Shannon Matthews Mother arrested !!!!!

[kay1981]

They have arrested her on perverting the course of justice - which i think means lying to the police under oath doesnt it?

Is it at all possible that they knew where she was all the time?

Perhaps cahnnel 4 should now re-show the documentary on shannons family and see how it is received knowing what we know.

Enid. But I do care!! Really!!! I care more than..erm...Princess Diana, Mother Teresa, Ghandi...whoops, they're all dead....erm.....

pirate...we knew what you meant and just waited for you to come back.

I know a girl called Shannon. She has freckles too.
So I can say, in all honesty, that I care more than ANYONE ELSE. ok?

"FWIW I also think Riven's a bit too PC. Trolley's comments were obviously no slight on those who are mentally disabled so let's not start slinging mud at someone for drawing an analogy."
I suggest you check facts. the one thing yopu can't call riven is pc. But I tottally agree with her comment on this thread.

Where does all this slagging them off for living on benefits stuff come from? As others have said, the stepfather works - newspapers say he's a fishmonger.

Is the 'benefit cheats' thing just jumping to conclusions out of sheer prejudice? "Ooh, they are working class and live on a council estates, they must be scum?" Presumably the father pays taxes just like the people who are claiming moral superiority...

This case is murky enough without anyone inventing supposed crimes.

Excellent posts, JeremyVile and edam.

PMSL chocfest and the triplets aged 13,11,7 !

edam I agree, it's amazing how stereotypes so easily get blended together.

Single mother = council estate = living on benefits = benefit cheat

In the same way that immigrant = asylum seeker = bogus asylum seeker/ illegal immigrant/ benefit cheat

The media in this country have a lot to answer for.

must get trained up to be a fishmonger, never realised there was so much money in it!

excellent post JV. jibes about low IQ are a lot less funny if your child has been through ed psych testing for learning difficulty with the possibility they might be found to have a low iq. terribly easy to moan about PCness when it's not you or your family that are in the minority being judged.

You have to admit though that her behaviour is questionable - 7 children by 5 fathers at age 32 is not conventional.

They must have had sight problem

yes her behaviour regarding perverting the course of justice is questionable.

Whether she has 7 kids by 5 fathers has nothing to do with it. Why can't people see that?

God, what a wonderful world it would be if some of the posters here were in charge of who has children...

PLEASE FILL IN THE FOLLOWING FORM. DO NOT LIE, OR YOUR RIGHT TO REPRODUCE WILL BE REMOVED. YOU WILL ALSO BE SUBJECTED TO HALF AN HOUR'S TUTTING.

1. Have you ever left your children alone for more than five minutes? YES/NO

1. Do you use your benefits to buy Morally Wrong Things like Strong Drink? YES/NO

1. Did you get a telly on credit when you could have spent the money on Wholesome Nourishment for the Babes?

YES/NO

1. How much do you CARE?

a. Loads! More than anyone b. Not that much c. Not at all, I am an evil benefits scrounger responsible for an entire feral generation

1. How Irresponsible are you on a scale of one to ten? Please take into account a/number of people slept with b/number of children by different fathers c/hairstyle

1. Have you ever done anything that anyone anywhere might consider Irresponsible? (Disclaimer: please take into account anything you have ever done with your children, ever. Bear in mind that we may not necessarily be able to define Irresponsible Acts of Bad Motherhood until they have occurred and their consequences have been fully investigated.)

krang . I love the "how much do you care" question.

If the answer is YES to questions 1,2,3, feel free to be involved in the alleged abduction of your own child, and some on MN will sympathise with you!

Oh what a load of rubbish. 'they must have had sight problem' I mean fgs. Like we want to teach our children that what you look like is all that counts if you want to be liked.

Krang that is fantastic

Scienceteacher, what has the number of children and/or fathers got to do with any of this??

jolly, Karen Matthews would say 'no' to Question 2 as her boyfriend works for a living, as several posters have pointed out. Whatever the Matthews' are - and they may well be very strange indeed - they do not appear to be on benefits.

eek, incorrect use of apostrophe as I changed what I was going to say, fear I will be drummed out of the pedantry club!

edam - watch this space on whether they are on benefits..........

a sight problem, well maybe not, but perhaps the other option is that there are very few women who live there!

Oh it's just not funny. That's just really crap 'humour'.

krang

edam

so far, all the info in the public domain suggests not - why would they be on benefits if the boyfriend works? Apart from tax credits and I haven't seen anyone suggesting recipients of credits are 'benefits scum'.

ah, well, the truth will out...

ooh! Asked my mate on the Daily Mail a while back but he claimed not to have any inside info (is on a different desk).