DEAD END.

DEAD END for The Big Issue.

By Uncle Monty.

Photos & Graphics By Alex Albion.

Part 1 of 2.

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Under the ever greedy and bigheaded Anthony John

Bird, The Big Issue average weekly circulation for the

 last three years has fallen from 166,675 in 2007 to

124,196 last year, writes The Guardian's news

reporter Rachel Williams.

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That's almost 43,000 copies in lost circulation or an average

of 14,000 copies lost per year for the last three years. In

other words, The Big Issue has lost perhaps at least 40,000+

 buyers or regular customers in such a short period of time

that impacts the most negatively on the ability of its street

vendors to make even less of what little money they

already make at the hard hands of John Bird

and his vile brother Peter Bird.

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This year's figures for 2011 will undoubtedly be worse

 than last year's. I predict the weekly circulation of The

Big Issue will now fall and tumble below 100,000 weekly

copies before the beginning of its 21st Anniversary in

September of next year, 2012. In the meantime, it's set

this September, 2011, to mark its rotten 20th Anniversary
that was co-founded by pigface John Bird, with the now

bumbling Gordon Roddick, in 1991.
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HOW WE MET:
JOHN BIRD & GORDON RODDICK
27 Aug 1995. John Bird, 49, is editor of the Big Issue.
 Before launching the magazine four years ago, ...

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertinment/how-we-met-john-bird-and-gordon-roddick-1598309.html

It's all of Bird's usual bullshit, ah?
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Always with a ready smart ass answer, Bird says it's

 sharp fall in weekly numbers is because The Big Issue

 is no longer the new kid on the block. What rubbish!

 It's to do with, among other factors, disenchanted buyer

of a magazine that has exploited the homeless and the

 public for years on end. Finally, folkz have cottoned on

 to Bird's "homeless game" that has made him stinking

 rich while his vendors stay even poorer or get fewer

 peanuts for selling the Bird street  publication. It looks

 like pigface Anthony John Bird is now coming finally

 to his own DEAD END. Not that he cares a bugger,
 since he's already got his fat cat bank accounts and
 champagne socialist gated-community home all nicely
 done up along with his company and state pensions now

he's at the retirement age 65 that will enable him to

be buried, sooner or later, in his gold-plated and be-

velled glass coffin with his fat remains embalmed for

 all the English homeless to finally see and cheer so

gladly of the fact he's gone for bloody good. I'll be

 among those many who cheer the loudest  ...
Get out of our lives and stay away for good!

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NEVER BUY - But Give To Vendor.

As for the continuing decline in circulation, pigface

John Bird doesn't give a damn, of course, since he's

all so comfy now with his nice and warm and happy

and Cambridge-gated abode as he revels in his third
rate media status and no good image as the UK's
so-called "Homeless Guru." A three-legged rat is

kinder to the homeless that such a false guru like

 the co-founder of The Big Issue. To hell with Bird.

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Rare 1989 Photo of UK Homeless.

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The decline in weekly circulation numbers is also due,

I believe, to the fact that John Bird has used his street

 publication to promote his own "soapbox" at where

 his useless comments and shallow opinions are regur-

gitated like some old washer woman that has become

 completely tiresome and boring to the point that most

folkz no longer pay any attention to what he says or

want to read or pay for his churned bullshit. Why should 

we pay him for his conceited expressions that don't

 amount to anything of real substance or importance?

When you buy The Big Issue you're in fact paying

Bird himself to spew all his stuff all over you! I don't

give a tiddly-wink about his empty pontifications

on the UK homeless and burning social issues.

After all, who should give a damn about what an ex-

door-to-door brush salesman and minicab driver

thinks or says like AJB?  Give us a break!!

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DEAD END for Anthony John Bird, Too. Bravo!

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Among other factors attributed to the sharp decline of

The Big Issue, as a phoney front for the homeless, is much

to do with what is called "charity fatigue" or "burned out

donors" in which kind folkz have become sick and tired

of giving to such outfits like Bird's or the other innumer-

able number of self-serving and fake charities in the UK. 

Along with the crying out load situation of the Big Issue

paid minions at Vauxhall,  it is also to do with the

rapid rise of "buyer fatigue" that has resulted in folkz

refusing anymore to buy yet another god-damn Big 

Issue off yet another poor and down-todden vendor

 on the British streets flogging the same old poor

 read and worthless shine that enhances only the

 blight of the vile Bird Brothers to glitter like fake

gold with their once catchy homeless slogans.

Thus, it's the DEAD END now for The Big Issue.

And, how so right!

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Then, of course, there is the belt tightening of many

consumers due to the present UK economic doldrums

coupled with the very negative public impression of Big

Issue street vendors and Bird's own irritating persona

 that has increasingly put people off against him and

 his tired old rag. As I said earlier, I predict the

circulation figures for The Big Issue will fall and tumble

below 100,000 copies per week within the next year

or so.  The explanation for that is explained by all

of the above.

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While Visiting UK's Stevenage, Saw Both Homeless Guyz.

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Now that non-homeless can also sell The Big Issue.

