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

SO what would you do with them?

I pay my taxes I work but people like this don't really bother me. Sometimes I wonder if they are happier than me.

ROFL at one of the comments on the comments section, if you can't feed 'em, don't breed 'em.

Becaus there are 14, ther are more, that's kinda the whole point

It has its own gate and is set back from the road by a gravel driveway on which are a Fiat Bravo, a Ford Escort, two bicycles, a broken pushchair and a washing machine.

Be cars up on bricks next.

What to do? Vilify them and make enormous assumptions about their lives, their abilities as parents, their morals, their ability to care for their dogs, their tastes etc etc etc.

"SO what would you do with them?"

I wouldn't do anything with them, why are they my problem?

I am going to tell dh in bed tonight that I want another 6 . Do you think the French authorities would give us a nice house in Gascony?

I could call one of them Parris-sarf lunnon, multicultural and all that.

pmsl - just written [wank] instead of wink.

hmm burnt the house down with a ciggerette lighter............................... im shocked they can afford to smoke while living on such little money!

It's just a general lack of personal and social responsibility.

'I do what I like because I want to.'

That leads to such a great society, oh yes.

I don't often agree with aloha but I do agree that deliberately making yourself unemployed when you're able-bodied and young so you can have child after child you can't afford and expecting other people to pay for it because it's somehow your right is beyond irresponsible.

'I was born to have children'. Yeah, well, some folks think they were born to be criminals. Let's just hand them a living, too!

Move them into a £350 k house by all means, but £150k to install DG and carpets they are having a larf.

So they have bugger all to aspire to. Not even saving a bit here and a bit there to pay for some home improvements.

We were all born to have children, its the nature of the game

What's wrong is their over-developed sense of entitlement

Yes, poor things. Only £60/person a week.

And then there's the fag budget!

We don't need to make assumptions, the lovely couple have told us it all quite openly

How many children should they be allowed to have then? What's the solution?

Robbie they can have as many children as they want obv if they pay for their ukeep

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Compulsory Sterilisation

(Oh god, that reminds me of an enormously funny Bill Hicks line)

Bill Hicks was class I have to say

So some kind of means testing then before someone is allowed to have a child? And if they miscalculate and subsequently just cannot make ends meet - no benefits?

I still think the line, if you can't feed 'em dont breed 'em applies.

There's always ending cash benefits - rent, council tax and power paid directly to the source and food/toiletries/etc. purchased with a debit card and which doesn't allow you to purchase cigarettes or alcohol on it, free bus pass, etc.

If you have the basics provided for you, why do you need cash? You can go and work for that.

There're also measures you can take to limit the amount of time one can spend on full benefits.

Things like that might be the way forward.

Because the system really was introduced to be a temporary/stop gap measure if you and your children are able-bodied and fall on hard times; not a lifestyle.

God I loved Bill Hicks

He was a genius, a genuine comedy genius

fab post expat

I don't think there is anything much that can or even should be done about it, because the state is basically being blackmailed by their having so many children - and it isn't the children's fault of course.

I don't know about this council, but many have ended Right to Buy for all new tenancy agreements and/or suspended it for current tenants.