somewhere safe and warm to sleep for as long as we can provided they stay off alcohol and drugs for the night. Last winter when one of our regulars did not come in she was found dead the next morning in the town centre. It is pretty harrowing stuff at times.
From being out in the cold so equivalent of freezing to death?
I've endured a winter in student accommodation without any heating so if forced to live on the streets I'd be looking for a squat to shelter in. Plenty of seemingly abandoned properties about due to all the foreign ownership or barely used second homes where they see them as investments so rather keep them empty than a provision of housing. Fair game for squatters in my eyes.Maybe tomorrow, I'll want to settle down. Until tomorrow, I'll just keep moving on.Comment
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