Seriously?
Not a racist/homeless dig.
I just cannot understand how stupid this woman is!
And the court is paid for by taxpayers money.
Unbelievable.

Hang on, this is STW; you should be getting right behind this poor woman – a victim of the evil ‘bedroom tax’.

Daily Express-based trolling.

She’s got five kids (now in foster care) so it’s not the bedroom tax.
It’s that rent is capped at £500 per week. Who here pays £2,000 rent a month? Her place was more.
Edit: as I said, this is not racist post and not a troll. How could anyone justify such a high accommodation bill when there are far cheaper places available.

Express link? Really?

Ok, I’ll bite. Why should she move if that’s where her friends and family are? Don’t really agree with the ghettoisation of the poor.

Over two grand a month? Seriously?

Who pays 2k a month? Well, most would if it wasn’t their money.

If you’re a landlord in that market, why would you charge anything less?

I wouldn’t read to much into the figures. One day we’ll all be claiming housing benefit to help pay the £6000,0000 monthly rent. They probably kicked her out so they could charge 4K.

Unbelievable sense of entitlement.

Sought asylum in 1998, had 5 kids since 2001 and believes that the state, to which neither she nor ANY of her family have ever contributed, should pay for her to live wherever it is that she wants to socialise.

You can see why people with a narrow view vote UKIP.

Why should she move if that’s where her friends and family are?

Because that is what lots of other people have to do? I know plenty of people with postgrad levels of education in their 30s who dont take home more than that. Quite often they have worked up and down the country, because they have to go where they can get a job.

You just keep frothing away there if it makes you happy kiddo.

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Frothing from enraged readers – Looks like it

Going to sit on the fence on this one.

One one hand I find it incredible that we (i.e. the taxpayer) pays anyone’s housing costs to the tune of £2Kpm. Only the tiniest percentage of working folk in the country could afford to spend that sort of money on rent or mortgage. If you can’t afford to live near where you work, you live somewhere else and travel to work and make new friends where you now live. Simple enough, and would seem reasonable if on benefits too. We all live to our means and not working probably means that it ain’t going to be Westminster!

At the same time, it does seem strange they couldn’t find her anywhere else in the whole of London that came in within that apparent budget. In a place the size of London with much cheaper boroughs cheek and jowl with the expensive ones like Westminster you would have though something would have been possible.

Maybe you misunderstand my point.
Shes an asylum seeker – fine, no problem
She has five kids – fine, no problem
She is being offered accommodation-fine, no problem
She is moving away from her friends – did she have friends when she arrived? probably not so she’s obviously likeable and can make new ones. Hey, Milton Keynes is not that far she could even get the train to London.
Ridiculous amount of rent paid so she can live in Central London – this is the problem I have
Having her kids in foster care – could easily be avoided so another problem for me. She cares more about her Postcode than her family.

It’s quite Kafka-esque.

People commute from many miles around into London to get to their jobs. They commute past the unemployed who live there, who are kept there by having their extortionate housing costs (which the workers couldn’t afford), paid/subsidised by those same workers’ taxes.

You have to say on the face of it – it does look like an abuse of the system!

To be honest, I’ve not read the story. I just assumed it was another “Benefits scrounger claiming 2k in benefits every month” when it should read “Benefits scrounger’s LANDLORD claiming 2k in benefits every month”

Whatever the rights and wrongs of this case are – the article states her kids are being fostered andseis staying on a friends sofa! There’s something that seems abut off about it alm if what written is accurate…

Her children were put in foster care and she has since been sleeping on friends’ sofas.

High price to pay and I dont get her logic. I would not be giving up my kids for the princple personally.

ought asylum in 1998, had 5 kids since 2001 and believes that the state, to which neither she nor ANY of her family have ever contributed, should pay for her to live wherever it is that she wants to socialise.

