What happened on 24th April 2023 - with your comments

On Monday, the Euronews calculated that more than 4000 people have died while homeless in the last four years in the UK, according to new figures, which means a death every 6.5 hours in 2022.

 

Some readers blamed Tory for that. "For the Tories that a homeless death every 6.5 hours isn’t quick enough."

"Councils have a duty to house them."

Others started calculating, too. "There is something not right with these numbers. According to Shelter, there are 271,000 homeless people in the UK. A death every 6.5 hours is 1349 homeless deaths per year, or 5 out of every thousand homeless people per year. There were 667,479 deaths registered in the UK in 2021 with a population of 67 million. That's ten out of every thousand people in the UK die every year. The homeless have half the death rate of the general population; it's hard to see this as a "crisis".

"I'm guessing you'll find that the average life expectancy of homeless people is a lot lower than the general population. So sure having half the death rate sounds positive until you realize that they're dying way younger than the average person."

"Homeless men on average die at 47, homeless women die at 43, about 40 years earlier than the national average. We have enough information, it just implies that homeless people die very young when compared to people with houses."

"Another day in the UK, another crisis to add to the ever-growing list of crises."

The last commentator was right. That was another Monday crisis. And another one more was about the evacuation operation from Sudan. 

 

Despite the UK is believed to have among the highest number of foreign citizens in Sudan - up to 4,000 according to Britain's international development minister, the evacuation of British citizens apparently had failed. Hundreds of foreign nationals have already been evacuated, but the UK has faced growing criticism from many of its citizens who say they have been essentially abandoned

The common opinion about that was "This is an absolute scandal from a government that learned nothing from their failure in Afghanistan. Other countries began evacuating their citizens back when Schoolboy Sunak was on stage talking about maths. We did nothing. Once again our government left it too late while other countries like the Americans have got everyone out safely. We've left thousands of our citizens behind AGAIN. Shameful."

"“If you’re a British diplomat, we’ll get you out, If you’re just a British citizen, you don’t count, Just email your details scream and shout We’ll just send you message, to stick it out,” Absolutely disgraceful display from our government, i pray that everyone of our British citizens caught up in that civil war get out, sooner than later." 

We're still talking about crisis. The next news is about actually historical event. MPs have debated the consequences of Brexit for the first time since Britain left the European Union – with critics arguing it has been an “unmitigated disaster”.

However, it was criticized by readers. "What an utterly pathetic thing to say. Trying to pretend it’s a single event that’s been and gone, and not a continued state of affairs that we’ll all be burdened with for the rest of our lives."

"id hope they specifically discuss how the government sat on its ass and did next to nothing of substance for nearly 7 years, squandered all the possible opportunities in impotent power grabs and put more effort into tearing up civil rights than anything else." - "Naaaaah they'll be too busy spouting banal rhetoric skewed statistics and unsubstantiated 'facts'"

"Too soon. I would hope for a public enquiry once they're out of office, indicting the cameron and johnson governments for conspiracy to defraud the nation, incitement of racial hatred, genocide and anything else we can try to throw the book at them for. I would hope that Labour, anticipating a potential win would already be in talks with EU hierarchy to at least be on amicable and peaceful terms going forward."

Labour although put their five eggs into the crisis discussion. They warned that the UK will be hit with the fastest and harshest price rises in the G7.

Pat McFadden MP, Labour’s shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, said: “Families in Britain are being harder hit by price rises than many comparable economies.

“Other countries have had to cope with Covid and the consequences of the war in Ukraine yet it is Tory Britain which sits at the top of the inflation growth league of major industrial economies."

The most popular comment from the Independent reader runs that "Pretty sick of hearing all this suffering being rained down on the public and British companies. When are we going to hear about justice being delivered on the Brexit liars; on the government for rushing Brexit on a referendum which was not defining. Not to mention the drive to take away our employment, civil and legal rights. You couldn't make this stuff up."

"So, when Rees Mogg promised that with Brexit we would have "Cheaper food, clothing and footwear" was he lying?! " - "He wasn't lying. But he wasn't referring to *your* shoes, of course. He envisioned a United Kingdom where British workers would be happy to work for a pittance and without the right to strike. Or any other rights for that matter, so that an imposter like him could feel again how it was in Dickens' times."