[Vicky.]

THEY spent much of the run-up to the election trying shake off their image as the nasty party.

But a heartless group of Tories have revealed their true colours by banning charities from running soup kitchens for the homeless.

Conservative Westminster council in Central London also wants to make it an offence to sleep rough – while slashing £5million of funding to hostels.

Astonishingly, town hall chiefs claimed soup kitchens only “encourage” people to sleep on the streets.

Westminster council, one of the richest in the land, wants to bring in a bylaw making it an offence to “give out food for free”, punishable by fines. The twisted move blows apart David Cameron’s Big Society boast that an army of volunteers will flock to help those worse off.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...minster-113433

I sincerely hope this story is false, but I doubt it

How on earth will they enforce this? I'm sure for homeless people being in prison with a roof over their head and proper meals will be welcomed..so maybe this will do more good than harm. Can't see it being as straightforward as that though :/