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December 13, 2013
Halfway up a holly tree beside one of Britain’s most famous streets, there’s a black plastic bag stuffed with muddy blankets and a bundle of grubby clothes.
It belongs to an unidentified Romanian beggar and right now he’s hard at work.
By the time he returns to settle down for the night on a swathe of grass that divides each side of Park Lane, he will probably have found a Western Union office to wire the day’s takings back home – it would be unwise to sleep with a stash of cash in your pockets.
Today, almost certainly, he will be back on London’s streets. So too will others among the 20 or 30 who have once more made Park Lane their home.
Restrictions on Romanians and Bulgarians working in Britain will be lifted on January 1, raising fears of a further influx.
Although Westminster Council evicted the Park Lane beggars months ago from their makeshift campsites and squalid shelters, paying for many to go home, they are here again. And they’re very much back in business.
Yesterday clutches of beggars wandered among Christmas shoppers in nearby Oxford Street or sat around Marble Arch playing cards for money after police and council officials went through the morning ritual of telling them to move on.
The farthest most went after dispersing was a few hundred yards. Some took up residence on Hyde Park benches or lingered around several of London’s most expensive hotels, where rich tourists press currency into the hands of top- hatted doormen.
With takings from begging reportedly topping £100 a day, it’s a toss-up over who gets the better deal.
Now, after repeated complaints that shoppers and tourists are being intimidated – in at least one case by being marched to a cashpoint and forced to withdraw cash – local councillors are calling for a change in the law to combat what they see as a growing national problem.
Some fear proposals to replace ASBOs (antisocial behaviour orders) with IPNAs (injunctions to prevent nuisance and annoyance) will critically weaken local authority powers to tackle aggressive begging and to deal effectively with troublesome travellers.
None of that much bothered a gaggle of off-duty beggars yesterday in the shadow of Marble Arch, betting on a game of dice as they sat around a woollen blanket on the cold stone ground.
One woman was counting a heap of about 70 or 80 pound coins and hid some banknotes under the blanket as we approached.
Some of the group had been here in the summer, got sent home in the crackdown last July – and had now returned for potentially rich pickings at Christmas.
It’s an immigration merry-go-round which, at present, no-one seems to be able to stop.
