The Homeless Neighbours of the Seaside Rich & Famous 🇬🇧

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  @TheHippocrocapig · 2 years ago

  The bloke you interviewed living on the beach seems a really sound and switched on geezer. I wish him all the best.

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• GL

  @glenntaylor9144 · 2 years ago

  Leyton is proof of one wrong decision what could happen. What a humble fella who just rolls his socks up and gets on with it.

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• MR

  @mrdog2019 · 2 years ago

  The majority of homeless in Bournemouth aren’t from Bournemouth, a lot of homeless come here for the summer and then more and more have stayed as the years have gone by, also Bournemouth had a ridiculous amount of rehab houses, where courts from all over the country sent there addicts to Bournemouth, it was so bad there were over thirty rehab/ bail hostels, eventually people had enough and some were closed, those that stayed became homeless and many still remain.

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• KI

  @kimbeaney6747 · 2 years ago

  Thanks Wendall for making me me feel grateful.<br>The divide between the haves and have nots is off the scale.<br>A society is best judged by how it treats its most vulnerable. We are failing on all counts.

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• AR

  @arielatomhc · 2 years ago

  I live in Bournemouth trying to find somewhere cheap and private to live is harder than life itself.

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• YO

  @youngbess1 · 2 years ago

  The fella from “ WE ARE HUMANS”, what an amazing person and society. &nbsp;God bless him.

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• LI

  @lily_m3538 · 2 years ago (edited)

  A great example of the contrast between the &apos;haves&apos; and the &apos;have-nots&apos; in broken Britain. The gent living on the beach is very articulate and personable so I hope he gets himself back into work and housing.

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• UH

  @Uhtred11 · 2 years ago

  I could just watch a whole 1 hour segment with you and Leyton. Cool dude. Takes accountability and has a right mindset i wish him all the blessings.

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  @1958RBS · 2 years ago

  Bournemouth is a place I know well as my late son lived there for 5 years and for some of that time he worked for a homeless charity and witnessed everything that Wendall has touched upon. &nbsp; What I have come to believe is that there is a lot of money to be made out of the drug and alcohol dependent and the homeless. &nbsp;We Are Humans seems to have the right ethos, but many of the charities become businesses who need to fund highly paid managers, which in turn means that they need to maintain a cohort of destitute people to keep afloat! &nbsp; I wish there was an answer, but it is worth noting that accommodation doesn&apos;t appear to be in short supply when the government need or want it.

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• SO

  @sowts5157 · 2 years ago

  Mad seeing someone walk through where you live and interview someone you have known for over a decade.

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• PA

  @Pattayabuzzbar · 2 years ago

  I was living in Bournemouth in the late 90s &nbsp;left a rehab in Boscombe, &nbsp;the problem is many addicts started living there after leaving the many dry houses and rehabs unfortunately many relapse and became homeless &nbsp;and became drug dealers again, &nbsp; its became a dominoes effect over the year&apos;s, &nbsp; sad really for the old locals who had the shit put on there door step...it surely has got worse since the 90s, &nbsp;anyway im still 28 year&apos;s clean &nbsp; one of the lucky ones.

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• EM

  @emtabby · 2 years ago

  Layton seems like a genuinely nice guy with his head screwed on. Really hoping he has some good luck with commendation

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