i've always been lucky i had a great education a good job and enough money to live on. nuts worry about where i would sleep i could eat but now i'm facing christmas alone out on the streets. to come to this. but it is just so awful i wasn't you know disappointed in the food still give out food for the homeless to. her. life. because you don't really feel like a human being you know. and then. the guy this came over smithsonian gave me this book of.

christmas is about whoops love and family but there are so many people in the u.k. that have none of these things i want to see what it was like to be almost on the signs to go through christmas as a homeless person. place other. yes but i have said. well i know it's on your list i see it anything but a lump of coal. no i don't know. that. since

two thousand and ten the number of rough sleepers in the u.k. has increased by over fifty percent that means literally thousands are out on the street every night. i wasn't going to have enough time to really understand homelessness but everyone has to face the fear that first night house i changed some types of clothes back to plastic back. i have no idea where i'm going to spend christmas or even where i'm going to sleep. the week. groups a few things but not too much with. blankets which is going to be void of course let's run. just a bowl of water. something that's. hopefully

put people in a good mood. and it's how. to clean myself a bit less and also more. troops brush. that a bit suitcase. but i have no money. and i haven't eaten anything and the only way i'm going to get to eat something is on the boat finding it's all. begging for enough money to get me something to eat. and that's the first. time this regularly fed by looking at charities but i have no idea when. i need some advice from someone. me but is there any way around it is communal food today you know. no place you see the money going gets me three

times now. and i'm trying to get enough enough to. keep chickens. it was what i was hoping to. great news i'm too late and give out food around here first thing in the morning so i'll miss what chaunce. there was nothing else for it if i was going to eat i was going to have to make. the most of us folks. get to much fun in that sport and bring myself to. mr chase. but. really just says he needs him oh. ok.

she says christ just absolutely if. people buy in the door. and this one kind guy just a may have been gay people to quit. i didn't expect that or do. you feel so ashamed to ask people. to feel about you have to do that to get to vote to get boy. to. the bus on which. the so feel better with a. place that funds. which.

i've been told to cause things just to move the. thing that makes me feel worse he was. going to turn to some people to see how they were feeling the time. that this is the anything actually to keep them happy in a as each time a territory i'd stay even though nothing him i had nothing else in life. lisa has been homeless for two years now she's battled alcoholism drug addiction and a little girl now this with our older sister. in a she asks me every day and come i say at. the end when they need that money and

she's starting to stop asking now has been said no but i didn't. qualify for a lot of the hospitals because i wasn't mentally ill enough i didn't score enough points to not play. in order to get social housing for most persons meets a number of different criteria since lisa doesn't tick the right books since she faces an uncertain future. yeah yeah i have it's own time now i just a lucky break wolf i can't get past because i can't let my thoughts down consistent to face like six feet at least if i was to stop that. and yet. jesus cones reminded me just how close we moved to christmas. there was celebrations going on all around me. don't mean much if you've got to spend.

but they're all good people if you give up the money and time to spread a little festive cheer. it's just going to all fall sick so on heading down towards cherry hill sinestro see if i can find is going to spurs just for a smoke free food and it. looks like christian church setups people's memories and tells you it's. on most. of us would be lovely. soup loves soup thank you very much think you. make it on it's

perfect. i think i speak for. myself try setting. me out but i think it's my go and help me i go it freaks ever since did your family or yeah. we can't stand all the time because my soil america oh oh. they just they want to stink on top of me just kids yeah i love free code. if you want to start to like him he's. been hard to. understand what sort of i thought it was. saw an eight year old boy of

sixteen to. twenty five year old boy's. body with him sir non-pros ross wrote signed. him into the night last night i just i just typed in my state source ok i. am not your business right write. stories like me to come in the first circle of drink control which leads to using everything. just right here in the home sometimes the richest parts of the u.k. is filled with people fully complete every night miles just. to loosing. a million. when you're close because you run out of the you know that. one bucket or. trade that i create a danger

a way. as unpleasant as the shell on the ships. because as i made this part of the arm up. was quite serious who took. i don't know how to fight yeah sure but smart if you controlling people fit and i don't know i know us or any of this has been much easier said than done as you go i mean we. still are so used to store in the mean time. i love. the lorry like you only. really took in these movies the religious. zealot of the mummy was good at least of which were killed i could finally released so he loses my way of life possible lol. any

sympathy i have for critiques quickly aerated some people don't deserve it. forced . to be skinny go if you don't push for those tickets by the show and say. your position thank you very much that's why you want to was funny very much not serious . mostly about the trouble cause it gets me on the ground yes maybe warm up is also take me up soon surface but. so this is a place i found. great commission ministry. just down here i don't know where they are making their own choice in the next boy.

as if i didn't realize already this is the spring of horrible. two mice one of the most i think that they were mice type of us were to run over my feet. there's no glamour in the slush. fund and even on the streets one day that it had been cold humiliating and frightening for someone to me in that stairwell the kind of time we have any time. i could easily see what drugs or alcohol would act as a way to block out which reality. you need help to consent to have someone can choose meaningful.

just manufacture them sentenced to the public will. when the ruling closest to protect them so. when the flaming. lips be the one person. doing the middle room sit. room. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race. theory dramatic development only loosely i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical

time to sit down and talk. to greek riots occupy wall street arab spring these are the beginnings of the home of the protest across europe today it was all connected it's all based on the exact same concept of bankers printing too much money creating this wealth and income gap and it's delayed or deferred riot you know it's true that the violence was baked into the cake and now leaders like black hole are getting their just deserts. closer look. no. i mean.