You can see why people with a narrow view vote UKIP.
Yes you explained beautifully how the narrow minded think and act

Thanks.

it should read “Benefits scrounger’s LANDLORD claiming 2k in benefits every month”

THIS A MILLION TIMES

the issue is unaffordable rent which is going to the already wealthy form the poor be it the unemployed or the workers.
Get angry at them and th epoliticians who enable them not the poor bastards who experience the shitty end of the system .

Surely Milton Keynes is not that bad that you would have your kids fostered rather than move there?

“Benefits scrounger’s LANDLORD claiming 2k in benefits every month”

Well, clearly not, as the landlord evicted her… So they won’t be receiving any benefits money any more will they?

the issue is unaffordable rent

If nobody can afford their rent, then either rent will come down, or wages will go up – otherwise landlords would end up with loads of empty properties.

Surely Milton Keynes is not that bad that you would have your kids fostered rather than move there?

😀

I’d sell my kids to Islamic State rather than move there. Anyway, what happens next week when rents reach 2K in Milton Keynes? “Sorry love, you’re gonna have to bugger off to ROTHERHAM”. That would be sadistic.

The real story here is that certain inner London boroughs are trying to outsource their social housing way outside the city.

I bet the express could have found plenty of stories involving white British people in low paying jobs in the same situation. But they didn’t for some reason.

(Sorry, deleted that as making light of something pretty terrible, it’s that or cry about it…)

Why should she move if that’s where her friends and family are?

Because… she can’t afford to live in one of the most expensive places in the country when she’s got five kids and no job? Is that a radical idea?

I’m not a fan of “ghetto-ising” the poor either. But I have a reasonable job and live in one of the most deprived wards in the country. Why? Because I can’t afford not to. Should I move to London, pack in my job, and hold my hand out for free stuff instead?

I could do with someone giving me £500 a week to be honest, if you’ve got it going spare.

What chakaping says is true but, equally, people seem to expect the state to provide housing that meets their wants rather than their needs.

The other side of the argument here: http://m.insidehousing.co.uk/7006705.article?mobilesite=enabled

puh….whatcha gonna do? Anybody see the match last night? 🙂

I bet the express could have found plenty of stories involving white British people in low paying jobs in the same situation. But they didn’t for some reason.

Is that racism or are they being inclusive ?

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It’s quite Kafka-esque.

People commute from many miles around into London to get to their jobs. They commute past the unemployed who live there, who are kept there by having their extortionate housing costs (which the workers couldn’t afford), paid/subsidised by those same workers’ taxes.

how the **** is that kafka-esque? 😆 long time since I read any kafka bukes, but middle class snobbery wasn’t the theme at all from my memory!

Should I move to London, pack in my job, and hold my hand out for free stuff instead?

You’re a straight white bloke, you don’t qualify for ‘free stuff’ 😉

:PNinfan has space under his bridge for you 😛

Do we know why she had to leave the Congo, is it safe for her to go back yet?
When you can buy a house in Wales for not much I don’t see why she couldn’t move there.

Why not send her to the Gurnos estate? You can buy a house there for a months rent in central London.

Am I correct in saying that if she got a part time job, the benefits cap would not apply to her?

Do we know why she had to leave the Congo, is it safe for her to go back yet?
When you can buy a house in Wales for not much I don’t see why she couldn’t move there.

That would, of course, require living in Wales… 😉
(I do actually like Wales, before I get flamed. It’s just full of Welsh…)

I work in this corner of the benefits system, so I’m not allowed to voice an opinion.

But I’ve had to move and live and work where I could afford to, all my life, as did my parents, and most of our friends.

And while we can all complain about the system that has created this problem, all parties have failed to provide adequate social housing over the last 30 years, and all parties have fecked about with the benefits system, often in the face of advice from those working in the field.

So here we are.

Give her a free flight home

Give her a free flight home

Oh dear. See you next Tuesday alert.

You know what boils my piss?

Anyone, of ANY race, religion, or background expecting something for nothing – and feeling hard done to when they might have to compromise

If she did move to Milton Keynes it’d be handy for some XC at Woburn. Which is nice.