To wonder why the benefits caps don't apply to Abu Qatada and family?

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www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/9736417/Abu-Qatada-moves-to-new-house.html

He has been getting £1900 in housing benefits to pay his rent. Presumably this is a private rented property so should have been capped at £1600 per month. He is also being moved to a bigger property according to the article.

Two questions;

1. Why do the benefits caps not seem to apply to him and his family?
2. Why is he being given a larger property simply for requesting it?
3. Why are there one set of rules for normal citizens and another set of rules for Abu Qatada and his family?
4. Why is the government obligated to treat him differently (better) than other citizens?

Sorry, that should read, a few questions.

1. they do
2. has he?
3. there aren't
4. they aren't

why do you think his FAMILY should suffer?

I presume he tops the rent up himself - the extra £300?

So where is he getting the extra money from?

donations from followers?

I would imagine he has access to private funds from supporters in his community tbh.

what his family gets in benefits is the least of the worries regarding this man

Donations that go under the radar. I'd be amazed if he didn't.

Whatever you think of this man, articles like this are designed purely to further ignite the lynch-mob mentality. A cross trainer? Really, so are you only allowed possessions if you are not in receipt of any benefit?

I'm not going to get into the rights and wrongs of this man and his case, but I get so angry that people are so ready to believe that "immigrants" get everything they want whilst Good honest British Citizens go without, as it is simply.not.true.

It's funny isn't it. Be a bit cross about somebody who hates westerners and would like to kill them and you're a 'lynch mob'. I wonder if the same people branding with that label would be so upset with his treatment if he was (for example) a leader of a far right organisation. Somehow I doubt it.

And it's not because he's an 'immigrant' I don't think anybody has mentioned that, it's because he's a bloody hateful terrorism mongering evil sod.

Anyone else notice that the "cross trainer" in the article was actually a pallet trolley meant for lifting heavy things, and probably belonged to the moving van...

Sorry it's in the DM article not the telegraph

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It may be less to do with apeasing him and more to do with taking an opportunity to move him somewhere the police feel more able to watch him, or keep neighbors safe/unharrased. I doubt there's anyone sat at the benefit office going "oh, poor bloke. Shall we overlook the cap this time? He's had it a bit rough hasn't he?".

The man is under extremely close surveillance and I suspect the move will be at the behest, and with the approval of the Security Service. They really like it when people move as its much easier to bug a place before people have moved in than when they are already there.

"Why do you think his FAMILY should suffer"?

Because if they believe what he believes then they should be living somewhere where their beliefs are not against the people they are scrounging off !!