Clueless Rayner fails homeless

ONLY someone with limited intelligence could have given the go-ahead for Britain to be turned into one big shanty town.

- Carole Malone

Yes, step forward Angela Rayner, who ludicrously thinks that, by scrapping a 200-yearold law that prevents rough sleeping, she’s “drawing a line under two centuries of injustice”.

What that means is that your street, your pavements, your parks could soon look like downtown Islamabad with tent encampments everywhere. They could be outside your front door, outside the gym, your doctor’s surgery, Tesco.

And with all those tents will come armies of organised beggars — even though begging is illegal and often controlled by criminal gangs. There’ll also be other crime — thefts and violence. There'll be junkies off their heads on drugs, which will make them do stupid things like hurt and rob people. Maybe worse.

But no, in Rayner’s thick head, she believes the way to tackle the problem of rough sleeping is to decriminalise it. Really? So, why don’t we solve all crimes by decriminalising them — rapes, murder, robbery, thieving? Oh, hang on, we already have.