http://www.heraldscotland.com/mobile/news/home-news/100-families-told-to-sleep-in-gardens.17246175?_=ac516aa472e074b543b48044ec54561abe313f3b

This is shocking, Wtf are these people supposed to do and where are they meant to get their heads down?
and why is a christian charity making people destitute? It's shameful

That's just crazy! I don't even see how that's even possible in a city like Glasgow?


Link wasn't working right for me peabrain so I've included another

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/100-families-told-to-sleep-in-gardens.17246175

nettles wrote:

That's just crazy! I don't even see how that's even possible in a city like Glasgow?


Link wasn't working right for me peabrain so I've included another

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/100-families-told-to-sleep-in-gardens.17246175

Cheers
Yeah Glasgow is a city full of great architecture and I like it's diversity, however the poor sit on every street corner in the centre of the city begging, while the rich sit mere metres away supping on their cocktails and pretending they don't see them.

peabrain wrote:

nettles wrote:

That's just crazy! I don't even see how that's even possible in a city like Glasgow?


Link wasn't working right for me peabrain so I've included another

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/100-families-told-to-sleep-in-gardens.17246175

Cheers
Yeah Glasgow is a city full of great architecture and I like it's diversity, however the poor sit on every street corner in the centre of the city begging, while the rich sit mere metres away supping on their cocktails and pretending they don't see them.

Seems to be the same all over, increasingly. I'm actually in quite a ropey bit of West London and I can tell you that the number of homeless begging in our High Street (or Poundland as it's otherwise known) has at least quadrupled over the last year.

You can see why some some from the eastern block come over here and head straight for the hills to live off the land its a much safer option if you can do it

And the meek shall inherit the Earth.

So sick of the way these elitist bastards keep flaunting their power and outright saying f*ck everyone else..

Mountain <3 wrote:

And the meek shall inherit the Earth.

So sick of the way these elitist bastards keep flaunting their power and outright saying f*ck everyone else..

I agree, the sickening thing is they get away with it all the time,I wish they could feel something for others,
they are souless in the extreme.

if i was homeless first thing i'd invest in is a crowbar, then find myself somewhere nice to sleep.

Indeed batou, squatting is still alive and kicking

Its not in Scotland dub... no squatters rights up here

not that that would stop me personally

nettles wrote:

Its not in Scotland dub... no squatters rights up here

not that that would stop me personally

Really? Really really? Shizzle!!!

I perhaps don't feel as shocked as I should. The astonishing divisions in this country were brought home to me today when I was at the laundrette waiting for stuff to dry and I idly looked across at a nearby Daily Fail newspaper. Two headlines shared the front page: 10,000 children were taken into care in the past year; and Adele is now topping the female "Rich List" with earnings of £20 million for SINGING (quite blandly, too).

It's such a shocking state of affairs that I get in danger of becoming numbed from it.

cantata wrote:

I perhaps don't feel as shocked as I should. The astonishing divisions in this country were brought home to me today when I was at the laundrette waiting for stuff to dry and I idly looked across at a nearby Daily Fail newspaper. Two headlines shared the front page: 10,000 children were taken into care in the past year; and Adele is now topping the female "Rich List" with earnings of £20 million for SINGING (quite blandly, too).

It's such a shocking state of affairs that I get in danger of becoming numbed from it.

I can understand that, I had to give myself a good kick up the backside recently, I was starting to almost slip into a state of learned helplessness.

I don't thing it's fair for someone to earn £20 for singing as you so aptly put it 'quite blandly', never mind £20 million.

peabrain wrote:

cantata wrote:

I perhaps don't feel as shocked as I should. The astonishing divisions in this country were brought home to me today when I was at the laundrette waiting for stuff to dry and I idly looked across at a nearby Daily Fail newspaper. Two headlines shared the front page: 10,000 children were taken into care in the past year; and Adele is now topping the female "Rich List" with earnings of £20 million for SINGING (quite blandly, too).

