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

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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

I have just had to calm my dad down over this, and Hilary Mantel. I have advised glueing blood pressure tablets to his Daily Mail.

only on MN and the DM could someone suggest taking a child into care because the parents were poor

some people disgust me, they really do

No more than 4 NcNc. Which is still pretty generous considering how few working people can enjoy a house of that size even.

gordy you still appear to be invoking Godwin's law and it's getting tedious.

BlackMaryJanes - why? Why would anyone "dream" of a 6 bedroom house that they don't need? I don't get it. If I had the choice between a 6 bedroom council house or the 2 bedroom house I live in with my DH and 2 kids, I know which I'd choose!

Not better for the ones bleating on about their precious tax money though.

It would cost you a lot more to keep the children in care.

Thrown to the lions? I can see her posing for the DM photos!

Some of this thread is vile.

Jesus, only in this country could people be seriously worried about the number of bedrooms this woman gets in her rented house.

oh dear am I being tedious - never mind - you'll get over it

anyway Utopia - Night

Boney - because its a legal fact She was 13/14 he was 23 isn't that rape? I'm not a solicitor but I thought the age of consent was 16?

My mum and dad are coming to stay this weekend - they read the Daily Fail. If they mention this story I doubt they'll make it through the night.

EstherRancid So, can she afford the time each of her children deserves?

Probably because only in this country are working people priced out of property ownership and the non working given free new builds. No wonder we're the bloody laughing stock!

How much do you think it would cost to house each child with a foster carer?

Auntmaud - how did you come by your big house did you say? Can't be through intellect that's for sure. You do understand the difference between rental ownership don't you?

give this women a break, she has only just battled cancer

And of course the outcomes for children in care are famously fantastic too

If the process leads to adoption they would have a better life than this shite.

I am more annoyed at the woman's attitude than any of her financial gains.

BlackMaryJanes - you are living up to your name.

So, why did she keep popping out sprogs if not as a lifestyle choice?

We could of course give everyone very nice, decent, universal schooling, where ambition is the best contraception.

But we accept a form of madness that is not cheaper, but is politically somehow more acceptable: where we run a care system we all hate, an underfunded state school system that is fucking around with 'academy status', and a blame culture accentuated by a media that we are allegedly sickened by.

who the fuck are we to cast aspersions on the time any parent spends with their child?

what about people who work f/t or in a different country from where their children live? service personnel?

lets take them into care too then