Fair enough Terpe but I take the cynical view that a fool and his money are easily parted. There's been enough publicity about how the Roma criminals exploit the naive Big Issue "Charity" to provide income to buy their gaudy palaces and mercedes cars back in their feral nation. Our local vendor has been "homeless" for about 8 years and she commutes almost daily to extract cash from mugs. I don't know about up North but in the South East they almost always pitch themselves outside Waitrose & Marks & 'Spensive stores. Tawi used to comment about the Weybridge Waitrose germ.

In my opinion the Big Issue should clean up their act and use only genuine homeless people to sell their mag or lose their charitable status