Boris’ Homeless Strategy 2014

It has recently been reported that the homelessness has risen by over 2,000 people in London, this is an increase of 8% over the same period last year. Amazingly this rise includes 1,030 people who are homeless and sleeping rough for the first time. Evening Standard.  Astonishing especially when one considers the Mayor of London’s, one Boris Johnson, election pledge that he would eradicate people sleeping on the street by 2012.

Yes, claimed the mighty organ of the Tory right, no-one in London will spend more than one night on the street. So Boris where are you going to put over 2,000 rough sleepers and that is the ones they have counted! What about the ones hidden away. Down the Chute? This still applies today homeless people hiding from the main stream of society and any support they may need.

Since Boris Johnson has been in office and remember this is the Mayor who gave his pledge to have zero rough sleepers by 2012 there has been a dramatic increase in rough sleepers. In 2012/13 the rough sleeper count rose by 14% to 6,473 of which 4,353 were first time rough sleepers. Yet just before Boris, Hostes Hostium Publicus, (the enemy of the people), came to his throne the tally of rough sleepers was only, I use the word only for emphasis, 3,107 so incredibly for all Boris’s spouting and pontificating he has done nothing in fact under Boris the Bad there has been over a 100% increase in rough sleepers. The True Picture

If I was still sleeping rough I would organise rough sleepers to attend an open public meeting at City Hall stand up and ask Boris the Bad where is he going to put us all tonight as we have spent more than one night sleeping on the street. I would ask for Boris the Blusterer to keep to his election promise of only one night on the street for the homeless.

This is not the only problem facing people who are homeless, either sleeping rough, in a hostel/B & B or in temporary supported accommodation The Guardian. All this whilst our revered Mayor and hotly tipped to become a future leader of the Tory Party is reducing the amount of social housing in Central London. (See Royal Mail Sell Off; Unheard Holler), Social Housing

Remember Boris Johnson; Hostes Hostium Publicus

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