Update on Joseph - Life on the streets - London, The Strand

You can meet Joseph on the Strand - a busy street in London. He has been homeless for 11 years. He takes all drugs but Spice. This is the second video i have with him. He is very tired this time. You can access the first one here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPSoHR-fNh4 Check this out  

Hi Joseph how are you not bad you seems to be a bit tired I'm very tired too much fighting down the bottom spice all fighting over spice and alcohol and then you've got all this lot coming out of the weekend that just inflames it so you say too much too much hustle too too much yes on the streets yeah why don't you find a quieter place to stay because sometimes it's not safe you better off where the cameras are yes folks we are here with Joseph who's been on the Streets of London for how long 11 years 11 years man yeah long time how did you end up in the streets uh just circumstances like relationship breakdown that sort of thing usual yeah 11 years right too much for him but it worked for me I just I just felt dealt with them you know hey but I'm a street breakfast I'm rough I'm ready for it you know yeah he's actually at the bedroom at the moment because he's had a form of a breakdown but yeah I've ended up in in London alcoholism my parents were drinkers themselves

West Africa

the system's broken I'll pay tax all my life in the UK yeah born in the UK I ran an events company big company [Music] somebody's quiet streets to get [ __ ] utensil on fire and things like that or people uh just throw bottles at your own food that you earn all sorts or or piss on they piss on you when you're asleep oh that's disgusting yeah yeah so has that happened to you yeah so they pissed on you all of that yeah yeah all of it yeah I've been attacked pissed on I've been shoes stolen um uh thank you very much thank you so much not all bad huh yeah no it's really bad it's getting worse as well the spice is killing everything it's a more and more spice on the street yeah it's getting worse it's getting stronger as well stronger as well yeah and then fentanyl they're putting Fentanyl and heroin now which is 50 times stronger than heroin that's killing people plentiful fentanyl Fentanyl and you see that around on the streets yeah that's that's it that's it that's around now yeah that's starting to kill people now yeah yeah but they're like other almost been affected by that yeah yeah a few people have died from it yeah

yeah but um the spice is killing enough people yeah spice is really bad well I hope you don't do that nah I'm too old yeah you're messing with any substances yourself I've had a bit of everything but I don't really bother man I'm too old yeah I'm too old for all of that yeah you said that you from from the coast in it no I'm from London Southeast London South East London yes so this is like well do you ever go down south yeah I've been all over I've been all over the country yeah but this is the second time I am I'm here and this is the second time I see you yeah no it's well I'm used to it is your home yeah yeah yeah so if anybody wants to like help you out this is where you can teach you I'm always on the Strand on the Strand in London yeah right and any and it's any particular times that you are here uh usually up to about nine o'clock ten o'clock at night from what time from from about 10 11 in the morning all right so long days yeah yeah so yeah will die and how is the place where you sleep I move around I'm all over the place because that's all your belongings here right yeah yeah so you move around yeah you know a few few good places yeah all around yeah okay Joseph and uh yeah we've got your phone number from the first episode so if anybody like the people can call you if you've got your phone work yeah yeah it's working just about it stay a bit look uh-huh yeah broken Joseph Swan is working folks so give him a call and give him a word of to cherish the man yes in this in this sad days really for Joseph yeah how's the future looking for you Joseph I don't know really it's hard to say I'm waiting for the sun to come out that's the summer time yeah it's getting warmer already when the summer comes things are better always especially for people on the streets yeah the winters are worse the winters are really bad and it's still cold January it's very cold February still will be cold yeah I know the March hopefully it will get better yeah March how long you've been on already on the streets 11 years 11 years yeah yeah a long time is that like sleeping rough yeah hostels a few hostels but mainly on the street Nino streets yeah it's amazing huh this is is that you you your your choice or is it like life has been in this life it's just the way life is you know it's hard to get house these days you know it's not easy play Joseph okay Joseph thanks for the small update happy you are well and still here because usually homeless people move around and I can't find the same person yeah yeah this is the well it's good you stay in one place it's a great struggle like you know you get too familiar with people and then they cause your problems you know babe you move around people don't approach you so much because they don't know you I see you yeah moving Target order to it all right yeah where else can we see you I'm right there I don't you know I moved around but I was sleep in all different places but I'm always here you're always here right yeah Joseph yeah

