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Pushed over the edge by benefit cheats!

447 replies

CheekyChoppers · 09/04/2012 15:59

I'm getting increasingly annoyed with my neighbours family, we're very close and have been for a long time, but they are just so loose cheeky it makes me want to do something! But at the same time I don't know if I should just mind my own!!

My neighbour has three daughters;

Daughter 'A' lives in a council property with her children and claims all her entitled benefits as a single parent. Her long term boyfriend also lives with her, and he works full time earning a lot of money. He owns his own property which they rent out to make more cash for themselves!

Daughter 'B' lives in a council property with her son and claims benefits as a single person, although her partner also lives there and works full time.

Daughter 'C' (this is what's really pissed me off today!). She is married and lives with her husband and children in their own (mortgaged) property. They both work and earn good money. She however has made a dodgy application to the council housing list and has been offered a property which they are goin to accept! They plan to sell their home!

It annoys the hell out of me that so much money is being fraudulently claimed, and that it is clearly so easy to do. I really want to dob the cheeky bastards in, although am abit scared they'll find out it was me! And don't know if I should just mind my own beeswax!

OP posts:
TreacleSoda · 09/04/2012 17:05

Foreigners who use our hospitals? If you don't have a British birth certificate, should you just be left on the road outside to die?

Dawndonna · 09/04/2012 17:10

OMG! My gran moved here from a british territory in 1933, I'm one of those foreigners and I'm on benefits! She did marry an Englishman before she got here!
Do I get my goat and my plasma telly now?

ABatInBunkFive · 09/04/2012 17:10

You should Treacle unless you pass the goat test if the goat at the door allows you access you may live.

DioneTheDiabolist · 09/04/2012 17:12

OP, are you Ok? Or have you "gone over the edge"?

TreacleSoda · 09/04/2012 17:13

Grin at the door goat, with his dark sunglasses and clipboard

SuePurblybiltFromChocolate · 09/04/2012 17:14

If your name's not BAA, you're not coming in.

gafhyb · 09/04/2012 17:14

Nice semi-colon in OP. Goes "well" with the ! and tabloid title. Or does it?

ABatInBunkFive · 09/04/2012 17:15
Grin
Garliccheesechips · 09/04/2012 17:19

Yay, I'm a foreigner. And I came over here, took one of your best men. And soon I'll have a baby, and on the NHS too. And I plan on getting loads of free prescriptions; and I might make even more babies.

[bugrin]

SleeepyHead · 09/04/2012 17:19

Where is OP?

SuePurblybiltFromChocolate · 09/04/2012 17:20

I knew that, as your name is Garlic. Fancy forrin muck. Luring our best men with your bedazlin' ways.

IamTheSandInYourVagina · 09/04/2012 17:21

Don't tell me I'm sharing a thread with non-UK people?

I'm going to need a wire brush to cleanse myself of the horror.

Dawndonna · 09/04/2012 17:21

I don't think it was her bedazlin ways I think it was her fancy forrin muck. That's how I got one of yours too!

Garliccheesechips · 09/04/2012 17:23

Anything else I can do to cost the country money while I'm at it?

I know...

Gaviscon...on prescription.....

SuePurblybiltFromChocolate · 09/04/2012 17:23

No wonder our most beautiful woman, La Briquette, needs to go to France for a decent man with a decent moustache. You forriners have pinched all of ours.
Zut alors.

JosephineCD · 09/04/2012 17:24

I think there would be more investment in this country and more jobs if we didn't have so many people who see benefits as something they are entitled to and work as "optional" if you want more money. I do not think the current situation was what Beveridge had in mind set it up. You can say that about the NHS as well. They were created in a post World War 2 world that is far different to the world of today.

Dawndonna · 09/04/2012 17:25

Garlic I bet you can get germaloids on prescription too, and don't forget the free dentistry whilst you're up the duff!
[buwink]

Garliccheesechips · 09/04/2012 17:26

stabs gums with pin and strains to poo

IamTheSandInYourVagina · 09/04/2012 17:27

1.7 billion unemployed.
463,000 vacancies.

So you can crack on about entitlement, but the sums don't add up.

Garlic - gaviscon should be only for the use of people from the UK. You make me sick. (and then I can't get gaviscon because foreigners have had it all - O the HUMANITY)

Glitterknickaz · 09/04/2012 17:28

Benefits are something that EVERYBODY is entitled to should they need them.
Except once the reforms go through.
Then the death rate will rise.

gordyslovesheep · 09/04/2012 17:30

anyone not from the uK should be made to give birth on the forth plinth - earn their medical treatment by providing entertainment for tourists - seems fair (NB obviously anyone pregnant ...)

SuePurblybiltFromChocolate · 09/04/2012 17:30

It's when people start to expect Gaviscon that we know this is BROKEN BRITAIN. The world doesn't owe you heartburn relief, you know.

Garliccheesechips · 09/04/2012 17:32

Might become obese while I'm at it.

Dawndonna · 09/04/2012 17:32

Does it owe pile relief instead then, we must surely be entitled to that!

[bugrin]

gordyslovesheep · 09/04/2012 17:34

not if the pain is SELF INFLICTED by, you know - having babies - probably by different fathers ...which you can;t pay for