I Wonder If Anyone Else Will Be So Lucky?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/council-tenant-wins-right-not-to-be-sent-to-milton-keynes-10124344.html

/// She argued that if she were to leave London she would have lost a network of friends that support her when she is unwell with depression, diabetes and high blood pressure. ///

Don't they have a NHS in Milton Keynes?

[anotheoldgit]

mrs_overall

/// You were lucky! In my day we had bare floorboards with every other one missing at we were short of firewood! ///

Wooden flooring that could be used to keep warm? You were lucky, all we had were quarry tiled floors covered in lino, so as to try and keep in what bit of warmth we had. Brrrrrrrr

[Retrochic]

Like the Op and a minority on here this too makes my blood boil. Many working families have to move out of their preferred area to seek work. Many working families who fall on hard times have to move into smaller homes maybe out of the area to make ends meet. Many retired people who have worked their whole lives have to down size their home and move as there income declines. This family think they have cause to complain as they are been moved from an area where most of could only ever dream of living, given a FREE house and God knows how much a week for five kids on Benefits for sitting on their backsides. The UK takes 'sucker' to new heights.

[ummmm]

Haha...AOG :-)

[ummmm]

She hasn't been 'given' a house. She doesn't own it!

[Baldric]

///Are husband and wife not a family Baldric?///

Apologies Naval, only just seen your post.
Family seems to be defined as a group related by blood or marriage.
The only mentions I've seen of 'him' refer to the 'children's father' with no mention of them being married, so no, it was not a family that arrived on our shores!

[jd_1984]

Who's paying her legal fees to argue the case??

[Retrochic]

Ummmm she has been given a house to live in. How would you describe it then? She's been loaned a house?

[Retrochic]

Well I'd be well annoyed if I was living in Milton Keynes and commuting into London everyday because I couldn't afford to live there ,with the knowledge that some of my Tax was going to pay unemployed people to live in Westminister.

[jd_1984]

Where is she commuting to........ a job?
Friends, ok more of an effort is required to see them, but she is getting a home and has contributed very little in return.

[Baldric]

///has contributed very little///

As I ZILCH?

[Baldric]

As in not I, ......Doh!!!!

[jd_1984]

I have assumed very little (but likely zilch)......
Im sorry I can not get on board with the "Boo-hoo" crowd who stick up for this woman. If you cap the benefit at £500, then that's it, one can not expect to live in an affluent borough if they don't work. Tough!

[jackthehat]

jd_1984 - Have you actually troubled yourself by reading the story?

She lives in an area where rent outstrips the cap and so had asked for somewhere cheaper......

[jd_1984]

Yes, and she was offered somewhere cheaper.
53 miles away, yes I realise.

[DTCwordfan]

Nice try number 2 for Ireland....

[anotheoldgit]

naval

/// Anotheroldgit, I truly apologise if you see those words as attacks. ///

Apology gracefully accepted, I don't ask anyone to agree with me, many don't and that is how it should be, because it would be a strange world if we did, but to continue in debate without offence, one must choose one's words very carefully.