Poverty

  • We’re living in rough times

    The failures of society are upon us all, but there are cracks. Those who find them, and fall through, find a whole different world out there. It’s one of fights, rain, and cold nights if it’s that time of year.

    Rough slumber

    I’ve heard stories of more. A homeless man kept inside a pub. The punters were arrested. A homeless lady thrown into a river. Again, the perpetrators were apprehended. It’s still a type of crime.

  • The sad truths of being homeless

    The startling truth is homelessness affects pretty much anyone it afflicts. There are those who say they came close to it, but most have succumbed. This is the evil, the scourge of our modern day reality. It’s a brutal reality check for those more prone to believing it’s going to be okay.

    A bed outside Portcullis House

    Our society suggests homelessness affects someone as part of the many ways in which we feel besieged. We feel let down, upset, and depressed in life. These are ways in which it can get to people. If you speak to homeless people in other parts of Europe, you’ll hear a very similar story.

  • Prime Minister’s Questions

  • The lack of praise for social provision

    On looking at London, there is not much new to meet the eye. In fact, it’s best known for having a lot of old stuff that is so old it fits back into an older version of London that no longer exists.

    This is why much of it is a sight for tourists and attracts so many visitors each year.

    There’s something warm about feeling nostalgic but in many instances this warmth is on the backdrop of a lot of the pain and hardship of previous times.

    In many famous instances Charles Dickens, our national ‘social historian’, wrote about it and much of the ‘problem’ is long gone. In fact, it’s so far gone it’s on the outer reaches of the city metropolis today.

    You won’t see this sort of poverty that often and if you do it’s usually being dealt with.

    I’ve seen plenty of individuals and charities helping out where help is needed and many people sing the praises of these intelligent and kind efforts.

    There’s also a lot of antisocial behaviour that such recipients of this kindness need to put up with and this is also a concern, and so the Metropolitan Police deal with it where they can.

    It’s such random acts as these that can be hard to be present for and to track down as well.

    In older London, the police were a force to be reckoned with too.

    The old Scotland Yard is still written into the memory of the city, and even though it dealt with London’s toughest criminals and made crime pay, it is still looked back on with some fondness (even if things are as bad today).

    The sight of help being given of whatever form is something to be praised but often it’s felt as a duty or a job and this is something we like to think we can afford to pay for because it’s a job that does well for such a city as London.

    In fact, it’s a legacy of all those footsteps of law and order, and the writers that made it an issue, that still makes it a job to do, even today.