| Up in Cardiff 14:53 - Dec 8 with 3336 views | max936 |
Can’t believe how many people are lying on the streets in Sleeping bags Soup kitchen up by Church unbelievable in this day an age, got off Train and seen 3 girls sleeping rough within 100yrds of Train Station, yet Terrible May gives the EU nearly 60 fuking billions plus no doubt more incentives to Ireland for their support, this country is like our Football Club fuked  |  |
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| Up in Cardiff on 14:56 - Dec 8 with 2431 views | Darran |
Invite a couple around to yours for Christmas Dinner. |  |
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| Up in Cardiff on 20:36 - Dec 8 with 2332 views | whoflungdung |
Many in the larger cities catch taxis into the city centre to beg
Most cities have adequate facilities to put a roof over heads |  |
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| Up in Cardiff on 20:38 - Dec 8 with 2319 views | Darran |
| Up in Cardiff on 20:36 - Dec 8 by whoflungdung |
Many in the larger cities catch taxis into the city centre to beg
Most cities have adequate facilities to put a roof over heads |
Good post Richard. | |
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| Up in Cardiff on 20:42 - Dec 8 with 2321 views | whoflungdung |
I be personally spoken to two police officers who moved on a beggar only for him ,two mins later, to ask them to take him back as he d left his fookn I pad behind .
True story . | |
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| Up in Cardiff on 20:47 - Dec 8 with 2310 views | lifelong |
Just back from Tenerife last night , having spent a cracking week there, been going there for many years and have never seen so many people begging and sleeping rough there. |  | | |
| Up in Cardiff on 20:49 - Dec 8 with 2306 views | whoflungdung |
My point Rog
They can earn good money and some as homeless and destitute as you and me
They re a blight on cities .
Manchester looks horrendous with them from Arndale to Piccadilly fighting for a good speck | |
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| Up in Cardiff on 20:57 - Dec 8 with 2293 views | builthjack |
There are a lot of genuine homeless, actually sleeping in tents in parks, under bridges etc. Kids who have had to leave home at 15,16 through no fault of their own. No hope, no help. It happens.
So as we tuck into our turkey, spare a thought. |  |
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| Up in Cardiff on 21:20 - Dec 8 with 2272 views | Lord_Bony |
Yep it's on the increase in Cardiff alright,seems they come from all over the place to the city.
I really do feel sorry for the young vulnerable girls sleeping out in the subways in cardboard boxes in sub zero temperatures.
A new phenomenon. |  |
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| Up in Cardiff on 21:23 - Dec 8 with 2260 views | Lohengrin |
| Up in Cardiff on 20:57 - Dec 8 by builthjack |
There are a lot of genuine homeless, actually sleeping in tents in parks, under bridges etc. Kids who have had to leave home at 15,16 through no fault of their own. No hope, no help. It happens.
So as we tuck into our turkey, spare a thought. |
We can spare more than a thought. We live in one of the most affluent societies on the face of the earth. If a fifteen-year-old has to sleep rough because there is no other option what does that say about us, all of us? |  |
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| Up in Cardiff on 21:42 - Dec 8 with 2232 views | Jack_Meoff |
| Up in Cardiff on 21:23 - Dec 8 by Lohengrin |
We can spare more than a thought. We live in one of the most affluent societies on the face of the earth. If a fifteen-year-old has to sleep rough because there is no other option what does that say about us, all of us? |
That we're so blinded by the light from the 'church' of international finance that we’ve become utterly moribund from a humanitarian and national perspective?
Weren’t there more comments on this thread earlier? General question |  |
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| Up in Cardiff on 21:52 - Dec 8 with 2211 views | byron |
Been here 25 years now and I’ve never seen it so bad. The sight of piles of duvets in backstreet or vacant shops in this day and age is terrible. When I was young it was always old guys on the streets now they are all young in there 20’s. I know benefit law changed but something has gone badly wrong. Teams of council clean up binning all there stuff isn’t really addressing the problem either it it. |  |
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| Up in Cardiff on 22:07 - Dec 8 with 2179 views | pikeypaul |
Was up there a few weeks back one of the beggars sitting outside the spar on st marys Street was messing around with his iPhone whilst asking for handouts. I just laughed and pointed at his phone he laughed back.
Most are Irish piissheads. |  |
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| Up in Cardiff on 22:08 - Dec 8 with 2178 views | LeonWasGod |
| Up in Cardiff on 20:49 - Dec 8 by whoflungdung |
My point Rog
They can earn good money and some as homeless and destitute as you and me
They re a blight on cities .
