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gigantic millionaire cunt proposes putting homeless people in bins

Started by idunnosomename, February 05, 2020, 08:33:34 PM

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idunnosomename

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/multimillionaire-invents-bin-pods-rough-21397084

QuoteA multi-millionaire Brexit Party candidate has invented a bin for homeless people to sleep in.

Peter Dawe fashioned the 'sleep pod' out of two red wheelie bins, which turn on a hinge to create enough room for someone to lie down in.

The entrepreneur, who picked up 1.9% of the votes when he ran in the General Election in Cambridge last year, says the invention costs just £100.

Mr Dawe, who has dozens of companies and projects listed on his website, believes the invention can have a global impact.

ok i know the mirror are reporting this as a troll to get people to share their shitty paper but still. look at this bald cunt putting himself in a bin


Poirots BigGarlickyCorpse

why don't you pay more taxes and vote for socialist politicians mr moneybags


Sebastian Cobb


idunnosomename

he is fucking mental

https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterdawe/
Quote
About
SuperHero

Founding father.of the UK commercial Internet (PIPEX).

Current activities include:-
CitiPod - A revolution in urban transport systems
Resonance - A revolution in third sector funding
new Theatre Peterborough - Rescuing Peterborough City Centre leisure role

Founder of over 100 organisations and businesses, including Unipalm plc, PIPEX, LINX, ISPA, Flute Ltd, Internet Watch, Cambridge New Town plc, DaweMedia Ltd, Oakington plc, Sandy Lane Ceramics, Red TV Ltd. Intervivo Ltd, DaweVision Ltd, Dawe Estates Ltd, Dawe Leisure Ltd, The Wash Tidal Barrier plc.

Author: In my back yard - Ideas on how to improve small town planning
The New Noah - Analysis of the challenges to western civilisation and what to
do

Specialties: A wide range of innovations from computer, electronics, pumps, building methods, through to novel business models.
Ability to change government policy and strategy through novel means.
Arranging divorces for business partners who have diverged.

idunnosomename

lmao

https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge-news/peter-dawe-survival-cambridgeshire-brexit-17120594

QuoteA tech tycoon who fears the imminent breakdown of British society has created a extraordinary 'survive and thrive' farm where 100 people are able in live in safety.

Entrepreneur Peter Dawe, 65, fears climate change, political unrest and/or famine pose a real threat to the future of civilised society in this country.

So the former tech entrepreneur has bought a 1,500 acre farm in Norfolk and is transforming into a 'self-sustainable' community for like-minded 'survivalists.'


imitationleather

He founded PIPEX! Blimey. I assumed the guy was just a crank and the millionaire bit was due to him buying a boomer mansion for £50 in 1975.


petercussing

Quite a few entreprenuers like this invest a little bit in lots of companies and then say they run said company and own 200 businesses.

Also dudes like to offset losses n' stuff in group companies and also can access more grant funding for themselves via a shit load of smaller companies than one big one and reduce tax payments with canny accounting amongst the group of businesses.

In fairness though most successful business owners know that most businesses don't last very long even when the are successful themselves so start or invest in the expectation of most of their businesses going down the pan.



idunnosomename

yeah it seems he lucked out after being pioneering with TCP/IP in the 80s that Pipex got bought out in the dial-up boom. and he does at least work with centrepoint. but he seems to have gone a bit looney now with putting homeless people in bins. and Brexit Party.

QuotePeter is active in the local political/economic scene, setting the agenda in the debate on the future of Cambridge and the East of England region.  He founded Cambridge New Town Corporation plc and Cambridge Great Park Ltd.  He is a board member of the Cambridge Network. Peter has been instrumental in founding the Internet Watch Foundation, a not-for-profit body that seeks to hinder the use of the Internet for illegal activities.  He is involved in the Princes Trust and other charities targeting the young and homeless and has established the Dawe Charitable Trust.

The Dawe Charitable Trust runs innovative homeless projects which provide a home and full time employment to those who would have difficulty in obtaining both. Its Pivot initiative is a joint venture with Centrepoint which has campaigned for the reform of housing benefits.

In 2003 Peter founded InterViVo Networks Ltd, an innovative provider of Internet, telephony and other Internet related applications. In Jan 2005 he sold the Internet ADSL Broadband provider but retained the Telephony and other Internet related applications, and the brand is now known as the Internet Phone Company and DaweVision Ltd

In 2001, Peter founded Avnex Ltd; This Company is producing an innovative 'video switch' to allow diverse media equipment to interconnect over 'CAT5' cabling.

In 2000, Peter founded Oakington plc. This company has developed an e-commerce technology that allows remote exchange of value between users. Oakington is now part of Smart421 Ltd.

In 1997, Peter founded Flute Ltd, a £40m company laying marine fibre optic cables for the Internet and telecommunication industry around the North Sea. Flute is now a wholly owned subsidiary for Interoute.

