Just a short blog because its late (and take with a grain of salt)...
I just had an epiphany, I now know how the Government is going to deliver on its promise to end homelessness by 2010. It will be by stealth (wow theres a surprise) by bringing in individual pieces of legislation that will all accumulate to getting rid of homelessness.
Step 1
Make it illegal to be on the street in the first place (like begging, standing outside a particular business - aledgedly harrassing people - rather than the truth that the door is open and they have one of those lovely big fans pumping out warm air just over the inside of the door etc)...
Step 2
Bring in anti-social behaviour laws so that same homelessness person who is now not allowed to beg or stand near a particular shop, is settling down to kip for the night and to get rid of the cold and dispair has a nice large 3 litre bottle of some rank cider, but hang on thats anti-social and cant do that so the homeless person will have no 3 litre bottle of devils bit - so instead will have the 4 euro extra per day in their pocket (oh hang on, they won have the moeny cause there not allowed to beg) to get a mortgage for a new house...
Step 3
Destroy certain areas of the country, get rid of all the jobs, the foreign nationals will all leave the country so there will be vacant houses, give the banks all the tax payers money so in turn the banks can turf people out of their houses and thats loads of vacant houses for the homeless to move into...
Step 4
Destroy the housing market so values drop so low that the homeless people can buy the houses nobody wants (with the 4 euro per day saved not buying the devils bit cider)
Woowoo, no homelessness by 2010.
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
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2 comments:
John, Welcome to the blogging world. I hope to keep in touch with your blog. I might bump into you in Kilkenny at Labour Party Conference if you are going- Seamus
Have copied this onto ShelterCrisis campaign blog as I think is very true for UK overall as well as Ireland. Hope you don't mind being "re-blogged". Great piece!
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