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well, were do i start ime the proud mum of 13 children I currently live in a 3 bed tempory accomodation ime supposedly waiting on a 7 bedroom property of wich ive been waiting for ten years after being harrassed out of my permanent flat ive suggested numerouse ways to rehouse me but the council would proberbly rather evict me and my family to save them the bother of helping i dont mind but ide rather be in a field in a tent that was secure rather than be in a house thats not!! Gone are the days of travellers being able to travell but i think its the better option considering the amount of diffrent tempories ive been in over the years.

- Tarnie, woodgreen england

I don’t think is the fault of the family at all if you want to blame any one blame the system for allowing that. And I hate the way you address all immigrants who come here. at the end of the day after world war two Britain didn’t rebuild them self they got immigrant workers and they worked hard so don’t make it like only British people worked hard for this country. I am from Africa and i came here for education and once i complete this i will work hard just like every one else i don’t lay on my back side all day and my family just like every one else pays taxes. But however the local council shouldn’t be paying that much to one family in benefits let alone over 1 million for the house. I wish we got that special treatment. Am sure they could have found a suitable house that was less but anyways 5 bedroom house is enough for 7 people am sure the youngest could share.

- ......, leicester

I think it is rediculous, I am a mother of 3 children, a girl and 2 boys and recently seperated from their father due to violence. Before leaving him I could work part time when he was home from work so we had a second income and of course we paid tax. When I left I was told I would have to go into a B&B (which had residents who were drug users, alchoholics etc hardly the place you would want to raise children. The council said they could put me on a waiting list but would most likely get offered a 2 bedroom house or find a 3 bed house myself and they would pay my landlord the rent which I did and am settled now with my children. The ordeal that we had gone through, the violence and leaving b&b and re-setting up home and in the end you just feel like another British statistic, whereas the foreign come over and get liberties the government may aswell roll out the red carpet while they are down kissing their feet!!!

- Sarah, Gloucester, UK

my husband and i live with our 5 children and another baby due in june in a 4 small bedroom house but we aren't entitled to a 7 bedroom house because our children can share till they are 12 and i have mixed sexes so why do they get special treatment ???

- Lisa, kent

where i come from in east sussex i would not be entitiled to a seven bedroomed house just because i kept having kids. Here, we are tol that our kids male and female should share untill the eldest is 12 years old. and that would only be if we had boy and girl. If i had 4 girls the council would make them all share a bedroom for as long as poss..... How are they entitled to a 7 bedroom house????? I would get laughed at if i were to request that big a house. It discusting. Im sorry if they are homeless but they should have to squeeze into a standard size like we all do. I do have my own property, but have lived in council accomodation and if i thought i was as cushty as that i would have fought for more!!!!!

grow a pair britain and stop being so soft.

- Joe Bloggs, east sussex

My grandfather was from Mexico and he almost had to work to death to pay for living expenses, let alone anything else when he came to Britain and now Britain has became scared of offending people of other nationalities because of the past troubles; well they have gone too far, i am always reading stories of how these asian women are having so many children, therefore, they get houses. It really makes me wonder if they are having children for this purpose even if it does sound ridiculous and quite sickening and another thing is that they arent even polite enough to learn english like a lot of foreigner's who have to work hard everyday do. My friends from Iraq have to work as hard as they can and have gone to college to learn english- at least they try but when you hear stories like this it makes you wonder where Britain is goin in this world

- Emilea, Trowbridge, Britain

Regent's Business School, as per the school's website, charges £11,000 per academic year! Enough said..

- Mick, London

Appalled, saddened and disgusted at the 1m council house story but is anybody really surprised ??? It seems to me that if you are royal or an immigrant, your life and future are assured at all costs. Its a shame the labour government forgets to look after its own.

- Christine, hythe, kent

the people that run and make the policies for the council and the goverment plus our blind priminister who can only choose not to see this type of abuse of taxpayers money should appologise to the british tax paying public and resign there posts this abuse of funds must stop there is no wonder why we are heading for a crash. god help the british public in the coming months theres going to be a lot of misery.

- D Linnell, huntingdon uk

Dave from Bristol, you have made my evening with your comment "The reason why this Country is wealthy is because our ancestors fought both militarily and socially through the union movement, to build that wealth. Now their descendants are losing their lives in a foreign country while the rest are being stealth-taxed to support those too lazy or cowardly to sort out that country."

I laughed until my sides split. The reason this country is rich is because we invaded sovereign states around the globe, made off with all their valuables, then enslaved their population. Hooray for us - Rule Britannia! Unfortunately we taught the Americans to do the same and they turned out to be a lot better at it than we were.....

