...and if that goes for rats, pigeons & urban foxes, why does it not go for beggars too?
Southend could become the first place in Britain to install lockers for rough sleepers to store their belongings.
You have got to be kidding me!
The project, headed by Quiller Hawkins of Solidarity Lockers UK, has taken inspiration from a similar scheme in Lisbon.
ACA Portugal, which is behind the yellow metal cabinets, is now working in partnership with Mr Hawkins.
He came up with the idea after speaking to a homeless person who had their guitar stolen.
The lockers, which could soon be installed in Southend town centre, will allow people who are homeless to store their belongings safely - reducing the risk of them being robbed and allowing them to own more clothes than they can carry.
Southend is
already far too attractive to beggars and homeless drug addicts, thanks to the proximity to London & the antics of group like
Harp, which exist solely to ensure that shopkeepers have to shoo beggars away when they open up in the morning.
The lockers will also have an address, as they come equipped with a letter box - meaning that the person using it can register with the NHS and get allocated a National Insurance number.
Not necessarily
their own, either!
Mr Hawkins is drawing up plans for the project alongside Mark Flewitt, Tory councillor for housing, planning and sustainability.
Mr Flewitt said: “I am optimistic that any measure, soft or otherwise, if it starts giving people some dignity it will encourage people to try harder and, more importantly, the authorities to try harder.
“If we help one or two people then it could make a huge difference to their lives, as they will feel like they are being paid attention to.”
The only people that should be 'paying attention to them' is the police. Begging should be dealt with like any other crime, zero tolerance.
Mr Flewitt told the Echo he has not yet formally taken the idea to Southend Council as he and Mr Hawkins believe it is best to publicise the idea first and gauge reaction from the community.
Of course, the only 'community' that'll actually be listened to will be the tiny minority of SJWs and charities employing people to ensure these people are carefully farmed like sheep...
We could give them a bed in a dormitory and provide food, in return for which they could perform simple work such as separating items for recycling.
ReplyDeleteI think this might have been done before.
Suggesting that the homeless do some work in return for a bed and food makes you a heartless fascist in the mind if today's 'liberals.'
ReplyDelete"as they come equipped with a letter box"
ReplyDeleteIf those letter boxes aren't secured then the drunks of the town will, no doubt, piss and throw half eaten kebabs through them. No dosser IME is going to risk his possessions to anything which can have lighter fuel or dog shit posted through it.
WOAR - that's a good solution. Or we could get them to do a bit open air work in the fields, which has been done before as well.
ReplyDelete-richard
"I think this might have been done before."
ReplyDeleteIndeed. They call it 'progress'. Though I'm at a loss to explain why.
"Suggesting that the homeless do some work in return for a bed and food makes you a heartless fascist in the mind if today's 'liberals.'"
To be fair, doing anything other than sitting quietly in a corner makes you a heartless fascist in the mind of today's 'liberals'...
"If those letter boxes aren't secured then the drunks of the town will, no doubt, piss and throw half eaten kebabs through them. "
Yup!