It's such a shocking state of affairs that I get in danger of becoming numbed from it.

I can understand that, I had to give myself a good kick up the backside recently, I was starting to almost slip into a state of learned helplessness.

I don't thing it's fair for someone to earn £20 for singing as you so aptly put it 'quite blandly', never mind £20 million.

I so have to agree: this "learned helplessness" is bombarding people from every angle. The "We Can't Do Anything About It" attitude is almost back to pre-Dickensian times.

It's just so ENRAGING sometimes that if only we could ALL realise that together we could ALL easily do a lot about it, everything might change for the better. But the apathy seems to have people anaesthetised to the extent that we just stand idle while FAMILIES get told to sleep in the garden, in Modern Day Britain.

Crazy.

'learned helplessness'...exactly.

& all part of the plan of course.

we're in a very bad place right now & most folk either don't know it or don't want to know, which if you think about it is even worse

cantata wrote:

peabrain wrote:

cantata wrote:

I perhaps don't feel as shocked as I should. The astonishing divisions in this country were brought home to me today when I was at the laundrette waiting for stuff to dry and I idly looked across at a nearby Daily Fail newspaper. Two headlines shared the front page: 10,000 children were taken into care in the past year; and Adele is now topping the female "Rich List" with earnings of £20 million for SINGING (quite blandly, too).

It's such a shocking state of affairs that I get in danger of becoming numbed from it.

I can understand that, I had to give myself a good kick up the backside recently, I was starting to almost slip into a state of learned helplessness.

I don't thing it's fair for someone to earn £20 for singing as you so aptly put it 'quite blandly', never mind £20 million.

I so have to agree: this "learned helplessness" is bombarding people from every angle. The "We Can't Do Anything About It" attitude is almost back to pre-Dickensian times.

It's just so ENRAGING sometimes that if only we could ALL realise that together we could ALL easily do a lot about it, everything might change for the better. But the apathy seems to have people anaesthetised to the extent that we just stand idle while FAMILIES get told to sleep in the garden, in Modern Day Britain.

Crazy.

hiya all..... ..good thread,
Aye,
my tendency is to think this is the forerunner whatever the UK equivalent to the fema camps are in the uk...(something akin to the old workhouse?).Is feudalism next? Did it ever really go away? As I Brit living in the ussa,...watching both sides of the pond, I think first they'll take the children and we all know what a corrupt and evil racket that is......but it's ominous everywhere , rationing is on it's way , actually it's arrived !!! One wonders' when the round-ups' will start and /or the forced relocation into homes with spare rooms......
Whatever, whichever......it's the States' deliberate actions to debilitate and control.

diamondgeezer wrote:

'learned helplessness'...exactly.

& all part of the plan of course.

we're in a very bad place right now & most folk either don't know it or don't want to know, which if you think about it is even worse

Yep, I agree dg, .....there is housing being left to rot whilst families sleep in the outdoors ,..IMHO this criminal cabal have more in store and sometimes I think, those who don't want to see now , will not want to see later either...(not until it's them), it's brainwashed the conscience and goodness out of many peeps.

Wish I could own weapons.

I have no doubt I'm going to need them in the not to distant future

psketti wrote:

Wish I could own weapons.

I have no doubt I'm going to need them in the not to distant future

Your mind is your weapon, it serves you well.

peabrain wrote:

psketti wrote:

Wish I could own weapons.

I have no doubt I'm going to need them in the not to distant future

Your mind is your weapon, it serves you well.

Very true woman

However, last time I checked, it couldn't actually shoot anyone

psketti wrote:

Wish I could own weapons.

