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Old Dec 25, 2004 | 01:38 PM
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One thing I heard on the news a couple of days ago really made me smile - or at least it did untill I heard the last bit of it tho...

The Millenium Dome - which spend most of every year empty but costs tax payers a QUARTER OF A MILLION POUNDS PER MONTH in security etc, has been opened up over christmas for sheltering the homeless - so they can go there sleep in a bed, get hot food and there are even "morale" classes designed to boost homeless peoples confidence and teach em basics for manual labour jobs like plumbing, building etc...

This is all for free too - the loan of the dome, the volunteer's - spending christmas day and the other days at the dome to care for the homeless - the food is free etc...

But they are not allowed to be there past midnight on the 30th Dec

In fact they have been told if the premesis is not vacated by everyone and all trace of them even being there (rubbish cleared etc) and they are there for even 1 minute past midnight then they (the charity group) will be charged £1000 PER HOUR till they have cleared up and gone!

That is outrageous!!!!! FFS these peeps are giving their time fore free to help others!

So these poor homeless folk get a nice bed and hot food - then on the 30th they are basically told "there you go, now fook off back out in the cold for new years, sorry"

Unbeliveable.... It's not even like xmas is the coldest time of year - Jan and Feb are much colder! This dome is never used - so why not let it be a free shelter area run by volunteer's!?!?!?!?

Fucking government stinks if you ask me....
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