but it is just so awful i wasn't you know disappointed in the food still give out food for the most of. her. life. but you don't really feel like a human being you know. and then. the guy this came over smithsonian gave me on stage of this book and.

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 on the top the signs to go through christmas as a homeless person. myself . yes but i have said. well i know it's on your list. anything but a lump of coal although 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 was going to have enough time to really understand homelessness but everyone has to face the fear of that first night. i changed some

types of clothes packed a plastic pack. i have no idea where i'm going to spend christmas or even where i'm going to sleep. because of the. 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. sometimes it's. hopefully put people in a good mood. and it's. clean myself a bit less and also. that a bit. 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 following it's all. begging for enough money to get me some sweets. and that's the first. time this regularly fit by looking at charities but i have no idea when. i need some advice from someone. me but surely we need this communal food today you know. the place you sit in one we go to get something to eat. now also it's on. you know get up and run yet enough enough to. argue that this. was what i was hooked.

great news honey i'm too late then to 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 a small. it's a humorous five minutes before i bring myself to what's mr chase. but. really just says he believes in him oh it's. ok if. she says christ just absolutely if. people buy in the believe. and that one kind guy just a may have been gay people have 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 a boy. to do it to. them by some which. just so feel better with a. like slush fund. charged for. being told what it was things just seem to. thing that makes you feel with. the wind and some people to see how they were feeling the time.

this is the anything actually the case and have been in a as each time a territory i'd stay even though nothing in 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 some i say yeah. yeah when i'm in the back on the end she's starting to stop asking now has been said 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 homeless 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 i just have nothing wolf i can get past because i can't let my thoughts down consistently to face like six weeks at least if i was to stop that. and yet. these discussions reminded me just concludes we will have to christmas. there was celebrations going on all around me but it didn't mean much if you've got nothing to spend. but they're all good people who give up the money and time to spread a little festive cheer.

it's just going full force six so on heading down towards charing cross in a stretch to see if i can find this going to spurs just enough smoke free food and it. looks like christian church setups tables queries until see how 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. tricep in dying else.

but i think it's my joe day in hell they are going to treat every scene did you know family or. staying on time because my ex although i married my old. atheist they want to stay on top of me just kids yeah i love free oh do that. if you want to start to like him he's. been hard to. understand what sort of i thought for. sure an eight year old boy sixteen year old who are. fighting for a group of boys. some sort of procedure for us. the men to say tonight i'm sorry i just i just took my state store stuff. play and not be 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 homes in london the richest parts of the u.k. is filled with people feel every night finds little. to lose sleep. when you're close because you run out of the you know that. one bucket or. trait that i create a danger a way. as unpleasant because. one issues. this is a major. part of the obama. wife who is who is to.

have a fight yeah sure but smart if you controlling people and i know i know i know us or any of this is very much easier said than done as you go i mean we. still are so you have to store in the meantime. i love. for you like you only. really took. louise a little bit. with the look of the mummy was getting at least of which were people who i could probably release some elisas my way of life lost a little. to the sympathy i had for critiques quickly for its it some people didn't deserve it. or just. the scuse me goes you know because for those tickets placed on say. your publisher thank you very much that's why you want to was funded very much not serious.

mostly about the trouble cause it gets me on the ground gets me a bit warm up also take me up soon surface bush. so this is a place i found the great commission ministry. just down here i don't know where they are making their own choice in the next boy. so why didn't realise already this is the spray of horrible. two mice one of most

of the things that they were must have of course already run over my feet so. there's no glamour in the slush. fund and even on the streets one day the discipline colt humiliating thing frightening for some and for me in that still world a kind of tell me of 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 catch me from. joining me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then.

