Dole Queen's Country House:

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2283258/Dole-queens-country-pad-The-idyllic-vicarage-Forest-Dean-benefits-mother-Heather-Frost-used-live-owns-1-000-parrot.html

How does this woman do it?

Never done a day’s work in her life, yet

Receives £865.92 in benefits

Once live in a vicarage in the idyllic Forest of Dean

Treated her partner to flying lessons, owns a £1,000 parrot, and a horse which costs £200-a-month in stable fees.

And soon to be handed the keys to a £400,000, taxpayer-funded 'eco-home'

[hc4361]

sir.prize - I can see how her boyfriend's daughter would be impartial.

[Prudie]

how must the barren poverty-stricken office-bound women of Britain be feeling - I'm actually quite shocked at that remark, maybe I've misunderstood otherwise it's quite crass. I'm pretty sure that any negative feelings about this case are not based on envy.

[sir.prize]

Maybe, maybe not - but she apparently said it.

[emmie]

she went on the Jeremy Kyle show, one wonders quite why, or is it why not, just the sort of vile case he loves so much. And you don't think it
p isses off men, i am sure it does and just as much, lazy feckless people like this are taking the mickey out of all those who are struggling day to day, but do so in the hope of giving their children a good life, and not bludging on the state whilst doing so.

[hc4361]

em10, what do you want the state to do about families like this?

[emmie]

tell them no more money, go out get a job, earn some of the money that it's costing the taxpayer to fund your lifestyle. I am well aware she has young children and so do others, they make provision, and so should she have.

[emmie]

and who said that vile thing about barren women, was that her, because i didn't see that bit.

[hc4361]

So you want her children to be homeless and starving?
Nobody would employ her - and even if she did get a job at minimum wage she would probably get even more money from the state in the form of childcare allowances, working tax credits, and she would still get her rent and council tax paid.

[hc4361]

It was ichkerria that said that remark about barren woman further up the thread.

[emmie]

homeless and starving how could that possibly come about. She was on breakfast tv saying she may not take the house that is being built because of the problems she has been receiving, well don't go on Jeremy Kyle nor breakfast tv, and tell everyone your business...

as to the stupid remark about barren women, crass doesn't even come close...

[ichkeria]

No apologies from me. I meant every word. Envy does come into it like it or not.

[hc4361]

em10 - you said the answer is to give her no more money. Without money the family would be homeless and starving.

[emmie]

as a male perhaps you have no idea what being barren means to many women, this was a crass and insensitive thing to say.

[emmie]

i just wonder how others feel who work, support themselves and their children, knowing they are paying their taxes to support people like this, and it does annoy me no end.

[hc4361]

It annoys me too, em10 - but the media bullying of one woman and her family is very wrong.
Sorry to repeat myself but she has done nothing illegal; she is not cheating the system; she is not the only family in the UK living like this.

[tamborine]

how could she work with 11 kids in 14years, she's hardly had time to get out of bed. Blame her OH, he wasn't a good cub or he could tie a knot - lol.

Her kids might work ?

[emmie]

more than one father to this tribe, so where are they, why aren't they paying towards their children's keep.

[hc4361]

The reason I mentioned her dad is because he chose to talk to the press, slagging off his daughter when he hasn't been a dad to her.

[Bbbananas]

Our benefits system is far too soft, on the wrong ones.

[emmie]

and she chose to go on tv to tell all, perhaps it wouldn't have got in the papers, and i am well aware she is not alone in UK, but quite honestly why the hell should taxpayers pick up the tab for these people.