Outside my local supermarket, near the doors, there is always a range of homeless people with begging hats and cups laid out before them. Demonised by many people, the homeless people have been moved on by the police numerous times. Facebook is littered with stories of how they have begged for money. It would be very easy to join these people protesting against the homeless- complete with burning torch and pitchforks. Even if the police did succeed in moving them on- they are only succeeding in moving the 'problem' (if you can call these human beings that) to another location in the area. The problem is not the individual people. In my opinion, if you are willing to sit outside a supermarket in the pouring down rain at all hours of the night, you must be desperate. These people are simply desperate. I am sure they are not bad people. They have had things go wrong in their lives that have led them to this point. Maybe they did not have any support when they lost a job? Maybe th...
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