Braverman’s legacy: tents of homeless people are destroyed by council(?) and police
Braverman’s last wish: tents belonging to homeless people are loaded onto a rubbish compactor lorry.
There’s a couplet in Moby Dick that runs like this:
From Hell’s heart I stab at thee,
For hate’s sake, I spit my last breath at thee.
One of Suella Braverman’s last breaths as Home Secretary, if one can put it like that, was to suggest that being homeless is a “lifestyle choice” and call for rough sleepers to have their tents taken away from them – just as the autumn and winter chill started to set in.
Then last Friday (November 10), this happened:
Please tell us this isn’t true? What’s going on!? @MayorofLondon please can you investigate? https://t.co/ukvQhjM26P
— Adil Ray OBE (@adilray) November 10, 2023
Even now the facts are unclear.
But a BBC report provides this information on what it said was a Metropolitan Police operation:
Refuse workers threw the tents into the back of their lorry on Huntley Street, Camden, at about 15:00 GMT on Friday.
The Met said it “worked with University College London Hospital and other partners in response to concerns”.
It is understood that the NHS hospital trust, which has a building entrance on the road, requested the dispersal of rough sleepers but not the destruction of tents.
Refuse company Veolia was contacted for comment.
A University College London Hospital (UCLH) spokesperson said “public health concerns” prompted the action.
Elodie Berland, who volunteers with outreach organisation Streets Kitchen… said the homeless men “had everything taken away from them”.
She said that about 10 tents were destroyed along with the men’s personal belongings as the Met issued a S35 dispersal order, which requires people to vacate an area for a maximum of 48 hours.
It seems Braverman’s final hate-filled wish as Home Secretary has been granted – ironically, by the police force she attacked in the newspaper article that prompted Rishi Sunak to sack her.
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Isn’t it Ironic that in Gaza, Homeless people take refuge at the Hospitals but the UK, Homeless people are treated as Refuge at our Hospitals?
Headline expansion: “Braverman’s (spiteful) legacy: tents (AND personal belongings) of homeless people are destroyed by council(?) and police”