Posts Tagged ‘Big Issue’
Daily Mail stigmatises Big Issue sellers as dirty, foreign cheats
ONE in three Big Issue vendors is Romanian. So says the Daily Mail. This apparent fact might mean that 33% of homeless people seeking to help themselves by selling the magazine are Romanian. Or it might mean something else. It might mean nothing. But because this is news in the Daily Mail it means only one thing: bloody foreigners coming over here and stealing our homeless people’s standing spaces:
One-third of Big Issue sellers now Romanian: Job once reserved for Britain’s homeless has been swamped by Eastern European immigrants. And many of them have homes AND claim benefits.
SWAMPED. And it was never reserved for Britain’s homeless, if by that the Mail means homeless people born in Britain.
The Big Issue describes its vendors thus:
Vendors are people who are homeless, vulnerably housed or at risk of homelessness because of significant issues such as unemployment or a financial crisis.
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Posted: 22nd, January 2012 | In: Reviews | Comments (6)
David Cameron Edits The Big Issue: What Andy Coulson Taught Me
DAVID Cameron will test what he learnt from his former spin doctor and News of The World editor Andy Coulson when he edits the Big Issue, the newspaper for the homeless. In this special issue:
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Posted: 21st, July 2011 | In: Politicians | Comment
Big Issue Seller Flogs Woman’s Dog Left Outside Tesco As She Shopped
SHERRY Sourena is the 60-year-old with the cocktail-sweet name who left her dog Tetley outside the Tesco’s on Bournemouth’s Triangle. When she retuned the Lurcher Saluki cross has been sold by a bogus Big Issue seller for £20.
Says she:
“What he did was evil and calculated. He’s ruined my life. I’ll never risk leaving Tetley alone again. He’s all I’ve got.”
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Posted: 27th, November 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
