Birmingham's 'suits' are set to play at being dossers again.
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For incompetents and dossers prosper only at the expense of good workers.
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Now it turns out I have to co-ordinate strikes and represent these dossers.
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The bus skirted the town, passing a cluster of dossers drinking out of brown paper bags.
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Who else would buy up 6250 cans, only to give all the cans away to dossers?
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As I've said in previous columns, I used to hang out with a bunch of dossers.
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Ordinary out-of-school youth make a similar distinction between themselves and the slapheads, doleites or dossers.
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I sat there fearing the worse on day one and envisaged all the stereotype dossers sitting in my class.
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I suggest that we sit down for a moment on a nearby bench, which is miraculously free of dossers and bank clerks.
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No European country is going to put our dossers before their own people and give them free handouts, health service and benefits for life.
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He could have chosen to do other, less famous people, and has done that on many occasions, such as dossers and other working-class figures.
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Given the army of drunks and dossers infesting the place, it must have been the only time a city's Skid Row won an environmental award.
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It is galling to switch on the TV to view programmes watching dole dossers living on handouts that probably equate to my family's disposable income.
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He knew that the ruling class are in some ways as much outsiders as vagrants and dossers, which is why the landowner has a sneaking sympathy for the poacher.
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For a deeper, less familiar philosophy, you have to listen to your more run-of-the-mill dossers, and they don't come more run-of-the-mill than Ratso.
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Considering it now costs the best part of three quid for a coffee, do you think the high street dossers who ask that famous old question have got a special deal with Groupon?
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In the late 1960s, it faltered. Its management started cutting back and so, in May 1969, its soup run was to be ended. The soup run was a nightly distribution of soup in six locations in London's West End where homeless rough sleepers or "dossers" gathered. This was provided by Wandsworth Council for a nominal rent and in 1970, the council provided three more houses nearby.
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" Klara Skrivankova, Trafficking Programme Coordinator at Anti-Slavery International, said: "Slavery and this case which appears to be a case of forced labour is a reality in Britain today but I think what it shows to us is that the police have finally been given proper powers in the new law that has been mentioned in order to investigate and really go after those who are still behaving like slave-masters in the 21st century." In an article on 16 April 2008, Dr Donald Kenrick, an expert on the Romany language, is quoted as saying "Dossers are people gipsies pick up to work for them. They are sometimes called slaves or servants. ... It is common among Irish travellers, but the English do it as well.
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The Vagrancy Project consisted of several dozen paintings and drawings of vagrants and a large book of notes written by the dossers themselves and those involved in their 'care' and control. Lenkiewicz hoped that the exhibition, and the down and outs' own stories, would illuminate the plight of these 'invisible people' and galvanise the community into humane action on their behalf. The format of the 'Project' – combining thematically linked paintings with the publication of research notes and the collected observations of the sitters – was to be used consistently throughout Lenkiewicz's career. Projects such as Mental Handicap (1976), Old Age (1979) and Death (1982) followed the one on vagrancy as Lenkiewicz continued to examine the lives of ostracised, hidden sections of the community and bring them to the attention of the general public.
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Meanwhile, elsewhere in London, a former army-officer who calls himself Shelter is fed up with the sight of "dossers" on every street corner which he regards as enemies of his country and devises a plan to get rid of them. Through a mixture of trickery and coercion, either with the promise of food and warmth or fear of the police, he lures them into his house and then uses his skills as a soldier to kill them and hide the evidence. One day he chances upon Link and Ginger and soon afterwards Ginger disappears, tricked into following Shelter after he tells him that Link is at his apartment, badly injured. Distressed by Ginger's absence, Link finds solace in the company of a mysterious young woman named Gail who is new to streets and wants to learn from him.
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