Mcdonalds Install "anti-Homeless" Spikes In Leeds......

[mushroom25]

and get shedloads of grief for it
http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/latest-news/top-stories/mcdonald-s-sparks-row-over-spikes-outside-leeds-briggate-restaurant-1-7203874

are city-based business and property owners obliged to provide space for rough sleepers?

[woofgang]

well a they aren't spikes and b they seem to have been there for 2 years!

[Baldric]

They're catching on then, not before time imo!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2652432/Anger-spikes-stop-rough-sleepers-Installation-studs-deter-homeless-luxury-block-flats-condemned-brutal.html

[retrocop]

Mcdonalds are unfortunately,IMO, a food chain who are in business to provide fast so called food.Their responsibility does not lie in providing sleeping quarters for the homeless. The Sally Anne is a charity but Mcdonalds is not, unless ,the rumours that this company donated some of their profits to PIRA a few years back were true!!

[retrocop]

I apologise for bringing politics into this post in advance as I am sure some of us can't wait for the final result of the election to come.As a life long Tory supporter I would hope those who support obscene amounts of Foreign Aid being pledged by our current government to other countries will realise that some financial assistance could be granted to our own first.It would seem we have our problems in the UK as well with homeless and food banks etc.I thought that ended in the 1930's depression but we are being dragged down by our largesse. I will slam the door on any Tory canvasser until the population of this countrie's woes are put right first.

[naomi24]

//are city-based business and property owners obliged to provide space for rough sleepers? //

No, they are not.

retrocop, why slam the door only on Tory canvassers? With regulations as they are do you really expect an alternative administration (mentioning no names) to improve the situation? Dream on!

[hc4361]

Every bench in parks, towns, cities and villages seem to have arm rests in the middle. They are there to stop people lying down and sleeping on them.

[retrocop]

naomi
I cannot accept Mr Cameron handing out taxpayer's money to aid foreigners when we have problems on our own soil.He is the PM who I voted for who has committed billions of foreign aid whilst allowing a lesser amount to our country's defence strategy. I am of the old school who believes charity belongs at home.I do not want to tick the UKIP box on the 7th May but the Tory party are becoming a tad too left wing for my liking.

[Mamyalynne]

Regardless of the reason for the installation of such measures - it is a sad reflection that we have homeless at all.

Yes,yes, I know a 'few' choose that path.

[retrocop]

Mamalynne
Indeed we are back to the 1930's. You would think that any British Government would provide for their own first and stop sploshing out our dosh to foreign powers who seem to be more affluent as a global contender in the Industrial world than we in the UK are.

[tinkerbell23]

Sad x

[hc4361]

A lot of people who are currently sleeping rough are Eastern Europeans and Roma.

"Where nationality was recorded, 2,945 people rough sleeping were UK nationals - 46 per cent of the total. 32 per cent were from Central and Eastern European countries."

http://www.crisis.org.uk/pages/rough-sleeping.html

[retrocop]

My Gawd Tinkerbell23
Your contribution to this OP is ground breaking. x "sad"?

[tinkerbell23]

Yes retro... I find it sad.

[tinkerbell23]

I didnt know mushroom was looking for groundbreaking answers thank you for pointing that out ;0>

[Peter Pedant]

// the rumours that this company donated some of their profits to PIRA a few years back were true!! //
well stranger things have happened

and the rumour resurfaces here: from 2006
//http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question201941.html//


It also starred as a side show in McLibel - and someone has said the data was a load of wink. McLibel: if you recollect McDonalds sued some treehugging liberals and spent £10m on it even tho they knew the defendants wouldbever be able to pay diddly squat

Other said the IRA was printed on pay slips and stood for individual retirement account - only a brit got the wrong end of the stick

[Mamyalynne]

Retrocop doesn't call the shots on which answers are valid Tinks.

[tinkerbell23]

I have watched from afar Mamy! Ive gathered...lol xx

[tinkerbell23]

By the way similar in glasgow a while back which also made me really sad!!

http://glasgow.stv.tv/articles/281972-anti-homeless-spikes-installed-in-glasgow-st-vincent-lane-ahead-of-games/

[retrocop]

OK fellow ABers,
Is it the current British government to blame for homeless dossers or McDonalds ,Boots, M&S and Sainsburys et al. I would forward a suggestion that some dossers shape their own destiny.Why should this carp food chain be castigated for putting up a few ornimental spikes on their own premises.
Are you saying I can't put a padlock on my garden shed because it stops down and outs sleeping on my property?

[Mamyalynne]

No.