How to get a £500k house free

[Judy1234]

www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23405477-details/Jobless+couple+with+12+children+are+give n+a+%C2%A3500%2C000+home/article.do

Oh I agree, I love our landlady but the alst one was a tosser (posted on toehr thread, mentined risk to elctrics- tosser knew that electric box was being leaked on by shower so he covered it up and allowed it to continue)

We ahve 1 year leases now, but don't like the risk. Would love a house as stable as a council house- i think that 9and the ability to decorate etc) are the bits I really envy (was raised in a council house so know the score).

certainly, for me anyway working creates a sense of worth yes. i hate my sodding job at times but im glad i do it.

when i was claiming benefit i would have given my right arm to be able to say i was working and providing for us. i became very depressed, i couldnt sleep, i had this huge black cloud over me..it never went away. i felt a complete failure, and through no fault of my own...i didnt ask to be made redundant because i had a baby.

and every post i saw stating that "working gives a sense of worth" was one more effing kick in the teeth. because i wanted to, i was trying to. its patronising..."there, there...im sure you're upset but heydy ho, get yerself a lil' job and you'll feel HEAPS better, now have a nice day y'all"

slight over exaggeration there perhaps but....

'sterlise-the-unemployed '

I'm too lazy to do a search of the news thread, but I'd be most surprised to see that a thread about the Observer's investigation finding that the Major and Blair governments gave GBP10 BILLION in bribes to a member of the Saudi royal family (and close personal friend of GW Bush's, and furthermore someone who arranged transport out of the US for members of the Bin Laden family immediately after Sept 11, when everyone else was stuck in a Motel 6 in Kansas when they were supposed to be on their way home to London) attracted over 400 responses.

Yes, I can see why people are irritated. These people are irresponsible, yes they should know that contraceptive pills don't work if you only take them every third Tuesday, and would my heart leap with joy if they moved in next door to me? Probably not. But they're just a distraction. That GBP10b would buy an AWFUL lot of state housing and subsidised housing for those on low or average incomes - that's the real issue I think people should be getting worked up about.

Diva is that as thats what i think, or as I am taking the mixk? Hope its the latter!

i forgot to type the name of who i was quoting

it was meant to read ninedragons-'sterilise the unemployed rants around the country'

as in i was laughing at it.

i've never heard of a council that provides carpets etc either.when i had a council house we got a £75 decorating grant,to decorate an entire large 3 bedroomed house in which every room had paper ripped off the walls,graffiti on the walls etc,and were told we had to find money for carpets,curtains etc ourselves.oh and we had to wait over a week for them to fix the hot water

even the lovely HA house we are lucky to have now wasnt fully carpeted,but they were kind enough to leave the carpets the last tennants had left.

Re the carpets, what I am wondering is, we ahd to help a lady settle herself into a council house (she was just out women's hostel and ahd to go into hiding so no family or anyting). The council didn't provide carpets but they did partly fund one of those warehouse plaes where they had furnishings etc, and people could get them delivered cheaply on production of a benefit book.

peachy-i know in extreme cases such as fleeing DV etc you can somtimes get a grant off the council or dss for furniture etc.

so maybe your child 'accidentally' burning your house down makes you eligible for an almost-impossible-to-get grant also.but even in that case you would have to get the carpets etc yourself.methinks the story was embellished somewhat

Embellished? In the Press?? nooo!

noooo ,my auntie works for the ES(dunno what she does now but she used to be a sub editor).i know for a fact she would never ever make anything sound worse than it is.honest.really.

OK Lula, i can see that as we are also on a low income but work (albeit me very part time but I am studying and pg as well, so there are limits)

BUT don't the kids deserve a home? yell at the parents by all means, but at the end of the day the kids didnt ask to be born, and they deserve a house big enough for them to have a chance to do homework etc.

Sadly, imo the kids needs have to come before what one MAY think of the aprents choices