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Previously on "Back in the UK for a weekend and can't believe the number of homeless"

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  • motoukenin
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    Originally posted by MyUserName View Post
    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.
    Cor blimey governor you warm the cockles of my heart and I thought it was just a bunch of socially irresponsable leaver types that posted on here.

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  • MyUserName
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    Originally posted by Hobosapien View Post
    From being out in the cold so equivalent of freezing to death?
    Pretty much

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  • TwoWolves
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    Lots of reasons for this. You can pick the one that fits your political bias.

    New homeless migrants have overwhelmed social services as they jump the housing queue (diversity targets/having kids etc).

    Closing the old asylums, quite a lot of homeless are mentally ill and/or drug addicts who really can't cope with life's complexities.

    Cost of housing relentlessly increasing for decades while successive governments bail-out every market correction.

    Low-interest rates/poor pension returns making the BTL market attractive to retiring "Boomers" as a form of yield.

    Foreign investors having no restriction on investing in UK property which they often leave empty or rent to professionals only, reducing purchase supply and supporting market prices.

    Could add more but getting bored.

    Don't know how any government is going to be able to fix this mess, two decades in the making now without totalitarianism and the magic ability to withstand economic collapse.

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  • OwlHoot
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    Originally posted by Hobosapien View Post
    ... now even DHL require a multitude of tech skills in exchange for a bit of KFC.
    I've heard the day rates at DHL are chicken feed

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  • Hobosapien
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    Originally posted by MyUserName View Post
    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.

    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.

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  • BlasterBates
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    Originally posted by CoolCat View Post
    Lots 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
    I always throw them a fiver then I kick them up the backside and tell them to get a job at the local fruit farm.

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  • Hobosapien
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    Originally posted by CoolCat View Post
    Lots 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.

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  • MyUserName
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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.

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  • CoolCat
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    Originally posted by motoukenin View Post
    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.
    Lots 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

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  • Jog On
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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.

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  • Hobosapien
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    They're not homeless. That's the first rung of the housing ladder these days, a cardboard box.

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  • PurpleGorilla
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    Originally posted by motoukenin View Post
    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.
    Too many folk looking at their smart phones or wafting past in Range Rovers.

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  • Back in the UK for a weekend and can't believe the number of homeless

    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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