Cracking down on rough sleepers - BBC London
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- Westminster council is calling on the government to get tough on rough sleeping by migrants from Central and Eastern Europe. It says numbers on the streets have almost tripled in a year and some groups can be aggressive. So is the council right? BBC Inside Out investigates.
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"it's not about scooping them up" 30 seconds later: "I wish we could scoop them up". Just leave the people alone
WTF? The streets need to be cleansed.
@@manco828 you make it sound like a purge
Same council that probably takes most to court for not paying the council tax and gets them evicted
Oh yeah, like the Brits aren't sleeping rough.
Best to blame it on the immigrants.
Well said.
stfu!!!
Funny how the comments are a certain way when the immigrants are white
Go to the west end Waterloo station lower marsh, Oxford street & you will only see Romanian gypsies begger thefts making Britain dirty. They're not homeless they leave their country to beg in Britain.
It's not simply a question of 'blaming immigrants', there are specific reasons why immigrants are disproportionately represented in the homeless community and simply ignoring reality by claiming that facts are racists may make you feel better, but does nothing to help them.
“We were threatened as we filmed them” smh
That's called real "No Go Zone"
All foreign rough sleepers should be sent back home! As we have got enough problems with our own homeless! Why the hell are so many eastern Europeans coming to this country to live on the streets? It's is total madness!
Polish guy turned down the offer not because he wants to sleep on the street but because he doesn’t trust government officials. Who does these days?
agreed...many a homeless/rough sleeping Brit would be the same ...
Nuriddin Ashurov if you homeless European go back to your country
Nuriddin Ashurov If you from a EU country clearly you not at home but don’t let facts get in the way of delusions
I don't blame him. When you wake up, they'll put you on a bus or plane or train, drop you on the other side of the nearest border and act like they've done a good deed. All they've really done is uproot that person, left them once again with nothing, and they have to start all over again. The whole framing in this video of the govt officials lamenting that they can't just ship people en masse out of the country is absolutely disgusting.
Housing is too expensive and Britain no longer builds council estates so this is the result.
Shame on you BBC London! If I wanted to make a statement that all British people are mentally ill, I would find some schizophrenic Brits and make this biased generalization. I've been working in Chelsea and Westminster for over 7 years and had to deal with dozens of homeless people. As a matter of fact none of them were Eastern European. They were mainly British, Irish or from Middle East. And saying that there is a "good healthcare, housing and social services in Poland - he's choosing to sleep on the streets of London instead" is either a bad joke or an utter ignorance
"We don't have the power to send them home." Jesus Christ, that's the guy in charge of a program that you'd think would seek to help homeless people? What home do you think they have to go back to? Why else would people choose to live on the streets in the UK if there options in their home country weren't worse? Wouldn't it be better for everyone if you helped them get a permanent place to stay and a permanent place to work, rather than the official policy to be "scoop em' up, ship em' out"? This whole story is so slanted in a way to get you to view homeless people as dirty and criminal. In a word, undesirable. You should be ashamed of yourselves.
"Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed."
Man! just go down Warren Street station and walk towards baker Street. What will happen when ordinary working British people start sleeping rough. There is already enough people sleeping rough and it's not just eastern Europeans.
1 Word - Propaganda
Where's your humanity people? Your empathy? These people are suffering.
What makes you different from a vicious cruel animal, if not for your humanity? Even animals are more merciful than this.
How about instead you help them? And I mean real help, not a temporary relief of hunger but a constructive, pragmatic development of their character and thus capability of being of use to society. Through education, understanding, and respect for their pains and of what's caused them to be where they are.
Life is NOT a zero sum game.
And this is precisely why people voted BREXIT!
Skaterbun lol sure
Merkel wants to be tared and feathered than chased naked thru Europe. Oh what a site.
There are too many homeless people because rent is too high in london and jobs dont pay enough to pay for rent bills etc. Shame on the government for letting this happen
They don't even bother to clean around where they sleep. That tells a lot about what kind of people they are.
I get more about what kind of person you are from how you look at people stuck in the cycle of poverty.
@@mysticwizard1943 no mate he's correct they leave rubbish about ect always leave ur spot like u have never been there and yes i know from experience
i live in london, the vast majority of homeless people are english. Our government is cruel and has created a nationwide homeless problem through its policies. Its disgusting how many children and families are homeless in one of the richest countries in the world . . .
"just scoop them up", the women from Westminster council should be ashamed of herself. They're real people, not just some scum you can offload somewhere else, thats not dealing with a problem, that's moving the problem :P
@@gameflamer Listen to what she said. She said "It's not just about scooping them up and telling them to go home, but about understand that it's not a way to live"
Don't know what part of London you're from, but you certainly don't frequent Westminster and other areas of central London that have been rife with Roma for the last 9 or so years.