- Evil Dr K., Noddyland

This is a disgrace.How can someone who has paid no taxes be entitled to so much in benefits? No matter how much help you have to provide refugees this is an absolute disgrace to the working men and women in England

- Lol, ealing

I really don't think its any fault of this family.But it really hurts when you read articles like these.I came from Jamaica a few years ago to search for a better life for for my family, struggling to keep my daughter into university.I didn't come here with no intention to live off this country,but to work very hard and to try to achieve the most i can.
This country have got no clue who will help to build its economy .If this is the way they plan to spend our hard earn taxes ,I WOULD SAY THEY ARE A BUNCH OF JOKERS.
They need to go back to the drawing board.Im not saying they are to get rid of anyone but they need to try to HELP THESE PEOPLE SO THAT THEY CAN HELP THEMSELVES.

- Ag,, croydon

So they need 7 bedrooms? This is a travesty, those over 18 should be treated as a seperate case as they are adults in the eyes of the law of this country. Which in turn means they dont need a 7 bedroom house. This is a joke, the country is known as a soft touch and its so fubar. I dont blame the family, I blame the system. They dont need 7 bedrooms if at least 2 are over 18. WHAT KIND OF COUNTRY IS THIS!!??

- Pace, manchester

I am so angry I can't even begin to say how angry I am. How does the Government think we all feel when we see this going on all the time on our doorsteps. My daughter with her two young children would be lucky to get a 2 bedroomed flat.

- Jennie, Ealing, London

Forget about sending them to Liverpool send them back to where they came from. There is a supposed family of these people living opposite me. Only one teenager seems to work being a cab driver and nobody knows how many people live there as there are so many comings and goings at all hours of the day and night. When they first moved in I saw all manner of household items, furniture/kitchen etc entering the house only to be removed soon after by like looking people in the dead of night. I am told, reliably, that the mother does not work because she cannot speak English, with 5 kids, 4 of which taking place in school/college locally surely they can help and how much english to you need to wash up in a kitchen which is what anaother immigrant who lived nearby did with no command of the language. There will never be a GREAT in Britain again.

- Anon, UK

When I was made redundant the local authority refused to pay all of my rent and I was thrown on the streets having paid many tens of thousands of pounds in taxes, whilst a huge family of asylum seekers next door had two homes knocked into one so that they could live nicely without having to work. The system we have needs wholesale reform, and the only way to achieve that will be widespread disobedience to the authorities and a moratorium on paying taxes. We can change this system by refusing to cooperate with it.

- Neil, london uk, Airstrip ONE .

My partner was made redundant 6 weeks ago, as yet we have not received a penny in benefits. We are british and have lived and worked all our lives in this country, we have 2 children and are living on £125 per week. Can someone advise us how we can receive £170,000 per year in benefits?

- Claire Houghton, Accrington England

I dream that if I work hard, sometime in 15 to 20 years time or so I will be able to afford to live in such a house - that it is easily accessible free to foreigners looking for a handout is scandalous. The money guys' gambling debts at the top of the chain has to be bailed out by the hard working taxpayers who "work" for a living - now we have to also pick up the bill for the 4000 immigrants piling in to the UK looking for their own free mansion. ENOUGH !!!

- James, Bath, uk

We were five children plus our parents and we had to manage in a three bedroom house,it was nice really so I just can't understand why they need seven bedrooms,they could manage alright in a three bedroom council house really,all the boys in one room,the girls in another and mum and grandmother in the other room,we had to use our front downstairs room as a bedroom at one time so why doesn't the council offer something the same type of thing to them

- Linda, italy

..so how did this happen, where & what is the scenario over the errant husband? are we housing him separately? probably, yes.
Would some fool from the government please explain what the heck is going on here? no well no surpise there then!
why do they need a 7 bedroom house, why acton, to quote the son, take what you get given ...not bleed the country that embraces you dry!
personally with all this cash floating around they could green up or heat lots of OAPS homes rather than waste it on this cash sucking trash!
...and those responsible ought to be hounded down, sacked & kicked out of the country in a small raft.
this country can ill afford such stupidity!
soft touch Britian, STUPID BRITAIN!

- Pick My Jaw From The Floor...Please, cambridgeshire

I think the fact that the 22 year old is going to PRIVATE business school worries me - who is paying for that? Oh I expect there is some legal loophole where he can claim this from the good old taxpayer. Send em back that's what I say.