have you been trying to reach for some help um no not yet no I'll wait for the summer to come for the summer to come you may be yeah and then next time you need help now in the winter yes yeah of course yeah

it's definitely hard well Joseph I wish you all the best and I will see you next week yes take care but just before I started to record you told me the story about last night last night outside last night and I could be screaming I thought oh [ __ ] and I thought I'd take that notice of it then the old screamers are rushed down there and there was about eight girls and two two boys all like 17 18. don't put it on these free world-to-do girls that all dressed up nice as going to restaurants and I thought I separated them so I went to walk away and when I walked away they grabbed one of them slung to the floor wow I started charanda started kicking and punching.

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Meet Dean James - spice smoker - now has vision loss - Tales from the streets

 

Dean James has taken a part in a series of TabooRooms on YouTube . Link below. He comes from Doncaster, Yorkshire. suffers from narcolepsy. Check this out!  

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all right folks so we are here with Dean James yes who's from Yorkshire Yorkshire Doncaster Yorkshire how did you end up in London uh the British transport police uh uh I jumped the train from King's cross to Doncaster uh and for a train ticket fine I can't afford my train fare so they brought me back to London it's Commonwealth green and uh made me pay the fine made me pay fine and then keep me back to the streets homeless and they just left you on the streets literally four days because I couldn't get my medications come over with to London with me I lost my methadone I was withdrawing from 110 mil of methadone four days into it I couldn't even pick my belongings I was so weak I could not fit my belongings up I left my belongings in camberwell green magistrates court and noon have crawled out and I thought magistrates go but it was a bit too much for him but it worked for me I just I just dealt with them you know but I'm a street breakfast I'm rough I'm ready for it you know yeah he's actually at the bathroom at the moment because he's had a form of a breakdown but yeah I've ended up in in London alcoholism my parents were drinkers themselves

West Africa

the system's broken I'll pay tax all my life in the UK yeah all in the UK I ran an events company big company [Music] foreign [Music]

they took 200 pounds off a fine and keep me to the streets I was so weak I couldn't will not fit that my belongings up so I left I left Commonwealth being with seven pounds 11 Pence I think it was seven pounds something and uh I've been on the streets ever since and that was 2018. that's five years man yes that's five years so when the first couple of years the child's sending me back up north because there's no local connection now the reason I didn't go back up north is because my mum's in a bungalow she's so threatened to covid I can't cut some fish at all because of kovid so I'm back to the streets I just came back to London stayed on the streets alone they say it's no second night out it's wrong I've been here for what five years now almost in the streets but I am engaging with connections so uh now things are moving on from the covered area situation people are beginning to interact more with people on the seats it's been difficult because

it's been difficult because nobody wants to come near you on the streets because I think we've got covered and things just it's been I've had anything stolen I've had phones train is taking off my feet I've lost everything all right where do you sleep then James last night I was I be on the train station on the stairwell which is

basically or sometimes it's just outside the chase station there or down the stairs of connections which is on the back there all right but you usually on the Strand somewhere around here yes because I deal with connections which is the mountains in the field which is a homeless like they give you a meal through the day through the week Monday to Friday you can go there you can get you you can see the doctor there so I'll get the medical treatment there I can get a shower there I can get a wash I can get my clothes washed what clothes I've got all right so there's a lot of like like you said lots of drugs on the streets yeah yeah there's a lot yeah and there's I saw from asleep to a called narcolepsy and I feel like I'm in Target it is somebody following me and Target wait for me to fall asleep and then the rubbing they're robbing me when I'm asleep which is another situation I should be on the streets with having narcolepsy alone oh you've got epilepsy knock let's see what's that it's a sleep disorder when I'm not active I fall asleep that's why I can't seem a bit chaotic I see it yeah I see are you messing up with substances I've been stuck in Addiction on and off since I was 19. I'm 47 years old now so again if you believe then but that that oh in bed uh it messed with my head I got into the wrong crowd I got into drugs I got into shoplifting jail

