but you don't really feel like a human being you know. and then. the guy this came over smithsonian gave me this book. christmas is about wolves 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. myself

. yes but i have said. well i know it's on your list. i see it anything but a lump of coal although i don't know. 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 of that first night out i change them sometimes of clothes packed a plastic bag. i have no idea where i'm going to spend christmas or even where i'm going to sleep. classes me. groups a few things but not too much with them. blanket's which is going to be pointless

goes let's. just about the war some. sense of what's. good for the people in a good mood. it's how. to clean myself a bit less at all so. that a bit suits based. 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 full always begging for enough money to get me some sweets. so that's the first part of the plan to get. this regularly fit by looking at charities but i have no idea when. i need some

advice from someone. me but surely we need to screen all food stage you know. the place use the money go to go since we. must give up trying to get enough enough to. keep charities. 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 no fields for it if i was going to eat it was going to have to pick. a muscle to sculpt something. it's a few months five minutes. bring myself to what's mr chase.

but. really just sleaze him oh it's. ok if. she says christ just absolutely if. people buy in the believe. and this one coming down the just a may have been gay people to quit. i didn't expect that or do. they feel so ashamed to ask people. to just below feel about and have to do that to get to vote to get boy. to. the bus on which. to sophia how do they.

fight such funds. short. of being told what it was things being said to the. thing that makes you feel was he was. going to turn to some people to see how they were feeling the time. that this is the anything out here they came from have been in a as each time a territory i'd stay even though nothing him i have nothing else in life. lisa has been home. yes for two years now she's battled alcoholism drug addiction

and the little girl now lives with their older sister. in a she asks me every day and some i say yeah. yeah when they need that money and she's starting to stop asking now has been said no 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 persons meets a number of different criteria since lisa doesn't tick the right books since she faces an uncertain future. but yeah yeah i've been so long time now i just have nothing for it wolf i can't get past because i can't let my killa down consistently to face like six weeks at least if i was to stop that had.

these discussions reminded me just how close we moved to christmas. there was celebrations going on all around me 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 to fall sick so i'm heading down towards cherry hill sinestro to see if what the point is going to spurs with just those three. little christian churches set up some tables or even bills you know because.

let me. not. be lovely. but at the soup i love soup thank you very much i think you. make it on that specific look. i think i speak for. i see tricep in danielle's dream. but i was thinking gal it's my joe day and how they are going to treat every sin did your family oh yeah. we're staying on time because my lifestyle i married my old guy they just they want to stay on top of me just kids yeah i was afraid

oh do that. if you want to start to say i can't be sick. to hard to be. honest no one sponsoring my love eight year old saw an eight year old boy sixteen to. twenty five year old boy and yet of course i am showing off pro shops for us. to mean to say tonight i'm sorry i just i just try to. stay source of. play and not be christmas write write. stories like me to come in the first circle of drink and drugs which leads to using everything. destroyed here in the uk sometimes the richest parts of the u.k.'s filled with people slowly i'm conscious every night on the child's list but in one sitting.

when your clothes make because you run out of the no. one bucket or. trace that i create a then jail. as unpleasant lusciousness on issues. because as i made this part of the arm up. was quite loose who is to. have a fight yeah what about smart if you controlling people fit and i don't know i notice or any of this is very much easier said than done as you go i mean we. still are so used to store in the meantime. i'll. ignore you like you only. lose a little bit. out of the muck me wasn't getting any subjects were killed i could

probably released still uses only apply possible. to the sympathy for critiques critique for its it some people didn't deserve it it . was just. scuse me goes you don't fish for those tickets why so say. you all this you thank you very much that's all you want it was fun to very much serious. mostly about the trouble cause it gets me on the ground gets me a bit warm up. so i see separates bush. so this is a place i found the great commission. ministry. just

down here but they were making their own choice in the next boy. look. as if i didn't realize already this is the spray of horrible. but to my swan i'd much rather they were more us type of us were to remember my feet so. there's no glamour in the slush. but only been on the streets one day that it had been cold humiliating and frightening for some of the family in that stairwell to kind of attack me of any time. i could easily see why drugs or

alcohol would act as a way to block out which reality. you need help to consent to have someone could shoot me for. 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. one else shows seem wrong. when all rolls just don't call. me world yet to shape our disdain and become educated and in gains from it because betrayal . when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common

ground. my son 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 abusers 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 i increasingly became convinced that the war on drugs. there are countless numbers of people who are in prison for. a long sentence and for minor minor offenders in the drug trade it's a lot watching your children grow up and miss you in waves and say by daddy as you're walking out of this it's just it doesn't get easier.

