Letter to West End Extra. From a cunt, naturally.
FINALLY, Westminster Council have got serious in their plans to end rough sleeping in the borough, and the horrible soup runs and daily begging which blight the areas off Victoria Street.
I am a local resident, and have been for 25 years. I have spoken to many rough sleepers, and virtually all of them have serious problems with alcohol, drug abuse and or mental health / personality disorder.
The longer they stay on the streets the worse their problems become, to the point where it is almost impossible for them to live productive or constructive lives.
The truth is that many of them in Victoria and in Westminster have chosen to sleep on the streets and subsidise their drug / alcohol abuse by getting free food from the soup kitchens and spending every penny of their own money – made from begging or from benefits – on their drugs and alcohol.
Soup kitchens and people who give them money are, in reality, keeping them on the streets, dependent and irresponsible, making sure they never face up their problems or responsibilities.
The city council is absolutely right to do everything it can to make rough sleeping, begging and soup kitchens unacceptable in the UK in 2011.
It’s great, too, that the homeless charities have finally realised that rough sleeping, soup kitchens, begging, actually is the worst response possible.
People must be forced in their own best interests to accept the help that is offered from charities and the state.
It should no longer be their choice to live like this and force residents to put up with the attendant disorder, violence, anti-social behaviour.
Well done Westminster!
GR
Address supplied, SW1
The other day actually, me and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim, we sat in the Korova Milkbar trying to make up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening. In the end, we decided to find some poor, lost soul without even a roof over his head, and help him find the motivation to get off the street. To face up to his responsibilities and lead a productive, constructive life. To resist the lure of free soup and cups of tea and move into a lovely two-bed semi in Dorset. And what did we get in return? A stream of verbal abuse. Fucking ingrate.
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Is “address supplied” a form of boasting in this context? Coupled with the postcode, it certainly seems to say:
“Ner, ner! Ner, ner! I’ve got an address in SW1 and you’ve got fuck all.”
My impression is that those who want the end of the soup runs just want the homeless off their (very expensive) patch. All that stuff about “cycles of dependency” fuelled by free soup is just so much cant. That said we should give them a chance to prove that they are not hypocrites. It would be interesting to see if any of them would put their hands in their finely tailored pockets and club together for a hostel and drug rehabilitation centre to be set up in the heart of SW1. Ah, thought not.
Say what you like about the Hare Krishnas and their lentil soup van, at least they are trying to help.
Love the handbrake turn at the end of the fourth paragraph .. up till then I (in my lentil wearing, guardian hugging ways) was nodding along sagely … then… BAM … a total ugly ursine urethra emerges … brilliant.
@tw@basket.com
You, sir, are so very wrong! By their misguided support the Hare Krishnas are fuelling an epidemic of worthless, good-for-nothing druggies cluttering up our streets!!!
It’s quite clear that we need a return to Victorian standards with the reintroduction of the workhouse and transportation of persistently offensive miscreants to Australia or Somalia. Let’s see how long like they can keep their filthy druggie-habits in a country without benefits.
A positive side-effect might well be an improvement in the standards and appearance of the local dealers and hopefully their charlie, too. It’s just too galling to be seen buying from the same hoodies that one has previously so studiously ignored!
Not concerned, SW1
Have you seen the old man in a closed down market,
Kicking up the papers with his worn out shoes?
He’s probably a druggie or on the booze or something
And his poverty is really bumming me out.
Let me take you by the hand,
And lead you through the streets of London;
I will show you something to make you change your mind.
You missed a bit in para. 2: “I am a local resident and have been for 25 years. I have spoken to many rough sleepers and virtually all of them have serious problems with alcohol, drugs, mental health and some sanctimonious cunt coming round every ten minutes prying into their private lives and pretending to be concerned about them when we all know he just wants not to have to look at poor people when he’s walking along the street. They’ve mentioned him to me a few times now, but I’ve never spotted him.’
If these homeless are choosing to remain on the streets because of free soup, then it must be *really* fucking good soup.
The solution is staring us right in the face: why don’t they give the homeless the recipes, so they can make their own delicious soup? Maybe it’s because the elf’N'safety brigade won’t let people with drug problems near hot chicken stock, which is understandable.