I have no doubt I'm going to need them in the not to distant future

have one of mine psketti....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7vCww3j2-w

lizzy wrote:

hiya all..... ..good thread,
Aye,
my tendency is to think this is the forerunner whatever the UK equivalent to the fema camps are in the uk...(something akin to the old workhouse?).Is feudalism next? Did it ever really go away? As I Brit living in the ussa,...watching both sides of the pond, I think first they'll take the children and we all know what a corrupt and evil racket that is......but it's ominous everywhere , rationing is on it's way , actually it's arrived !!! One wonders' when the round-ups' will start and /or the forced relocation into homes with spare rooms......
Whatever, whichever......it's the States' deliberate actions to debilitate and control.

That's kind of happening here already due to recent/upcoming changes in legislation which mean those unfortunate enough to not be able to find work are unable to stay where they are (even though they are residing in government funded 'affordable' housing, apparently).

Upcoming 'events' of this year aside, people really are in for a very rude awakening next year, if they haven't got the message by then. Britain is going to be a very different place post 2012 imo, and not particularly a place I'd care to stay in if I had any choice at all in the matter.

we're all armed to the teeth up here

ab origine wrote:

lizzy wrote:

hiya all..... ..good thread,
Aye,
my tendency is to think this is the forerunner whatever the UK equivalent to the fema camps are in the uk...(something akin to the old workhouse?).Is feudalism next? Did it ever really go away? As I Brit living in the ussa,...watching both sides of the pond, I think first they'll take the children and we all know what a corrupt and evil racket that is......but it's ominous everywhere , rationing is on it's way , actually it's arrived !!! One wonders' when the round-ups' will start and /or the forced relocation into homes with spare rooms......
Whatever, whichever......it's the States' deliberate actions to debilitate and control.

That's kind of happening here already due to recent/upcoming changes in legislation which mean those unfortunate enough to not be able to find work are unable to stay where they are (even though they are residing in government funded 'affordable' housing, apparently).

Upcoming 'events' of this year aside, people really are in for a very rude awakening next year, if they haven't got the message by then. Britain is going to be a very different place post 2012 imo, and not particularly a place I'd care to stay in if I had any choice at all in the matter.

I'm mentally prepared for any shit they throw at us. I hate the fucking goverment with a passion, have always hated the scum. Sucking the life out of us all.I've watched people work their hands to the bone and in their twilight years given no dignity, dying in poverty.

I'm more concerned about folk less fortunate than me just now.I can't winge too much ..yet. I have an advantage though, we all have an advantage as we are one step ahead, we know their evil plans for us and I for one know we are growing in number.

ab origine wrote:

lizzy wrote:

hiya all..... ..good thread,
Aye,
my tendency is to think this is the forerunner whatever the UK equivalent to the fema camps are in the uk...(something akin to the old workhouse?).Is feudalism next? Did it ever really go away? As I Brit living in the ussa,...watching both sides of the pond, I think first they'll take the children and we all know what a corrupt and evil racket that is......but it's ominous everywhere , rationing is on it's way , actually it's arrived !!! One wonders' when the round-ups' will start and /or the forced relocation into homes with spare rooms......
Whatever, whichever......it's the States' deliberate actions to debilitate and control.

That's kind of happening here already due to recent/upcoming changes in legislation which mean those unfortunate enough to not be able to find work are unable to stay where they are (even though they are residing in government funded 'affordable' housing, apparently).

Upcoming 'events' of this year aside, people really are in for a very rude awakening next year, if they haven't got the message by then. Britain is going to be a very different place post 2012 imo, and not particularly a place I'd care to stay in if I had any choice at all in the matter.

hi ab , yes , I think once the Olympics are done , (with whatever they conjure up there to impose the agenda) it'll take another turn for the worse. I'd luv to come back to merry ol' but I know my chances are better here in the NW. I'll be back for a visit no doubt but any ideas of relocating back are unrealistic...here I can possibly still get self sufficient but if it's not one thing, it's another ..waiting for tons of fukushima radiated rubbish to hit the coast soon.

What upsets me is the amount of empty housing left to rot by local councils , rows upon rows....I sometimes think this homelessness is intentional, criminal neglect.