The most 'acceptable' human rights abuse?
Scotland has legalised begging. Is that a solution? I'm not so sure.
Better to solve the root problem than provide a get-out clause called 'begging' and 'rough sleeping', is my take.
Sorting out our social problems on the streets of our cities has never been a very good answer. Why? Because they fail to sort a single thing out.
Feeding people on the streets has always seemed like the most 'acceptable' human rights abuse I can imagine. It's an abuse because it doesn't break the need for people to resort to street living.
I wish we did our housework differently, so that we wouldn't leave people on the streets.
It's not rocket science. Careful help, and - with it - careful support beyond the streets, is what's needed.
I cannot rest easy when I see the disastrous results of poor policy and poor usage of resources that throws up begging as a living.
It's time to take the fight back to Westminster, as I write about in The Big Issue, out now.
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7 年I agree that begging doesn't solve the core problem, but what are these vulnerable people expected to do in the meantime?
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7 年Its appears to be worse than ever in Edinburgh and Glasgow unless the police have stopped supporting the inequality and human rights abuse by not moving people on less the outcome will be better for them once they move.