Out Of Work Vagrancy On The Rise Tramps. Hobos. Vagrants. These generally inoffensive mild-begging city centre dwellers are as under threat as the rest of us. 10 years ago the only people selling the Big Issue in Manchester were proper British tramps. These days you are as likely to be offered it by one of our Eastern European cousins as one speaking the Queen's English. So, the question is. Are British tramps annoyed that migrant homeless have "come over here and taken their 'jobs'" And if you are a tramp who used to have a patch now run by an Algerian or something, are you now technically more unemployed than you were when you had no job and were selling the Big Issue? One final thing. Have you seen that they now wear bibs stating their selling hours are between 8am and 10pm. What's that all about. Like, in a civilised world we can't just pop out to our local corner hobo and midnight and pick up a magazine. Nanny state.