Out On The Streets

ENGLISH UNIONIST · 10-08-2008, 05:56 PM

With record numbers of homes being repossessed - thanks to Gordon Brown's mismanagement of the economy - and more and more young people finding it difficult to get their first step on the property ladder, one was moved to think what it must be like to be homeless (whilst recently studying a sculpture of a destitute woman holding a begging bowl) and compose the following verse:-

I sit alone with my bowl begging for food
Or money with which to buy a meal
Watching others pass me by
Some intentionally ignoring me; others stopping to talk
As I remember the life I left behind me
And wonder if the lives of the passers-by
Inwardly reflect my own of rejection, exclusion and self-harm.

John Lennon once wrote “All these lonely people, where do they all come from?
“All these lonely people, where do they all belong”?
As I sit, lonely and alone, I see loneliness in the eyes of others who pass by
Unable or unwilling to communicate with each other
They go their ways and I remain in mine
Wallowing in self-pity, fearful for my future.

I feel hungry and thirsty
Not just for something to eat and drink
As the few pennies others give me will soon buy me a burger and a coke
But for the company of others
And affection shown to one’s fellow man over a prepared meal
Or, at least, meaningful conversation over a dinner table.

I live on the streets you see; I have no home,
Nowhere to eat or sleep, nowhere to call my own.
The pavement is my mattress, the abandoned brick my pillow
I no longer feel I belong anywhere or to anyone
I don’t even have a name; I’m just one of the homeless
Momentarily brought to others’ attention on the news but quickly forgotten about when they sit down to eat.

Where has my life gone I often wonder
And where is it going too?
Right now I seem to be drifting
Or pushed by others, but with no real purpose.
Deprived of food and shelter, and a sense of direction
One questions the meaning of life.

So look at me as you pass me by
I am no less a human being than you
I have feelings too.
And as you return home at the end of your day
Think one day you could find yourself in similar position to me.

g hall · 10-08-2008, 08:40 PM

I wonder if anybody in either blue buggins or red buggins remembers Cathy Come Home I doubt it worries them with their snouts in the trough and their taxpayer funded homes

Cathy Come Home

Aardvark · 10-08-2008, 08:51 PM

I suspect that there are plenty of UKIP supporters who don't give 2 hoots about the homeless either. There are a few posters here who genuinely despise those who live in social housing so they won't have sympathy for those less fortunate than themselves. By the end of the year 1.7 million families could be in homes that are in negative equity. Unemployment is soaring and so are repossesssions. Interest rates are more likely to go up when CPI passes 4% in the next few weeks (RPI, a more realistic measure of inflation is fast heading toward 10%).

There will be a few more people out selling Big Issue than there are now, but a lot of people are in for an even more painful shock. There are virtually no new social houses being built as they come as part of the big developments. As the building industry is tottering on the brink of colllapse it is a truism to say that there will not be enough social housing to go round.

For those who have not lived on benefits and are about to do so, you are in for a massive shock. I have 3 friends who have been made redundant from engineering companies in the last 3 months; 2 have not found anything else and live on the fast dwindling redundancy money and the other is contracting. The worst is not yet on us. Time to show sympathy I think.

Westcountryman · 10-08-2008, 09:02 PM

I believe that the government is looking at putting standard of living into the new Bill of Rights. Perhaps this is something we should support...

rjt · 10-08-2008, 09:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by g hall

I wonder if anybody in either blue buggins or red buggins remembers Cathy Come Home I doubt it worries them with their snouts in the trough and their taxpayer funded homes

Cathy Come Home

Well I was not born at the time of its orignal broadcast but it formed part of a project I wrote on TV history when I studied Film and TV history as part of my degree. The DVD remains one of the most watched in my collection.

Wowbanger TIP · 10-08-2008, 10:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Westcountryman

I believe that the government is looking at putting standard of living into the new Bill of Rights. Perhaps this is something we should support...

