Just occasionally I come across an article that gives me great encouragement :
When the former Conservative cabinet minister Sir George Young famously
said: "The homeless are what you step over when you come out of the opera," a debate was sparked at the shelter
where a young opera critic, Matthew Peacock, worked as a volunteer. "A
discussion began about what homeless people needed and wanted. It wasn't
blankets and housing: they wanted to show the public what homeless people can do. It was about restoring pride," he says.
It's so encouraging that there are people in the world like Matthew Peacock.
If your feeling at all depressed by the way the people at the top are treating those of us at the bottom then this will cheer you up - well it did me!
Published in The Guardian last Monday
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I would rather pluck my eyeball's out and feed them to swine then read The Guardian.
However I will have a little ramble here before I go.
The homeless problem in London in the 80's with a few exceptions people that worked with the homeless it was their calling not their job.
Today they are to many experts lurking in offices and pontificating about the homeless problem and compiling mindless report after mindless report.
In the 80's there used to be Piccidilly Advice Center first leading up to Dilly Tube them later half way up Shaftesbury Ave.
The manager's were a couple of gay guys very gentle but do not mess with at risk kids or they would start breaking heads.
They are no longer there lack of funding.
Centerpoint Soho just across the road used to provide a night shelter for at risk kids not there any more no funding.
Behind Kings Cross there was an old Rowton House that became a cheap hotel for the homeless the guy that owned it was decent late with the rent he would wag his finger at you,not throw you on the street.
It closed down and we squatted it in the 80's it worked well nobody was in charge we just got on and did things.
It is now a Holiday Inn with little boxy rooms.
All the funding dried up and yet they could find millions to build "A Castle" for Boris Johnson to talk crap in.
There was a building that belonged to the people for such things County Hall wonderful old building albeit on the wrong side of the water.
Thatcher sold it after she murdered The GLC and now it is a hotel.
Weird World Geoff I doubt Dolphins have such problems-it could be argued dolphins are more sentient than man.
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