Evening, All

The Ilford chapter of the Metropolitan Firearms and Headbangers' Club has taken on social cleansing duties with all the Club's usual enthusiasm, by ambushing homeless people and confiscating their food and shelter. "The public rely on police to reduce the negative impact of rough sleepers," proclaimed the relevant chief inspector; the public these days, of course, is an exclusive and rapidly shrinking circle of privilege, which certainly cannot afford to include persons outside the housing market. Hence the necessity for the Metropolitan Firearms and Headbangers' Club to "assist [the verb is really rather charming, is it not?] in the removal of temporary structures, tents, and bedding from public spaces and other inappropriate locations"; which is to say, any locations, the idea of homeless persons having a place being self-evidently absurd unless it happens to be the kind of place one must be kept in.