but hopefully no more jail how what what did you do jail for shoplifting shoplifting yeah yeah to to feed my addiction and to support my to support how long was your sentence I was when I say 18 months 18 months and then 12 month formation so all right but the position you do with yeah 12 month formation is to be reintegrated back into the community but it doesn't work really yes

there's a saying in life you become the company so he he in society you get stuck within Society you get stuck into addiction you get stuck into crime not so much crying for myself so I'm not so much crying for myself or addiction now but still I'm still sat with my mental health

which is not too well what's happening I saw from postmatic stress uh I got robbed for four pounds something and I was stuck in this leading like a thunker out and I went blind four days later I lost my sight and uh my right eye is now down and shrinking so they're taking my eye out it shrinks too much he said it shrinks like a bee so for four pounds 60s when you get to Romney who else look at his email and I've lost my sight for it now I got for four pounds 60. it's ridiculous but when was that hey it's all right do you video tonight okay 2017. are you there it's right there right yes I'll see you later yeah about 2015 2015. just before I came to London actually he's a good one as well I can't remember his name South African is he is that his name English is he in South Carolina but he's been in yes he's been in New Zealand that's in New Zealand sorry not South African New Zealand yeah yeah yeah yeah our next internet connections that's another there's some good people and the only thing what keeps me going I guess in society is there's good people on the street still there's it's not good honesty it's to be on the streets but these good people on the streets yeah we're not all bad people that's good to hear that Dean James listen if there's somebody watching this um that knows you is there anything you want to say to your family members or anything like that yeah well uh I'm trying I'm trying I've spent I've stepped out my local area starting better in my life so it's not so much in my family's in my family's face so the uh secondly I I just I just asked for any help and forgiveness towards my family well bless you thank you and is there if some there's somebody wants to donate to you and uh help you out is there a phone number or an email you have uh I I I I haven't just they can get into me via Facebook on Dean came yeah what's your name on Facebook being kind Dean kind k-i-m-e

yeah thank you you slapped me in the flat yeah with all these all the wind has rocked it locked me in no electric and I think it gave me a 10 pound heroin and some spice and you'd be like I'll pick you up in the morning and then he'd pick me up about nine ten o'clock in the morning give me another bag of spice and a bag of everyone to get me out over my rattle and let me go shoplifting for him already to pay my debt off

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Meet Wayne - Big issue vendor - Life on the Streets

 

Wayne used to be homeless, now he sells Big Issue. While a third of Big Issue vendors are homeless, the majority are not – people sell Big Issue for a wide variety of reasons. Check this out!

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folks we are here with Wayne who's not a homeless person now but you used to be a homeless many years ago and now you you've got a place to stay yeah and you sell the big issue what is what is a big issue for people who don't I would explain the big issue is a magazine to help the homeless starting to help themselves it's a magazine way of basically people to earn money to pay their way and support and to support themselves

you've been selling that some big issue for how long 11 years 11 years and I've seen a lot of differences since I started when I first started there was literally it was it would be it was proper for people to buy nowadays it's covered and lockdown there's been a lot of a lot of downfall it's been the cells and the basically the popularity of the big issue has dropped it's dropped yeah because nowadays people are barely very rarely buying the magazine now but it's a bit too much for him but it worked for me I just I just dealt with them you know hey I'm a street breakfast I'm rough I'm ready for it you know yeah he's actually at the bathroom at the moment because he's had a form of a breakdown but yeah I've ended up in in London alcoholism my parents were drinkers themselves

West Africa

the system's broken I'll pay tax all my life in the UK yeah all in the UK I ran an events company big company [Music]

