Struggling mum-of-six dismayed at Heather Frost 'council mansion' scandal

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From April 13,000 millionaires are getting a tax cut worth £100,000 a year on average while over 600,000 armed forces families, disabled people and foster carers have to find £728 a year to pay a new bedroom tax.

This isn't about tough choices, it's about the wrong choices.”

“If she can wait a little while there is going to be a nice two into one house becoming empty soon in the same area but maybe she hasent got enough kids for Tewkesbury council to help failing that maybe people should only have children that they have the room for and not keep holding out their hands for bigger houses”

“Social housing was not intended as a permanent home. It was meant for working families to get on the property ladder, by giving them subsidised rent to the family to save for a privately owned house.
It was not intended as a long term solution to over breeding families who have outgrown current accommodation.
If the original principle of Social housing was applied neither this family or the Frost's would qualify, as their is little hope of them moving on to the housing ladder.

At a time when getting a mortgage and a deposit is very difficult for working families. Isn't it time we prioritise those who are prepared to work and move up the housing ladder.”

“I hate it when people start to judge when they do not know the full story yet. Clearly If you bread it correctly she is not just fighting for her but for all familes in the same boat. If the council can do it for one family then they can for the rest. At least they are a working family and are trying.”

“Ah, the story that just keeps giving. Compare this with the Phil Staddon/City Council affair, about which we are apparently not allowed to know the full truth because of data protection.”

“lewipaul, the article states that Sam's partner works for Unilever, and that she is on a training course.

Also nowhere that I can see in the article, does it say they cannot afford to look after their children. The article doesn't state either whether all the children are theirs, or if they have children by previous partners, something which is quite common these days and can lead to larger families.

I do not blame Sam Preest from being peeved by the fact that Heather Frost, who has contributed nothing to society, apart from deliberately breed children she cannot support, and then has a house purpose built for her. At least sam Preest and her partner are trying to support themselves, Sam by doing a training course, is trying to improve her chances of employment, rather than sit back and let the state pay for them.

It just goes to prove that it you are a complete waste of space, who has no intention of working you will have everything chucked at you. But if you work, and try to support and better yourself .... lets face it not everyone can earn the megabucks required to make ends meet these days .... you get put at the bottom of the pile, despite the fact that you have actually worked and contributed. So basically its all take and no give.”

“Um, sorry but am i missing something here? If you haven't got the room, why have that many children? Why is it always someone else's responsibility to provide.”

“parent51-you say you didnt claim any benefits but you got family allowance,well thats a benefit isnt it so therefore youve claimed benefits.”

“@ lilmissmuffet

I see you are clutching at straws to make a political point.

You said: "Socialism is all about equality isn't it?" Socialism varies country to country and just like Christianity comes in many flavours. The Labour Party defines it as equal opportunity which is significantly not the same as mere equality.”

“Parent51 you say "I understand the frustration, my wife and I lived with parents and had two children and on the waiting list. Never got any place, we then started renting privately a 2 bedroom house, and then had three more children" -

Good that you say you worked, paid taxes and didn't claim benefits apart from family allowance but if you were living in a two bedroom house and already had two children why did you go on to have three more children which probably made you overcrowded? As you were on the waiting list for a Council property perhaps you thought/hoped that you'd get pushed up the list if you had more children. To see that you got a bigger place after fifteen years must surely mean that by the time you got it some of the children were coming up to an age when they might have been going off on their own anyway.

Why is it that the people who haven't got suitable accommodation or the money to upgrade to a bigger place are the ones who don't stop at two children but go on and on adding to their family then say they have nowhere to put them all? I am of the opinion that family allowance should be payments for the first two and nothing after that, maybe then people won't use children as a way of climbing, or at least trying to climb the Council housing list.”