Manchester looks horrendous with them from Arndale to Piccadilly fighting for a good speck |
You're all heart perchie |  | | |
| Up in Cardiff on 22:18 - Dec 8 with 2156 views | Jack_Meoff |
| Up in Cardiff on 20:49 - Dec 8 by whoflungdung |
My point Rog
They can earn good money and some as homeless and destitute as you and me
They re a blight on cities .
Manchester looks horrendous with them from Arndale to Piccadilly fighting for a good speck |
I've heard it can be exhausting both mentally and physically being an empath perch. Don't bleed for the whole world man, make sure you get enough 'you time' yeah. | |
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| Up in Cardiff on 22:20 - Dec 8 with 2148 views | builthjack |
| Up in Cardiff on 21:23 - Dec 8 by Lohengrin |
We can spare more than a thought. We live in one of the most affluent societies on the face of the earth. If a fifteen-year-old has to sleep rough because there is no other option what does that say about us, all of us? |
The wealth of some is obscene. Scandalous. | |
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| Up in Cardiff on 22:45 - Dec 8 with 2110 views | Lohengrin |
| Up in Cardiff on 22:20 - Dec 8 by builthjack |
The wealth of some is obscene. Scandalous. |
Many of those who have amassed a great fortune have done so by dint of their own inventiveness, industry and ingenuity. I've never begrudged anybody success, especially if it's fairly gained, nor have I ever been jealous of it. Best of luck to them. I'm far more concerned with the people who have nothing, with the people who have fallen through the cracks and the reason why those cracks have been allowed to open in the first place. | |
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| Up in Cardiff on 22:51 - Dec 8 with 2095 views | Gowerjack |
| Up in Cardiff on 21:23 - Dec 8 by Lohengrin |
We can spare more than a thought. We live in one of the most affluent societies on the face of the earth. If a fifteen-year-old has to sleep rough because there is no other option what does that say about us, all of us? |
Is the correct response.
I worked in Cardiff in the Spring and was astonished at the numbers of young kids sleeping rough in doorways.
The dichotomy between them and the self obsessed well fed self satisfied majority was marked.
I didn't like it.
Not at all. |  |
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| Up in Cardiff on 08:12 - Dec 9 with 2004 views | taffpunk |
| Up in Cardiff on 20:57 - Dec 8 by builthjack |
There are a lot of genuine homeless, actually sleeping in tents in parks, under bridges etc. Kids who have had to leave home at 15,16 through no fault of their own. No hope, no help. It happens.
So as we tuck into our turkey, spare a thought. |
Me ad Mrs TP went to Brighton a few months ago for the weekend, the amount of young people sleeping rough was unbelievable, very sad to see. | |
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| Up in Cardiff on 08:34 - Dec 9 with 1977 views | exhmrc1 |
| Up in Cardiff on 20:49 - Dec 8 by whoflungdung |
My point Rog
They can earn good money and some as homeless and destitute as you and me
They re a blight on cities .
Manchester looks horrendous with them from Arndale to Piccadilly fighting for a good speck |
Having worked for over 35 years in the city centre you are right they are a blight on cities. Nearly every day for years when I worked in Ty Nant there would be fights or one of the drunks/druggies on the floor in the afternoon outside Cks. Along would come the ambulance usually with police attendance. We often comment on the poor ambulance response times but the times wasted on things like this put patients with life threatening conditions at risk. On one occasion one of the girls who worked part time went to catch the bus home and one of the girls was offering the guy a blow job for a tenner. This was half past 2.
I realise not all are involved in this scene but a large majority are. I used to talk to Tea Cosy Pete on a regular basis. He was a lovely well read guy with excellent knowledge of cricket. He used to compare the likes of PBH, Barrington and his hero Boycott's stats with those of Cook. He had been offered several flats but he always turned them down. As he used to say to me they didn't fit in with his routine. He would be at the same place same time and met the same friends daily and being offered flats in Sketty were of no use to him.
Unfortunately most of them were not like him.
The big issue for me is that we keep being told how wonderful Cardiff and indeed Liverpool are but the reality is the deprivation there is greater than our city. | | | |
| Up in Cardiff on 08:54 - Dec 9 with 1946 views | Private_Partz |
| Up in Cardiff on 20:57 - Dec 8 by builthjack |
There are a lot of genuine homeless, actually sleeping in tents in parks, under bridges etc. Kids who have had to leave home at 15,16 through no fault of their own. No hope, no help. It happens.
