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(not satire – it’s the UK today)
Anthony Miller’s dead body was found two days ago washed up on a beach in Newquay.
Just a few weeks ago he had lost his job as a roofer as a direct result of being evicted by homeless charity Chapter 1.
He had even offered to pay higher rent but the so-called Christian organisation ignored his offers and turfed him out onto the street:
Christian homeless charity says it has every right to make young Newquay man homeless
Things have got bad when even so-called charities in this country have got so anaesthetised to people’s suffering they turn their backs on the very people they should be helping.
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ah salvation at hand yet christians how can they call it that when all deel; in that stock market of human slaves didnt jesus throw out these people
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They may be a charity but their resources are limited and there is only so much they can achieve. Have you considered that?
They can’t magic up accommodation out of thin air, and were faced with being forced to sacrifice the help they could give to a single person or to a family.
Don’t forget they have a long queue of people waiting for help. Should they be ignored and quietly discounted without any consideration given to their plight for the sake of a single person?
If you were in the position of having to make that choice which one would you have taken? And what would you reaction had been if he had been allowed to stay and another family that got pushed aside experienced one or more deaths as a result?
Hindsight is always 20/20…
For that matter – and this applies to food banks too IMO – perhaps the question that should really be asked is why we’re being forced to depend so heavily on charities like this in the first place?
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As a local authority councillor, I have come head to head with this system before. With far too little accommodation available, the plight of someone who is a) single b) young c)has no dependants e) is not sick, is critical. Such a person si so low on the ladder that he is underground… This is the fault of the system, not necessarily of the charity which had to make gut wrenching choices.
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The matter here (which is terribly sad) seems to hinge on the legality of this particular young man’s tenancy. The tenancy was apparently in the name of Mr Miller’s Mother’s partner, who moved out in June, and Mr Miller moved in in June, but it seems he did not take pains to regularise this change of tenant. Tenancies usually have proscribed regulations and conditions, such as restrictions on sub-letting, or allowing lodgers or visitors, etc. Chapter 1, the landlord, may have perhaps balked at Mr Miller moving in unannounced without permission with his 2 enormous dogs, which look like Rottweilers.
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In Tom Pride’s link to the story, in the Cornish Guardian, under a photo of Mr Miller sitting on the bed it does say: “Chapter 1 say Mr Miller’s dogs are not suitable for the (property) flat in question”…. Maybe Mr Miller refused to budge, and said “My dogs come along with me” — or something like that?
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There were no rooms available for Jesus at the inn… but Jesus forgave the innkeeper because it was the busy Christmas season…..
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Too much ‘lets blame the victim’ in this thread – understandable when there are so many more fascists/ selfrighteous no marks in this country, fostered by an unstopable political move to the right – where’s the dignity, the humanity, the compassion – oh, I know it’s stuck on Margaret Thatcher’s grave
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Sad, but unfortunately quite true. My adoptive parents were both ‘Christian socialists’ — a rare breed these days — but I gather they found it (even in the 1950s-60s) difficult to find a local church that came up to their obviously ridiculous ethical views.
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Hard to believe those trying to excuse causing a man’s death. Too much like the movie Brazil. Happens here in US too but just too mind-blowing and cruel.
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thank you for that tunefultony……sometimes in life it gets all too much….:(
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their commitment to charity is a very shallow one….
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It is us…obd…..all of us.
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Are they really Christians, or just latter-day Pharisees?
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His dogs are/were not “enormous” – their apparent size was the result of the photographer using too short a focal length.
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pennie
sorry can’t be interrupted now, busy choosing the new scotlab aka slab or heart of stone leader..
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Wot eva obd…..:(
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Their commitment to the teachings of Christ seems even shallower.
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Ah the T.P you were noting picture comes from ID on wordpress
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Something like that 😦
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Something whiffs about this if the story facts are true then there is no problem. The guy had dogs which were not allowed in the agreement, he wanted to take on the agreement in his name but was informed of the dog issue. So far no problems and many folks have an idendical agreement without whining.
Now if he could afford the rent and the deposit, there is nothing to stop him doing so somewhere else that would allow dogs. Even if evicted he would have known about it weeks before the day he was actually thrown out. Much more likely that he either did nothing and lived in delussion he would be able to stay, or that he had some deeper mental issues that were the true cause of his death.
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The charity couldn’t create accommodation out of thin air, unlike Christ with the fish for the one thousand.
Imagine for a moment you’re in the position of the charity: you have a set pot of money, and you can either use it to help a single person or more than one person.
Which choice do you make?
The tsunami of demand that charities are facing is the real disgrace here – not the fact that charities are being drowned by it. Shouldn’t the council have stepped in here?
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Does sound so like the unthinking application of a fundamentally flawed IDS style manifesto. Nevertheless, whatever the details, it’s a sad reflection on how we collectively voted last time, as for many other ‘victims’ of the system.
With more people seeking to live alone there is a need to re-think how we all can be reasonably accommodated without concreting over the whole country. How about some Hobbit-style housing where appropriate (underground, environmentally friendly) plus BB that actually works?
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Whatever happened with the eviction or not, this charity did not help him. He was made homeless and he died and in this day and age that is a disgrace.
He probably did have mental health problems but that would have made him a priority for housing – oh but councils and christian charities don’t actually believe in mental health problems do they?
A man died due to the way this country – run by the most sadistic government ever, has become more and more like a third world country.
I hope to goodness that the people of the UK get off their erses next May and do something! Vote instead of being so bloody lazy and unconcerned!
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Another tragic death, another tick on the coalitions board…
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I am intrigued, jay, by your use of the expression “get off their erses…” Does this mean “stop speaking in Gaelic”…?? 🙂
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Erses is a polite way of saying “arses” 😀 It’s commonly used here in Scotland – so you are right about the Gaelic.
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Every day those at the lowest are suffering for those at the top! I will fight with everything I have to make humanity win this horrendous onslaught of Dickensian principles by people who have no idea.
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My daughter came across a 17 year old who had been made homelees through him losing his home with his grandfather when his grandfather died – he had nothing when my daughter rang a major charity who fund raise for the homeless but they wouldn’t take him as he had no money – she couldn’t find anyone to help him despite the fact that it was -10 outside
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It would be interesting to know just how the charity prioritises its prospective tenants. Tenancies handed on in such a way is not unusual, often it is the only way to obtain a tenancy.
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Thank you for posting this story. We are , I believe entering a new neo -liberal dark age in which the poor and marginalised are quite deliberately being allowed to slip below the radar……they are becoming non people / non citizens and none of this is an accident.
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