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The home secretary, Suella Braverman, has described rough sleeping as a “lifestyle choice” while defending her decision to restrict the use of tents by homeless people on the streets of Britain.

According to Whitehall insiders, Braverman plans to crack down on tents that cause a nuisance in urban areas such as high streets – amid growing numbers of rough sleepers and what the government considers a rise in antisocial behaviour.

The home secretary has also proposed the introduction of a civil offence, which could lead to charities being fined if they provide homeless people with tents, the Financial Times reported.

Writing on X, formerly Twitter, Braverman defended her proposals, saying: “The British people are compassionate. We will always support those who are genuinely homeless. But we cannot allow our streets to be taken over by rows of tents occupied by people, many of them from abroad, living on the streets as a lifestyle choice.

“Unless we step in now to stop this, British cities will go the way of places in the US like San Francisco and Los Angeles, where weak policies have led to an explosion of crime, drug-taking, and squalor.

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[-] Kalkaline@leminal.space 36 points 1 year ago

Let me guess, she's a Tory.

[-] p5f20w18k@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

She’s as Tory as you can get

[-] toiletobserver@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

You misspelled cunt. It's ok, i won't hold it against you.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago
[-] echodot@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The Tories used to be a bunch of out of touch weirdos who were obsessed with financial prudence above all else. Never giving any money to anybody. Unless they were already rich obviously

They were unpleasant for sure, but at least their political philosophy was fundamentally understandable even if it was undesirable.

This current lost are just awful for the sake of being evil. They don't have any policys, they don't have any concept of financial prudence, they're just racist. That's it at this point, that's the entirety of their political image. Racism. They're not Conservative anymore, they've managed to morph into something worse.

Edit, added a word

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

As it becomes more obvious that the right wing has nothing to offer ordinary people, right-wing politicians retreat into incendiary populist rhetoric. The easiest way for them to generate votes without offering anything positive is to select minority groups to blame for people's problems and to offer to oppress these minorities. It's part of how conservatism lurches towards fascism when the going gets tough.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

Of course the going is only tough because the conservatives mismanage the economy. Which is hilarious in a kind of depressing way because they're supposed to be the party that is all about the economy. They essentially believe in corporate self-regulation. If the corporations will regulate themselves then the government barely even need to exist.

That ideology seems to have gone out the window. Not that was ever any good but it did at least mean that they would probably leave minority groups alone, they wouldn't be supported in any particular way, but then again no one was supported.

Of course at this point a minority group is anybody who doesn't have six figures in their bank account

[-] Lophostemon@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Cunts are my favourite animals! Your derogatory language is an insult to them.

[-] toiletobserver@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

My apologies. I hope to not confuse that cunt with any of the fairer sex. I mean no disrespect to women, just that one cunt.

[-] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

They call it the Nasty Party for a reason.

Its a line that worked well for blair, i don't know why Starmer doesn't make use of it, it's apt.

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