London's Toilets - Polish Underclass Immigrant's Hilton!

Surreality never escapes the world of news and on my cyber-browsing adventures today I noticed one quite unusual item concerning Polish immigrants in London.

Media Disservice
According to This is London news portal "Polish immigrants are coming to blows for the privilege of sleeping in public lavatories at a cost of just 20p per night."

It seems like Hackney East London has been experiencing builders with their tools making use of the local comfortable lavatories to catch up on lost sleep, revitalising their bodies before they return to the ever-booming building sites that remain a key driving force behind England's economic prosperity.

Battles for Beds
Locals have reported that scuffles break out on a daily basis between the cubicle's potential clients around 10.30pm as the homeless labourers battle for the prime positions. Allegedly, cleaners who turn up at the toilets the next morning have either been refused entry or violently reproached for daring to thread on the make-shift beds.

The Real Problems
But the reporting of this problem of course ignores the fact that rental prices are exorbitant and at times beyond the reach of labourers already being exploited by their greedy bosses. Let's gain some perspective here: people only sleep on cardboard in dirty, cramped piss holes when they are pretty fucking desperate, drunk or high. So the solution is not to write stupid articles like the one linked above from 'This is London' which lacks any analysis of 'why' people have the need to fight over such living conditions.

Wake-up Call
Civic society through NGOs, the Unions, the church, community groups, et al. should be doing all they can to ensure that employers pay their workers proper wages for their work while facilitating their safe accomodation. The city borough moreover should be proactively reclaiming derelict properties in the area to make them suitable for living in. So many properties are left idle in urban spaces so fatcats can sit and wait on their arses until the area becomes gentrified and the market prices rise to line their pockets with even more profit. More expenditure from the Labour gvt. to ensure the appropriate integration amd safety of emigrants would also go a long way to improving language skills as well as workers' knowledge on labour, health, safety and accomodation rights.

So rather than prejudicially bitching about how immigrants are screwing up Hackney's comfort-laden cubicles, the media andthe public should be demanding more, better and cheaper accomodation for those who can ill-afford the high prices demanded by the avaricious market economy.