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

[angelos02]

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

How can you make that statement as if it's fact ashoe? You don't know her, none of us do. You may well be absolutely right but it's just as likely that it's as Lteve describes.

Or, and here's a real surprise, it could be neither. We don't know her. We don't know her life story so how can any of us know exactly why she is here she is?

Those who think those on benefits should do voluntary work whilst kids are in nursery/school... Does that extend to Carers?

I only ask as this week I've been told by a relative that I don't need respite because my kids go to school, so as a Carer I shouldn't be at home then or need extra support.

Only... There is certain stuff you can't do whist the kids are there. Catch up on sleep when you've been up half the night, do paperwork, chase up medical reports/appointments, grocery shop for stuff from market (can't take kids), clear up the destruction.

That's when they're not on holiday, not off sick and when you're not having to pick them up from school and take them to hospital appointments, or go to meetings at hospital/IEP or statement review meetings at school or meetings with social workers.

And I'm bloody sure I've missed something. My point is though that a family member believed that I had time to work because my kids are school age... That's not always the case.

Wouldn't it be great to turn the clock back to the good old days when people lived a family to a room and nobody ended up with any kind of problems, oh no. The days of pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps (as long as you had boots). This is a vulnerable woman who has been taken advantage of many, many times.

While we're at it, does anyone want to begrudge her her cervical cancer treatment?

LtEve a number of newspapers have reported her saying that- hence the very crux of the story! Her attitude is what has made the news.

The house she will live in is massive. No sympathy there at all. The average house in Britain is only about 80 sqm.

cant say too much but she is NOT a nice person, doesnt look after the children, and doesnt know how many fathers

Heavily biased article. The trouble is that "Council builds new low energy council.houses that will meet known housing need in the area" is not quite so newsworthy.

the average house in the uk doesn't home 14 people though

And some of you lot have fallen for it - again! You are puppets - will you never learn?!

Yes, and whys that then Gordy?

If this story has been reported form a different angle it could be cancer surviving mum, left to raise a child at 14, now looking after her grandchildren to allow their parents to work, is finally allocated a suitable home after spending years living in awful conditions.

Same story but I'll bet it would have got a much different reaction.

When will people start to see journalism like this for what it is?

What's the big deal about a big house? She's hardly going to be swanning around planning how to furnish all her empty light-filled rooms and throwing massive garden parties is she? You're really jealous of square footage?

People wont see it Randall, because it fuels their insecurities.

I find those closer to this sort of background the more scathing.

Those who come from WC roots but have done ok always pour the most scorn on people like this. Maybe trying to distance themselves from such people?

Angel, the original report was in a local newspaper, was picked up my the nationals and expanded on. The original quote too I expect.

The local TV news ran a story this evening and it was far less sensationalised.

I don't care what she is like as a person. I don't think she deserves the hateful and plain nasty comments she is getting. No-one does.

I think (my personal view) that she is probably a very damaged person. Damaged by her childhood and young adulthood. She has made many mistakes, but what is the point in all the viciousness being shown. It's not going to turn the clock back, she cannot undo these children. Why shouldn't she have a home suitable for her circumstances. When her circumstances change, so will her housing needs.

The "big deal" is many hard working people, doing the right thing will NEVER afford even a 50 sqm house. How is this fair? Many will just give up on give dreams to become parent to even one child.

You are aware of the current housing market crisis aren't you?

Oh my god you sound like a spoiled child. How old are you?

Such a contrast to the Radford family from the recent programme 16 kids and counting. Sue also fell pregnant at the age of 14 yet rape/abuse were not mentioned as she was deemed to be in a loving relationship with her boyfriend, the boy she knew since 7 Years old. What a different perspective.

Meant to add the link

There were still tenement areas like that in Dublin when I was a child (70s), MrsDeVere. Old Georgian houses on the northside of the city with no glass in the fanlights, front doors to the buildings all gone, and hordes of thin children hopping around on the front stairs and pavement. Drunk old men lying in the streets. Low life expectancy..

was he 10/11 years her senior? did he fuck off or stick around?

She was 14 and he was a couple of years older - hardly the same thing at all. Plus they got married.

I sound like a "spoiled child" for highlighting the housing crisis?

Yet you think a woman who will demand and whine for another house if its not good enough is some poor flower.

Yep.Makes such sense