French Migrant Family Need At Least Six Double Rooms To Be Comfortable.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3777922/Jobless-couple-eight-children-say-neglected-council-offered-new-five-bed-home-didn-t-dining-room.html

No one forced you to have eight kids, go back to France if you are not satisfied.

[tamaris]

Ungrateful so and so,s send em all back

[fiction-factory]

Maybe the course place should have been left unfilled Togo? Or the entry standards should have been lowered to attract a UK citizen?

[fiction-factory]

On what grounds tamaris? It seems they are entitled to be here now.

[tamaris]

Mores the pity

[anotheoldgit]

It gets worse

/// While they waited to move into their current home, Luton Borough Council housed the family in a hotel for almost four months at the town’s £160-per-night Hampton by Hilton hotel, costing £38,400. ///

/// During their stay at the hotel, the family ran up £21,000 in room service which they refused to pay, leaving the council to foot the bill. ///

/// The family have received annual hand-outs worth £44,000 since they arrived in the UK - made up of housing and child benefits, as well as child tax credits and NHS course payments. ///

/// Their hotel stay has pushed that total to more than £103,000 in the last 12 months. ///

Do all those on Luton Borough Council's housing list get to stay in hotels until a property becomes available for them?

If not why not?

It looks like Mr Sube is over here studying the mental health of the British, it would seem by this case we must all be crackers.

[vetuste_ennemi]

The full phrase, Tamaris, is "o tempora, o mores...

[Togo]

Fiction, did you know that the N.H.S sponsors university courses to the tune of £9,000 a year? What are the criteria, what previous educational standards are required, does someone have to pledge or sign that they will work within the NHS after graduation? How many of these courses are being paid for by the NHS, and again who are the people who are benefiting from them, where are they all from?

[fiction-factory]

No idea Togo. Maybe the NHS should be asked. I assume that as there seems to be a shortage of medical staff they think it seems a good idea to offer places and I assume the number of places is limited so this chap must have been worthy of his place. He'll be kicked off the course if he isn't up to it I assume. The problem is that the course places are offered without reference to potential housing benefit and other costs for the family as that's not teh concern of the university/NHS

[ummmm]

Are bursaries no longer available?

[fiction-factory]

Does this not work the other way round too? I have heard of students from UK taking up places at nil/lower fees elsewhere in Europe and maybe there are British families claiming benefits in France, Germany etc. Maybe it all cancels out- does anyone have the statistics?
By 2021 we may be close to being outside the EU and may have slightly ore control of the benefits availalble to migrants

[ummmm]

Reading a link posted on here some time ago the UK doesn't have the most generous benefits system. If I remember correctly Germany topped the list.

[-Talbot-]

fiction-factory @13:18 Thu 08th Sep 2016

Does this not work the other way round too? I have heard of students from UK taking up places at nil/lower fees elsewhere in Europe and maybe there are British families claiming benefits in France, Germany etc. Maybe it all cancels out- does anyone have the statistics?
By 2021 we may be close to being outside the EU and may have slightly ore control of the benefits availalble to migrants


fiction-factory @ 12:20 Thu 08th Sep 2016
Yes, we have our own indigenous Scroungers who have not paid into teh system too. But two wrongs don't make a right.

[fiction-factory]

I'm flattered Talbot that you think my comments are worth repeating. Thank you.

[sinderella]

its disgusting and unfair that he isnt allowed a room for his gym. For Funks Sake!

[-Talbot-]

I didn't think I had to point it out FF but in answer to your post @ 13:18 today ... two wrongs don't make a right.

[fiction-factory]

Thanks for quoting me again, Talbot. Feel free to make any suggestions of your own.

[-Talbot-]

I haven't quoted you again FF ... I doubt you own sole rights to 'two wrongs don't make a right'

[fiction-factory]

Maybe this thread has run out of steam. There is rightly a lot of concern but it looks as if there is not much idea of what we can and should do

[Togo]

No idea of what we should do? We must ensure that this family have a dining room in keeping with what they are accustomed to in ....Cameroon.

[THEMOTLEY1]

Agree 100% with Togo