Jesus, I fucking hate stories like that
particularly when they make no effort to even suggest the true facts, such as:

Amount the News of the Screws claim she is getting a week - £13,901
Amount she ACTUALLY gets a week to support seven kids - £333.

slight discrepancy, no?
( the mighty badger - officially sanctioned badgerprick, Mon 13 Oct 2008, 11:51, archived)

Wasn't it 145k in housing benefit
and about 15k a year to support seven kids, with no other income?

The huge amount is simply to cover the rent on a property that needed to be given to them, for some reason in that posh area.
Bit daft innit.
( moohalaa, Mon 13 Oct 2008, 11:55, archived)

yep
Isn;t that what I just said? or at least meant, anyway. the housing benefit is fundamentally irrelevant. She doesn't see that money, and it's not her fault councils are hideously mismanaged and just blindly pay a stupid amount of rent.
( the mighty badger - officially sanctioned badgerprick, Mon 13 Oct 2008, 11:57, archived)

The article goes on about all of the luxuries they have,
like nice furniture that a furnished rented house of that kind is bound to have, as if that helps her survive somehow. "We have no money for food... oh well, at least we have these SILK CUSHIONS".
( Moon Girl Technologies |:|:|:|, Mon 13 Oct 2008, 12:09, archived)

It pisses me off more than I can stand.
You should hear the people I work with. They're fuckwits, and frankly this sort of article explains it. They only read this sort of dribble and seem unwilling to actually use their brain.
( Wicca'd Witch needs ideas for a new sig on..., Mon 13 Oct 2008, 12:14, archived)

What gets me is thety actually PUT the true information in there
but surrond it with irrelevant heresay and speculation and OMG outrage.

I mean, the article does actually admit they only get £330 a week (as long as you can do basic maths anyway, which probably rules out most readers) and after going ON and ON about the expensive telly and the furniture, then actually admits it was all there when they moved in. i mean, seriously, why fucking bother? I'm going to go batshit with a chainsaw in their publication offices. And then describe it as a hedgetrimming episode
( the mighty badger - officially sanctioned badgerprick, Mon 13 Oct 2008, 12:22, archived)

Can I join in?
Stupid cunts.
( Wicca'd Witch needs ideas for a new sig on..., Mon 13 Oct 2008, 12:23, archived)

And me too.
/really really wants to "go hedgetrimming"
( The Teviot Moose major 5th., Mon 13 Oct 2008, 12:25, archived)

the more the merrier.
Or messier. depends on how well it goes..
( the mighty badger - officially sanctioned badgerprick, Mon 13 Oct 2008, 12:26, archived)

I'm actually going to start using "hedgetrimming" at work when I have a bad day.
I think it should be the new "postal".
( The Teviot Moose major 5th., Mon 13 Oct 2008, 12:29, archived)

The bit where the guy says he got the telly "cheap off a friend",
but it's still shock and outrage that they have it. How dare they even have a telly at all, even a second-hand one!

Mind you, those things use a lot of electricity.
( Moon Girl Technologies |:|:|:|, Mon 13 Oct 2008, 12:24, archived)

They have a VASE!
With CUT FLOWERS!

Holy shit, they should have piles of B&H and Stella cans!

...but how can they afford even THAT!?

rabble rabble rabble red-top newspaper daily mail rabble rabble!
( moohalaa, Mon 13 Oct 2008, 12:15, archived)

It makes me feel sick.
The comments made me very :(
( Wicca'd Witch needs ideas for a new sig on..., Mon 13 Oct 2008, 12:17, archived)

I bet got those cut flowers on benefits that she sponged from taxpayers.
The majority of the comments come from people who've never thought to brighten up their house with flowers, or abhor the thought.
( moohalaa, Mon 13 Oct 2008, 12:21, archived)

What folly it is for the woman on benefits to actually tidy her house.

( Moon Girl Technologies |:|:|:|, Mon 13 Oct 2008, 12:22, archived)

If she doesn't have a shitpit full of overflowing ashtrays
pizza boxes and empty stella cans, how are we ever to know they are on benefits?
( the mighty badger - officially sanctioned badgerprick, Mon 13 Oct 2008, 12:24, archived)

Their benefits are obviously far too high,
if they're not wallowing in self pity. Poor people should be miserable, damn it! It's the natural order.
( Moon Girl Technologies |:|:|:|, Mon 13 Oct 2008, 12:26, archived)

It's not like she's trying to support 7 kids on a meagre handout
or make the best of what she's got at the moment.

It doesn't mention that they don't actually spend the money on cheap fags, booze, sitting in the pub all night, a car, holidays, or anything like that.

They may have a huge house, but in cash terms they've got diddly zip, none of it is theirs.
( moohalaa, Mon 13 Oct 2008, 12:25, archived)

Oh but she "complained" that she couldn't afford to take her kid to Disneyland.
How dare she complain she can't afford things she can't afford, even though she's been given an implausibly large house she didn't specifically ask for.
( Moon Girl Technologies |:|:|:|, Mon 13 Oct 2008, 12:28, archived)

Disneyland!? more like BENEFITSLAND!
I think that shes takin the piss!!!!!!!!!!!
Send dem bak!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
( moohalaa, Mon 13 Oct 2008, 12:30, archived)

Silk cushions that should be going to DECENT BRITISH people
How dare they have enough sofas to seat a family of 8?
( in vino veritas, Mon 13 Oct 2008, 12:18, archived)