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.
Love how there’s only one ‘Lifestyle Choice’ available for billions of people on God’s Green Earth: Work or Die.
Tories are conservative monarchists, what do you expect? They hate “peasants”, especially those on the lowest social ladder.
c/noahgettheboat
Hateful woman. Each time I think her policies can’t get any more evil she outdoes herself.
Is this woman Satan?
I feel like she has her head so far up her ass that she can taste her hair.
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… 🙄
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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.