What we're seeing out of that is an extention of free labour

 that The Big Issue doesn't pay for by getting more and more

people buying the rag wholesale as the recently unemployed

in desparate need of making some money even if it's peanuts

 as a street vendor. The arrogance and self-promotion of

pigface John Bird is publicly sickening and blatant to the

point  that few people like what they see of him. But he

doesn't care two hoots for he has already made pots of

money so he can tell folkz to f**k off whether they

like it or not ...

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I don't know of any other business in the world in

which the labour is free and the labourer - ie. the Big

Issue vendor - must pay the boss for the privilege of

selling the product on the street with no guarantee of

hourly payment or insurance or pension from the com-

 pany producing the product. The Big Issue practises

should already be outlawed or made illegal forthwith.

It's legal exploitation and subjugation of homeless

people by the vile Bird Brothers and their gang of

charity backers that is tantamount to a moral and out-

rageous scandal. It's what is otherwise called "ugly

capitalism without a human face" and that's what

The Big Issue has done for years and is still getting

 away with  it at its stinking 20th Anniversary of 2011.

 Remember: NEVER BUY THE BIG ISSUE!

But always give to the vendor whenever you

wish. Gooooooood for u and for them!!!

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The Death Rate for Rough Sleepers Is High and also

for the General Homeless Population. Rough Sleepers 

can reduce their life expectancy by 22 years and

 women by 17 years. The Coffin I saw for sale in the

 funeral shop window was fancy that few homeless

folkz would ever get to be buried in ...

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Travelling around Hertfordshire last week, I counted

Big Issue vendors at Hatfield, Welwyn Garden City,

Stevenage, Potters Bar, and Hertford. Most were

Romanians and Gypies. Such, I believe, has also

contributed to the decline of Big Issue sales in the

UK. As one woman said to me: "I'm sorry. I want

to help the homeless from England, not some

Roman gypsy that should never be here to started

with ..." She said she will only buy a copy "when

someone is English, speaks English, and is English

homeless ..." Bravo, I say!! She added that there was

a local lad selling The Big Issue and she believed he

was "overran by Eastern Europeans pickpockets-

cum-sellors because The Big Issue was letting them

 get away with running local vendors out of town."

The bottom line is she, too, will not buy the weekly

any longer after being a regular buyer for the past

10 years, so she told me. Every customer lost, is

another nail in the coffin of the Bird Brothers. But

worst still, it hurts those many homeless vendors now

overrun by foreigners and non-homeless taking over

 the pitches here and there.  And it's set to get even

worse for the homeless vendor thankz the pigface's

"swell" idea to now include non-homeless applicants

to his free labour monopoly in the UK.

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Anonymous Homeless Artist At Knight's Hill.

So nice it was to see on the hostel door.

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Coming back late at night from one of my out

of town trips, I spotted the homeless urban

fox about a mile from where I live in Central

London, UK. I used the night vision feature on

 my digital camera to capture the image of him.

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I've finished this part 1 of my 2 part piece "DEAD
END for The Big Issue,"  Please be sure to also
 read the heartwarming story of local friends and
good neighbours helping their first homeless man
by their sheer kindness and care!!

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Residents of Britain's kindest town rally to 

help homeless man. By Ross McGuinness.

http://www.onenewspage.co.uk/news/UK/20110613/23164871/Residents-of-Britain-kindest-town-rally-to.htm

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Then there's that tennis guy - now seeded 4th - called
 Andy Murray giving abit of his winnings to a couple

 of Big Issue vendors the other day. Watch out, though,
for those money grabbing operators at The Big Issue
that may try to lay their filthy hands on getting Andy to
also give them some of his tennis "dough."  They did it to
that young tennis lady Annabel Croft a few years ago.
Andy Murray be sure to say "NO" to The Big Issue.

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Tennis star Andy Murray the £89,000 Queen's Club

winner shares his success with the Big Issue sellers.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2003663/Andy-Murray-shares-Queens-winnings-Big-Issue-seller.html#ixzz1PIWahMMt

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So for now, Uncle Monty.

+Thursday of Whitsuntide, 2011.

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:: UPDATE ::
'We're going to shoot film about your homeless for Afghan TV'
By Alistair Foster, Showbusiness Correspondent.
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23961533-were-going-to-shoot-film-about-your-homeless-for-afghan-tv.do
Who gives a jot what a greasey bunch of ant-like Afghan
 Muslims say or film about the London homeless? Perhaps
they can go to visit The Big Issue's Muslim Chairman 
James Caan for film insight on recording homelessness.
Yep and old Bird will also want to put his two penny
worth in, but only if he's paid to give his stupid spiel 
about the homeless from his idiotic point of view.
Go back to Kubul is best for those Afghans, I
say, by leaving the London homeless alone ...
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Such Scumbagz, Like Them.
All that Peter & John Bird have done, along with th-
eir evil henchman Joseph Colin James, III (known as the
vile and old internet troll "CJ3") of Loveland, Colorado,
 in their concerted efforts to degrade and dishonour me,
has, in fact, done nothing but to degrade and dishonour
 themselves along with sheer scorn and open contempt
now being openly poured on them by many others who
 know the dirty truth about such scumbagz like them.
Truly, Uncle Monty.

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Broken Ascot, Like Broken Britain. By Uncle Monty.
http://thebiggerissueorg.blogspot.com/2011/06/broken-ascot.html
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