So as we tuck into our turkey, spare a thought. |
Indeed Builth. The minority of scroungers are highlighted by theTories and the right wing press to tar all the destitute with same brush.
Just look around and you can see the situation is worsening by the day.
Those concerned about benefit fiddling can be rest assured that this Government will leave no stone unturned to get these people. Such a shame the same efforts aren't made in tackling tax avoidance by the Corporates. |  |
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| Up in Cardiff on 09:03 - Dec 9 with 1931 views | Private_Partz |
| Up in Cardiff on 21:20 - Dec 8 by Lord_Bony |
Yep it's on the increase in Cardiff alright,seems they come from all over the place to the city.
I really do feel sorry for the young vulnerable girls sleeping out in the subways in cardboard boxes in sub zero temperatures.
A new phenomenon. |
Indeed. For me it is a combination of austerity and the overheating of certain areas within the Country. I think Wales is a smaller version of England and Cardiff suffers from the same problems as London.
At least in England they make some attempt to redress the balance, not so in Wales.
As a result of over investment house prices shoot up and people are driven out of their homes. It is not just In places such as London and Cardiff either, even though their special circumstances highlight this. Also it is not just rough sleepers. Many are being put up in poor rental and cheap hotel accommodation. Over 100,000, and rising, children in poverty within the U.K. says it all. | |
| You have mission in life to hold out your hand,
To help the other guy out,
Help your fellow man.
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| Up in Cardiff on 09:09 - Dec 9 with 1925 views | swan65split |
They were quick enough to blame the unions for our so called issues of the 70s, I blame the Thatcher years for our Country/society we live in today.  |  | | |
| Up in Cardiff on 09:16 - Dec 9 with 1924 views | whoflungdung |
Taxman.
We re talking Cardiff Wales
We see weekly pisstakes about poverty,slums,bins,hubcaps etc in Liverpool so rather ironic is it not
Liverpool is blighted with beggars as is most of the big cities .
There is adequate provision for shelter but because of lifestyle, I'd,drink,drugs, they don't go.
That is fact
Nothing to do with "heart" either. What trite shite .
How many homeless are being invited by posters to Christmas dinner .
Finally, a few years ago, I offered a beggar/homeless person a job.Cash in hand . He nearly passed out | |
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| Up in Cardiff on 09:44 - Dec 9 with 1894 views | Jackfath |
| Up in Cardiff on 09:16 - Dec 9 by whoflungdung |
Taxman.
We re talking Cardiff Wales
We see weekly pisstakes about poverty,slums,bins,hubcaps etc in Liverpool so rather ironic is it not
Liverpool is blighted with beggars as is most of the big cities .
There is adequate provision for shelter but because of lifestyle, I'd,drink,drugs, they don't go.
That is fact
Nothing to do with "heart" either. What trite shite .
How many homeless are being invited by posters to Christmas dinner .
Finally, a few years ago, I offered a beggar/homeless person a job.Cash in hand . He nearly passed out |
You are generalising dreadfully. Some find themselves on the street because of a series of life changing events which they are unable to cope with due to mental strain perhaps. Could be anyone you know. Let's not be so narrow minded and insular when debating this issue. |  |
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| Up in Cardiff on 09:48 - Dec 9 with 1885 views | Professor |
| Up in Cardiff on 09:16 - Dec 9 by whoflungdung |
Taxman.
We re talking Cardiff Wales
We see weekly pisstakes about poverty,slums,bins,hubcaps etc in Liverpool so rather ironic is it not
Liverpool is blighted with beggars as is most of the big cities .
There is adequate provision for shelter but because of lifestyle, I'd,drink,drugs, they don't go.
That is fact
Nothing to do with "heart" either. What trite shite .
How many homeless are being invited by posters to Christmas dinner .
Finally, a few years ago, I offered a beggar/homeless person a job.Cash in hand . He nearly passed out |
Whilst it is Liverpool’s policy that there should be no rough sleepers, there is a clear divide of the ‘hardcore driunks’ who used to sleep by the Brownlow Hill side of the big NCP and a newer, younger group huddled in doorways towards the Waterfront . Not so much drinking or beggars but people fallen between the cracks. I went to university in London in the 80s and rough sleeping was commonplace. Largely gone by 2000 but back with a vengeance now. More aggressive too | | | |
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