AIBU to think THESE PEOPLE are the reason.....

[Hegsy]

for so many people to believe that everyone on benefits is 'scum'? I'm enraged! If he didn't get his benefits he would go robbing?!? WTactualF? I was on JSA earlier this year because of redundancy and all I received was a paltry £72 a week and my DH was expected to support me over and above that. How has this man gotten away with not working? and those poor babies, how is it healthy for the mother to have so many pregnancies so close together?

sorry its daily fail

He has such an entitled attitude! Gah!

[kawliga]

The children look perfectly fine to me. They're beautiful kids and I hope they will grow up as close friends. That's the advantage of a big family.

Poor family from the Daily Fail if you ever come onto mumsnet to see what people are saying about you: some of us think you have a lovely family and you were just very unlucky to be targeted by the DF reporters. But we think you should buy a mold & mildew spray, have a go with that it might work although not all our houses are pristine either we just know better than to let a reporter in to take photos.

[GobbolinoCat]

It could be a mixture of penetrating damp and moisture building up from within, but who cares, there are solutions for both problems.

I suppose he could get some protective gear on and start to scrub and tackle it, but the children and the pregnant mother cant be in the house, I imagine it would take a few days to get rid of the stuff, clean everything in the house for spores etc...where would they live?

[YouAreMyFavouriteWasteOfTime]

the house looks well maintained on the outside.

they need to clean up the mould - following instructions on over the counter products and ventilate properly.

of course that would not help their case to move...........

[GobbolinoCat]

you were just very unlucky to be targeted by the DF reporters


Really!!! They must have a bit pay check from this story.

[Custardo]

i will not contribute to the advertisers by clicking on the lick of that vile newspaper who blames the deaths of innocent children on the fact that they had 'benefit scum' parents.

i am presuming therefore that this family earn over 30k in benefits and have 32 children - and he is some villain

my quarrel would be with the daily mail quite frankly who drag out the 'i have 16 kids and earn more than you and i am a criminal' type stories

i suggest some people google tax evasion and the daily mail

[JerseySpud]

Christ if they think his lawn is bad they want to see mine. Most likely by the end of the winter i'll lose DD2 in it again.

[IamInvisisble]

We'd have mould like that in our bathroom if we didn't keep on top of it, but DH uses that HG mould remover linked to earlier. We ventilate the house all the time, have the extractor on in the bathroom almost permanently, close the kitchen door, use the extractor, cover the pans and open windows when cooking.

I'm sorry but that house is a shit tip. Yes, the kitchen looks clean but the walls are filthy in every other room. Look around that standard lamp in the living room, it's minging. They are at home all day, so there is absolutely no excuse for it in my book.

Before you say he is ill, so I am. I can not walk unaided and am in immense pain but my house is not like that.

I don't understand why, when you live in such cramped conditions and you know the situation, why you would carry on having children.

Once they get their new house I should imagine that will be a complete tip in a couple of years too.

[IamInvisisble]

We do absolutely everything we can to keep on top of the mould because DS2 is a severe asthmatic.

[GobbolinoCat]

There is mould and there is mould, we currently have a tiny patch in our bathroom, and we have had a few small patches that dDH has dealt with. Nothing on the scale as we had before as the source of that mould was dealt with professionally and it was all cleaned, re plastered etc.

That house has a serious mould problem.

[IamInvisisble]

That house has a serious condensation and ventilation problem.

[Captainbarnacles1101]

WELL SAID Iaminvisisble!
the house is stinking. If they don't work for whatever reason...I don't judge but come on sort out the dirt.

[kawliga]

Yes Gobbolino they were paid. All these people are paid by the Daily Fail to humiliate themselves. I still feel sorry for them. They are merely pawns in a larger debate about the welfare state. They are just fodder to be served up to the readers to wind them up in their anti-welfare rants, complete with photos of their mouldy house. The words they say are usually fed to them at least indirectly before they are gleefully quoted.

