What a wonderful life!!

[amsterdammer]

A Nottingham couple(unmarried) with 8 children receiving �20,000 benefits, + �4,068 free Council Tax and rent, say this is not enough.Neither work & another child is on the way. They have 5 televisions, 4 DVD players satellite TV, and now say they want the Council to build them an extension as they are feeeling rather cramped!! Its a wonderful world is it not?

[Reverandfunk]

The paper should print their address, Im sure a lot of people would go round to "help"

[gina32]

you mean 5 tv's and only 4 dvd's? thats dreadful, they should be asking for the money for another one

[redcrx]

8 kids and another on the way? The government should certainly offer financial assistance!

My vote would go for 'a few thousand to be spent on the snip'!

why should they be given a larger house? why cant some people live within their means? oh yes i forgot its because they assume that there always be someone willing to bail them out.

[mrs_overall]

The solution is simple.
The couple should be lined up against a brick wall facing a firing squad. They should then be allowed 10 minutes each to answer the question "What useful purpose do you serve in life?"

[niki2002]

Hearing tales like this really makes me mad.

You see I am from a big family.. I am one of 8 kids myself. My Mum and Dad have been married for over 30 years and have always worked hard to provide for their family.

Now my Dad is too ill to work and needs full time care which is being provided for my mom. 5 of my brothers and sisters still live at home, and are either at school or college. Because my Mum and Dad are now living on benefits, through no fault of there own, our family get tarred with the same brush as the lowlifes reported in the paper yesterday.

I would also like to know how this family gets all the benefits and are able to afford TV's, DVD's and Satelite TV. I know my parents are living on the bread line and find it hard enough to clothe my younger siblings yet alone give them games consoles etc.... They obviously know how to work the system better than most. It yet again goes to prove how being honest and hardworking throughout all your life really does you no favours at all in this mixed up, do gooder loving, overly PC, riff raff loving country

Papers and society in this day and age try to make out that if you are from a big family, you must live like the slobs, wear nothing but burberry tracksuits, drink white lightening and have a dozen ASBO's. But it is not true.

I have been well raised and have a very strong work ethic, so please dont think that because people are from a big family and circumstances dictatethat they are now on benefits, that they are all like the people reported on yesterday.

[Gromit]

This county's gone to the dogs. It's PC gone mad. They should be lined up and shot. I'm emigating.

[beryllium]

It's a free country innit right

can I emigate with you Grom?

[jake-the-peg]

why is the (unmarried) bit relevant?

[4GS]

Is there a link to this story?

[Gromit]

http://www.people.co.uk/news/tm_headline=mothe r-of-all-scroungers&method=full&objectid=20020 003&siteid=93463-name_page.html

[daffy654]

http://www.people.co.uk/news/tm_headline=mothe r-of-all-scroungers&method=full&objectid=20020 003&siteid=93463-name_page.html

[cheries]

Hey, don't everyone disrespect my family on here!!!
Me and my seven sisters need our jewellery from Elizabeth Duke, our fake Louis Vuittons from Nottingham market, our Nike trainers and shellsuits, and our prams from Mothercare for the babies we are all expecting.
And as for Dad? He hasn't worked since he had that fall at work which injured his back when he fell off a milk crate.
And Mum? she's too busy selling the knock off B&H up the Blue Bell to be @rsing around getting a job.....

[4GS]

Thank,
why are they counting the 19 year old in these figures?
When I was 19 I was earning my own money just like this lad should be

[Sweep2k]

They should be evicted. And have all their benefits stopped.

That'd teach those kids to stop being such a drain on society. The nerve of them...

What would help is if the children were deprived of any entertainment, to teach them that they're to blame for being born. And rather than receive any benefit they should have to forage for food, or steal it. And if their parents couldn't afford to buy them shoes or clothes or stationery, then they'd have to drop out of school and learn a trade. Like my granddad did when he was young.

And then they'd grow up to be responsible, well-rounded members of society.

And the council could give me benefit, not that I need it. But it's not fair. I pay my taxes don't I? After all I've worked my fingers to the bone for all these yearzzzzz....

[redcrx]

OMG theres just so many little quotes in that link!

as for hoping that their child is diagnosed with adhd to get further benefits well im just speechless

[redcrx]

"On top of that, the family get �10 gift vouchers from Boots for each of the kids at Christmas.


But Alison said: "It's rubbish - you can't get anything decent for that from Boots.""

how about condoms??? may as well teach the kids early.

[jake-the-peg]

Do you actually believe this?

Really?

You can't see that it's just a piece of twisted rubbish designed to have you spitting your cornflakes and ranting on your way to work?

What about the bit about them praying that one of their children gets a serious illness with no follow up quotes or evidence?

And you're seriously telling me you don't smell a rat?

[Bewlay Bros]

Was I the only one who stopped reading after ADHD was mentioned?

What a load of weey pants.

Why doesn't the mother go and tom herself? She clearly enjoys sex with peasants and considering she probably has a womb like a pound of best liver and no doubt umpteen nasty little diseases, she could earn a few extra quid.

[Whickerman]

is it wrong to find that post from Bewlay really funny...?

[cheries]

"Weey pants"????