Meet the Scroungers

[Persona]

These people make me sick.

Known as the "Shameless" family among horrified neighbours, the McFaddens "boast" three generations of adults who are not working.

All ten members of the clan share a council house and live off benefits amounting to around £32,000 a year. And very happy they are, too.

Matriarch is grandmother Sue McFadden, 54. "Our neighbours are so snobby - they call us the "Shameless" family and say that we ought to go out to work. But how can we work when we have all these children to look after?

"The only problem is," she says without a hint of irony, "that we're living in a three-bedroom council house, which is ridiculous.

"I'm asking the council for a ten-bedroom home for all of us. We need more space. It's awful sometimes when all the children are squabbling. Still, we do have a big TV with Sky, but we need some relaxation."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=541598&in_page_id=1770

[Parts]

They want a ten bedroom house on welfare   What Balls. I consider myself a scrounger because I let almost nothing go to waste and pick up stuff for free from the dump I consider them bums even then it gives bums a bad name

[Sophgay]

People like this on benefits are the reason it's taking me ages to get some
I am meant to be getting Incapacity Benefit while I'm unemployed, till I go back to uni
I've been paying for a private support person to help me with things, and am seeing someone else soon, so I am actually trying to change so that I'll be able to work. But till then, I was meant to be getting benefits. Not much, but something at least. Been trying to sort it since January, and still hasn't been. At this rate, there'll be no point. All this crap, doctors coming round to see me and filling in millions of forms, when there are assholes getting it and abusing it all the time

[Al Swearegen]

These people make me sick.

Known as the "Shameless" family among horrified neighbours, the McFaddens "boast" three generations of adults who are not working.

All ten members of the clan share a council house and live off benefits amounting to around £32,000 a year. And very happy they are, too.

Matriarch is grandmother Sue McFadden, 54. "Our neighbours are so snobby - they call us the "Shameless" family and say that we ought to go out to work. But how can we work when we have all these children to look after?

"The only problem is," she says without a hint of irony, "that we're living in a three-bedroom council house, which is ridiculous.

"I'm asking the council for a ten-bedroom home for all of us. We need more space. It's awful sometimes when all the children are squabbling. Still, we do have a big TV with Sky, but we need some relaxation."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=541598&in_page_id=1770

Reality =/= Shameless family. (They should sell me their excess teenage daughters).

[Callaway]

Is there really such a thing as a ten bedroom council house?

I would be willing to bet that none of us can afford to live in a ten bedroom home, so I don't see how these people expect to get one from the council.

[duncvis]

Its one of the Daily Heil's favourite themes, when they're not castigating immigrants, Muslims, gays or *insert out-group here*... the daily mail is a paper for right-wing, narrow minded, self-righteous twats. I wonder how many sink estates they trawled through in order to fill their readers with righteous indignation, with these extreme, unrepresentative examples?

[Sophgay]

I hate the Daily Mail
My step-dad buys it sometimes, and I read through it when I'm bored
It's full of shit

[Callista]

I don't see how anybody would choose to live on welfare, if they had the option to go to work. It's boring and your life feels like it's not going anywhere.

[duncvis]

 

[ozymandias]

They want a ten bedroom house on welfare   What Balls. I consider myself a scrounger because I let almost nothing go to waste and pick up stuff for free from the dump I consider them bums even then it gives bums a bad name

Agreed.  Talk about a sense of entitlement.  I know a large family nearby, who need assistance from the food pantry and other things, their house isn't huge either with all their kids.  But, they are grateful for everything they can get and nice people to boot.

[thepeaguy]

I don't see how anybody would choose to live on welfare, if they had the option to go to work. It's boring and your life feels like it's not going anywhere.

Hurray!

[Gluey]

wtf? Does that girl in that picture have a beard? Her face looks like a man.

[Sophgay]

oh yeah, it does haha

[Gluey]

i like that "Can sausages give you cancer?" ad.