in Camden and Kentish Town, and can sometimes scrape together enough money to spend the night in a nearby hostel.

Mr Miliband asked: "Where were you before you became homeless?"

The homeless man said last year the company he worked became insolvent and he was made redundant. As a result he lost his rented home, and he told Mr Miliband he has no family.

During their chat, the Doncaster MP looked through his wallet, and scrabbled through his pockets looking for money to give the homeless man.

When he found none, Mr Braben told him there's a cashpoint over the road.

The video shows Mr Miliband crossing the road to the Sainsbury's Local to get some money, before returning and pressing a crumpled £10 note into the homeless man's hand.

The video shows Mrto pay a mechanic.

An error message from the Commonwealth Bank. ( ABC News: Rebecca Armitage )

"I had to get a mechanic to come out to fix my flat battery as it had gone flat," Bryan said.

"As I was going to pay him, I was not able to access NetBank in any way, shape or form, which meant I had to make small talk whilst waiting on a response from CBA around what happened."

Bryan said he then went to the mechanic's office to pay but his account was still offline.

"I had to swallow my pride, call my boss and explain and ask her to pay the costs of the replacements," he said.

"Apparently it was going to be sorted by lunch time. It has been four hours since.

"I am still