Now why didn't Ethiopia think of that? Or the Ukraine or Somalia?

Westcountryman · 10-08-2008, 10:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wowbanger TIP

Now why didn't Ethiopia think of that? Or the Ukraine or Somalia?

Congratulations, you've officially failed 'sarcasm' class....

BonnieDundee · 11-08-2008, 06:02 AM

The world economy is on the way down, I'm not sure why this particular area is Brown's fault. It is certainly going much the same way in many parts of Europe, Australia and the US of course.

Westcountryman · 11-08-2008, 10:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BonnieDundee

The world economy is on the way down, I'm not sure why this particular area is Brown's fault. It is certainly going much the same way in many parts of Europe, Australia and the US of course.

It's Brown's fault because he also claimed credit for the 'good times' - which he had nothing to do with either.

He does have some blame to carry - he got the country into all the debt the Treasury is currently carrying.

g hall · 11-08-2008, 04:46 PM

Gordon the Moron inherited a good economical situation which had been engineered by the IMF and World bank after Major(balls-up) tried to shadow the ERM and went cap in hand to said organisations

He was then fortunate that with China expanding it's manufacturing base a global boom followed which he claimed credit for in the UK boasting of the ending of the boom and bust cycle well now this is coming back to haunt him Prudence has been well and truly f*cked by this man

He sold a substantial amount of our gold reserves when the price was at an all time low

He was in the government which over interfered in the business sector, his mate Just call me Tony buttered them up while GtM shafted the business sector particularly the small business sector

He inflated the state payroll by a ridiculous amount and increased the number of people on benefit dependency

Tax credits must be one of the most inefficient ways of giving money back to taxpayers ever devised

In short the man will be remembered as a useless f*ckwit which I have said since day one

The problem is the official opposition - the boy dave glee club - are just as shambolic

10-08-2008, 05:56 PM	#1 (permalink)
ENGLISH UNIONIST Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, United Kingdom Posts: 135 Party: UKIP	Out On The Streets With record numbers of homes being repossessed - thanks to Gordon Brown's mismanagement of the economy - and more and more young people finding it difficult to get their first step on the property ladder, one was moved to think what it must be like to be homeless (whilst recently studying a sculpture of a destitute woman holding a begging bowl) and compose the following verse:- I sit alone with my bowl begging for food Or money with which to buy a meal Watching others pass me by Some intentionally ignoring me; others stopping to talk As I remember the life I left behind me And wonder if the lives of the passers-by Inwardly reflect my own of rejection, exclusion and self-harm. John Lennon once wrote “All these lonely people, where do they all come from? “All these lonely people, where do they all belong”? As I sit, lonely and alone, I see loneliness in the eyes of others who pass by Unable or unwilling to communicate with each other They go their ways and I remain in mine Wallowing in self-pity, fearful for my future. I feel hungry and thirsty Not just for something to eat and drink As the few pennies others give me will soon buy me a burger and a coke But for the company of others And affection shown to one’s fellow man over a prepared meal Or, at least, meaningful conversation over a dinner table. I live on the streets you see; I have no home, Nowhere to eat or sleep, nowhere to call my own. The pavement is my mattress, the abandoned brick my pillow I no longer feel I belong anywhere or to anyone I don’t even have a name; I’m just one of the homeless Momentarily brought to others’ attention on the news but quickly forgotten about when they sit down to eat. Where has my life gone I often wonder And where is it going too? Right now I seem to be drifting Or pushed by others, but with no real purpose. Deprived of food and shelter, and a sense of direction One questions the meaning of life. So look at me as you pass me by I am no less a human being than you I have feelings too. And as you return home at the end of your day Think one day you could find yourself in similar position to me. __________________ THE UNION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND, UNLIKE THE EUROPEAN UNION, DESERVES (AND NEEDS) TO BE MAINTAINED AND STRENGTHENED DAILY.