@@Cartoonman154 3:24 no she said ''the border agency could scoop and send the home, basically''
@Yussef Al-obaid
Richest country my a**e. The U.K. is now officially way down the pecking order in the “richest country” league.
Get your facts straight.
I don’t blame anyone but our current government. We are all susceptible of becoming homeless, things go wrong... we shouldn’t continue to pour the blame of our problems on those that are homeless.
"All part of living in a big city" Sadiq Khan.
Should have never come here to start with
Nickie Aiken, such a warm hearted krone..
Weird slant on this piece, BBC teamed up with The Daily Mail?
I see that they were being violent and that’s not right, but who in all honesty would take kindly to a stranger filming you when you are down and out on luck? I’ll be waiting.
This poxy "expectation" to be filmed in public thing is extremely pernicious.
Rough sleepers are at the receiving end of this arrogant privilege by other people.
Really disgusts me - burdening the disadvantaged in such a wicked manner.
At least they shouldn't trash the streets, I am sure there are trash bins around.
This is barbaric. That the solution you come to is deportation and not accomodation.
We should replicate the way Finland deals with Homelessness. It's the only EU country where Homelessness is in decline! Much of this is due to one NGO @t They take care of the constructing homes themselves, buy flats on the private housing market and renovate existing flats. The apartments have one to two rooms. In addition to that, former emergency shelters have been converted into apartments in order to offer long-term housing. Homeless people turn into tenants with a tenancy agreement. They also have to pay rent and operating costs. Social workers, who have offices in the residential buildings, help with financial issues such as applications for social benefits. The NGO receives discounted loans from the state to buy housing. Additionally, social workers caring for the homeless and future tenants are paid by the state. The Finnish lottery, on the other hand, supports the NGO when it buys apartments on the private housing market. The Y-Foundation also receives regular loans from banks. The NGO later uses the rental income to repay the loans.
Every homeless person I’ve met is British some ex forces to
I always give my loose change to them every time I can
Your hard earned money most likely being spent on drugs
It's these European rough sleepers that give our own uk rough sleepers a bad name, It's ridiculous that they only come here to get money just to send it back home.
You’ve had four years to think about what you said here. I hope that’s enough for some perspective.
Blame capitalism
Long DaY#%! You mean blame immigration
Government keep being greedy the more you be greedy the more homeless you going to deal with
Absolutely disguisting. People in developing countries like india and China don't have these squalid conditions for the working class.
M A yes they do
Have you been to India and China? No? Go - you're in for a surprise.
this is an economic problem, the free movement of people has created a glut of workers and discrimination for whatever reason has led these people to be homeless. It is not their fault when they are sold the British dream like many before them.
I see zero rough sleepers here. Greetings from Åland/Finland!
And not eaven in Tenerife where I stay over winter.
I would be surprised if they were, with the freezing temperature you guys have over there, they would die overnight.
ThatLamGuy yes you are so right, but I do not see rough sleepers eaven in Tenerife where I live winter time. How comes?
@@landlord5552 That's because Tenerife is not an overcrowded island. They don't have the amount of people London has. Not to forget that housing in the whole of the UK is a touching subject, the Tory government promised to build more homes but so far not that many have been builded
ThatLamGuy Welcome to Tenerife then...little tip..if you have some kind of cash flow then Canary Islands is optimal best place to live for europeans...sorry I forgot meaby UK is not Europa soon...
Reduce the costs of housing Rents and you will never see people sleeping on the streets again simple as that 👍
Must be pretty bad in Poland
We should do the same in the UK as they do in Denmark
And what's that?
In Demmark sleeping on the street is illegal .
Where should they go?
The government are full of bs 😤😤😤
And this was at the time overseas criminals was setting up shops in England the tory part is useless
I initially voted remain, but as each day passes, I become more convinced that Brexit was the correct decision! We also need to leave the EEA as well.
We need to criminalise this kind of behaviour. How did we get to the point that it is impossible to get them out? It is a huge burden on our economy and on the way that we want our cities and towns to look like. Just like in Venice, where the people are protesting the presence of cruise ships because it destroys the aesthetic way of the city. This is also a similar problem.
We have populations of migrants who not only destroy the working people of this country, but also destroy the aesthetic of Westminster by choosing to be homeless in order to send more money back to Romania, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria you name it! Eastern Europeans are now a new class in the liberal lefts beloved "protected victim classes" and it is destroying this country!
Also kudos to Denmark for doing what they have done!