Also in 1997, Peter formed an innovative media company, Dawe Media Ltd. DaweMedia took a radical approach to local media production resulting in the production of popular local Radio and TV programmes of high quality costing an order of magnitude less than traditional methods. DaweMedia also works closely with community groups including schools, colleges and volunteer groups. DaweMedia Ltd and associated companies include :- KLFM, Oxygen, Cambridge Red and Lite FM local radio stations, Red TV a local Internet station and a multi-media centre in Cambridge.

In 1986 he founded his first company, Unipalm Ltd.  Unipalm specialised in networking different computers together using TCP/IP technology, then unknown in the UK.  Over the next four years the company grew rapidly.  In 1990 Peter then established Unipalm Pipex, the first UK Commercial Internet Service company.  This also grew rapidly and expanded via joint ventures across Europe.  Peter played an active part in various Internet related bodies, such as Ebone, RIPE, ISPA and the London Internet Exchange (LINX). In March 1994 Peter floated Unipalm Plc on the London Stock Exchange.  Following further rapid growth, he sold Unipalm PIPEX to UUNet in November 1995 for £150m.  He became Head of European Operations for UUNet Inc., with over 400 staff.  Peter left UUNet in July 1996.  UUNet is now owned by Verizon.

After completing a degree in statistics, Mathematics and computing at Queen Mary College London, Peter's career started in local government where he trained as an accountant and then as a management services officer. At the end of this period he was introducing micro-computers into administrative offices.  He was poached by Cambridge Micro Computers, the company who supplied the computers.  While working at Cambridge Micros, he worked in almost every job, except accounting, initially as Systems Analyst and Programmer, later as Salesman, Head of Technical Support and finally Chief Engineer.  While working at Cambridge Micros he discovered the potential of computer networking.


https://web.archive.org/web/20080120130502/http://www.inovatech-powerline.com/content.asp?ContentId=925

thenoise

QuoteInternet Watch

Cunt can't browse Twitter without turning it into a plc. Hope he gets a laughably poor percentage of the vote oh yeah haha he already did.

idunnosomename

sexpot tech man clive sinclair has been out-embarrassed. at least he never stuck himself in two bins for the press



Cerys

Has anybody asked an actual homeless person how they feel about the prospect of sleeping in something more waterproof than a cardboard box?

Lisa Jesusandmarychain

Does anyone else think the definition of the verb " invent" is being stretched somewhat in the original story what this thread is based on?


chveik

Quote from: wooders1978 on February 06, 2020, 07:49:04 AM
What solutions have you fine people come up with?

we're not in a position to have any solutions. get in bin.

Sebastian Cobb

Quote from: Cerys on February 06, 2020, 07:54:33 AM
Has anybody asked an actual homeless person how they feel about the prospect of sleeping in something more waterproof than a cardboard box?

Tents are good at this. More movable than bins too. Less resistant to the police smashing them up though.

Shoulders?-Stomach!

Yes. And a tent is significantly less degrading. They are widely used in Leeds. I think loads of kids leave them behind at festivals so they've started being handed to homeless charities and are often in OK condition.

'Oh but these bins are clean and sterilised'. Fucking great.


Fambo Number Mive

Quote from: wooders1978 on February 06, 2020, 07:49:04 AM
What solutions have you fine people come up with?

Building and properly funding more homeless shelters (and making sure they are all free to homeless people) properly funding mental health care and building more council houses. In the short term, helping elect a government that would do this.

I imagine sleeping in a couple of bins joined together would get very stuffy and would feel very degrading. I don't see how it would keep homeless people safe.

Poirots BigGarlickyCorpse

I keep thinking about the inevitable tragedy of a homeless person being crushed to death in a bin lorry.

Buelligan

Quote from: wooders1978 on February 06, 2020, 07:49:04 AM
What solutions have you fine people come up with?

The Labour Party's ideas on social housing and proper funding in areas like mental health provision, substance abuse and support for people leaving the armed services?

I mean, where are these people going to shit?  How are they going to wash, themselves or their clothes?  How will they cook, what will they drink?  Where are these bins going to be (outside the inventor's house perhaps)?  What infrastructure, doctors, rubbish collection and so on, will be available to inhabitants?  So many questions, it's not like you can just put it all in a bin and close the lid, is it?

Glebe

Quote from: seepage on February 06, 2020, 08:16:58 AMthey've been upgraded to wheelie bins in the current production!

Its political correctness gone mad.

Fambo Number Mive

He could make an actual difference by donating a percentage of his vast wealth to homeless charities and local councils, rather than unpleasant ideas like this one.

Butchers Blind

Christ, the idea of someone with wealth putting the homeless in bins is staggering.

Fambo Number Mive

So the invention costs £100, I presume per joined together bin.

This will be Government policy soon, won't it. Union Jack painted bins for the homeless, half of which will probably be stolen. And the right wing press will try to portray it as a "caring" thing.