Can't Be Bad, Can It?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2354396/Benefits-mother-11-Heather-Frost-weeks-away-500k-luxury-eco-home-paid-taxpayer.html

Well after announcing in the past that she did not know if she would accept this luxury house, it now looks as if she is all set to move in.

[youngmafbog]

Sums up all that is wrong with this country and its weak/right-on politicians.

I hope all you tax payers out there are happy with this decision made on your behalf; because I for one am not happy with my tax dollars being spent like this.

[sp1814]

Lovely house

Let's hope it doesn't end up like those on 'Skint'.

[youngmafbog]

Yes lovely, something the majority of us tax payers can only dream about, in a lot of cases because we are paying for low lives like this to live in one.

What a country.

[daffy654]

I feel sorry for the people who live in the street where her new home is. Poor sods will all be wanting to move within weeks if not days!

[FredPuli43]

Tiny garden. Not worth the money, but we ought not to encourage the Council or they might buy her something out of Country Life. This is absurd, by any measure.

[youngmafbog]

Expect the value of the houses in the road to plummet shortly, then they wont be living in a 500K home !

[Baldric]

In the past she has admitted to owning a horse, which is kept at a local paddock, and even buying her partner flying lessons.

The word Parasite springs to mind!

[Bbbananas]

It makes me sick...

[Bazile]

Crikey - and she isn't even an immigrant ?

[brandyrose]

The message this is giving is wrong. A dangerous precedent aswell. The "luxury" aspect will not sit well with most people and if she has behaved in anti social ways it could appear that she is being rewarded here. Something not quite right and I wouldn't want to live next door.

[hc4361]

It's not a luxury house, it's not her house.
It has been built in a way that it can be divided in to two separate houses when she no longer rents it.

What should the council do with her? Put all the children in to care? Have her and the kids live in a squat?

That house is nothing compared to some of those in London that are used as council housing, some worth more than two million pounds.

[FredPuli43]

Not any more, hc. There was such a fuss about £2 million houses being used by those on benefits that the government stepped in, didn't they? The rule had been daft. It provided that anyone who turned up as a resident of a borough had to be suitably house within the borough. If the borough only had large houses that were worth millions, those houses had to be rented. The fact that some other borough had plenty of much cheaper houses didn't matter and the claimant couldn't be transferred to one.

[hc4361]

You telling me those families have been evicted?

[hc4361]

She's changed her mind - not moving in

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-23178795