i know it's on your list i see it anything but a lump of coal although i don't know. but. since two thousand and ten the number of rough sleepers in the u.k. has increased by over fifty percent that means literally thousands around the street every night. i was 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 me. blankets which is going to be void of course let's run. just a bowl of water. something hats. hopefully

put people in a good mood. and it's now. clean myself a bit less and also. 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 some sweets. 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. is there any way around. it is

korea today you know. no place you see the money going gets me three times. and on the ground yet enough enough to. keep chickens. it was what i was hoping to. great news honey 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. it's a humorous fun minutes bring my son's wants over days.

but. really just sleep oh. ok. she says christ just absolutely if. people buy in the door. and this one coming down i just a may have been gay people to quit. i didn't expect my daughter to. feel so ashamed to ask people. to feel about and have to do that to get to vote to get a boy. to. the bus on which. to sophie to fettle day. like slush fund it. short.

of being told to post things are starting to move the. thing that makes you feel worse he was. doing chips and people to see how they were feeling the time . and this is the only thing out here to keep him happy in a as each time a territory adds to even though nothing him i have 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 the older sister. in a she asks me nearly every day and some i say yeah. yeah when i'm in the back on

the end 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 permits person must meet 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 is just a lucky break wolf i can't get past because i can't let my thoughts down consistent to face like six weeks at least if i was to stop that and. yet. these discussions reminded me just how close we moved to christmas. there was

celebrations going on around me but they don't mean much if you've got nothing 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 synastry see if i can find is going to spurs just for a smoke free food it. looks like christian church setups tables or even bill see how it's. on most. of us would be lovely.

soup loves soup thank you very much think you. make it on that specific. thing. i think i speak for. iced tricep in dying else. but i think it's my go and help me i go it treats every sin did your family or yeah. we can't take all the time because my dogs soil american oil. they just want to stink on top of me just kids yeah i love free code and. if you want to start to like him he's. behind you.

it's not no one resort in iraq for eight year old son eight year old boy sixteen year old to. play through boy. oh boy. i'm sorry mom prozac ostracize. them into the night last night i just i just typed in my state source took it. away and christmas right write. stories like monks read to come in the first circle of drink and drugs which leads to using everything. destroyed here in the oxycontin the richest parts of the u.k. is filled with people silly compulsion every night finds just a button to sleep. when you're close because you run out of the know better. but for

good traits i crave a day in jail. as unpleasant because. on issues. like this as i'm a. part of the obama. white house lewis who took. the fight yeah sure but smart if you controlling people 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 war you like you only. lose a little bit. of the mummy was good at least of which were killed i could probably release some elisas my way of life possible lol.

any sympathy i have for critiques quickly aerated some people don't deserve it. forced. me scuse me goes you don't fish for those tickets going to show say. your opposition thank you very much that's what you want to was funded very much so yes. mostly about the trouble cause it gets me on the ground yes maybe warm up is also take me up soon surface bush. so this is a place i found. great commission ministry. just down here i don't know where they are making their odd choice in the next quiet.

because if i didn't realize already this is the spring of horrible. two mice when i must i think they were mice type of us were to remember my feet so. there's no glamour in the slush. fund only been on the streets one day that it been cold humiliating and frightening to some of them 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. something catchy

when you feel. you know world of big. law and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bath shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. what holds us institutionally to. put themselves on the lawn. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president or injury. or somehow want to be rich.

but you'd like to be cross this is what before three in the morning can't be good but. i'm interested always in the waters of our. small seemed wrong when old roles just don't call. me old yet to say proud disdain comes to educate and in games from an equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground the.

my son doing drugs my nephews was still in drugs my sister just been doing drugs it was like an epidemic of drug abuse america's public enemy number one in the united states is drug abuse he started going after the users in the prison population sewer we started treating sick people people who are addicted to these drugs like criminals while i was on the hill. then the war on drugs. there are countless numbers of people who are in prison for. the sins for warren or minor offenders in the drug trade it's a lot watching your children grow up and miss you in wave and say by day as you're walking out of this it's just it doesn't get easier.

to stay. you know. maybe. even at least. in the streets was more than enough for me the hundred discomfort with enough but the humiliation was worse but it was soul destroying jobs bill money to find a way i wanted to spend christmas eve with some people who took their lives back on track. because. well thanks very much.

