On Sun, 12 Jul 1998 22:16:41 +0100, Adrian Midgley wrote:
>Against, of course, a signed declaration from the family involved that
>they are deserving poor, and that they have neither friends nor
>neighbours who were willing to give them a lift.
Not only do we humiliate the poor at DSS offices, now the doctors are
going to add insult to injury by means testing at coops up and down the
land :-(
I suppose there will be a lot of jobs though verifying the validity of
the 'deserving poor' statements ;-)
>You can invite the local paper to run an appeal for contributions to
>the fund, an easy and socially useful story to run.
How about Oxfam? Save the Children? VSO? CAFOD? I hear they are
having a collection for Britain in Albania right now.
Providing services by begging on the streets, of course, suites HMG
down to the ground. Services that ought to be provided by them in the
first place!
Was it Marx who said that people will revolt when their backs are to
the wall?
Ahmad
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