He is again spot on here. During the first lockdown my partner volunteered at a soup kitchen, there was a lot homeless veterans coming in. After the second week I was ordered to come in and help out.

When she told me about some of the people were coming in. It was shocking to see how ex-servicemen are being treated. Why in the name of Mary Fuck, aren't Serco and the hotels putting them up ? If you come across a dinghy you get a hotel and benefits. Linda Robson is a piece of work as it is but she takes the piss again here. My partner and I did donate to Soldiers Off The Street charity. PTSD and homelessness are the real pandemics not Covid !

Despite getting a big fat Zero in benefits because we both fell through the cracks after applying to money we were entitled to. This is the worst government since Blair and that is saying something.

If dinghy people are treated better than residents, the answer is not to treat the dinghy people badly too, but to raise the standard of care for all.

Honey wrote:
If dinghy people are treated better than residents, the answer is not to treat the dinghy people badly too, but to raise the standard of care for all.

From this government ?

Asylum seekers are not housed in luxury there is so much bollocks written.

That said "lefties" do choose their causes and tend to dislike what is close at home assuming we are a terrible country with a terrible history; hence a lack of interest in vets - a real problem - but anyone from 3rd world good etc.

The real problem in all this is homelessness and poverty; home grown or foreign grown. It will take a wiser species than us to solve that.

Meanwhile people can pick on whichever cause suits their own value system, getting angry about asylum seekers or homeless veterans.

The polarisation in these debates and peoples minds is generated by our minds to make ourselves feel secure: "They must be up to something to get on those dinghys and try and take our stuff!"; "That guy in the shop doorway must have been a lousy husband and drunk to end up there!"

It can't just be down to bad luck because this would mean it could happen to anyone; to me.

Hence all the ranting & judgment in the world & on such crappy shows as these.

* This effect is based on evidenced psychology not just made up by me!

Wyot wrote:
Asylum seekers are not housed in luxury there is so much bollocks written.

That said "lefties" do choose their causes and tend to dislike what is close at home assuming we are a terrible country with a terrible history; hence a lack of interest in vets - a real problem - but anyone from 3rd world good etc.

The real problem in all this is homelessness and poverty; home grown or foreign grown. It will take a wiser species than us to solve that.

Meanwhile people can pick on whichever cause suits their own value system, getting angry about asylum seekers or homeless veterans.

The polarisation in these debates and peoples minds is generated by our minds to make ourselves feel secure: "They must be up to something to get on those dinghys and try and take our stuff!"; "That guy in the shop doorway must have been a lousy husband and drunk to end up there!"

It can't just be down to bad luck because this would mean it could happen to anyone; to me.

Hence all the ranting & judgment in the world & on such crappy shows as these.

* This effect is based on evidenced psychology not just made up by me!

So what's your solution then?

Hear Hear, Wyot.

Green Man wrote:
[quote]Wyot wrote:


So what's your solution then?

I don't necessarily have solutions I am certain about GM. This is one aspect of modern life with social media that I find tiresome - that everyone feels they have to know the answer or "take a position".

(I can hear some thinking - well he has a bloody tiresome position on Covid!! But I don't have a position on it other than questioning the so-sure positions of others. I have no solution to a minority dying of Covid; but then neither does the Gov....)

I like you think homeless vets is disgraceful; the Gov should be held to account for their aftercare - perhaps assign them a key worker - and ensure housing and access to mental health. They just need to pay for it. It needs to be built in the army budget - you simply don't ask peolle to risk their lives for their country and then forget about them. This one is easy.

Asylum seekers - are a symptom of chronic world inequality & poverty. Solution? Blowed if I know. But they are humans, acting out of desparation, and we should treat them with compassion in our language & actions; or we just make the world an uglier place.

Not a solution, just an observation that would make for dull TV....