‘Homeless spikes’ installed outside London flats

Simple idea: install metal pointy bits in the concrete where bums like to hang out. Of course, some people have a problem with this:

Katharine Sacks-Jones, head of policy and campaigns at homelessness charity Crisis, said: “It is a scandal that anyone should sleep on the streets in 21st century Britain. Yet over the last three years rough sleeping has risen steeply across the country and by a massive 75 per cent in London.

“Behind these numbers are real people struggling with a lack of housing, cuts to benefits and cuts to homelessness services to help them rebuild their lives.”

Huh. Is it just me, or is it a little goofy for a nation being flooded with low-end immigrants to complain about poor people? If you want to be able to provide bennies for bums, bringing in *more* doesn’t seem to make a lot of sense.