I guess, like a poster upthread said, some people will say anything for a fee. "Yes I will go to London and rob rich houses if you don't give me more benefits!" There, was that ok, did I sound feckless enough, can I have my fee? Shrug.

Hope whatever money they get is worth it and hope they never look at the papers to see the story that was written about them.

[AmberLeaf]

the house is stinking

Do you have smellovision on your computer?

[PresidentServalan]

Whatever they were 'coerced' into saying to the paper, the fact still remains that they have irresponsible people who have kids even though they know they can't support them. I feel a bit sorry for the children but the parents obviously don't give a shit, subjecting them to those kind of conditions and having more and more.

[Nancy66]

They won't have been paid. The story comes from the Bournemouth Echo.

[AmberLeaf]

Typical daily mail rehash on a local rag story then.

[MsWilliamTheBloody]

He claims he only has £60 left at the end of the week after food, gas, fuel and electricity.

Lucky him. I'm usually in minus figures..!

:(

[Opalite]

I don't see a dirty house at all...

[SleepingWithABrokenHeart]

Is paint really that expensive to buy

[IneedAsockamnesty]

It is when it won't stick on the walls as it should because of the damp

[Pixel]

Can anyone see what that square thing is dangling precariously over the travel cot? It looks a bit like a set of bathroom scales but it can't be can it? Looks very dangerous there whatever it is.

[Bingdweller]

I disagree with the posters that say the house is not filthy. The kitchen looks clean - every other photo without exception shows ingrained filth. The travel cot is disgusting, the little girl is wearing dirty pale leggings, the chest of drawers in the room are filthy also. Look at the walls in each of the bedrooms - pen/crayon marks aside, they are absolutely grotty.

I think this is a typical benefit bashing thread so will not comment on that aspect, however I stand by my original post earlier about the place being filthy. I have lived in a flat with a damp problem before and I know that as soon as it was treated and we got on top of it with ventilation and cleaning, it did not recur. No children should have to live in such unhygienic conditions.

Typical DM crap about luxury appliances, pets and benefits though.

[3asAbird]

Could it be they foolishy gone to papers to get their housing association to act? As the mould really bad regardless of their lifestyle choice.

I live in 1980s new build where the windows are shit, privatly rented 30 year old bathroom/kitchen falling apart gets me down at times but no lots people cope with much worse.

The problem is they don't really do houses this size.

Every new development has to build so many affordable homes and they always 1, 2 or 3 beds.

when seen in paper before they knocked 2 houses together.

Lady i met locally lived in adapted building as think she had 10 kids.

new builds are tiny so that many people would be clustaphobic.

I thought the kids looked clean and tidy.
would be embaresing for them at school.

Sky tv only luxury as rarly go out.

I suspect all their gadgets are on credit so nothing be envoius of there they be paying bright house forever.

Plus such small age gaps must be bloody hard work.

I dont think large famillies are that common these days.

locally 4-5max and usually that,s one set multiples at rc school.
One local woman have 4boys and had 2year old so 5boys in 2bed house.

I do think this family perhaps need some support not condemnation as seen far worse was very badly written article honestly did not know if they wanted us feel sorry for them or hate them.

did anyone watch the c4 show 1949 benefits system where they sent someone in to help the family clean up their home.

[KirjavaTheCorpse]

The house and the children (in particular the little girl wearing the dirty pajamas, barefoot, covered in felt tip with dirty hair) don't look particularly clean. The grimy cot, smeared TV and dirty chest of drawers? Is that a normal, healthy standard of cleanliness?

It's blatant benefit bashing, typical Daily Mail shit, I'm neither surprised nor convinced by any of it. But from the pictures alone it doesn't seem to me they're keeping on top of things, as a family. What a shame they let them take those pictures and let them into their home. I hope the kids don't get too much stick for it all.

[NoFucker]

I popped on here to see if there was a thread about this. Those poor kids. I'm embarrassed to live in a country as I do where children are still living in such conditions. It's not part of a civilised nation. Maybe the money isn't the solution and throwing money isn't the best way, but education, support....something MUST be done for those children. If only to break a sad cycle.