10-08-2008, 08:40 PM	#2 (permalink)
g hall Uber Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: erewhon Posts: 5,638	I wonder if anybody in either blue buggins or red buggins remembers Cathy Come Home I doubt it worries them with their snouts in the trough and their taxpayer funded homes Cathy Come Home __________________ "That government is best which governs least." "This is a sharp Medicine, but it is a Physician for all diseases and miseries". "To be "matter of fact" about the world is to blunder into fantasy --and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful." TANSTAAFL TANJ

10-08-2008, 08:51 PM	#3 (permalink)
Aardvark Moderator Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Oxonia Posts: 3,988	I suspect that there are plenty of UKIP supporters who don't give 2 hoots about the homeless either. There are a few posters here who genuinely despise those who live in social housing so they won't have sympathy for those less fortunate than themselves. By the end of the year 1.7 million families could be in homes that are in negative equity. Unemployment is soaring and so are repossesssions. Interest rates are more likely to go up when CPI passes 4% in the next few weeks (RPI, a more realistic measure of inflation is fast heading toward 10%). There will be a few more people out selling Big Issue than there are now, but a lot of people are in for an even more painful shock. There are virtually no new social houses being built as they come as part of the big developments. As the building industry is tottering on the brink of colllapse it is a truism to say that there will not be enough social housing to go round. For those who have not lived on benefits and are about to do so, you are in for a massive shock. I have 3 friends who have been made redundant from engineering companies in the last 3 months; 2 have not found anything else and live on the fast dwindling redundancy money and the other is contracting. The worst is not yet on us. Time to show sympathy I think. __________________ When in Woking do as the Wokes do. "I do not wish to form my opinions by thoughtlessly quoting others; I wish others to support their opinions by sensibly quoting me." Paul Wesson (Aardvark) 13th April 2008

10-08-2008, 09:02 PM	#4 (permalink)
Westcountryman Uber Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: The Westcountry. Posts: 5,922 Party: None	I believe that the government is looking at putting standard of living into the new Bill of Rights. Perhaps this is something we should support... __________________ Manus haec inimica tyrannis ense petit placidam sub libertate quietam - "This hand of mine, which is hostile to tyrants, seeks by the sword quiet peace under liberty."

11-08-2008, 06:02 AM	#8 (permalink)
BonnieDundee Uber Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Between Mallaig and Cornwall. Posts: 2,809	The world economy is on the way down, I'm not sure why this particular area is Brown's fault. It is certainly going much the same way in many parts of Europe, Australia and the US of course. __________________ "It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state." -Bruce Schneier How to Overthrow the System: brew your own beer; kick in your TV; build your own cabin and pss off front porch whenever you bloody well feel like it.* Edward Abbey Leopold Kohr.

11-08-2008, 04:46 PM	#10 (permalink)
g hall Uber Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: erewhon Posts: 5,638	Gordon the Moron inherited a good economical situation which had been engineered by the IMF and World bank after Major(balls-up) tried to shadow the ERM and went cap in hand to said organisations He was then fortunate that with China expanding it's manufacturing base a global boom followed which he claimed credit for in the UK boasting of the ending of the boom and bust cycle well now this is coming back to haunt him Prudence has been well and truly fcked by this man He sold a substantial amount of our gold reserves when the price was at an all time low He was in the government which over interfered in the business sector, his mate Just call me Tony buttered them up while GtM shafted the business sector particularly the small business sector He inflated the state payroll by a ridiculous amount and increased the number of people on benefit dependency Tax credits must be one of the most inefficient ways of giving money back to taxpayers ever devised In short the man will be remembered as a useless fckwit which I have said since day one The problem is the official opposition - the boy dave glee club - are just as shambolic __________________ "That government is best which governs least." "This is a sharp Medicine, but it is a Physician for all diseases and miseries". "To be "matter of fact" about the world is to blunder into fantasy --and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful." TANSTAAFL TANJ

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