And it’s absolutely a political decision to have people sleeping rough. Back in Manchester we got a new mayor Andy Burnham (you might have heard about him running for leadership of the national Labour party) a few years ago, and he spent pretty much the first two years making sure there were shelters for the city’s homeless and programmes to help them. There were so many sleeping in the streets by then, as other towns would just give their homeless a train ticket to a big city to get rid of them. And people still complained about this prioritisation, even though most of them probably had to walk past a stack of piss-smelling sleeping bags to get into their office!