Sightings.

Dark Sightings At The Big Issue.

By Uncle Monty.

Photos By Alex Albion.

Part 1 of 2.

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Before dawn, or at the start of another Lord’s

day of English sunlight, I was observing and

recording the comings and goings of folkz at

the London HQ of The Big Issue at 5:30AM.
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It was the early cold morning of the weekly Monday

distribution day in which the new edition of the street

rag is transported to the various Big Issue distribution

spots all around London and elsewhere across the

country. It was also like watching the dark sightings

at The Big Issue, while no doubt the odious owners

- Redneck Anthony John Bird and Peewee Peter Bird –

were still pampering themselves in their warm king

size beds. As they slept, it was going to be yet

another day for them to make even more money

and profits off the backs of their homeless street

vendors that I saw arrive later like dark ants
to collect the latest edition of The Big Issue
before heading out to their various pitches to
then sell their goods to customers or passers by.
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At day break, vendors fraternize at HQ front door. ***
Not one to sleep more than five hours nightly before I need
to quickly get up again, I photographed all those I saw right
under their own noses, both in the dark and in the light,
over the course of my six hours stay at the Vauxhall HQ
for my latest story here “Dark Sightings At The Big
Issue.” By day break, I had seen a number of familiar
and new faces that I recorded to include their public
mugshots right here. Not one of them noticed me! And,
much like I also did a few days earlier at the Covent
Garden distribution spot in which I recorded all I saw
there for another later story to come about everything
at James Street. It was quite revealing to see their
unguarded antics there for all to see with my cameras.
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In the meantime, Big Issue staffers and volunteers
arrived for work at various intervals at HQ and they
quickly disappeared at the staff entrance, although I
saw no sign whatsoever of the hideous Bird Brothers
unless by chance I missed them. Had I seen them,
I would have naturally recorded them, too. But
there’s always the next time to get their hideous
mugshots, right? Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep, I will!

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Note Their Black Dr. Marten's Bootz!! ***
Most of the vendors I saw were unshaven, male,

wearing no hat or scarf; though most wrapped

in heavy clothing. While I saw some of them

in Dr. Marten's boots (like those shown above)

and with army fatigues. Some fraternized at The

Big Issue front door that was left open as usual.

But most soon scurried off to get to their early

morning customers before they arrived

at their office or work.
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My aim here has been to tell you all about what

happens before you buy your copy of The Big Issue,

although most of my friends and ex-customers

no longer buy the street rag after what what

the Bird brothers did to me!! I am amazed that

folkz are still signing my petition against them

and demanding that my Covent Garden pitch

be given back to me. I prefer now to continue

to expose The Big Issue for what it really is

than to worry if I can get my rightful pitch

back or not after vile Peewee Peter Bird

deliberately killed my 5 year-long pitch and

then purposely threw away all of my many

good customers and even tried to toss

away my life!! He's nothing more than a

dirty bastard like his fancy brother John!

And even with over 1,600 folks signing my

petition, the arrogant Bird brothers have

ignored their support of me ...

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will not be published or revealed.

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Two young and newly-arrived

Romanian immigrants At Big Issue

London HQ getting badged!

He's Now New Vendor No. 9045 ...

I was vendor No. 115, until the nasty sod

Peewee Peter Bird had the gall and nerve to

suspend me for "bringing the Big Issue into

disrepute" last May, 2011. What a Bird bastard!

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With his Bucharest girlfriend and his new green Big
Issue vendor’s badge No. 9045, the short Romanian
guy was heading off to Covent Garden to be “trained”
in the ways and rules of being a street vendor. The

so-called “training” of vendors is the biggest joke

of them all! When I was first badged I was sent out

to Covent Garden's Long Acre at the Spaghetti

Restuarant and stood there daily during 7 days

to sell my first copies of The Big Issue.

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My "training” was nothing more than to stand
there and for either John Duffy or Samantha

Woolock to spy on you to see you were where you

had been sent. They gave no words of encourage-

ment or support or respect or even a smile in their
hardened and mechanical disposition. I was not even
a number, I was just a “thing” to them ... That

was more than 6 years ago now and today The Big

Issue treats new and old vendors with the usual

cold attitude unless you're, of course, a Big Issue

pet like Big Gob Billie Bickley. And, she's as

crude as they come!

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Worse still, TBI now only gives five lousey free

copies to new vendors when at one time they gave

such vendors ten. The Big Issue is the most tight-

fisted and greedy outfit you’d ever want to deal

with. Money, money, money, and more money
- for nonstop Bird big profits - is all that they really

care about! Big Issue vendors are like down-

trotten migrant workers being exploited every

day by the ilk of the Bird bosses and their

little Vauxhall underlings and paid minions.
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Yet Another Lost Alocholic Soul Inside

Today's "Bloody Broken Britain."

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I'm back from Radio 4 and so I can now

finish this story from yesterday of "Dark

Sightings At The Big Issue." Watching the

comings and goings at Vauxhall showed how

The Big Issue has gotten its money act down

to pat. Street folkz seem to be beholden to the

vile Bird Brothers all because there is no-

body to compete against them and their

street rag. They have a business monopoly

that needs to be challenged at every level.

The problem is there is no one person or

organization with the resources and

knowhow to take The Big Issue on.

Redneck John Anthony Bird and Peewee

Peter Bird are like feudal lords that

makes them a law unto themselves at

the expense of the homeless at every

turn. But like all things, The Big Issue

will come to end and die and be forgotten

sooner or later. Its long troubled history

and background will eventually cripple

it completely. They've had a good run

of 20 years and it is time for others to

have their say and way over the ilk of

the odious Bird Brothers, I really do be-

lieve. Will such happen? Let's hope so!!

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Someone asked me the other day if I had

anything good to say about The Big Issue?

Absolutely not, since I no longer have any

stake in its well-being since vile Peter Bird

took my pitch away from me and killed it

out of his sheer spite against me. So no, I

will never have another word to say good

about him or The Big Issue rag! Never!

They badmouth me and call me every

nasty name under the sun all the time

and I consider that a compliment! I

don't need or want their praise and

they're sure not going to get any from

me ... Unless they change their ways

toward me for the better which is very

doubtful. They've dug their own graves,

haven't they? Suuuuure have!

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Oh, and incidentally, I've already

written the redneck's obit entitled

"His Gift of the Gab Couldn't Save Him."

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As for the dark sightings, I am glad to

record what I saw although only a tiny

bit of the 70+ photos I took have I shown

you all. But those photos will, from time

to time, appear on my growing

blog - allaboutthebigissue!!

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Do a good deed today, Uncle Monty.

+Rt. Rev'd Thomas Bray (bcp), 2011.
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Monday Morning at The Big Issue HQ at around 5:45am.

Next Part 2: Big Slob At The Big Issue.

The burglar alarm went off and never seemed

to stop as the female staffer had also had difficulty

opening the staff door when she arrived for work.

Every body was late along with one big slob

confronting me about my camera flash having

gone off, so he claimed. He was lying thru his

dirty teeth and bad mouth, was he ...

More next week on the big, bad slob

at The Big Issue ...

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British Honours.

By Lord Leonard Carr, KLO., M.D.

Edited By Uncle Monty.

http://thebiggerissue.org/

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