The royal wedding.

Margoyles!!

I was watching Miriam Mangolies (that isn’t how you spell her surname I know!) in America last night and it struck me very forcibly that the gap between the halves and have nots is becoming ever deeper and wider, both in the developing nations and the developed.

The haves want it all don’t they? A comfortable, healthy life, full of choice and low tax. But at the same time do not want to be reminded of what the consequences of this life style means.

Apologies Billybob but you never really thought that was going to happens did you?

As alcholism and drug addiction increase there will be more homeless

Was rather hoping that we could sail through the first few months of 2018 without mention of the Royal Wedding.

Many of the homeless who turn down accommodation are people with mental health and addiction problems and their refusal of accommodation is a sign of their severe mental difficulties.

A friend tried to help a local homeless man who spent cold wet nights in the porch of a nearby redundant church, but without affect. He was known to social services but due to previous traumatic experiences with them and the mental health system he preferred to sleep rough. This man needed careful and sympathetic outreach not disregard because he refused help.

I'm pretty sure this cropped up before Charles and Camilla got married. The councillor is a twit. It goes on every where though. When the Olympics were in the Rio, hundreds of people living in shanty towns near the stadium were bussed out of the city so the land could be cleared. There's ways and means of doing it.

They could get married in one of the Scottish palaces, paddy. Nobody would know.

theres not alot of interest in Royal weddings in my part of the world,apparently the last one led to thousands of street parties in England while in Scotland there were a total of 13 ..and they were in tory areas..some even financed by the local tory party.So if Harry and his latest squeeze decide to elope no one I know will be heart broken and the poor rough sleepers will be left in peace

Vagrants - a blot on the landscape? Not a very practical or sympathetic approach to the problem, is it?

Rough sleeping has become more commonplace. This, according to The Independent.

“Homelessness is completely unacceptable in a caring, compassionate community such as ours. We are working to create the necessary housing for our residents,” he (Councillor Simon Dudley) continued.

The authority “recently” found emergency accommodation for every rough sleeper in Windsor but many turned it down, Mr Dudley said."

We have had this discussion on several threads but never has anyone felt rough sleepers and beggars are aesthetically unpleasing.

Lets just hope said Councillor does not venture as far as Las Vegas when we where there last year my son made friends with some homeless men & women who where x service personal from that so called great Country he took two of them for breakfast once or twice.maybe Councillor will take them all out for breakfast on the day of the wedding ???

I would hope that Harry would welcome rough sleepers. He's very "down with da people".