Ban beggars belief

I have been to Kathmandu, London, Berlin, Paris, Edinburgh, Prague, Brussels, Amsterdam and a host of Asian destinations. I've also been to New York several times. All have their communities of poor and homeless people.

But these are sophisticated, caring societies that live alongside the less privileged in a dignified and understanding way.

So why did I have to come home to a city where the privileged powerbrokers have unilaterally decided ‘no poor people please, no beggars please'.

Banning the beggars hasn't even happened yet and already this NIMBYISM is sticking in my craw. What right have we?

It's not fixing a problem, it doesn't even start to fix it. At best it's moving a problem, but it's also good that we are talking about the problem.

I just hope when Councillor Terry Molloy is opening his presents and tucking into the Christmas turkey that his enjoyment is not sullied by any residual thoughts of the unclean and the untouchables inhabiting the Tauranga CBD. That would be disgusting.

I Goldsmith, Bureta

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