What Is This Council Playing At!!!!

[friedgreentomato]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2280385/Jobless-mother-11-children-gets-council-build-SIX-BED-house-struggling-current-home.html

Building a new home for her - she should be made to get a job!

Your thoughts please

[cazzz1975]

it wont be forever, the bedroom tax is designed to encourage people to downgrade, her older kids will leave home, her youngest will be almost a teenager in just 10 years.

[emmie]

all the while up to 750 families around our way are being advised because of high cost of renting, they may, and i say may! be moved out of the borough or more likely out of London, two areas are currently being looked into, Birmingham and Leicester. This is news from the local authority, and one which is now Labour controlled, so no chance to say those horrid Tories are at it again.

[cazzz1975]

there is no room in birmingham, they are trying to offload people from here to stoke and the north

[emmie]

the bedroom tax is punishing people left right and centre, make no mistake about that. Downsize fine, but where will you go, if the local authority has nowhere to put you.

[emmie]

so where will they go then, this is what is currently being looked at by our local authority. The proposals are complete madness, the only people who can afford to live here and not just in the centre of the capital are the very wealthy, three house not a million miles from us are retailing at 2 million apiece.

[craft1948]

I see her eldest daughter has reproduced already, doesn't say if she's still at home.

[ummmm]

She's 22 Craft. My daughter was 4 by the time I was 22.

[emmie]

so they will need a home, and so it will go on.

[emmie]

and that is because she was 14 when having the first one, not too many girls around that have children at that age, after all at that age one is still considered to be a child, teen?

[ummmm]

So you are assuming that these children won't work?

[emmie]

who knows.

[cazzz1975]

should this woman be allowed to live alone in a 6 bedroomed property when her kids have grown up and left?

[craft1948]

I was a mother by that age ummmm, living in my own heavily mortgaged house.

[ummmm]

So was I Craft :-) I've never lived in a council house.

[sp1814]

em10

So the longer she's in the house, the more it's value will go up?

And as ummm has commented, it doesn't matter when it happens, as long as it does happen.

I can certainly see why this story angers people, but I'm not sure what better (or financially more pragmatic) solution there is.

[Smowball]

Same here. At 22 I had a 1 yr old, husband and a mortgage.

[emmie]

there is no saying where she will be by the time the last one is old enough to leave, what if they don't leave, then she simply stays put.

[zabado]

Some people don't seem to realise that by turning the other cheek,looking the other way and not complaining about these leeches just opens the way for more people to do the same. Frost and her type are laughing at us all and doing nothing to help them selves.How much do you think will be left in the pot when It's your turn for help,don't forget there's four million Bulgarians coming soon !

[cazzz1975]

what shall we do about her zabado?

[ummmm]

zabado - the article doesn't make it clear whether her husbands works or not. Very unlike The Mail to leave that out if he wasn't working.