maybe. even at least.

on the streets more than enough. the hunger and discomfort enough of the humiliation was worse. was soul destroying. many to find what. 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 loss. from the us this projects were an intervention same with. 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 it's. you know you have to get used to sharon again you have to get used to cooking or i'm used again when you came in i guess you didn't know nothing is now i had. the clothes on the back when i when i came here i had a pair of jeans all. pair of trainers with holes in that was it that's all i can eat with without the opportunity if these guys given that to me are you know where i'd be. going weeks. very. single. thank. you so much for doing script.

he was on the streets in prison from the age of the. see he going to show me some of his old haunts. a little old. home of the. white. castle he's saying. i don't know. yet he says he sees this is the school yeah welcome to the school this is you see where i still reside so. as you can say you know there's makeshifts just be careful where you guys. live yeah yeah definitely want to go but you know we're more than 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 code in here he says oh people's belongings you can say that there's actually. you know. down there you know i most of mine is still very phonecall built. i'm now on 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 board saw a few much you know what i'm gone that was always open spice said in a used to refer you know i used to get. the name written on time because if it's

a cold well we had all bets positions the snow would actually come up so when i walk. right in front of. me and i. louis's addiction was at its strongest here it was suffering from chronic psychosis. these moxy are i would actually pick yeah. squeeze the skin thinking that there was stuff crawling on then they for my skin and if i couldn't get it out like that i'll get a knife and all cuts myself if'n 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 same thing just the written self shreds of oil down my legs just rip my self destructs my. you know one point i thought i was saying this but my face was one big scab. yeah it was just a just a cult that just tear myself to shreds all day.

eventually louis was picked up by an outreach team and goes into temporary accommodation is 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 mr don't do social he went into withdrawal right in front of my eyes. you. know. 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 six junkies and they lived rough and closed havoc on the streets of soap at the turn of the century and the. boat is moving slowly. you know don't stick.

in a yelp and he'll. tell me no don't even. if we take it to just really dug up a little bit today these people here do nothing still they moved out. yeah will solution all change the bench is missing need is for boat to. go. right up the ten it should be always effing up those patients. really dangerous and yet i can always population rivers. consisting of a long violent crime moved in people i'll go over. pagans be seen them are good people for

a profit or almost kill we come up with twenty friends there was one fame along here but we feel how much we over those then you know three o'clock in the morning . kind of in a lean years in a row of a girl. i was caught and i am i being run so i can smell the money had been stolen and i was left of it what with just it was it just because of the drugs that you stay here it is money. you can in the law when we got us then the one that threw. leicester square piccadilly circus yeah it was right with tourists and they're just waiting to get ripped off easy easy easy fifty six to prove this was a serious look at the brand is now just in the set up to send addiction recovery consultancy. a small change to make it into this month around our son kevin tries a way through right similar price that we have over those. less than really. sixty

though i know. a lot of way myself you know bill. myself you go guys this. cold war over coverage i have been so far on adventure in recovery from a veteran of the passive force you know hopeless i think the proud heritage. 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 money it was finally christmas day. at a bank keep me right here in stock and i tell people if you're the star of that you're the star of the of the kitchen has made all this stuff we have to see we have to have you already do we tell you to move as you do t.v. to me look if you look great. and. i was a woman go. how many meals have you

done with ten thousand sixty five today yes yes it would be the good stuff i guess . we might have to split because it's rod was this big deal scenario right quick. yeah yeah. yeah yeah yeah i like. christmas is a family holiday but for many years the twins of celebrate stick with those you've got nowhere else to go onstage is no different. to the key rule trimmings for everything. that.

i go on with me oh my goodness how did you got sick of it oh yeah yeah yeah you. 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 cause i've been given by. a few words that reminds me just lucky i really am.

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