absolutely. property losses. from the oss projects were in intervention same. you know people talk addictions. the differences might small it's massive absolutely massive. to get my life back on track he when you leave stray hardness you don't realize just what an impact the has on someone's life it's. you know you have to get used to sharon again you have to get used to cookie right music and when you came in i guess you didn't have nothing is now i had. the clothes on the back when i when i came here i had a pair of jeans. pair of trainers with holes in that was it kind it with without the opportunity if these guys given me

a nose where i'd be. going weeks. this is a very. simple. way . of doing script. he was on the streets in prison from the age of eighty. to show me some of his old who. were little to. nothing.

yes he says he sees this is the school yeah welcome to the school this is here you see where i still reside just. as you can say you know this makeshift just because the way you guys. yes definitely want. you know where you're more welcome to if you wish but you know there's a makeshift beds you can see people's bedrooms this is people's belongings these people with the stuff in the cold in here he says oh people's belongings you can say there's actually. you know. down there you know mine is still very fitting call . on now on the understanding that there's about four of us now on the understanding

this for four. odious lot was a little opened up yes all good old swear words board saw a few much you know what i'm gone that was open space so they're used to refer you know i used to get. bins if it's a. position to 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 i would actually pick yeah. squeeze the skin thinking that there was stuff on the naif my skin and if i couldn't get it out i'll get annoyed and all cuts myself yeah and then get the knife and start taking it so hard to get these bits out of nothing.

on my chest same same thing just the written self shreds of lakes just rip my self destructs my. snow my you know one point i saw us saying this but life ike's was one big step you know yeah i was just you know just to cults a lot out just tell myself straight school old i thought. eventually lewis was picked up by an outreach team and goes into temporary accommodation he's now trying to give back by working with an old guys nation which deals with the homeless the local authorities council willing to help. but he's refused his most dangerous social he went into the street right in front of my eyes.

you can be a long and painful journey away from homelessness and addiction and lunchtime moment twin brothers kevin and brian toohey they're experienced as ex junkies and they lived rough and closed havoc on the streets of sight of the turn of the century and the. baby is moving slowly. you know don't think you much and they don't but he'll. tell me no i didn't get it for you to do it just moved up a little bit today if people here don't have manged they moved out yeah i was too slow chains the bench is missing in this one but. i'll. write. myself i have no special. way. really

dangerous and yet i can always population wherever. consisting of a. long violin can move people out of here over. pagans be yes when i'm out of it people pay for food for almost a week of a printing press that was one fame along here we feel. over those then you know the homeowner. kind of the early years in a row of a girl. i was caught i am i being run so i can fail the money had been stolen and i was aware of it what with just it was it just because of the drugs that you state here is money. you can handle off when we got us then the one who. left the square piccadilly circus yeah it was right with tourists and they're just waiting to get ripped off easy easy easy fifteen years

ago the brothers were fish around this area the brand is now just cave in the setup isn't addiction recovery consultancy it took a terrible personal tragedy to make him turn this month around our son kevin was try their way through a lot of similar passed away from over the years i am less than really. sixty though i know. how hard way i myself know bill. myself to go get my vision called who won over coverage i know i can so fit on a bench in recovery from addiction of a passive horse you know hopeless i think. that's half the battle it seems just finding the will to carry on the next day we drift into kevin's home by the seaside sleepy. during a bunch of money because finally christmas day. at eight makes me crazy or start. i mean telling us you're the star of that you're the star of the of

the kitchen they made all this stuff we have to see we have to have you it's hard to do anything else you know because you do t.v. you look if you look great. i happen. i was a woman go. how many meals have you done with ten thousand sixty five today yes yes if you think it's just that. we might not have responded because it's brought on this meal scenario friend. yeah yeah. yeah yeah yeah i like. christmas is a family holiday for many years the twins of celebration with those who's going no where else to go today is no different. to the key rule trimmings for everyone.

go home with me. out of the house is a bit oh yeah yeah yeah you could still get it. 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. there might just be a few days in the misrule year but it's clear the holiday still gives people hope i've waited to open a college been given by. a few words that remind me just how lucky i really am.

i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crimes happen each day. eighty five percent of global wealth you longs to be ultra rich eight point six percent market saw thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred to five hundred trade per second per second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building a two point one billion dollar a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need

remember in one one business shows you can't afford to miss the one and only boom bust. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race based on off and spearing dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk.

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