This morning I watched the Big Issue seller in our local shopping precinct, take a pack of 20 Benson & Hedges cigarettes from his pocket and proceed to light one.
How much do 20 B & H cost these days? £8.50? £9.00?
Big Issue sellers buy the magazine from the publishers for £1.50 and sell it on the streets for £3 per copy. The idea being that earning money is better than begging and allows the homeless to have a way of getting money with dignity. Am I being unreasonable to think that anyone who can afford to pay £9 for 20 cigarettes doesn't need (or deserve) my charity?
Estranged Son and Future Granddaughter
To think that London, or anywhere else for that matter, does not belong to any one demographic