foreign

established in 1991 and it was aimed its aim was to help people that were on the streets to help themselves to be get like pay pay for proper like places to live feed themselves clothe themselves and literally earn a living and being self-employed so did you start selling big issue when you were a homeless person I I was at the time I was literally sofa surfing at the time so far surfing yeah I mean I was sleeping Here There and Everywhere I was like spending time on the streets off the streets here there wherever I could and I was begging at the time to earn money because well it was I didn't basically no I think at the time I didn't know about the big issue it took a vendor that like saw me one day that I used to give money to every day every time I used to see him when I used to go shopping I used to see him I just go there you go okay get yourself something to eat don't worry about the mag because he used to try and sell it to me he saw me one day begging and it took him seeing me and he said to my friend what are you doing I went trying to get some money to get sent to me he goes my friend do what I do and he he helped me and I still I'm still grateful for to this day that you've been selling that issue for for 11 years no 11 years now yeah I think the magazine comes out weekly it comes out it comes out on a Monday through till Sunday it's a different magazine every week that comes out it's always different basic covers and different articles that basically on in the magazine how much does it cost now now it costs four pounds it's four pounds yeah that's that's a lot of money when I first when I first started as I say when I first started it was literally two pounds for the customers to buy then they put it up to 250 been a few have been a few months of me starting it went up to two pound fifty which was a reasonable price because it because of the cost of inflation and stuff of cost of them Printing and Publishing it cost them a bit of money to actually can you show the big issue to the camera please yeah that's what this is the big issue and as I was saying and at the time it was too fit it went up to 250 fair enough and that then covered it was 250 for quite a while then covert happened when covert happened and the lockdowns happened the magazine went up after lockdown to three pound and then it's recent only this year from January like this month that's gone up to four pounds for customers to buy because it's the cost of every of everything going up in the world basically everything's gone up in price okay it costs more and how it works with the big issue we pay we pay by the magazines to sell them so we buy it paying for half the price and sell them for the for the price on the mag I see so how it works we us all us vendors we make money by selling the mag so we we make our money back we spent on the mag plus the other half in profit because it's because of the what the price is so we buy it for we buy it for basically two pound and we take it from four so we're making our two pound back plus two pound profit on every magazine we sell and with that we we where are you where our Spenders are able to basically support ourselves to feed ourselves clothe ourselves and basically if we if we got a place to live to pay the pay the bills for the place where we live in it's it's basically being self-employed and you're it's and its aim is to help us to help ourselves giving us that step on the ladder to help ourselves to make money it did help you in your case because yeah you've been like so fast sofa surfing and then you just started to sell the issue big issue and you become you rent a flood yeah and that's why that's what I'm saying I'm not the only one it's helped many people because I'm I'm just one one of many that do the big issue there's literally you oh you're fine if you go anywhere else there's a lot of people there's a lot of vendors everywhere and a lot of vendors will say the same thing it's their aim is to help to help them help like put away with them us helping ourselves to actually be like okay how can I explain the word help us basically to not to rely on others to help that we've actually help ourselves yeah and it's way it's a way of us working and she's doing the job but being self-employed and actually been able to basically support ourselves and that's that's the way and I am grateful for the big issue for wait wait basically it what it's about but and I'm grateful in a way as well from the vendor that helped me to get me get me started on it he's the one who recommended me said to me that come and do what I do and still to this day I'm grateful for him to actually he actually already done because if it weren't for him they weren't for him I could have basically turned to the like to the life of crime done a bit about basically being in trouble with the law but I it with what he'd done but helping me to recommend the big issue to do what he'd done he's then put me on a way of me being on the straight and narrower to help myself right to basically make a living support myself and pay pay my way all right wait so you being on the streets for so long do you see the problem of homelessness rising in the UK or yeah that's basically I can tell you now it's not just the UK it's worldwide there's a lot of homeless problems worldwide not just in England especially in other countries as well the homeless problems is basically is a big problem for Ev for many countries there's a lot of places it's more than it used to be I used I would just say because it's that the reason why I'm going to say that I'm going to say this as well the reason why is because there's not it's because of covid because kovit caused a lot of problems for a lot of people and a lot of people suffered with it well I've heard that coffee helped a lot of homeless people because they've been sheltered for that that's what I'm saying they help people they've got people off the streets temporarily but I'm saying covert in general calls a lot of people to actually then become homeless because they've lost jobs they've been made redundant because I'm placing covid and the business said the business is shutting down and people losing their jobs because of covid and and the lockdowns because it's just because the cost of it all is basically sent the country sent the countries into it basically crumbling worldwide economical crisis all over the place yeah so you understand what I'm saying it's literally not just England it's basically covert has caused a lot of problems worldwide in being because it was a very basically a really nasty virus that literally brought the country to its knees it literally the country was all countries are on the brink of being brought to their knees and actually not actually surviving it I and that's you you could go down any local High Street and you'll find a lot of business that used to be there are not there now because they've had they've had to shut down because the cost of it and now now now we're all everyone's suffering with the cost of living because the cost of living is literally making it even worse now the cost of things people can't afford things as like they used to because like as I could say now that's why like even with the big issue now not many people buy it because many people can't afford money to buy anything anymore they're just scraping by themselves yeah so are you seeing a lot of like sub substances on the on the streets like drug abuse or anything like that there's a lot of that everywhere basically I can tell you this now there's a lot that everywhere no matter where you go there's a lot of people let's see that people drink take drugs but I never judge anyone is that if they it's down that's what they chose to do is what they then that's that that's their their thing I don't pry into people's things of that is they can have many reasons why they do it so it's it's with that with that it's up to them why they do it and there he goes but I can tell you now there's a lot of basically drink drugs below where you go no matter what country you're in there's always basically problem with drugs because you've got a lot of gangs basically uh basically entice people with drugs and stuff like that so I hear there's a lot of space that somebody told me yeah and I see a lot of that's laced with stuff and you can literally make if they see either basically cause you problems or basically get this and be very addictive

