A 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. Read More Related Articles Heartbroken mum faces 'unacceptable' eight-month wait to find out why son, 23, died Read More Related Articles Job Centre worker's secret struggle which mirrors the benefits claimants she helps “I saw on the telly rough sleepers complaining they had been kicked and pissed upon," he explained. “Lying on the street in a sleeping bag, you are very vulnerable.” Mr Dawe came up with the idea after building a prototype for a single person car, also from a bin. In undertaking R and D for the vehicular-waste disposal unit he got inside a bin and discovered how comfortable it was. “I was actually quite delighted,” Mr Dawe of Ely, Cambridgeshire, said of the results. “It was definitely comfier than sleeping on the ground in a tent. It was totally draught proof, in fact it’s storm proof. “It’s really cosy, comfortable and dry.” However, the businessman admitted that the design had caused some eyebrows to be raised. Read More Related Articles Homeless man on Universal Credit sobs as he describes £262-a-month struggle “It is a Marmite design,” he continued. “Some people think it’s genius, others are actually horrified. “It’s denigrating to be rough sleeping - end of story. “I think it is more comfortable and more secure sleeping in a sleep pod, rather than being huddled in a wet sleeping bag being kicked. “I’m not solving homelessness or the rough sleeper problem, I’m just mitigating it or giving them the opportunity to. “I try not to make any presumptions, and in my view no one should either.” Read More Related Articles 'Dream' rural cottage worth half a million available for just £2 'thanks to Brexit' When asked whether he had slept in his invention himself, Mr Dawe said he has laid down in one for ten minutes. He suggested that the product could be used as a storage space for clothes and other items in the day time. When Mr Dawe took two of the prototypes to a local homeless shelter in Cambridge, no volunteers came forward to try it out. The invention has attracted some scorn on social media. The Mirror's Real Britain columnist. Ros Wynne Jones, said: "I recently interviewed someone who had been homeless and forced to sleep in a bin during bad weather, and it was the only bit of their whole awful story where they cried, because it was so utterly humiliating to have to say it out loud." Read More Related Articles 17 new laws and financial changes in 2020 and how they will affect you Matthew
Multimillionaire invents 'bin pods' for the homeless by joining two wheelie bins
A 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. Read More Related Articles Heartbroken mum faces 'unacceptable' eight-month wait to find out why son, 23, died Read More Related Articles Job Centre worker's secret struggle which mirrors the benefits claimants she helps “I saw on the telly rough sleepers complaining they had been kicked and pissed upon," he explained. “Lying on the street in a sleeping bag, you are very vulnerable.” Mr Dawe came up with the idea after building a prototype for a single person car, also from a bin. In undertaking R and D for the vehicular-waste disposal unit he got inside a bin and discovered how comfortable it was. “I was actually quite delighted,” Mr Dawe of Ely, Cambridgeshire, said of the results. “It was definitely comfier than sleeping on the ground in a tent. It was totally draught proof, in fact it’s storm proof. “It’s really cosy, comfortable and dry.” However, the businessman admitted that the design had caused some eyebrows to be raised. Read More Related Articles Homeless man on Universal Credit sobs as he describes £262-a-month struggle “It is a Marmite design,” he continued. “Some people think it’s genius, others are actually horrified. “It’s denigrating to be rough sleeping - end of story. “I think it is more comfortable and more secure sleeping in a sleep pod, rather than being huddled in a wet sleeping bag being kicked. “I’m not solving homelessness or the rough sleeper problem, I’m just mitigating it or giving them the opportunity to. “I try not to make any presumptions, and in my view no one should either.” Read More Related Articles 'Dream' rural cottage worth half a million available for just £2 'thanks to Brexit' When asked whether he had slept in his invention himself, Mr Dawe said he has laid down in one for ten minutes. He suggested that the product could be used as a storage space for clothes and other items in the day time. When Mr Dawe took two of the prototypes to a local homeless shelter in Cambridge, no volunteers came forward to try it out. The invention has attracted some scorn on social media. The Mirror's Real Britain columnist. Ros Wynne Jones, said: "I recently interviewed someone who had been homeless and forced to sleep in a bin during bad weather, and it was the only bit of their whole awful story where they cried, because it was so utterly humiliating to have to say it out loud." Read More Related Articles 17 new laws and financial changes in 2020 and how they will affect you Matthew
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