Angela Rayner has had an idea so ludicrous it stands out in a field already crowded by Labour insanity.
Angela Rayner has had a ludicrous idea (Image: PA)
Only someone with limited intelligence could have given the go-ahead for Britain to be turned into one big shanty town. Yes, step forward Angela Rayner who ludicrously thinks that, by scrapping a 200-year-old law which prevents rough sleeping, she’s “drawing a line under two centuries of injustice”.
And what that means is that your street, your pavements, your parks could soon look like downtown Islamabad with tent encampments everywhere. They could be outside your front door, outside the gym, your doctor’s surgery, Tesco. And with all those tents will come armies of organised beggars – even though begging is illegal and often controlled by criminal gangs.
There’ll also be other crime – thefts and violence. There’ll be junkies off their heads on drugs which will make them do stupid things like hurt and rob people. Maybe worse. But no, in Rayner’s thick head, she believes the way to tackle the problem of rough sleeping is to decriminalise it.
Really? So, why don’t solve all crimes by decriminalising them – rapes, murder, robbery, thieving? Oh, hang on, we already have.
Rayner, who’s repealing the 1824 Vagrancy Act introduced during the Industrial revolution to tackle the homelessness crisis, says: “No one should ever be criminalised simply for sleeping rough.”
No, they shouldn’t and mostly they aren’t. Doesn’t she know many parts of the act have already been repealed and the parts that still exist see cops moving rough sleepers on, NOT prosecuting them. And no, homelessness shouldn’t ever be a crime. The real crime here is NOT housing people who need it. And this Government and every council in the land is guilty of that!
London has 4,612 people living rough and we’re told its execrable Mayor, Sadiq Khan, who just got a knighthood for public service (HAH!), is doing “everything he can to get people off the streets”. Well, clearly it’s not enough.
Instead of taking care of their homeless, local authorities would rather spaff our money up the wall on woke projects and sky-high salaries. Sleeping rough is a hellish stain on our society, but the solution isn’t to make it legal, it’s to get the rough sleepers off the streets and into decent accommodation.
