Madam,

The more difficult the times, the more drastic the policy. After the Napoleonic wars, the government decided that the large number of homeless and often disabled ex-servicemen were a social embarrassment and introduced the Vagrancy Act, which is still in force to this day.

The same political mindset also exists, 200 years later, subtly portrayed in our new bus shelters. Those thrown onto the streets by our criminal housing policy can not only be imprisoned like those Napoleonic soldiers and sailors, but are denied even a place to sleep in a modern bus shelter, with its narrow, slanted seating.

However, it is not only the homeless that are demeaned, but old people with aged limbs, unable to rest fully off the ground, young children too small to sit and also reach the ground where their body weight is thrown by the slanted seat. Do the architects have no integrity that they allow their profession to be a party to such fascist policy?

Yours etc, Roger Louvet, Porthmadog.

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