but it is just so awful i wasn't you know disappointed in the food still give up food for the most of. her. life. because you don't really feel like a human being in it. and then. the guy this came over smithsonian gave military jet his pocket.

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. 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. 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

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. with me. groups a few things but not too much with me. blankets just going to be void of course let's run. just a bowl of water some. sense of what's. actually put people in a good mood. and it's how. to include 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 fit 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 korea today you know. move places with me go and get some in three days' time. you know and i'm trying to get enough enough to. keep this. 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 the scopes something. it took you much more minutes to bring my soft spots mr shays. but. really just sleep oh it's. ok. she says christ just absolutely if. people buy you in the door. and there's one current guy just came every day 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 a boy. to. the bus sandwich. just so feet ahead of the day. like slush funds. should. have been told what it was things being said to the. thing that makes me feel worse he was. the one to try out some people to see how i was feeling the time.

this is the anything actually they keep happening in a as each time a territory adds to even nothing him i have nothing else in life. lisa has been homeless for two years now she's battled alcoholism drug addiction and the little girl now this with the older sister. in a she asks me nearly every day and some i say yeah. yeah when they need that money and she's starting to stop asking now 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 taste like six feet at least if i was to stop that had. these discussions reminded me just one place we moved to christmas. there was celebrations going on all around me they don'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 space to cheer.

it's just almost all six so on heading down towards charing cross in a stretch to see a fourth and final is going to split screen just enough smoke free food it. looks a christian church situps tables queries and tells you it's. a must. be lovely. soup i love soup thank you very much think you. make it on its perfect.

i think i speak for. iced tricep in danielle's dream. but i think it's my joe day in hell maybe i'll go if freaks ever since did your family or yeah. we didn't stay on time because my i just saw oh i married my old. atheist they want to stink all the time me just kids yeah i was afraid oh to run out of hiding or you want to start to like him he's. been hard you. understand what sort of i got for eight year old son eight year old boy sixteen year old who are. fighting five year old boys. i'm sorry mom froze off for us. to mean to you guys i'm sorry i just right. 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 crime which leads to using everything. destroyed here in hong kong the richest parts of the u.k. is filled with people fully complete just every night on the child's list. but i'm listening. to a movie. when you're close because you run out of the you know that. one bucket or. trait that i create a then say. as unpleasant lusciousness on issues. because as a major. part of the obama. white.

house i don't have a fight yeah sure but smart if you controlling people and i know i know i noticed earlier this has been much easier said than done as you go i mean we split so you just go in the meantime. laurie like you only. really took in these movies a little bit. too good with the look of the mummy was getting at least of which were killed i could finally released still uses only a black box of a little. tinny sympathy for critiques quickly for its it some people didn't deserve it. or just. scuse me goes you don't push for those tickets by the show save. your focus you thank you very much that's all you want it was fun to very much a serious. mostly

about the trouble cause it gets me on the ground gets me a bit warm up it's also take me a smooth surface bush. so this is a place of. great commission ministry. just. a day with all making their own choice in the next boy. as if i didn't realize already this is the sprit of. the two mice one of the

most i think that there were most of the of us were to remember my feet so. there's no glamour in the slush. fund only been on the streets one day because it been cold humiliating confronting someone in that state world to convict me of any time. i get easily see would drugs or alcohol would act as a way to block out which reality. you need help to consent to have someone catch me from. climax keyser one for my guide to financial survival this is a fun it's a the mice. used by professional scallywags to earn money. that's right these has

for us are simply not accountable and we're just adding more and more to the. totally destabilize the global economy you need to protect yourself and get in for hazard. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic developments only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. when the combe tempo or mine. changed there are fees out of the level of the physiology that he's at the level of the brain the brain as a city can rewire itself and not just the brain bubbles to the rest of the body

respond to. my seven years doing drugs my nephew 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 the sort of 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. war on drugs. there are countless numbers of people who are in prison for. for. 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 a business it's just it doesn't get easier. those

are the longest. maybe. the least. on the streets was more than enough for me. 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.

thank you very much. absolutely. get this pop it's a loss. from the isis projects or an intervention same with. you know people are drug 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 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 a kind hit with without the opportunity if these guys given that to me are you know where i'd be. i don't weeks as quick. very. single so. the doing script. he was on the streets prison from the age of eighteen he's going to show me some of his old hoots. a little old. home of the. white. castle he's not in it.

yet he says he sees this is the school yet welcomes of the school 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. little be careful yeah yeah definitely want to go too far and. you know we're more welcome so if you wish. you know there's a makeshift beds you can see people's bedrooms this is people's belongings these people with stuff to look cool in here he says oh people's belongings you can say there's actually. you know a proper bed down there you know i most of mine is still very fitting caulfield.

i'm now in the understanding that there's about four of us now on the understanding this for four of them now. odious lot was a little opened up yes all good all this where all these boards 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. there at nighttime been well we had our beds position for 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 marks 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 i'll cut myself open yeah and then get the knife and start taking it so

hard to get these bits out mahseer nothing. over my chest same thing same thing just used to rip my self to. just rip myself to shreds my. you know one point i thought i was saying this but my face was one big gap. yeah i was just just. telling myself to shreds all day. eventually lewis was picked up by an outreach team and goes into temporary accommodation he's now trying to give back on working with an organization which deals with the homeless the local authorities can't help. but he's refused his mr social he went into the street right in front of my eyes.

when you turn the. clock. you can be a long and painful journey away from her mistress and addiction and lunchtime and twin brothers kevin and brian to see their experiences exchanged keys and they lived rough and close traffic on the streets of site of the end of the century and the. babies moving them only. we don't don't stick you much in a young dog but he'll. say i mean that's good to be good for you to do just what we've done up a little bit today these people here do nothing still they moved out yeah yeah yeah i will sue so change the banks he's going to say need this we're going to. go . right. ahead should be always f. ing up those patients. were.

really dangerous yet i can always population. consisting of a long violent. game people out of here over. pagans yet when i'm out of it people fight for food or almost always come up with plenty of friends there was one thing along here this is we feel how much we over the earth don't you know the hormone. kind of the early years and all of us going to know i woke up i am i being run so i can feel the money has been stolen and i was left there what would you still lose it just because of the drugs that you stay here is money they say you can and the last one we got you know less than the one that your. leicester square like

a village said kid yeah it was right with perth and they're just waiting to get rid of all these easy bodies it looks like fifteen years ago the brothers would fish around this area the brand is now a notice to kevin 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. alison really. sixteen though i know for a like i was when i was so i don't feel. myself a god i've written called who won over coverage i know i can so put on a venture in recovery from a veteran of the passive horse you know homeless 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 money just finally christmas day. as they make me

crazier stuff 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 come because you do t.v. you look if you look great. but i think. i was willing to go. how many meals have you done with ted about sixty five today yeah yeah it would be good so i guess. we might have to split because the rod was this big deal scenario right. yeah yeah. yeah yeah yeah i like that. christmas is

a family holiday for many years the twins of celebration stick with those you've got nowhere else to go it's days no different it's to keep a lid trimmings for everything. that. i. hope run like oh oh me oh my god how did it happen. yeah you could tell us that i had. missed out on christmas with my family but there was real christmas spirit in that hole as much as i hated being out in the streets i love being at home sometimes. 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 young man

a few words to remind me just how lucky i really am. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics small business i'm show business i'll see that. i am.

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