To think that resources are being wasted on underserving scrubbers

[rezbites]

It makes me very angry to think that deserving parents, like Riven and her partner, are being denied the help the help they so clearly need when there are others in our society who are bleeding the system dry and giving nothing back. Please let me explain what I mean.

Where I live (and in other parts of the country too, I'm sure) there is a certain "underclass" of young women - you know the ones I mean - little scrubbers who clearly model themselves on Vicky Pollard - who are provided with everything by the State. They have not suffered abandonment, divorce or bereavement. They have not been made redundant or struggled to find a job - they have never tried to get one. They have chosen to become single mothers, straightout of school in many cases, so that they qualify for social housing and benefits to live on, claiming that they cannot work because they have a child. They think the world owes them a living and it is their right to claim all these things. I do not mean to suggest that they are typical of single parents or council tenants generally because I know that they are not. They are a feckless, but very visible, minority.

Why should the country waste resouces on these selfish, irresponsible deadbeats who have chosen that lifestyle, at the expense of people in genuine need of help - the disabled, the vulnerable and those who through no fault of their own have ended up in very difficult circumstances?

I expect your hooves are interfering with your typing.

Top form, Shirl

@ reality

I would be indecent but I am stuck in the basement following an attempt at exercise.
I am hoping ds1 comes home soon. If he can't haul me out at least he can throw me down some chocolate biscuits.

"there seem to be quite a few of you out there who are of the opinion that only people of a certain socio-economic background should be allowed to have children. What next? Only those above a certain IQ? Or perhaps only those of a certain physiognomy (tall, blonde hair, blue eyes). Are there those among you who would have preferred to discuss favourite biscuit types with Adolf Hitler rather than Gordon Brown?"

Had to just say the bit about council tenants made me a liitle bit annoyed. I had the lovely house and mortgage and I hope you never fall on hard times and rely on the serevices of the welfare state. Why do people think that everyone that lives in social housing is rough or a scrubber? I work full time to support my son and do not claim any benefits ! Grrrr

Scrubbers indeed.

Hmm...

You need to wash your mouth out and look for the causes of why people feel this is the only way to live.

Then to find ways to help this next generation have aspiration.

Rather than calling people in an already hopeless situation silly names that a teenaged boy would use.

HTH

you know all thses girls that purposely get pregnant? well, why aren't you slating teh sprem donors, because afterall, they were either lax with their contraception (if they don't want a baby they know what to do about it) or they agreed to create that planned child. so what do we do with them?

Pag are you still stuck in the basement? can you not crawl up the stairs? Thats typical of your sort.

I'm not sure if I am a scrubber or a slattern - can someone tell em the difference?

jesus christ, i need to go back to school and learn how to spell. do you think it would also rectify that teen pregnancy problem i had?

Hully!

Yes yes, still in the basement. I have my iPad and a duvet. I am making an escape plan. It involves a lasso, my ironing board, some smarties and penis dog.

sorry pag

smarites? SMARITES???

DEFINTELY back to school.

Disgusting filth such as your OP I usually scrape off my shoe.

YABU

Get some soap and clean your mouth and mind out.

Then look up the unemployment statistics for young people. Educate yourself - have you ever spoken to these young people politely, understood their situation, 'walked a mile in their shoes' and tried to help them out?

Dammit.

So you're in the basement rigging up a hoist with a lasso and an ironing board? Thats never going to work luv.

You forgot penis dog. He is surprisingly agile and has the logistics under control. But he is still insisting on the smarties so we gave reached an impasse .

I wondered about cutting my arm off like the bloke in the film but it seems my arm is not trapped. I could cut my large arse off by the angle is tricky and I don't have a mirror.

I'm a single parent at 22. Didn't chose to be, naively thought my partner might have stood by me. so do i count? But of course it takes two and rather than vilify single mothers how about the absent fathers? I find this sort of daily mail mind set disgraceful in fact disgusting.
Any single parent knows its bloody hard work ad no one would do it for an 'easy ride'.
I was 19 when i had my son and am now on benefits. But my sons development is far above average. Oh yeah and I read the guardian! So were does that leave me???
Might i also mention that it would be almost financially impossible after paying for childcare to be able to work.

Lifeinlimbo, unemployment statistics are also include the workshy you know...

you need to tie yourself to the ironing board - throw the lasso up the stairs and around a banister, then tie the other end to the dog and lob up some smarties to chase.

Then brace.

Bestmamaderwelt, could you please explain (and its a genuine question, I am often puzzled by it) why dont you take an advantage of all the wonderful educational opportunities for single parents? You get free education, money to get there, free creche and free books. Why do you CHOOSE not to advance yourself?