Anti Poor?

[mushroom25]

a petition has been started to force the removal of a "do not encourage beggars" notice placed at Brighton Station.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-sussex-45261392

Begging is still (technically) illegal per the vagrancy act of 1824.

do the train company have right on their side? or is their action blatantly "anti poor" in the use of what some see as seriously outdated legislation?

[Baldric]

// The petition, which was started by Sussex University researcher Johnbosco Nwogbo, calls on GTR "to remove the anti-poor notice".
Accusing the company of being "irresponsible", Mr Nwogbo said: "It represented a certain attitude towards homeless people that I thought was brute. It was inhumane."//

Says it all really imo.

[Mamyalynne]

The Company have the right to erect the notice, the Public have the right to take no notice of it.

[Prudie]

I wonder if the petitioner has considered that the action may have been taken by the train company after requests from the public? The majority of the public, who I think are very charitable to their own choices, are not fond of beggars on the street (and their obligatory staffy) and find them at worst intimidating.

[webbo3]

I never give to beggars anymore due to the fact.
1. I had one come into my workplace and threaten to "slot" me
2. my wife was getting some money from a cashpoint early one morning on the way to work and was surrounded by 3 of them.
3. I was walking behind one and he looked in the palm of his hand to examine his packet of weed.
4. The little park near where I work which was a nice place to sit and enjoy lunch is now full of discarded bedding, empty bottles and rubbish, and early morning you can see them all stumbling around plus Ive watched the dealer plying his trade when I finish work.
5. I even had one ask me to get him a steak bake, not can you spare some change but he gave me his requirements.

[Old_Geezer]

Many do very well out of begging. We have a welfare state so it shouldn't be necessary. Whilst we pay taxes no one is that anti-poor, just anti-begging.

[bednobs]

blimey balders, i didnt have you down as pro beggars

[Baldric]

I am debunking the petition and it's origin, I do quite a lot for homeless Ex-Service Guys but I am definitely not pro beggars.

[bednobs]

sorry i genuinely misread you. when you said "says it all" i thought that's what u meant. Alls right with the world again :)

[Baldric]

No problem ;o)

[The_Rim_Greaper]

and no doubt if you dissagree with this idiot then he'll call you a racist...

[bednobs]

i cant imagine balders doing that either ;)

[Mamyalynne]

People who beg aren't a race now are they?

[Old_Geezer]

Why not, every other group seems to be.

[Mamyalynne]

When did that happen?

I'll star my own then.

[Baldric]

Are Nurses with big elbows a Race?

[Mamyalynne]

I haven't a clue, there seems to have been some shift and I missed it.

[Hopkirk]

Some of these beggers are not what they pretend to be.

[douglas9401]

I think the Rimster may be referring to Johnbosco Nwogbo.

One for the anagram solver right there. :-)

[vetuste_ennemi]

Yes, the most interesting thing about the OP is the anagrammatic potential of "Sussex University researcher Johnbosco Nwogbo2".

...followed by the confirmation it gives to old-fashioned prejudices about red-brick universities.

[sanmac]

All poor people are poor and some poor people beg but some poor people do not beg. Not all beggers are poor but all beggers beg. Time for the Venn diagrams.