Christmas, a time for peace, fellowship and shitting all over the poor

Proving the equlibrium in nature, you can’t keep a good person down and equally so you can’t keep a bad person from trying to force their class based invective down the throats of others.
Previously on this blog I posted an article about the attempt to ban soup runs in central Westminster, it must have hit a nerve because I got one of those rare comments that agreed with me and didn’t attempt to dismantle my argument entirely.
Well it seems it got kicked out by the council authority which is no bad thing at all however our friendly samaritan Angela Harvey is adamant that it will get through and that free citizens in an allegedly free country who possess something called free choice should not be able to help their fellow human being.
You see apparantly its not homeless people who turn up to soup runs, it’s ruthless machiavellian types who fill carrier bags with food (soup? I thought carrier bags had little holes in the bottom, wouldn’t it all dribble out?) and then take them back home to their flatmates. Sure they keep the act up by sleeping in a doorway all winter but they are not homeless, just out of work actors. Sure one or two might freeze to death but come on its free food!
I don’t know if anybody else has noticed but its pretty cold right now isn’t it, and if you hadn’t noticed then you’d be reminded day in day out by the amount of people that walk up to you rubbing their hands together and announcing that ‘its cold today isn’t it?’ to which of course the only answer is ‘well of course its cold, its the middle of winter and the earth has shifted on its axis so that the altitude of the Sun is reduced which both causes the days to be shorter and results in the light from the sun hitting the hemisphere at an oblique angle, dissipating the solar radiation across a wider area and increasing the distance that light has to travel through the atmosphere so of course its fucking cold’
I would apologise for my un-festive attitude but then I guess I’m not the one trying to fuck the homeless.
To return to my thread, its cold and this time of year one of the first things I think about is how on earth the homeless are meant to survive? I mean the rest of the country wanders around like polar explorers in their brand new North Face jacket, gloves, hat and scarf outfit, spending hundreds of pounds on the latest ‘must haves’ so that they don’t disappoint in the giant pissing contest that is Christmas and when they get home its back into a nice cosy house, with central heating or a log fire, comfy sofa’s, sit in front of the television and rot out the brain watching christmas variety shows and yet another version of Oliver Twist whilst stuffing their face with a box of celebrations.
Maybe I’m getting it all wrong but from what I can see, the homeless spend most of their time sat on a street, freezing their arse clean off and being moved along by a police officer so that the christmas shoppers don’t get upset and mistakenly give their money to a human being in need instead of delivering it to the already fattened corporations which offer them material satisfaction I mean come on people lets not have a recession over this!
Okay so I’ll get back on track, John Bird, founder of the big issue spoke out on this subject and he said something pretty interesting,

“The priority should be getting people off the streets altogether. Ninety per cent of all money spent on homelessness is spent on emergency, only 10% is spent on cure. We’ve got it upside down,”

Now I agree with the above statement but I disagree that the maintainence of soup kitchens for the homeless impedes efforts to get people housed which seems to be where Obersturmfuhrer Angela Harvey attempts to put a human face to her nimbyism.
The soup run is a lifeline for those people thrust out onto the streets and before we start ranting about the usual ’get a job’ and ‘maybe they should work harder’ bullshit lets consider that thanks to a housing market so astronomical you could climb it and end up on Mars. An obscene distribution of wealth which sees many people in this country being paid less than £15′000 a year whilst a select minority buy themselves personalised jet planes for christmas. Factored in with a desperate reliance on bank base rates and outstanding credit deals, most people in this country are only a few inflation points or one redundacy away from ending up on the street themselves.
So should anybody wish to email the lovable Ms Harvey feel free to do so via her Council site here, if you do keep it polite and be aware they want your details, no doubt that is meant to scare people off but it hasn’t quite worked its magic on me, I don’t take fright at somebody who likes to flash their fancy council title about like a ‘best effort’ award in assembly and nor am I afraid to stand up for the rights of the most sidelined members of our society, and finally I don’t give a shit how Cllr Harvey and her fellow committee flashing compadres like to slice it but I can recognise bloody minded inhumanity when I see it and it makes my blood boil.