Spending the night out of doors has nothing attractive about it in London, especially for the poor ragged undernourished wretch. Moreover sleeping in the open is only allowed in one thoroughfare in London. If the policeman on his beat finds you asleep, it is his duty to wake you up. This is because it has been found that a sleeping man succumbs to the cold more easily than a man who is awake, and England could not let one of her sons die on the street. So you are at liberty to spend the night in the street providing it is a sleepless night. But there is one road where the homeless are allowed to sleep. Strangely it is the Thames Embankment, not far from the Houses of Parliament. We advise all those visitors to England who would like to see the reverse side of our apparent prosperity to go and look at those who habitually sleep on the Embankment, with their filthy tattered clothes, their bodies wasted by disease, a living reprimand to the Parliament in whose shadow they lie - George Orwell, Beggars In London
Posted on: Mon, 09 Jun 2014 02:03:55 +0000
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