Things can't be bad.

[anotheoldgit]

Living with your in-laws? Maybe living in a a grubby council flat? Perhaps you have just lost your job and can no longer pay your mortgage? Or save as you may you just cannot save enough to get a mortgage?

Don't despair, go about it in the right way, and who knows you may be able to live in grace and favour as some others do.

http://www.dailymail....enefit-crackdown.html

/// A single mother of eight is still living in a £2.6million mansion funded by taxpayers.///

/// Francesca Walker receives more than £90,000 a year in housing allowance to meet the rent on the five-bedroom villa, plus other payouts of £15,000.///

/// Last month, it was revealed that a Somali family of nine are living in a £1.8million central London house costing £1,600 a week.///

/// And a family of eight Afghan immigrants have been housed for the last 14 months in a £ 1.2million house in Ealing, West London, at a cost so far of £168,000.///

[Ankou]

perhaps an interview and photo with the owner of the house who is pocketing all this council cash would have been helpful ? maybe the colour of their skin didn't suit the dm's photogrpahy skills ?

supposedly rent is £90k a year, but isnt there a maximum level that would be far less than this ?

[Ankou]

hang on, is there any difference between this story from december 2008.....

http://www.dailymail....wnhouse-paid-you.html

and this story from december 2009 ?

http://www.dailymail....enefit-crackdown.html

i think i smell a rat. or a dm anally (sic) regurgitated storyline. they're actors arent they? go on, fess up.

[jno]

it's a good seasonal story, Ankou.

'At this festive season of the year, Mr Scrooge,' said the gentleman, taking up a pen, 'it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the Poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time. Many thousands are in want of common necessaries; hundreds of thousands are in want of common comforts, sir.'

'Are there no prisons?"

'Plenty of prisons,' said the gentleman, laying down the pen again.

'And the Union workhouses.' demanded Scrooge. 'Are they still in operation?'

'Both very busy, sir.'

[anotheoldgit]

Strobellight

/// Converted shipping containers would solve this problem. ///

What a cracking idea, then if they are failed asylum seekers, just load the container onto transport and then straight on board an Easterly bound container ship.

Job done.

But seriously, why do they have to be housed in London, where property is the dearest?