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.
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Interesting that you can spot this here but double down supporting the exact same type of behavior from Israel.
Exactly what I thought when I saw the username. Methinks the fascist doth protest too much.
For anyone unaware - that is the guy who’s spamming every comment section with a comment explaining how he considers all 2.3 million Gazans (including the 40% of whom are children under 14) to be equally responsible for Hamas’s 7 October attacks, and therefore deserving of what they get.
Everyone on Kbin knows who he is by now. Everyone not on Kbin, well, they can’t see this comment chain because he’s been banned from this community already.