so and like I said and there's a lot of gangs and stuff and what like the other thing as well I I'm gonna I'm gonna say one other thing literally the other thing as well what's causing the problems for the cost of living is the war in Ukraine to do with Putin being a warmonger and that is all he is he just wants power power power and that's what the problem is because he didn't like it that Ukraine was wanting to be independent he didn't like it because he weren't in power he couldn't control and he's basically caused more of the basically for other countries to suffer as well because because where the oil and stuff and fuel when that comes from Russia and getting everything else so he's basically it's costing more problems for the the Western countries to suffer more than the cost of stuff because now literally they can't so what people that's why the cost living Sky High Sky High it costs more now to basically to shop feed yourself and everything else all right Wayne what what would you like to say what else would you like to say what we also like to say basically the government needs to wake up to see the government's worldwide need to wake up and realize there's a lot of problems in the country in their own country before they choose to choose to help anyone else in other countries the government needs to help the help that people like like even like the UK government they need to realize and the UK government need to realize before before they send that money to like other countries that are basically suffering they need to basically focus on helping people in their own in the country as well first as well as the other country they need to make sure councils have enough enough funding NHS has enough funding and stuff like that and literally and the government need to realize they need to go back to the negotiation tables with all the unions that with all the stuff that's with all the units that are striking and negotiate the bet the a better pay especially for the nurses and the ambulance drivers because they literally are on the front line the nurses especially especially they've been on the front line all the way through covid fight and helping to fight the disease and helping patients and they're literally the ones who now start having to suffer because they literally don't have enough they're not they're being paid not enough the government need to really go back and focus and sit down with the with the nurses Union and actually discuss the pay rise that they want and give them the pay rise they want because they deserve the pay rise but is there anything about homeless people uh you've noticed around that's what I said I can tell you a lot about the homeless people there's a lot of the homeless people are basically are homeless because they choose to be homeless a lot of people that rather choose to be on the street than being a flat because it's something I could I don't know how to explain it it's the something meant mentally that they think being in the flat they're enclosed and they don't like it they're like being out because a lot of people at homeless people I know have told me they've had many top many times offered a flat to live but they will choose to be on the street because they've been on the street so many years and they like the freedom of being out because they can get some money by begging on the streets yeah I'm not about in general there's a lot of homeless people rather choose to live on the street when they could actually live in a place but they'll choose to live on the street because knowing that they basically they're they're literally they're free and they don't they don't like to be enclosed I have spoken to a many I've spoke to a homeless person before and he told me he got given a flat they've been within six months of him having the flat he then decided to give it up chose to go back to the streets because he didn't like it he felt like he was a prisoner because where he was used to being out on the street and he chooses and he told me in his own words he goes I choose to be back on the streets because I get I've got my freedom and the freedom I know exactly where I am out in the open I know where I am but being indoors it's I I could not sleep in a bed I could not think he goes I didn't feel like like I basically belong where he said he'd been on the streets he felt like he belonged and he was literally living on this where he lives the contact was a society rather being closed in four walls that's what I'm saying and there's basically there needs to be more support for people that this with mental health that basically the reason of that are on the streets there's a lot of people that have been on the streets when you working with the big issue and around homeless people for so long could you give an advice to homeless people what help they can get out there basically I my advice is if you basically if you're if you've got suffering with mental health go and seek the help because there's a lot of help out there to help there's a lot of help with people that could actually listen and literally listen to what you what problems you have but there's a lot of people that chooses not to because they don't know that there's help that's what my advice is people that need help and you basically seeking help go and speak to the local authorities and they literally would put you in touch with the right people so basically that can help you is that big issue you know one of one of the places the biggest shoes is an organization especially to help to help yourself to earn money but there's actually the big issue Foundation there's actually there's two parts of the biggest big issue the magazine and this big issue the foundation you can't get you can even get in contact with the biggest shoe Foundation they can help you to put you into hostels and get you the help and support that you need right away thanks a lot for the interview all the best for you and I'll see you around my friend no problem okay thank you thanks a lot my friends greatly received

