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to think that people who choose to have more children whilst living in social housing shouldn't expect to be given a bigger place?

664 replies

balsamicfundamentalist · 09/06/2012 18:36

I am a member of another pregnancy forum and there is a woman there who has just had her 5th child (by choice). Neither her nor her partner work and she is complaining that the council will not giver them a bigger house (she is in a 3 bed). All the other members are sympathising with her but I don't understand why. Surely if you choose to have a child when you know your home is not big enough, you shouldn't expect the council to give you a bigger one, especially when it is sought after subsidised housing?

OP posts:
crazynanna · 10/06/2012 21:15

It's you not u

ColouringIn · 10/06/2012 21:16

Which of us entitled scroungers was your last post addresses to missgrohl?

Dawndonna · 10/06/2012 21:16

Missgrohl.
Do fuck off, there's a dear, I work harder than you are able to contemplate or comprehend.

UnChartered · 10/06/2012 21:16

my fucking dabber is running out

a bit of a change of track here, does anyone ever think that MNHQ post on threads, just you know, out of devilment?

doggiemumma · 10/06/2012 21:16

Brilliant post dawndonna

ColouringIn · 10/06/2012 21:16

Ah - it's one of those link game things is it?

UnChartered · 10/06/2012 21:17

ColouringIn can i borrow one of your pens, please?

i'm up for the house again!

ComposHat · 10/06/2012 21:19

maybe if i didnt pay tax i could afford a housekeeper

True, but then you wouldn't have access to medical treatment, education, transport links sanitation etc.

KalSkirata · 10/06/2012 21:19

missgrohl, you do realise that majority of those 'on the social' are actually women in their 30's whose husbands fucked off. Not the Daily Heil myth.
I dont pay tax either. Cos I am a Carer. Busy saving the taxpayer (yourself) £118 BILLION a year.
And its 'you', not u.
Dont know why I'm bothering to be honest. Someone clearly had their dose of the DM this morning.

Changethatbulb · 10/06/2012 21:19

I've trumped you all and got a PET (electronic bingo device thingy).

I don't even need a pen, or a dabber.

doggiemumma · 10/06/2012 21:20

Ive often wondered that unchartered - but i do have to pull you up on something here, are you calling MNHQ a big ol bunch of trolls?

OhDoAdmitMrsDeVere · 10/06/2012 21:20

Poor Ms G. She is the only one to work and have to clean.
I am actually crying as I write this.
My OH is quite worried about me.

UnChartered · 10/06/2012 21:21

i bet you got that at the same time as your 6 bedroomed council flat, pedigree hamster, swimming pool and free party hat didn't you Change? Angry

doggiemumma · 10/06/2012 21:22

I'm proper edukated i am, i got two degrees i av, what u all fink of dat?

UnChartered · 10/06/2012 21:22

me, doggie? never, no not me, ever, i never ever never call troll

on thread Wink

usualsuspect · 10/06/2012 21:24

Which scrounging fucker has nicked missgrohls Y and O

KalSkirata · 10/06/2012 21:24

next time I go shopping I shall grovel and ask a taxpayer what I can buy. Gruel or gruel?

Changethatbulb · 10/06/2012 21:24

Yep UnChartered. We lives in the life of luxury we do (spelling mistakes deliberate by the way).

Utter bollox thread that needs reporting and deleting.

SSDD.

crazynanna · 10/06/2012 21:25

I did usual 'cos I is entitled to that Y and O and I need them to pop out the sprogs

ColouringIn · 10/06/2012 21:26

Has anyone said "flat screen" yet? Haven't been paying attention - goat escaped? (That would be the free one wot the tax payer gave me)

Changethatbulb · 10/06/2012 21:28

I've never hidden a thread before, but I'm getting twitchy.

Are twitches free, or do the tax-payers fund them Hmm

Goofus · 10/06/2012 21:31

Wow, missgrohl you work 12 hour shifts, do all the housework, raise the children and yet still find time to play detective at the childrens' school taking notes on who's playing the system, when, what and why. Amazing.

doggiemumma · 10/06/2012 21:31

changethatbulb, please dont feel the need to report or hide this thread becaues it simply highlights that some people are ignorant fuckwits and its good to separate the wheat from the chaff. Or the sheep from the goats.

Changethatbulb · 10/06/2012 21:34

doggiemumma it was a joke (at the tax-payers expense) Grin

UnChartered · 10/06/2012 21:35