23rd Dec 2013
Guardian - Despair on the frontline of Britain's homelessness crisis
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/dec/23/homelessness-crisis-shelter-charity-helpline
23 Dec 2013 23:15
Also i've been homeless for a stretch, so i've earnt "my first homelessness badge", and i've currently been sanctioned/disallowed (the ability to survive) all the while donig what was required of me. The fact we live in the U.K and that its supposedly a first world country, and there are people on the streets or starving, because no-one has challenged the ruthless benefits cuts lately is fucking disgraceful. It really is a world apart for those struggling to pay bills/starving e.t.c, and the politicians who think it o.k to laugh whilst discussing such things.
About time people stood-up and said no more. I've done just that. I refused to work for agencies because i see them as a stealth job/rights tax, and turned down a zero hours cointract job for similar reasoning. To be fair. I'm a free-man and i will not be a slave.
In response to lsutton
Then go out and help a homeless person. If your worried about money being mispent. You have feet and the ability to interface with your fellow human-beings. ;)
23 Dec 2013 23:49
In response to chrisoleary
Theres many ways to fight a battle buddy, raising awareness is one arm of that. Direct action another. Each arm is important. ;).
But yeah if people want to criticise, it often helps to have suggestions or ideas to fix a problem handy to discuss as well.
You work for a uinion eh? Waht the fuck have you been wasting your time on, what with the rife proliferation of job recruitment agencies in this country. The fact almost every job is now via an agency, do you not think that might have a massive effect on workers rights. i.e hired/fired all the rights in the favour of the employer. The fact i see 80-90% of all jobs on the UJM website are now via agencies. I trust you guys/gals are actually doing somethnig about this fucknig horrendous stealth rights revokation?
23 Dec 2013 23:52
ObiDanKinobi:-
Cos if i was part of a trade union, that would be the first mother fucking thing i would make well known. Its all corporate mobility at the expense of worker rights/social mobility. The balance has tipped so fucking far in the favour of big business, and agencies/zero hours contracts e.t.c. That you must have a set of balls to make it known you work for a trade union. Waht the actual fuck are you doing to stop this from happening pal? Thats what i want to know.
24 Dec 2013 01:30
ObiDanKinobi:-
I completely and whole heartedly, disagree with you useron the net. People can be responsible for their own lives, i'm not saying everyone should have some sugar coated fairy tale existense at the expense of others, however in a reasonable society, there must be a way for people to make a living, and to do so honestly and fairly. All honesty and fairness has been whittled away. Corporations exploit the labour market and pay the majority of workers a token minmum wage subsistense wage. However in this country no-one seems to want to stand up and question this, and the fact the u.k has one of the highest rates of living, and yet one of the lowest wage rates.
To abandon those who need help and say you must fend for yourself, without any help, is not the sign of a healthy society. It is the sign of a rotten one.
In an ideal world yes people should be able to work a job, feel like an appreciated member of society and have a decent wage. However that is not the case. Corporate mobility and corporate agendas have permeated the very fabric of this soceity, and these agendsa serve only one purpose, to maximise profits at the expense of pretty much everything else.
Standing up to this, is now a vitally important thing to do, its something i've done and will co0ntinue to do, it doesn't make me a shirker or a skiver or a free-loader it makes me a caring human-being who is genuinly distressed by the way this country is heading, and the fact i will stand uyp for the future generations at the expense of sanctions/dissalowance whatever only further emboldens my cause. And i'm sure others are also standing up and questioning this, and rightly so. We need to rethink this model we are currently using as its obviously not working.
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