Ali from Eritrea -Life on the Streets - came from detention centre, became homeless. Spice smoker

 Ali is from Eritrea, in North Africa - after leaving detention centre he became homeless. He smokes spice. Despite having three children from British mothers he is still not neutralized.

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we are here with what's your name Haley are you homeless yes you stay one of the stands here without no they just put me in a hotel just can you speak a bit louder please you just pulled me in a hotel for 28 days all right you've got a hotel for eight days for 28 days 28 days yes see you happy there right yeah for now yeah well I don't know what's going to happen after I didn't know I've been homeless for me God knows 2016 2017 I've been homeless in the street but in London yeah because of the immigration immigration system had done two and a half years Detention Center I got released in 2016. is it like you you you came on the boat or something no I've been here for a long time yeah I've been here since 1997. yeah right just because it only had temporary permit in this country they're supposed to renew any permanent attention for no reason yeah they're supposed to be putting in attention to illegal to deport you they could not Deport me because it was illegal in the first place I see yeah imagine that I've been living in limbo since they released me with no people with no compensation yeah I'm still suffering I understand where are you originally from from Eritrea Eritrea nice one man I'll go free British born kids here from British ladies you understand so I don't understand what this country and you still don't have the right to settle down here no they only give me five years Refugee status in 2020 2020 but imagine the uh it's still not giving me my heart so I cannot claim benefit because they're telling me getting papers from home office yeah right so that's that that's your problem yeah no [ __ ] stupid problem no this problem is no problem but it is yeah it's like then well that's that's how it started that's how you ended up homeless system but it was too much for him but it worked for me I just I just felt dealt with them you know it's like but I'm a street person I'm rough I'm ready for it you know yeah he's actually at the bedroom at the moment because he's had a form of a breakdown but yeah I've ended up in in London alcoholism my parents were drinkers themselves West Africa the system's broken I'll pay tax all my life in the UK yeah all in the UK I ran an events company big company [Music] how's the future it's like well before they put my detention I've got good [ __ ] forklift driver for this driver yeah they put you on the tension did you say they put my detention for two and a half years in jail jail is good jail is good he's not going to the hospital yeah jail is good because you've got a ride to our breakfast yeah we got a ride to [ __ ] have lunch and dinner but in detention center you illegal immigrants so if they screwed around the landing don't like you you don't need today until he finishes shift somebody else comes and we ask him please look they are the official they didn't give me nothing or please can you give me something blah blah yeah if you like she might give me a shine until the next day because you're illegal immigrants yeah so you have to be nice to the official is running or Landing just because they was getting fake deportation letter saying you tomorrow you your name blah blah blah you go on this flight shut up because we got 29 number but we need one more and we we we picked up as a number and your name come up they give me a fake fake [ __ ] letter people die like Asian people are [ __ ] I don't understand the problem it was a joke man people died honestly to God it's not a joke people die they're a big man beat people that had young babies just born and they picked them up from their house saying oh you don't describe blah blah blah blah blah the judge give you a [ __ ] uh tell you going to the division it's up to immigration to decide because you know we give you more than 12 months in prison and you still classified as an illegal immigrant well that's what they [ __ ] calling you busted woman yeah I came here in 1997. yeah it's not a joke man 25 years in the country still illegal British than some [ __ ] British people here you understand I'm more British than some people because they call themselves British born and bred they don't understand [ __ ] so many things I know about Britain but they don't know [ __ ] all my I've been all over the country boy I've been here I've been I lived in Middlesbrough for three years on on on