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So long story short'ish...whilst in the West End, last week. A chap appeared from nowhere alongside me, 'waffling' on about Ed Sheeran  Or so I presumed as well the said chap was homeless and all I could keep thinking was "piss off mate and bother someone else" so anyway...he didn't and he continued to ramble along as we hastily made our way towards the tube station. He continued to chat away, until finally he was stopped by another passer by, a relief for many reasons. He then sped up behind me to point out that the tube station was across the street and to our left and to have a safe journey.
I pieced together his slurred conversation, after being out of the chaos which is London. He wasn't talking about Ed Sheeran but a man named Ed Stafford, who had spent 60 days on the streets, during winter.
I watched it over the weekend and low and behold there was Lee!!! The lovable rogue, who had indeed not been chatting shit after all.
I began to write this because I watched all 3 episodes, Manchester, London and Glasgow and it was indeed gruesome and grim but also heart-breaking in parts. It highlighted many things I knew or had assumed about homeless people already but unveiled some horrors I hadn't. The most abundant being, that I won't be using hand dryers in public bathrooms anymore!!...not after seeing Ed Stafford, wash his cock and balls plus his face, with the toilet water and then dry his bits off under the dryer 
I'd like to see England apply some of what Scotland are doing for their homeless and I'd only get a ban for saying what I'd like to see happen, to those horrid creatures that be vile to people on the streets.
Did anyone watch the programmes or have felt bad at the time and after, for not wanting to be touched by people who don't have access to basic amenities, etc?
Do you think we do enough in society, for people with addiction on the streets, to get them out of the vicious circle?. Do you believe charity begins at home and money raised for charity in the UK should be used for charities within?. Or something else entirely?
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Charity begins at home has been wildly misrepresented. What I meant originally was that you should use your home even as a resource for others less well off. What it has changed to be is I will look after me first which is the opposite of charity. |
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"Charity begins at home has been wildly misrepresented. What I meant originally was that you should use your home even as a resource for others less well off. What it has changed to be is I will look after me first which is the opposite of charity."
I know the true sense of the words. I was using it in terms of more an island, rather than a home...homeland. |
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I think the sad thing is how and why people can become homeless: fleeing violence/abuse/ forced marriage, relationship breakdown, no access to benefits. So very sad and not just about putting a roof over someones head; there can be a whole myriad of issues to deal with.
Sadly some people think its drink and drugs that put people there when sometimes they are used as an escape for homeless people. |
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I watched them all. Scotland seem to have it right, don't know why they can't do the same here. Funding maybe.
There's also been some 'rich kids go homeless' programmes. A guy with a job got a pay rise and it meant his housing benefit was stopped so he was made homeless. He still kept up with his job but slept outside a church.  |
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"I watched them all. Scotland seem to have it right, don't know why they can't do the same here. Funding maybe.
There's also been some 'rich kids go homeless' programmes. A guy with a job got a pay rise and it meant his housing benefit was stopped so he was made homeless. He still kept up with his job but slept outside a church. "
Yes, Scotland is very progressive. I watched one of them, on channel 5, only as I follow one of them on insta, haven't seen the others though. |
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"I think the sad thing is how and why people can become homeless: fleeing violence/abuse/ forced marriage, relationship breakdown, no access to benefits. So very sad and not just about putting a roof over someones head; there can be a whole myriad of issues to deal with.
Sadly some people think its drink and drugs that put people there when sometimes they are used as an escape for homeless people."
Many people do turn to the streets for reasons we'd never think possible, which is why society as a whole should do more or at least not continue to do nothing....ideal world ideas though. |
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I havent watched them but I spent 6 weeks technically homeless. Well I would have been had my friend not offered me and my son her sofa. My son was 2 we were fleeing my violent husband. I was working fulltime but couldn't go back to the job where he may have found us. I got sorted and fought for accomodation but that's because I had some savings and great friends. I had to rebuild us from scratch and got in a lot of debt that I'm finally free from after 14 years.
I was lucky I had good education behind me and I was able to start again. It could easily have been different for us.
I have been involved in homeless charity's over the years most just want someone to talk to.
We can certainly do more to help get people off the streets or indeed stop it from happening in the first place but just remember some people don't know any different and prefer to stay on the streets. |
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"I havent watched them but I spent 6 weeks technically homeless. Well I would have been had my friend not offered me and my son her sofa. My son was 2 we were fleeing my violent husband. I was working fulltime but couldn't go back to the job where he may have found us. I got sorted and fought for accomodation but that's because I had some savings and great friends. I had to rebuild us from scratch and got in a lot of debt that I'm finally free from after 14 years.
I was lucky I had good education behind me and I was able to start again. It could easily have been different for us.
I have been involved in homeless charity's over the years most just want someone to talk to.
We can certainly do more to help get people off the streets or indeed stop it from happening in the first place but just remember some people don't know any different and prefer to stay on the streets. "
You haven't had an easy ride of it but thankfully you pulled through and up out of it and as you said having the sense to know how to and friends to aid.
We all have our own ideas of kindness but it goes along way, when in need. |
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"I didn’t watch them all but it was so sad and quite frightening, they really can get a hard time"
One worker spraying him, with cold water in winter, whilst he slept in his sleeping bag...That's no accident, as he claimed.
Human beings can be wicked unfortunately, capable of horrid things to others. |
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"I watched them all. Scotland seem to have it right, don't know why they can't do the same here. Funding maybe.
There's also been some 'rich kids go homeless' programmes. A guy with a job got a pay rise and it meant his housing benefit was stopped so he was made homeless. He still kept up with his job but slept outside a church.
Yes, Scotland is very progressive. I watched one of them, on channel 5, only as I follow one of them on insta, haven't seen the others though. "
Which one do you follow? |
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