The home secretary, Suella Braverman, has described rough sleeping as a “lifestyle choice” while defending her decision to restrict the use of tents by homeless people on the streets of Britain.
According to Whitehall insiders, Braverman plans to crack down on tents that cause a nuisance in urban areas such as high streets – amid growing numbers of rough sleepers and what the government considers a rise in antisocial behaviour.
The home secretary has also proposed the introduction of a civil offence, which could lead to charities being fined if they provide homeless people with tents, the Financial Times reported.
Writing on X, formerly Twitter, Braverman defended her proposals, saying: “The British people are compassionate. We will always support those who are genuinely homeless. But we cannot allow our streets to be taken over by rows of tents occupied by people, many of them from abroad, living on the streets as a lifestyle choice.
“Unless we step in now to stop this, British cities will go the way of places in the US like San Francisco and Los Angeles, where weak policies have led to an explosion of crime, drug-taking, and squalor.
The UK has one of the most vile governments in the industrialized world.
Right, and it just so happens that more and more people are “choosing” to be homeless since the cost of living has deepened (never mind over a decade of Tory enforced austerity that came before it), and despite the fact that hundreds of rough sleepers die every year, mostly due to freezing temperatures and/or related illness…
It’s also a classic Tory projection move how in California the problem is due to policy, but where she makes the policy, it’s anything but… 🙄
San Diego passed a camping ban a few months ago. We are challenging it in court, but they’re doing the same hateful shit out here too.
Hateful woman. Each time I think her policies can’t get any more evil she outdoes herself.
Cunt.
Just in case anyone is concerned, Bretherman is insane and has absolutely no idea or indeed any interest in what the “British people” want. And her and her useless excuse for a government are just biding their time until they get unceremoniously kicked out of office.
She has repeatedly claimed that “the people” are interested in immigration despite the fact that polling data shows that most people couldn’t give a flying rats backside about immigration.
The only people who care about immigration are the sort of people who get upset if somebody with slightly different coloured skin walks past them in the street. Or they hear previously unknown language that they suspect might be foreign or possibly Welsh. I.e morons
Unfortunately for everyone large swaths of the British public support her and her insane racist bullshit and will no doubt support this because they are lead poisoned narcissistic scum
Wow, this heifer really has zero concern for possible repercussions to her actions or her words.
Shall the Brits return to the days of the houses that lent you a rope to drape over for the night before you go back to your wandering homelessness? At least a rope to drape over at night wouldn’t be as much of an eyesore as a tent, right?!?
People should just start camping out on her property by the thousands just on principle.
Sleeping on clotheslines was the source of the term “hungover”.
Lifestyle choice, see?
Well in that case being hungover is practically a British institution.
The whole point of drinking is to do it to excess. If you can remember your name at the end of a night out it’s a failure.
The British people are compassionate. We will always support those who are genuinely homeless. But we cannot allow our streets to be taken over by rows of tents occupied by people,
Great! So we will build tons of public housing, right?
many of them from abroad, living on the streets as a lifestyle choice.
Oh- Oh… Oh…
Cunt. To go after people that have already lost everything. She probably wants to freeze them to death this winter. Instead of being human and helping them.
This fucking pariah of an mp needs to be taken out of office now.
“Genuinely homeless” lol
“If you see a homeless person with a funny sign, they probably haven’t been homeless very long.” - Chris Rock
Guillotines, what we need are Guillotines.
So fine already poor people to make them less poor? And how do you decide “lifestyle” poor? This is exactly the stuff the GOP is spreading and the want “camps” that would be fenced in areas for tent cities way outside the cities that the poors could live in
The world is literally being run by a bunch of psychopaths.
Run by and voted for by.
Psychopaths have a way to coerce or convince people to take their side. They must have control over others. It’s all about power and doing whatever it takes to get it. Lie, cheat, gaslight, play the victim, whatever.
One ones ruthless enough to win I guess. And only the worst yearn for power enough to go to the trouble.
Tories are conservative monarchists, what do you expect? They hate “peasants”, especially those on the lowest social ladder.
Blatant cruelty and using xenophobia to mask it. Thats some vile shit.