Can we get LulzSec to troll this cunt?
What’s the obsession that these fucking indolent, middle-class dog noncers have with being ‘productive’ or ‘constructive’ all our damn lives? What do they imagine that we’re all supposed to be making? Bet it isn’t even a Death Star…
I have no desire to be either. I’d rather sit on my arse, eat pizza, read things on the internet and swear at everybody occasionally. But most of all, I want to be left the fuck alone by smug, self-serving twats like this one…
Another middle class wanker, cunt obviously. Are you qualified to make comments about mental health or personality disorder?
“people must be forced” twat, in 2011 do you really think that peope should be forced?? Dont you think this would have happened already if it was considered productive; knob!!
You say charities have finally “realised” that rough sleeping is wrong?? Reference that pease?? Cock.
These are the most uninformed, prejudiced and downright, imbecilic & unintelligent comments on the issues of rough sleeping I have ever read!
Pease?? Cock … I’d get down the clap clinic if I were you…
Rough sleeping? Is that anything like sleeping rough, or is it just tossing and turning a lot?
I thought he meant bumming.
No comment really necessary.
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I haven’t been around for a while – nice to see Gobbler is up to his old tricks.
Will you allow me to summarise GR’s post in one sentence? Basically he wants all of these rough sleepers to crawl into darkened alleyways and die so that he doesn’t have to look at them any more…
Do I get a prize?
Alex is back! Hooray!!
That’s… pretty much all I have to say on the matter.
So, hang on a minute. You mean that homeless people who beg aren’t all loaded and living in mansions funded by charities, then? Well, fuck me. I’m not giving another penny to those hypocritical cunts. If they can’t be bothered to get up out of the gutter and exploit the well-meaning public’s generosity then they don’t deserve my sympathy. Cunts.
I agree with the final paragraph; people shouldn’t be allowed to simply choose a life of bitter hardship and constant never-ceasing struggle for survival. They should be forced to live in houses and sleep in comfortable beds, even though they don’t want to. It’s for their own good.
meanwhile over at the daily mail
okay – i live in a small place – but lots of shops – i have given my cv in all the shops – i do it about once a month – each time i go into a major big store – 99p store example – foreign people work there – how frustrating – i cannot understand them – i have sent my cv in there numerous times – but foreign people get there – i am local – i am english – i am unemployed – i will take any wage – you tell the Job Centre this and they say “broaden your horizons” “travel” i cannot afford to travel – i have no job – i am local – i want local work
- secretsquirrel, big wide world, 01/9/2011 07:51
There’s nothing wrong with wanting to work at a local shop for local people.
Why yes, I am suggesting an origin in the gene pool’s shallow end – a degree of consanguinity, if you will.
Nothing wrong with wanting to be the Queen either, except it’s something of a closed shop.
Oh crap, here comes that weird looking guy with his stack of CVs. You’d have thought he would have got the hint. Well, you know, just take one to humour him again.
Yeah, doesn’t he know we only employ Muslim immigrants who are already on benefits? If he actually needs the money then we’re just not interested.
I’ve always been amazed at the way immigrants take all of our jobs and at the same time sit around on benefits.
@SecretSquirrel over at the DM.
It’s because you use up everyone’s hyphen quota you bastard.
Cool name though.
Sometimes I go into shops and I see immigrants working there who barely speak English, and you know what I think?
I think “In these difficult economic times, it’s pretty impressive that someone can find, and hold, a job despite not speaking English fluently. We need more of those sort of people.”
Putting aside scary questions of skin colour: hands up who thinks gangsta culture is a positive thing that should be encouraged?
Isn’t it delightful to know that some fine British traditions endure? I assumed the Victorian pastime of judgemental middle class twats going to prod poor people on the streets and inform that they were degenerates and their condition was all their own fault because they’d sinned against god and their queen were over but apparently not. In his neck of the woods they’re probably still stuffing kids up chimneys as well. Curse those soup kitchen people, if only they’d stop handing out minestrone, suddenly everyone currently living under old copies of the Metro would be a hedge fund manager living in a 4 bed detached on the edge of Surrey. I hope they’re proud of what they’ve done with their soup and a roll, the heartless bastards.