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Originally Posted by Thomas Banacek
Interesting to contrast their sensible and practical approach with the antics of folks like the Cyrenians.
I got approached to sign their petition yesterday by a bloke with a placard in one hand and a tin of Tennents Super in the other.
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And that's exactly why their stance was only ever going to achieve the square root of fuck all. The problem is that the Cyrenians isn't a "cuddly" charity with good
PR opportunities, they can't bring out old Flora in a wheelchair for the sympathy vote.
A lot of the clients (hate that word!) I work with have come through the system through the Cyrenians, and to be honest I'm starting to think the sooner they dissolve the better. They have this ridiculous, woolly approach to support work. It's all "you're special, you work with people everybody else has given up on long ago" kinda shit. Fucking tree-huggers. Wrapping people up in cotton wool and doing everything for them just leads to created dependency and means you're teaching them nothing in terms of independent living skills.
The thing is, if the money isn't there, then it's not there! And no amount of protesting/hand-wringing/snivelling is going to make it materialise. A mate of mine has not long started working for them, and he's working in Stopover, which is one of the residential units due for the chop. In real terms though, there's no guarantee of job security as you're working with the axe hanging over you from day one if it's council funded so this was inevitable in a lot of ways.
Either way, not