condition because because immigration probably there in a shared house yeah and it had to be the seven to seven on detention yeah I was protesting because they give us the red door yeah in Middlesbrough I've never been in Middlesbrough they pull me with the fermentation straight Middlesbrough my door was ready was painted in Red so every immigrant was painted in red yeah so we was [ __ ] by the by the local because they still throw eggs and [ __ ] everything in [ __ ] his students to put us a dead rat outside the door we will wake up in the morning we got this [ __ ] Bedrock dead [ __ ] oh man it was a [ __ ] hell man that's not a joke man [ __ ] sake man I tried myself this country is [ __ ] well it's not [ __ ] it don't it doesn't help bro it doesn't help you tell me [ __ ] hell I'm not joking man I'm still suffering because because of what they've done yeah I was in the newspaper I was a [ __ ] everything in the [ __ ] although on the rent the rental expenses all the immigrants because they put us say like they put one red door old Street yeah and then they go like five ten miles away they pull another one yeah but one day guess how many is in there yeah no five people there's about 20 25 people yeah it is about six seven eight in one room it was like a red door that's what the illegal immigrants everybody knew okay the whole street is [ __ ] you up every morning some kind of discrimination of purpose no immigration imagine that why they send me from here to Middlesbrough why are they painting in the Red Room well not normal though so you're not happy with the immigration service in the united me wrong they should be compensating me [ __ ] big time but they don't they know they don't want that because nobody knows what they're doing it's a joke about what immigration done a lot of people died yeah no no even no no a lot of people understand why yeah it's the immigration stressed about [ __ ] done them wrong and they can know a comprehend they cannot understand they some of them were born and bred here but because they never [ __ ] asked for passport for paper or their mom or data they never ask for nothing they're going to do the Detention Center emergency or you're going to the Detention Center Holly all right I understand that you're not happy with the system not many people is but uh what about like a substance abuse are you smoking weed in it no don't smoke weed yeah I'm I'm used to listen I'm addicted to something because I'm on the street because of the system I'm addicted to spice I'm addicted to everything but I'm addicted to spice I smoke crack cocaine for a long time so I'm on the street what else can I do that's life there's no don't want to I fall off the street I don't do those when did that start your addictions in detention center because that's what that's what some of the offices I don't know how they used to smuggly the first time in my life well we smoke with this is in detention center the Detention Center you smoke weed for the first time it's not weird this place it's not spice right yeah I smoke special Detention Center the first time even the goldfishes don't tell you how the squash attack the first time in detention center I never had sponsored dog in detention center that's what we used to smoke how long you've been smoking spice for Ali four by seven years now what does it do to you love you just make me sleep on the wall I'm going too much too much too much too much to go up on the bar I kill myself you understand his spice available on the streets easily yeah it's because homeless people get easily how much does it cost it doesn't cost much only three four quid three four quid yeah foreign I'll leave there's somebody watching this that knows you is there anything you want to say back in Eritrea or some anywhere pray for me thank you God bless you all oh [ __ ] and if there's somebody wanting to help you donate is there a phone number they can reach you on or email I don't have nothing yet I don't know Facebook nothing nothing are you usually based around this area yes it's getting close Victoria Russia all right well you can get through me I will come back next we can see how you're doing Ali thanks a lot for the interview and I hope to see you next time God bless you brother thank you nice to meet you thank you very much look I found the one pence thank you very much but it's a bit too much for him but it worked for me I just I just dealt with them you know but I'm a street breakfast I'm rough I'm ready for it you know yeah he's actually at the bedroom at the moment because he's had a form of a breakdown but yeah I've 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