There are hundreds of thousands of Eastern Europeans living, working and paying taxes in the UK. Only a small percentage of them sleep rough. I work in Kensington and Chelsea and had to deal with dozens of homeless people - as a matter of fact NONE OF THEM was Eastern European. They were either British, Irish or from Middle East. Clearly, you've been brainwashed
@@ventolininhaler1583 Have you watched the video? Also I've seen Eastern Europeans homeless too. I agree that there are loads of Eastern Europeans who are good people, but they are not all what you say they are.
In this video, the majority were clearly Eastern European. With regard to the Middle Eastern groups they are not bound by EEA rules because they are not citizens of any EEA country. But you're right about that, they regularly beg as a job and then when the day is done they leave in their Mercedes Benz (That actually happened). We should get them out too, either tend to be Middle Eastern or tend to be gypsies (from Romania).
I'm not brainwashed I know firsthand because friends of mine told me including one who is the furthest thing from a racist and who has to work as diversity admin roles.
Erm youre dumb. There are THOUSANDS of English people sleeping on the streets. Is Leave gonna help them? do you help them? do you go and serve food in soup kitchens? or do you sit behind computer that people are sleeping on streets that dont affect you.
@@TabsT-vy5jy English people are born in this country, we can't get them out. Homelessness isn't the problem in this case. Leaving or remaining in the EU isn't going to help the homeless either way, but at least in this scenario we decide how we run the economy when we leave which should help homeless people a lot more than staying in the EU. But the solution to homelessness isn't to bring in MORE homeless people from Europe. I have indeed volunteered in a soup kitchen and have donated to homeless charities.
I wonder what is happening to the homeless eastern europeans in London now that the UK is no longer a part of the European Union.
I’m from Romania 🇷🇴 please come to UK ASAP before end of March 2019 whole village has come x
You always paint this picture that EVERYBODY wants to be in Europe lol. ?Billions of us are happy in AFRICA and South America. Life is good here.
If every passer by pissed on them the streets would soon be clear.
No lady, over half are running to, not away, you don't wonder why it's majority men?
WELCOME TO TORY BRITAIN!
As a student it wasn't hard for me to find a part-time job in London 10 years ago. I have enough money from that job to pay rent ,food, transportation etc.
Yay with ur maintenance loan and student accommodation but people sleeping on the streets r not students r they
Part and parcel.
What the hell do EU Freedom of Movement rules have to do with being able to clear the streets of tramps and dossers?
If you come from another country and don't work then they should get out of the uk. Only working class people should be welcome in the uk not scroungers.
Feel sympathy for them but they make more money then normal people work for minimum pay.thats the reason they love to sleep in road.
That ranting woman must have had relatives in the Gestapo.
Also that homeless man with the heart condition knew that support workers devilish trap of offering him a warm bed, food and health support when the support worker ended the offer with that he will check out the homeless man's situaton meaning "immigration checks for deportation".
haha. Everyone I disagree with is a nazi.
@Cartoonman154
If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck....
@@shady7029 Have you enquired about taking in homeless people?
Yet if they're from the EU they still had a right to come back, so that's bollocks. Lots were found to accept deportation simply because it was a cheaper way of visiting home, then they'd be back over 2 weeks later.
@Cartoonman154
Have you failed to be an Immigration Border Guard?
The taxes i pay through being self employed helps pays for the needed Support & Housing for homeless people.
Thousands of empty council estate s.
No tbh scooping them up and making them go home is a better solution if u don't have work and can't get work just go back and try again at least u will have a better understanding
Well they closed most mental health hospital s.
scoop them up what a horrible cow
So are these people poor or do they have incomes and are sleeping rough?
defo think they not rich for starters and many rough-sleepers work/have an income/are erratically employed
Now that the UK has left the EU?
No one should sleep rough get lot worse
Why they have stop saying homeless people and prefer to say rough sleepers? Is it politically incorrect? No wonder why most U.K. citizens choose Brexit.
Poverty and unemployment isn't a crime. It may sound stupid but some people indeed prefer to sleep in pavements even if the authorities provide them a shelter. Also the Church of England isn't poor. What does it do for these unfortunate human beings.
UK is one of the richest countries in Europe. Many poor people all of the world that have the right for a better life in UK. Most of them are successful. But some of them fail. The result is misery, sometimes addiction to substances or easy money from criminal activities. It is easy to be a criminal when your life is worst than your life in a prison. You have nothing to loose.
PC HAS MADE THIS PROBLEM GET WORSE AND WORSE. COPPERS YEARS AGO USED TO SAY "MOVE ALONG" NO ONE ARGUED WITH A TRUNCHEON OR SIZE 11.
THE WEST IS BECOMING A "MAD MAX" FILM SET. GOD HELP US.
"Now if he wants to stay he can... even if it means living like this"
Points to rat infested rug on the floor after talking with a man who has a high likelihood of freezing to death this winter.