seemed wrong. but old rules just don't hold. any belief yet to stamp out disdain becomes agitated and engagement equals betrayal. when something find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. the 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 think i'm gap and it's a delayed or deferred riot you know it should be there violence was baked into the

fiat's cake and now leaders like black hole are getting their just desserts. my seven 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 started going after the users in the prison population who are we started treating sick people people who are addicted to these drugs like criminals while i was on the hill. that the war on drugs was a mistake there are true with numbers of people who are in prison for. certain sins for owner minor offenders in the drug trade it's a lot watching your children grow up and miss you in waves and saved by daddy as you're walking out of a business it's just it doesn't get ease. close

the longest it may look a little snow. maybe. the cumulative beast. in the streets was more than enough for me the hunger and discomfort with enough but the humiliation was worse. it was soul destroying. many to find

a way 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. have signified a subsidy. get this property lost. from the isis projects or an intervention same with truck. able to drug addictions. the difference a massive absolutely massive. enabled me. to get my life back back on track he when you leave stray highness you don't realize just what an impact that has on someone's life. it's. you know you have to get used to sharon

again you have to get used to cooking or are music and when you came in i guess you didn't know things now i had. the clothes on my back when i when i came here i had a pair of jeans all. pair of trainers with holes in that was it kind it with or without the opportunity if these guys given that to me are you know where i would be. very. useful to mr doing script. he was on the streets in prison from the age of eighteen . to show me some of his old hoots. of the old.

home of the. past so he's not. yet he says he sees this is the school yeah welcome to the school this is here you see where i used to reside so. as you can say you know this makeshift is just be careful where you take guys. yeah yeah definitely want to go. 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 here look cool in here he says oh people's belongings you can say there's actually. you know the man is still very fitting cocktail.

i'm now in the understanding that there's about four of us now on the understanding that's for four of them now. odious lot was a little opened up yes all good old swear words bored so if you much you know what i'm gone that was all open space so they're used to refer you know i used to get. because if it's a. position to the snow it 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 always actually pick yeah.

squeezed 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 i'll cut myself open and then get the knife and start taking it so hard to get these bits out of nothing the. same same thing just the written. she's written a self destructs make. you know one point. of saying this but life ike's was one big step. just to see just. tear myself to shreds. was picked up by an outreach team and goes into temporary accommodation he's now trying to give back on working with an isolation which deals with the local authorities willing to help.

but he's reduced his mr dangerous so sharply he went into the street right in front of my eyes. when you turn the. clock. it 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 topic on the streets of sides of the turn of the century and the. taking of a baby is moving the really. don't stick you much and they end up and he'll. tell me no good to be good for you to do it just moved up a little bit today if people here do nothing still they moved out. yeah yeah

yeah i will sue so chains the bench is missing it is for both. my. head she'll be always f. ing up no space you. were. really doing just that and yet i can always population. consisting of a long violin coming from people out of here over. pagans yet when i'm out of it people i prefer are almost always kind of a friend of friends i was one time along here with this queer feel how my form of the earth then you know the hormone. kind of the early years in a row never going to know how i woke up i am tired been running. i can

fail the money has been stolen and i was aware of it what would you stick with 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 we're. just waiting to get rid of all these easy bodies it looks like fifteen years ago the brothers were feared around this area the brand is now notice to cave in the set up is an addiction recovery consultancy it took a terrible personal tragedy to make him turn this month around our son kevin was try their way through actually the way across the way for a woman. i am less than really. sixty four though i know for a like i was by myself oh bill and myself a dog and i've written called who won over coverage i know i can so put on eventually recovered from a veteran of the passive horse you know homeless i think you'd be proud of you.

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 sleepy. during a bunch of money it was finally christmas day. that's it make me crazier stuff and i can tell you're the star of that you're the star of the of the kitchen has made all the stuff we have 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. if i was willing. how many meals have you done we chatted about sixty five today yes yes it would be good i guess. we like. he responded well i don't consider the rod was just

a real scenario frank. yeah yeah. yeah yeah yeah i like. this this is a family holiday for many years the twins of celebration with those who got nowhere else to go today is no different. to the key rule trimmings for everyone. i. know you're wrong on with me the brotherhood did not say. yeah you could still sit on 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. 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 college been given by. a few words that remind me just how lucky i really am. how.

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