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Post by metanoia on Jan 31, 2018 20:07:22 GMT
Sadly, I was born there and spent my first 25 years in lovely Bournemouth x
Too true, Phil .... x
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Post by bargemast on Jan 31, 2018 20:07:58 GMT
I don't think that your examples are of homeless bench users (abusers) but they are just leg-less. Peter.
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Post by patty on Jan 31, 2018 20:18:53 GMT
Well perhaps there is a case for leaving some benches for homeless/inebriated or those who are unwell.. there will always be drunks..is a park bench better than them vomiting in doorways?..ah wait the sprinklers could help sober them up and keep area clean
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Post by Andyberg on Jan 31, 2018 21:29:06 GMT
there will always be drunks..is a park bench better than them vomiting in doorways?.. There's plenty of hedges for that sort of behaviour!
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Post by thebfg on Feb 1, 2018 8:02:17 GMT
I think that we all accept that being able to house homeless people is the best case scenario but that ain't happening so until such time we are able to house all the homeless we should at least ensure that the homeless are able to rough sleep in the best possible and comfortable way. I don't think anybody was bleating on, just showing concern Phil Oh fine then, give 'em a few park benches and end of problem. I'm sure they will be very grateful. Well Bournemouth councils last trick to fix the problem was to hand out one way train tickets to anywhere they wanted to go outside of their city
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Post by phil70 on Feb 1, 2018 8:02:25 GMT
Rather a harsh judgement on the homeless suggesting they are lice ridden and while I agree that Britain is a disgrace as far as housing is concerned I fail to see what Harry and Meghan have got to do with anything unless it's the parasite connection Phil
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2018 8:06:03 GMT
Donkey asks why I posted that. The original post claims how unfair Bournemouth is, denying benches to the homeless. I thought these pissed waste-of-spaces are just as cruel, denying the homeless comfy benches on which to lay out their filthy old lice-ridden sleeping bags. Britain is a disgrace as regards housing. Go on, wave the flag as Harry and Meghan drive past. Mocked up, posed photos don't really add anything. Rog
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Post by thebfg on Feb 1, 2018 8:12:03 GMT
That's a good point. The arms on benches, I don't think there really targeting homeless people but day time drinkers who get smashed on cheap strong larger.
Although it could be the same group of people.
And Patty, we have discussed that too. Today were of to look at the paper mill By the lock just after Thatcher train station but while were there we will try to get in Hilton Newbury centre hotel.
Instead of leaving it empty it could house an aweful lot of people.
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Post by patty on Feb 1, 2018 8:25:21 GMT
That's a good point. The arms on benches, I don't think there really targeting homeless people but day time drinkers who get smashed on cheap strong larger. Although it could be the same group of people. And Patty, we have discussed that too. Today were of to look at the paper mill By the lock just after Thatcher train station but while were there we will try to get in Hilton Newbury centre hotel. Instead of leaving it empty it could house an aweful lot of people. We have so many buildings left empty I cannot see why they cannot be utilised to home the homeless...they could perhaps help to renovate in return for a roof over their heads and learn skills in the process...
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Post by Telemachus on Feb 1, 2018 8:49:42 GMT
Do you expect councillors to spend their own money when working on council business? If so, only rich people could be councillors. Shame on you for promoting being governed by the rich elite and excluding the poor.
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Post by Telemachus on Feb 1, 2018 9:38:10 GMT
I wish I received such sums as 'expenses'. Perhaps we should promote the bench-sleepers as councillors in the centrally-heated Town Hall? And turf the current councillors out into the cold in search of a bench not occupied by the unconscious. Why? If the expenses are genuine, to cover outgoings made in the line of duty, you would not have benefitted from receiving it.
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Post by thebfg on Feb 1, 2018 9:43:43 GMT
I wish I received such sums as 'expenses'. Perhaps we should promote the bench-sleepers as councillors in the centrally-heated Town Hall? And turf the current councillors out into the cold in search of a bench not occupied by the unconscious. Why? If the expenses are genuine, to cover outgoings made in the line of duty, you would not have benefitted from receiving it. I thought that and the sums seem pretty reasonable considering what some others get. However I have to fund my own travel to work, my own lunches and presents(Bonus type) for my team. Why can't they?
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Post by Telemachus on Feb 1, 2018 9:53:23 GMT
Why? If the expenses are genuine, to cover outgoings made in the line of duty, you would not have benefitted from receiving it. I thought that and the sums seem pretty reasonable considering what some others get. However I have to fund my own travel to work, my own lunches and presents(Bonus type) for my team. Why can't they? They probably do. If they got expenses for travelling to their normal place of work, that would be taxable as income. However if you were required to visit a different location from your normal workplace as part of your working day, you would be pretty pissed off if you had to pay to get there, and stay overnight in a hotel at your own expense, and buy expensive hotel food.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2018 11:01:07 GMT
I think homelessness is the scandal of the age in the UK. Colonel Gadaffi was widely condemned as evil but at least in Libya everybody had a home, and if a new one was needed then a new one was built and the whole community pitched in to help build it whereas here the whole community put signs up in their front gardens saying "Save our green fields". Er, what do you think was there before your house was built Missus? oh this is boiling my piss big time at the minute, facebook group for my home town of Nuneaton, every fucka moaning as they are building shit loads of new homes, on old farming land, right next to an estate that was built thirty years ago, on old farming land and of course all the middle of the road, keeping up with the joneses, 2.5 kids, think they are better than everyone else fuckwits are moaning and saying save our greenbelt... Twunts!
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Post by thebfg on Feb 1, 2018 11:07:46 GMT
I thought that and the sums seem pretty reasonable considering what some others get. However I have to fund my own travel to work, my own lunches and presents(Bonus type) for my team. Why can't they? They probably do. If they got expenses for travelling to their normal place of work, that would be taxable as income. However if you were required to visit a different location from your normal workplace as part of your working day, you would be pretty pissed off if you had to pay to get there, and stay overnight in a hotel at your own expense, and buy expensive hotel food. Come on Nick, you know they claim for getting to the civic centre which is their normal place for meetings.
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