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The same is happening in Finsbury Park, by the Endymion Road entrance. Perhaps I should do the same.
Cowper, what on earth does most of that first paragraph mean?
'If there had been a problem, there would be nowhere to run or hide and steaming wouldn't have help. In today's climate, that's why I felt that something needed to be down.'
Please can you translate this, as I am interested in finding out what point you are trying to make?
I see, you weren't concerned about the safety of the vulnerable people in the tent, you were just being a NIMBY. Are people in tents more prone to attacking others than those who live in houses? I wouldn't have thought so. If you are happy to do a bit of community helping-out as you say, why not volunteer at a homeless shelter, it could be educative for you, a winner for all concerned.
With Chris on this one. They were in a tent. So what! If access was given to the apartments in London sold to overseas buyers maybe more people would have somewhere to live. Turn your obsessive ire there instead Cowper.
Very well put Liz
No it shouldn't be normalised - it is, as you say, detrimental to physical and mental health and a failure of the housing and benefits system.
But the concern you have expressed for the people in question was totally absent from the original post and follow-up comment and that may be what rankles. The only concern mentioned was for a lodger or other passers by that may get attacked. I find that quite depressing.
Also worth noting that according to Crisis (cue charity conspiracy theorists) homeless people are 17 more likely to get attacked than the general population so perhaps it isn't the lodger that should have been scared....
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