Rough Sleepers/Beggars in Stafford.

ATJ

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Compared to years ago, the UK is doing well, these days people consider themselves poor if they can't afford the latest car or 50" wide screen TV.
Its funny that all the so cold poor people have satalite dishes on there houses and smoke, I grew up in the 50s in a council house and know what poverty is.
My father and two elder brothers worked down the coal mines long days underground, no pithead showers and all they got for it were bad chests and short lives.
I think the definition of poor should be redefined to remind people what poverty really is and take a look at other countries around the world.

Do you even realise you're in a thread about the increase of homelessness?
 

Withnail

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I think the definition of poor should be redefined to remind people what poverty really is and take a look at other countries around the world.
And yet the definition of 'homelessness' would remain the same.

Or have we been moved on?
 

Withnail

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Oops, yes, it would appear that we have.

Hello new page, do you mind if i doss down here for the night?

New Page : Yes, f**k off!

* walks off despondently, looking for dry doorway *
 

Benedict

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I hear of may so called homeless who refuse to accept accommodation or any other help. Stop encouraging them by heaping sympathy on them.
I wonder how many of you have offered to take them in for a respite. Maybe you don't like the tobacco smoke or drugs or fear they might steel from you.
Offer them daily hard work in return for meals and room and see how many are interested.
 

proactive

Enjoying a drop of red.
I hear of may so called homeless who refuse to accept accommodation or any other help. Stop encouraging them by heaping sympathy on them.
I wonder how many of you have offered to take them in for a respite. Maybe you don't like the tobacco smoke or drugs or fear they might steel from you.
Offer them daily hard work in return for meals and room and see how many are interested.
Thank goodness the ability to not stereotype and good old human compassion are alive and kicking.
 

tek-monkey

wanna see my snake?
I hear of may so called homeless who refuse to accept accommodation or any other help. Stop encouraging them by heaping sympathy on them.
I wonder how many of you have offered to take them in for a respite. Maybe you don't like the tobacco smoke or drugs or fear they might steel from you.
Offer them daily hard work in return for meals and room and see how many are interested.

Mental illness is rather high in rough sleepers.
 

ATJ

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I hear of may so called homeless who refuse to accept accommodation or any other help. Stop encouraging them by heaping sympathy on them.
I wonder how many of you have offered to take them in for a respite. Maybe you don't like the tobacco smoke or drugs or fear they might steel from you.
Offer them daily hard work in return for meals and room and see how many are interested.

Oh so you did know, you just don't care.

Well that's all right then.
 

Gareth

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Yes nice to see the homeless chap back in Victoria Park urinating in the thatched pavilion as school girls from Blessed Bills went past yesterday.....then crept back under his sleeping without a care in the world....wonderful.

I am quite the toilets were open there as well.
 

John Marwood

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Yes nice to see the homeless chap back in Victoria Park urinating in the thatched pavilion as school girls from Blessed Bills went past yesterday.....then crept back under his sleeping without a care in the world....wonderful.

I am quite the toilets were open there as well.


New Harry Potter film ?
 

Kopite76

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Either protesters have pitched up early ready to protest the rugby club or some homeless people have taken up residence just to the left off blackberry lane
 

proactive

Enjoying a drop of red.
For local residents then in view of the good Lord Stafford's largess, it's a simple choice of having a bunch of argumentative, scruffy, noisy, disruptive, smelly and drunken arseholes as neighbours, or some homeless people.

Mmmm, tough choice.
 
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tek-monkey

wanna see my snake?
For local residents then in view of the good Lord Staffordshire largess, it's a simple choice of having a bunch of argumentative, scruffy, noisy, disruptive, smelly and drunken arseholes as neighbours, or some homeless people.

Mmmm, tough choice.

Apparently this is only one, so the many will win. Doesn't matter what the locals think, Lord $tafford doesn't live there.
 

cardigan29

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On a walk down a country lane near Seighford today there was a homeless man sleeping under a tarpaulin in a wooded area. It was probably an hour's walk from the town...the last place I thought I'd see someone homeless.

After watching I, Daniel Blake the night before it brings it home the vast difference of some people's lives in the UK.
 

bunique

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I wonder if Dickens had @Benedict in mind rather than Scrooge? "
  • "At this festive season of the year, Mr Scrooge, ... it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the Poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time. Many thousands are in want of common necessaries; hundreds of thousands are in want of common comforts, sir."
    "Are there no prisons?"
    "Plenty of prisons..."
    "And the Union workhouses." demanded Scrooge. "Are they still in operation?"
    "Both very busy, sir..."
    "Those who are badly off must go there."
    "Many can't go there; and many would rather die."
    "If they would rather die," said Scrooge, "they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population."
 
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