these. in the streets was more than enough for me. enough but the humiliation was worse. it was soul destroying. i wanted to spend christmas eve with some people who got their lives back on track. very good. things went very well thank you very much could. have seen.

this property lost. from the isis projects they were an intervention same. people who talk addictions. the difference a massive absolutely massive. this enabled me. to get my life back on track he when you leave stray homeless you don't realize just what an impact that has on someone's life. you know you have to get used to sharon again you have to get used to cooking your i mused again when you came in i guess you didn't know nothings now i had. the clothes on the back when i when i came here i had a pair of jeans on. a pair of trainers with holes in that was it that's all i can hit with without the opportunity if these guys given that to me are you know where i'd be. i

thought weeks quit tough very tough single out on. your site. when. you submit the doing script we were he was on the streets new minutes prison from the age of eighteen he's going to show me some of his old haunts. a little old woman is. nothing. like. my. wife. ok so he's saying. i don't. know. yet he says he sees this is the school yet locums of the school they saw us this is here to see where i still reside so.

as you can say you know there's makeshifts just be careful where you take guys. as a. little bit careful yeah yeah definitely want to go straight forward but you know we're more welcome so if you wish off down there but you know there's a makeshift beds you can see people's bedrooms this is people's belongings these people with stuff here look cold in here he says oh people's belongings you can say that there's actually. you know a proper bed down there you know i must have money strober a phonecall killed. while . i'm now on the understanding that there's about four of us now on the understanding this for four of them now. odious lot was. yes all

good old swear words boards i feel much you know what i'm gone yeah that was all open space so there used to refer you know i used to get cold in there at nighttime big sophistical where we had our beds positions the snow would actually come up so when i walk. right in front of. me and i lose his addiction was at its strongest he was suffering from chronic psychosis. these moxy are i would actually pick yeah. squeeze the skin thinking that there was stuff crawling on the naif my skin and if i couldn't get it out i'll get a knife and all cuts myself open yeah and then get the knife and start thinking it's hard to get these bits out mahseer nothing near the hotel is well over my chest same thing same thing just the written shreds of the legs just let myself

to shreds make. you know one point i thought i was saying this but my face was one big scab. yeah it was just just to close like that just tear myself to shreds all will die. eventually louis was picked up by an outreach team and goes into temporary accommodation he's now trying to give back by working with an organization which deals with the homeless that the local authorities can't going to help. but he's refused his must use social he went into the street right in front of my eyes. you. know. you can be a long and painful journey away from homelessness. and addiction and lunchtime and

twin brothers kevin and brian toohey their experiences exchange keys and their lives rough and close traffic on the streets of sides of the end of the century. taking place is moving the really. don't stick you much in a you don't buy deal. so i mean that's just the beginning for you to get to just really dug up a little bit today these people here do nothing still they moved up and yeah yeah yeah i will sue so chains the banks he's going to say need this but go to. my. head she'll be always f. ing up those patients. really dangerous and yet i can always population never. confessed in

a very. long violent the move came people out of here over. megan's big thing i'm out of here people pay for food for almost daily kind of a printing press and i was one frame along here with the playfield how i flew over the earth then you know the hormone. kind of thing of the news and both of us going to know i woke up and i am i didn't run so i can fail the money had been stolen and i was left of it was just it was it just because of the drugs that you state here is money. you can handle off when we got you know less than the one that saw. leicester square piccadilly circus yeah it was right with tourists and they're just waiting to get rid of all these easy bodies it's fifteen years ago the brothers were fish around this area that brian is now and this time kevin. set up his own addiction recovery consultancy it took

a terrible personal tragedy to make him turn this month around how the thought of caring what ties your way grow rice in a way across the way for a woman. i am less than really. sixty four though i know what i read like i walk by myself i don't feel. my southie god i've written called who will overcome me i know i can so put on a venture in recovery from a veteran of the passive force you know hopeless i think you'd be proud or if. that's half the battle it seems just finding the will to carry on the next day we drove down to kevin's home by the seaside sleeping. during a bunch of the money that was finally christmas day. at the make me right here a stock that i tell people if you're the star of that you're the star of the of the kitchen was a made all this stuff we have to see we have to have you already do we go to movies

you do t.v. you look at you you look great. but i think. i was a willing go. how many meals have you done we'll tell you that sixty five today yeah yeah it would be good i guess that. we might not have that he was disbelief because it's rod was this because you know frank. yeah yeah. yeah yeah yeah i was like. christmas is a family holiday but for many years the twins of celebration stick with those you've got nowhere else to go and stay is no different. to the key rule trimmings for everyone.

that. i. know you run a little bit on me but the broad good idea that i got through the day i heard a. good citizen a little bit. but missed out on christmas with my family but there was real christmas spirit in that school as much as i hated being out in the streets i love being a postman. it might just be a few days in a miserable year but it's clear that the holiday still gives people hope i've waited to open a call or been given by a young man a few words that remind me just how lucky i really am.

what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president bush or. more somehow want to. have to go right to be press was like before three in the morning can't be good for . i'm interested always in the waters about how. question. my son versus doing drugs my nephews was still in drugs my sister just with doing drugs it was like an epidemic of drug abuse america's public enemy. number one

in the united states is drug abuse which is sort of one of the users in the prison populations who are we started treating sick people people who are addicted to these drugs like criminals while i was on the hill i disagree with. the war on drugs. there are countless numbers of people who are in prison for. long sentences for boring or minor offenders in the drug trade it's a lot watching your children grow up and miss you in waves and say bye daddy as you're walking out of a business it's just it doesn't get easier. to . come to russia no one's ever no one has ever heard of and never even heard about

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