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Sue Radford, baby 21 is here..

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FortuneFrimble · 10/11/2018 07:14

Daily Fail story here
21 babies! That's some achievement. I cannot believe her body is still in one piece. I feel sorry for those kids though. There's absolutely no way they can all have the individual attention they need growing up. Four kids maybe, perhaps 6 at an absolute push but 21 seems like collecting trophies for a hobby to me. It'd be interesting to see what families those children decide to have when the time comes. It seems like she's putting her own want for babies ahead of her existing children's wellbeing & that isn't healthy. I'm curious that she's practically guaranteed herself an endless supply of babies as her children have children. But they're supposedly paying for everything themselves so we're not allowed to say anything against them. I don't agree with it. Tell me I'm being U.

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Theyprobablywill · 10/11/2018 19:13

Mum, it isn't in the interests of DM etc to 'expose' the Radcliffes as claiming tax credits. That would be one article, then nothing. There is a symbiotic relationship.

The family are, as it stands, the gift that keeps giving. Pregnancy interviews, post birth interviews, ' this is the last one -definitely! Interviews; Perfect clickbait. Why would they shoot themselves in the foot?

llangennith · 10/11/2018 19:13

Why so invested in another family's life? They all seem quite happy, cared for and loved so it's none of anyone else's business how many kids they have.

mumto2babyboys · 10/11/2018 19:14

It's a difference car entirely but how did cps know the mc canns were telling people she was abducted and she was gone before they came home, when they were told not to say anything. It was traced like everything is non stop all the time

mumto2babyboys · 10/11/2018 19:18

What About every other journalist something like that would make their career and every newspaper is photographed and stored in library archives so where is this story and when was it

I just want to read it to help me make my mind up I'm not read it yet so I can't say much about its existence I'm
Just asking for the dates and times and proof

Otherwise pp saying this in unjust

£8840 a year in child Ben and a holiday to Florida's for 20. That doesn't add up either so some one is lying. Did ch4 pay for their holiday?

Fallingout · 10/11/2018 19:19

@mumto2babyboys
This will be my last response to you because this is ridiculous. I don’t care if they still get tax credits or not. I have actually communicated with Sue a few times on her old blog and on babycentre. I have no reason to give a monkeys whether they do or not and do not think your hounding of how they lied to the UK will help.
Sues has several blogs in fact 1 old one still has a few posts, and links to the new blog which has disappeared and turned from theradfordfamily into radfordpies. It’s not hard to find but I very much doubt you’ll find tax credit info that you crave.
For your reassurance when I had 5 children my husband worked fulltime we got tax credits. Tax credits had an allowance per child so you could get it with more children as the figures varied according to family size. It was very different.
Technically they did not claim unemployment benefit, so that’s where the headlines come from.

PickAChew · 10/11/2018 19:20

What's left after your tax credit taper doesn't just depend on your income but the size of the award. Before the cap was imposed, each additional child moves the point at which the taper starts. We get tax credits despite dh working full time and having 2 children because of 2 lots of disabled child plus a severely disabled child component, even after my carer's allowance is accounted for. It's not a fixed system.

NOTthepinkranger · 10/11/2018 19:25

Mum you’re actually taking this far too seriously and it seems like to heart.

dontalltalkatonce · 10/11/2018 19:25

Oh, dear god, are you one of those conspiracy people?

mumto2babyboys · 10/11/2018 19:29

What's her babycenter name?have hmrc missed it? Should they not know!

sj257 · 10/11/2018 19:31

I feel sorry for the older kids, having to help parent their siblings.

Fallingout · 10/11/2018 19:34

Quick google. On the old system of tax credits (just the child element not working) there was
The family element £547
Child element £2780
(There also usedtp be a baby element but I think that’s been removed)
So if you had 12 eligible children you would get
£33907 child tax credits.
Then you could get working tax credits.
So if you had a business where you did not have a huge amount of profit, you would get large tax credits.
Disabled children would increase that. And it’s not been removed for existing children.

dontalltalkatonce · 10/11/2018 19:42

Why don't you do some digging then, mum, since you're the one who's so invested in this and report your findings to the HMRC. Or better yet, get some professional help.

Fallingout · 10/11/2018 19:42

@mum what?!?! Omg. I’m sure they were above board with Hmrc. As I said i felt they thought that because they didn’t claim unemployment benefits the tax credits weren’t relevant and I’m seriously no longer interested in this weirdness.

Caprisunorange · 10/11/2018 19:42

But falling, she wants links and references so she can go to the library and have a go on the microfilm, or infaltrate the dark web. Tsk.

SpitefulMidLifeAnimal · 10/11/2018 19:43

3.35 for a small pie!

www.radfordspiecompany.co.uk/incredibly-meaty-pies

Theyprobablywill · 10/11/2018 19:45

It really wouldn't make anyone's career to 'expose' any benefits they claim. It's not like it's Watergate. They are just not that important. Far more mileage from the 'hard working and loving family's image.

Now, if they were Muslims DM would be the first to do a hatesposure.

monkymoose · 10/11/2018 19:47

such a creepy couple!!! poor kids tossed aside for the next!

WhirlyGigWhirlyGig · 10/11/2018 19:51

Jesus wept we were accused of gossiping earlier but Mum you seem to be really over invested in this. There's discussion and then there's a dog with a bone that just won't let go.

TheFairyCaravan · 10/11/2018 19:55

I think Mumto2 needs to take a step back from this thread, tbh.

Ihopeyourcakeisshit · 10/11/2018 19:58

Hell yeah!

BrickByBrick · 10/11/2018 19:59

Because I don't get tax credits because I work ft

I know it's been mentioned but I work full time and get tax credits so not sure what your point is.

and I work in a job that requires a degree and I work hard to boot

Roussette · 10/11/2018 20:01

In the name of all that is holy, Mum2 OF COURSE Channel 4 pay for their holidays! Do you honestly think they would agree to drag their children over to Disney World, pay for it themselves and agree to be filmed for nothing???

animaginativeusername · 10/11/2018 20:09

It's like she replaces a doll with a newer version.

the children don't get the parental love and attention they deserve, she doesn't help with their homework and has stated she doesn't consider homework important

bringincrazyback · 10/11/2018 20:14

Poor woman. It's like she can't be bothered to develop an identity so she just keeps on churning out babies so she can be known as the woman with a massive family.

Fallingout · 10/11/2018 20:21

Of course the holidays are part of the deal. In the past Noel has answered on blogs how he builds their holidays by booking flights and how you can carefully search on budget airlines to get the cheap flights (I think he said book 4 at a time) and then book accommodation. I remember one holiday they were driving to France and had 2 mobile homes book and had tried to sell the trip for tv but in the end the tv crew turned it down. I therefore imagine they provide slightly more exciting holidays for the tv viewings!

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