Working with homeless people means I deal with the consequences of cuts to services. I wanted to make Conservatives think about the reality of their policiesWhen Michael Ashcroft’s biography of David Cameron hit the news,I read up on the culture of dining societies, which the prime minister is said to have been allotment of. Forget pigs. To me the genuine obscenity was the Bullingdon Club’s obvious initiation rite of burning a £50 note in front of a homeless person.
I work with homeless young people and have been dealing with the consequences of gash upon gash in support services, and along with benefit sanctions that leave people destitute,tear families apart and push those with fragile mental health towards suicide. It got to the stage where shouting at the TV wasnt enough. I decided to utilize my annual leave to go to Manchester and become allotment of the protests against austerity external of the Conservative party conference.
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Source: theguardian.com