Gotta love the snide use of language in British culture.
Thank God for Brexit
deport
Why doesn’t she take them all in her house?
Plenty of empty bed rooms in Buckingham palace
its terrible when cracking down sleepers and rough get splinters in hands me man tells me you why when job i offer you dont want to thou you claim need 2
about a thou sand
Yes every homles person is from eastern Europe..most rough sleepers are British..
Good propaganda video
Also lets take a look at all the empty homes in the London and the rest of the UK - so important to keep them empty so that property prices can continue going up at an unsustainable pace
Is "rough sleeper" a British term for homeless people?
secret lee philmming has a filling potential im a philistine going forward ?
Send em home
of un dread
Migrants pay enough money in tax to cover the costs of the services they use several times over which is enough money for councils to deal with this. Stop complaining and use your money right.
good kick them out
Natives living on the streets while foreign criminals turn up and housed in 5 star hotels and given the same as a native jobseeker only they dont have to be looking for work. This will balloon as more time goes by ..mark my words.
I got a friend who died in barking ,London
Shame on UK government this politician don't think about humanity.
Give them a room and benefits and make them productive.
Society is the crime.
The "m" word that you use there, sounds like code for "enforcement".
What other methods are going to be used to disrupt the peace and quiet of a rough sleepers' existence??
Puts the one that are good people the bad ones mess it up for good homeless 😮
A crack down on people. How about help people. Not assume there all bad. They should have there story individual listen to. And then hopefully helped.
People can't be allowed to live like that.
Now forigners are being put into 4 or 5 star hotel while are own people r out on the streets get of boats at Dover put onto bus then taken to 4 to 5 star hotel while they wait on getting a house
Keep them in London,we already got them going to work out on the public parks like it’s a gym and the kids can’t even play😒
Romanians have destroyed London they are every where I managed to speak Romanian because that’s england second language apparently
Polish is England's second language...for now
@@vincentdeguard4726 in fact urdu(India) and bengali(Pakistan) is 2nd most spoken language apart from Welsh . Your comment refering to statistics from 2011 I guess
Dav serban how did you get this information i definitely would say more then a million just in London 💯
Vincent de Guard polish people came here a long time ago. I think polish people would never sleep on the streets of London.
@@kluchakiller Urdu (Pakistan), Hindi (India), Bengali (Bangladesh).
They give them free rooms and still prefer the streets..
bagger's problem is the system , till I die I pay for others ,nothing left me ,I have no problem with Europe people ,stop giving benefit to non British citizen .
the country of jordan has many new rough sleepers its a epidemic runaway situation 🤣
How awful can Poland be? Why in the hell would London, one of the most expensive cities in the world, be any better without money?
...take a trip to some of the poorest areas of Eastern Europe and find-out ...at the very least here there are public libraries to sit-in, free health-care and 24hr McDs where from someone might buy you a meal/hot-drink.
give all the benefit to them , make us pay more tax and work hard , if anyone uk citizen have been gone to any Europe country to ask for benefit or medical ,please comment I wont to see how many from uk got benefit and medical .
Brexit
And they have hands and feet they can go to work but they are lazy.
A lot of them choose to sleep rough so they are below the radar and they are not traceable by the police and local councils. They can live a life of crime to feed their heroin addiction
send them home !!!
Might have 😂😂😂😂😂
is rough sleepers a euphemism for homeless people?
What does a man who pays no rent/taxes or council tax ask for a days work?not the same as you or I.This lot and the luvvies who like and stand up for free movement,strange place London.
Stay in education, gain qualifications to not end up like this.
with automation, a lot of jobs will be destroyed in the near future. Unfortunately, even white collar jobs will be affected
A number of things can lead to homelessness.
You clearly don't understand the complexity of the situation. Some people with University Degrees still end up on the street
Yes you need more state programming
Ultima 1989 Pretty sure thats just a myth. Automation is far more expensive than paying humans doing the work,
London is gradually being defaced by rough-sleepers
Another Brexit benefit !
If I was ever homeless, I would apply for jobs relentlessly and do anything. I would go from shop to shop, farm to farm, factory to factory asking for work. I would then spend all my money on the cheapest accommodation available, saving and saving, until I had enough for a flat.
If Brexit implemented...all European citizens need to get visa in order to enter U.K.??...am I right??
Less street sleepers..less rubbish in the street..
Actually that's not true...
not an "If Brexit implemented"...it what sort of Brexit we get. think a great many are going to be disappointed.
Elizabeth how can you be so heartless and simplistic
Funny... when they say that all of them want to stay in UK. My brother lost his job because of the pandemic and than got kicked out of his room. Boarders were closed and he couldn't go back home!
How sad.
I have no remorse for homeless people that drink