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Was reading this article this morning
[url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-13765820 ]Going to bed hungry[/url]
and thought, what is the world coming to, then i read this:
Jenni has a lot of mouths to feed - seven children, five of them below the age of 12
Do you not think she should have stopped at maybe two?
Is it just me that thinks that parents have a responsibility to bring children into a sustainable life, not one where there very presence puts pressure on providing the basics needed?
It strikes me as both odd and selfish that people continue to reproduce without considering how they can support their own. I think part of the problem is down to religious beliefs and part of it is down to expecting the state to make up any shortfall in income.
Agree with some of that, but 7 kids and not very good income does smack
a bit, certainly looks like they were just expecting someone to make up any shortfall
IMO they could always try and do better at work to bring the income up, but that may
Involve actually making some more effort and probably won't leave enough time for mcdonalds
Trips and tv ?
Hobnobs anybody?
Aldi Value digestives for me thanks aracer.
African nations bang out loads of kids into a world of famine and disease.
We should help....forever....
No matter what choices, or lack of choices, have led parents to have more children than they can support, using this kind of logic to justify turning our backs on the kids- who are blameless, is a mean-spirited excuse.
Is the issue here not the lack of job security - both parents workbut have had their hours cut? also allowing companies to pay poverty level wages?
They ere doing OK until the hours cut
But she and her husband have always worked and managed to get by. They clean offices by night, and Jenni is a school dinner lady by day...................... and their cleaning contracts have been cut by more than half, as companies have reduced their spending
I heard this on R4 yesterday. Almost found myself shouting at the radio.... 7 kids!!! of course you are having trouble feeding them!!
In other news that has recently annoyed me (from the Metro on the train this morning):
Communities secretary Eric Pickles had declared: ‘It’s a basic human right for every Englishman and woman to be able to put the remnants of their chicken tikka masala in the bin without having to wait two weeks for it to be collected.’
now there is someone who needs a reality check... basic human right, my arse.
Dave
certainly looks like they were just expecting someone to make up any shortfall
IMO they could always try and do better at work to bring the income up, but that may
Involve actually making some more effort and probably won't leave enough time for mcdonalds
Trips and tv ?
That's not the impression I got from the article. Too harsh I think.
But yeah, when I got to the 7 children bit I did wonder what they were thinking.
n other news that has recently annoyed me (from the Metro on the train this morning):Communities secretary Eric Pickles had declared: ‘It’s a basic human right for every Englishman and woman to be able to put the remnants of their chicken tikka masala in the bin without having to wait two weeks for it to be collected.’
now there is someone who needs a reality check... basic human right, my arse.
Did he really say that? And he wasn't joking? 😯
yep, 'fraid he did:
[url= http://www.metro.co.uk/news/866361-weekly-rubbish-collections-out-more-recycling-in ]http://www.metro.co.uk/news/866361-weekly-rubbish-collections-out-more-recycling-in[/url]
(Now I look at it again, the name of the woman from the Campaign for Weekly Waste Collection catches my eye)
Dave
Whilst the parents concerned don't come across as selfish state handout grabbers, they are doing fairly low paid unskilled jobs. Surely you would consider you income and ability to support your family before expanding it further?
derek_starship - MemberAfrican nations bang out loads of kids into a world of famine and disease.
We should help....forever....
Although this story has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with Africa, you just can't resist using it to bang on about how much you resent helping the destitute in Africa, can you derek_starship ?
derek_starship - MemberThey should stop shagging.
I NEVER support red arse day.
Africa is an open sore that will never heal.
I'm 42 and we had this shit going on when I was six years old. Let's raise some money for those poor hungry African people.
Bollocks - there's plent of British people who need help before we start throwing money at them.
Posted 3 months ago
And here btw, was your opportunity to tell us how you believe in helping "British people" .......what happened ?
Agree with Bigyinn... A cleaner and a dinner lady? It doesn't take a rocket surgeon to work out that they're going to find it difficult to raise that many kids in a country where educated professionals struggle with 2 or 3!
It might be unpalatable, but the mindset of these people needs to be changed, and as long as the benefit culture takes up the slack - or even makes it financially beneficial for them to breed like rabbits - the problem will just get worse and worse.
"We've always been self sufficient." is a telling line in there. Stop being a bloody muppet and claim benefits then your kids wont go hungry you stupid cow.
Obvious troll is obvious.
Eric Pickles has been eating too many of those chicken tikkas, he will be on Channel 4 soon.
aracer - Member
Hobnobs anybody?
Got any dark chocolate ones?
Anyone else notice:
But recently she could not send her children to school, because she did not have any food to put in their lunch boxes.
Jenni is a school dinner lady by day
...yet she isn't aware of free school meals for her kids?
And since when has conditioner been more important than food?