Reading the “Levelling up and Regeneration Bill” and noticed the words “about vagrancy and begging” in the description.
Nothing in the contents list, but under “miscellaneous” are powers for the Secretary of State to make regulations creating criminal offences or civil penalties for behaviour that would fall under S3&4 of the Vagrancy Act 1824, despite it having been repealed. The effect would be to punish poverty and homelessness. Again.
#gtto #injustice #morallywrong
@yvettemcnulty That's perhaps the best thing I've heard on Question Time since Francesca Martinez managed to get the cull of the disabled poor said on it, breaking the corporate media silence. "I don't know if this is widely reported, but, ..." https://youtu.be/EipR2R2Xkyg
full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46F0puOPsyQ
#morallywrong #bloodontheirhands
( and the reality, far worse. I say, barely survived it, followed along the stories starting from http://calumslist.org/ and blacktrianglecampaign etc )
#bloodontheirhands #morallywrong