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To think it is ridiculous that a woman with 11 kids is getting a £400,000 house for nowt

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angelos02 · 19/02/2013 09:59

Especially when most working people couldn't never afford to live somewhere costing that much?
Link: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2280385/Home-fit-dole-queen-Mother-11-gets-BRAND-NEW-400-000-house-built-council-shes-struggling-current-homes.html

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Isityouorme · 19/02/2013 19:13

It is a shame that a 13 girl had sex and got pregnant -don't think it was reported as rape, but whose to know. That is tragic. However, she as chosen to live like she is doing so. She is taking the pis.

D0oinMeCleanin · 19/02/2013 19:13

why was there no one there helping her making better choices? helping her back into education? where were the people telling her she is worth more?

she was failed as a child, imo. she is product of her environment. change the environment for her children and you prevent it happening again. cut their benefits, vilify them, give up on them and the cycle will continue.

Ashoething · 19/02/2013 19:14

Her current partner works....

pashapasta · 19/02/2013 19:14

So having a horse paid for by benefits is ok then. Well, even for MN that is extraordinary. But yes, she has the horse now and it is not the horse's fault. FFS

JakeBullet · 19/02/2013 19:15

LtEveDallas, excellent post and good to hear the facts behind the Daily Mail rhetoric.

D0oinMeCleanin · 19/02/2013 19:15

how could it not be rape? she was 13, he was 22. that's rape in my book, regardless of whether she was begging for it or not. she was a child. he was an adult, he should have been looking after her, not taking advantage of her.

Ashoething · 19/02/2013 19:15

Or change the benefit system so it is not seen as a lifestyle choice?

Isityouorme · 19/02/2013 19:15

Her current partner is reported as not working ....

maisiejoe123 · 19/02/2013 19:15

I am sorry but I think many tried to help her. Looking and what she has said (and of course some will say all made up to fuel their argument!) do you really think she is someone to support. NO one forced her to have child after child. Or wait - it was society - that's what forced her. Nothing to do with her personal choice of course. And why 11? Its a shocking number to have knowing you have no visible means of support.

AmberLeaf · 19/02/2013 19:16

Indeed mablemurple but clearly only for some!

usualsuspect · 19/02/2013 19:16

Has she a swimming pool?

Auntmaud · 19/02/2013 19:17

Some of you should be ashamed of yourselves.
Some of you are forgetting how grim life is for this poor victim. She has had to live her whole life without working or worrying about how she can put food on her table or house her wanted and planned children. Now, in doting grandmotherhood she has to be moved to a large, warm and expensive brand new house, all through no fault of her own.

Now some of you evil vipers would even deny her a horse. You'll be wanting her to do community service next you bitches!

Ashoething · 19/02/2013 19:17

What astounds me about these threads is that the people who defend her and her ilk cant see that it is because of people like her that people on benefits through no fault of their own are stigmatised or called scroungers!

It is taking money/resources away from people who are in genuine need.

usualsuspect · 19/02/2013 19:17

Lol at the omg she has a horse frenzy.

Angelfootprints · 19/02/2013 19:19

Please tell me horse wont be come the new goat.

Ashoething · 19/02/2013 19:19

Having cancer does not make you a saint either and I should know because I had itGrin

maisiejoe123 · 19/02/2013 19:19

I have a close relative like this. Never her fault when something goes wrong in her life, always someone forced me, I had no choice, and the best of all 'you dont know what its like....

Some people will never take personal responsibility for anything. Always easier to blame others..

The men in her life let her down again and again but not her fault of course for choosing them.

Ashoething · 19/02/2013 19:20

Yep lets all have 11 sprogs without a care in the world about how we are going to afford it because its perfectly acceptable-right?

usualsuspect · 19/02/2013 19:20

We have had horses on benefits threads before.

AmberLeaf · 19/02/2013 19:21

What would any of you say/think/do if your 12 year old was being raped by a 22 yr old man I wonder?

Then again I doubt that would just happen to you would it?

Agree with Dooin.

Angelfootprints · 19/02/2013 19:21

Well they probably all been eaten by now.

Auntmaud · 19/02/2013 19:21

Do none of you bleeding hearts ever think that the very reason that women like this have so many children is BECAUSE they get everything for free and that the more kids they have, the more they get? Do none of you genuinely see the connection between our hideous teen pregnancy rate and all the handouts teen mothers get that other countries simply refuse to provide?

maisiejoe123 · 19/02/2013 19:23

She has made a big big mistake coming out in the open. She might claim she can hold her head high but making comments like 'some of the other Mums think I am a slag' and she is telling millions of people this.....

seeker · 19/02/2013 19:23

" Do none of you genuinely see the connection between our hideous teen pregnancy rate and all the handouts teen mothers get that other countries simply refuse to provide?"
Ummmmmmm- thinks about it........No, I don't.

Isityouorme · 19/02/2013 19:23

This "poor victim" chose to have all these kids, or at least 10 of them. She has chsen to led her life like this. Bring on the benefits cap to stop people taking the pis.

Aunt maud -there is no justification for anyone on benefits owning a horse.