The progression might be rather more inevitable if the milkman, to continue my metaphor, brought meths or lager along with the milk.
But it has vagrants, meths drinkers and social welfare problems of a sort that are unbelieveable.
They are not drop-outs; they are not meths drinkers.
It is chemically next door to methyl alcohol—meths—which destroys body tissues and causes blindness fairly quickly.
There are the single homeless men and women who drift about the country—the meths drinkers, the mentally disturbed, the discharged prisoners and so on.
I have more meths drinkers who come into my constituency because we have railway arches which they use for a night's shelter.
The second reason was that large numbers of these claimants were dirty in their personal habits and appearance, and many more alcoholics or meths drinkers.
Former members claim they posed as road sweepers, dustmen and even homeless meths-drinkers while carrying out surveillance.