Are the Radford's massive piss takers?

I used to like them but as soon as Sue stopped having babies, spending like it was going out of fashion became her new hobby. They could put money aside for their children’s house deposits given that they make their money out of them, instead of paying for 3-4 Disney trips per year (including a week’s Disney cruise this year). Yes it’s their money, but they’ve become insufferable and the comments on social media are definitely changing. People don’t like what they’ve become.

Plus their TV show is so scripted and their acting is terrible. Anyone who watches their social media knows the storylines for the show are made up. They need to go back to basics, though they have changed completely. Driving Porsches and going on multiple holidays per year, with zero thought for schooling or investing money for their future

At today’s rates, it would cost the taxpayer around £2 million just to put 22 kids through school so, no, I doubt they have paid enough tax to cover the services they have used.

Plus I doubt they never use the NHS

But as other posters have said, how likely is it that the 22 kids will get jobs and contribute to society?
The girls are far more likely to follow Sue's example and have multiple children, who may also follow suit, and so it goes on and on...
From the clips I have seen of the programme, education doesn't seem to have been a priority. How on earth is it possible to supervise numerous kids' homework, it's hard enough with 2 in my experience!
So I don't think it is equal to 22 only children in terms of the outcome to society.

Definitely. You only have to look at the thumbnails of certain family vloggers videos to see how despicable this exploitative content is. It's bait for a certain type of viewer, put it that way. Utterly abhorrent. I'm not saying the Radfords do this, but it's common sadly.

The state covers the schooling and healthcare costs of ALL children. The state also covers the costs of all births.

Are you suggesting that some children are not worthy of this??

Free secondary education for all children has existed since 1944 and free healthcare for all has existed since 1948.

This applies to everyone, not just them.

Although not as many as this family, my father was one of ten siblings (my mother was only one of five siblings). Are you going to have a go at my grandparents as well for having more than some sort of "approved" number of children?

If anything, given the low birth rates in the country at the moment (the population, excluding people immigrating, is currently falling according to the ONS) we should be applauding them for having more children.

I agree. I don’t believe they didn’t claim tax credits for all those kids either - that’s why he was conveniently self-employed and it was way before the two child cap.

That is hideous on so many levels, the thought of a child having sex, then being pregnant and going through childbirth is just horrible, I know that of course it can happen physically but what on earth does it do psychologically? When I was at school one of my classmates had a baby at 15 which was adopted and she came back to school. The baby was adopted and of course all of us teenage girls had no idea how traumatised she was not just by giving up her baby but by the whole experience. She used to lie down on the floor of our common room and reenact the birth. Gave me a phobia about childbirth but what it did to her I dread to think, poor girl

Not according to company records it's not.

I'm sure it was 4000 pies they sold a week so if it's £4.50 that's £18.500 a week so how can you say that?

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Is 'content creator' the new official term for selling your kids privacy online and breeding for fame?

Yes I would say so.
I can see thousands of lawsuits in coming years where the children realise what has been done to them without their permission.
Their medical and personal information plastered all over for anyone to see. It's bloody awful

How fucking dare you. He's Mr Radford, with his delectable pies.

Read the trust pilot reviews for their pie company…
Also according to their accounts, the pie company is of a very low value so I highly doubt it’s making them a fortune.

Unless he’s Mr Kipling I doubt he can support that many children from his little bakery!

Years ago lots of people that large families it was the norm as there was no birth control. I kind of think in one way I take my hat off to them having that many children and being able to cope with them all but in another way I do feel sorry for the kids because they can't get that much one on one attention and it's not fair using kids to look after other kids. It is great the way they take them away all the time a lot of people seem to get really jealous of that if they can afford it why not?

I do sometimes have a laugh about it though thinking that in a few years Morecambe will be renamed Radistan because by the time the kids have their kids and grandkids almost every household will be a Radford

Personally, I don't like children being featured on TV/YouTube. They can't give informed consent, and it makes me incredibly uncomfortable when their personal/medical issues are shown for all to see and have an opinion on. While they may not have an issue with it at primary age, will they feel the same way at teen plus? Like many family vloggers, their channel wouldn't exist without the children, which makes the kids the family financial support. It's exploitative. That for me is the FAR bigger issue than taxes etc.

I cant bear the way they (and so many others) use their children as collateral for their "content". Totally ignoring their kids privacy etc. Its grim and its abusive. There should be way more restrictions in place to protect kids whose parents do this.

I remember seeing the episode when 2 of the little kids went missing at a theme park I think it was. And the mother was going mad at the other children asking who was watching them. No you stupid woman it is yours and your husbands responsibility to watch your children. Don’t blame the other children for doing your job!!

If they were making thousands of pies a week they would need a factory, not a shop and they’d need lots of staff, not Noel and some of the kids.

They obviously sell them from their shop they sell online as well and they supply a chain of pubs as well as other places. Tesco no!

I doubt they give a shiny shite either way.

I could be wrong.

Also in those families the parents had maybe 10 kids, not 20 and normally at least a few of them would die before they turned 5. And it was probably a miserable existence for all involved.

I have never followed them but know who they are. The huge Victorian and Edwardian families and probably those from centuries before (at least among the working class) were also predicated on older children looking after the younger ones. Sometimes it worked out OK and close relationships were forged, but it is not an ideal in the modern age, is it? I see no focus on achieving what they can in education and more importantly, a proper childhood, where parents do the parenting.

@Startinganew32 yes the vast majority of late teens wouldn't date and sleep with 13 year olds. Most are (thankfully) not that stupid.
I'm just saying I don't think he is a paedophile. If he was he wouldn't have stuck with her. He would have found another 13 year old. Which is disgusting and gross.

Yeah I think I read some of her posts on there.