- Barbara, sydney Australia

It would be interesting to see if Mr Panesar has any connections, family or business, with Ealing council. This stinks to high heaven of cronyism. I too do not blame the recipients, just the council, whom I find complicit in a scam to defraud the British Taxpayer through benefit fraud.

- Y, London

This madness has been going on for decades. Yet what do the Britsh do about it. Nothing. You all get what you deserve because no decisive action is taken. The people you vote for do not represent you. And it's getting worse with 42 days detention, ID cards and reading your personal emails.
Bear in mind that the welfare state is a vote machine for the socialists, paid for by the taxpayer. The welfare state distorts democracy.
This country has been ruined by the socialists (economically as well). You'd think having a monarch that some sort of control would be in place to regulate bad government, or is that part of the scam?

- Np, Cornwall, UK (Until the food runs out)

Did you really say this woman gets $340,000.00 for being on the dole and $25,000.00 for monthly rent. This family must think it has landed in heaven. Even America is not as wonderful as England. God Save The Queen. I am retired in America on 18,000.00 pounds a year. Put me on Welfare - I want to be a loyal British subject.

- Rich, San Angelo USA

Whilst you can't blame the tenant, surely some aspects have to be questioned.

Where is the money coming from to study at "the private Regents Park Business School"

The seven children age 8 to 22, and we know Jawad is 20, so why not house Mum and the five in a standard four bedroom council house, and let the two older children have a two bed flat near by.

In Islington, the council do not consider over occupancy until the living room is used, and that children can share bedrooms.

My mortgage of £560,000 (on a house brought for £810k) over 20 yrs should cost me £3,852, although I round it up to £4000 a month which will save me a year at the end, this landlord is getting over 3 times that amount, imagine that even if his loan is 100% he is still making a couple of thousand profit every month, not a bad business deal, if I could get such a deal, I would.

As an Engineer and an employer of 48 staff, my brain works in two distinct ways, I like things ordered, to function, to fit a purpose, thats the engineer in me, the employer in me, likes my staff to be happy, well paid, and rewarded for their excellence, but no matter how big my socialist heart, my brain tells me there is a better solution than renting this house, you should have to work for your rewards, your expectations should be based what you can achieve for yourself.

- John Kirby, Crouch End, Islington

She's making a fortune on welfare.
When can I immigrate?

- Trunk, US

I used to work for the rent Service. It comes as no surprise they group Acton with Westminster. The level of competance among senior management is very poor!

Given that the property market is dead, would it not make sense to offer to relocate this family out of London where a 7 bed house could perhaps be bought for £300,000, only twice the figure currently going to a private landlord?

- David Wood, Cornwall

I want to vomit..........

- Lynda, Philadelphia, PA

Quote: "my mum is not happy because she has to clean all of it." Oh what a shame! Can't we get her a maid as well free of charge? No wonder the rest of the world is clamouring to get here. Take in anyone and treat them better than people who have payed their dues for years! It's disgraceful.

- Barryoneoff, London, England

A 20 and 22 year olds living there are not children! They should be out getting jobs and supporting the family if they want to live in this country. How are these people allowed to come here and live off our money simply because there is unrest in their country? If thats all it takes we will have the whole lot coming over for us to feed and house in lavish properties.

Our soldiers are over their losing their lives trying rid their country of opression to give them better lives, there is no need for them to come here by the boat load.

This country has gone absolutely mad. This government is creating a society that is becoming increasingly angry towards immigrants and in the long run will just add to the problems of non integration in our society.

Where has England actually gone? It does not really exist anymore.

- M Prince, DERBY UK

I would be interested to know the ages of the children - one is now 20! What was wrong with the 5 bedroom house ? Why were they made homeless ? Three bedrooms seems ample - one for mum, one for the girls and one for the boys The 20 year old could sleep on a sofa bed in the lounge as I and countless others have to do. I currently live in a one bedroom flat with two primary school aged children because I was not prepared to wait for several years for a two bedroom flat. My children and I needed stability. I work part-time and pay my rent.
Have just read on - one of the "children" is 22! Surely council are not responsible for housing these adults.
PS Danny Brierley needs to check his headlines - £12000 rent a year needs to be corrected!

- S, Pimlico, London

Labor? Labor!!! Who or what is that?
Foreigners who don't understand the politics and morals of our country should keep quiet or go home.
I'm very happy to be paying the rent for this family. Much more so than paying for tax breaks and bailouts for rich bankers and newspaper/porn barons, and editors who rip off their shareholders.
God bless England, you couldn't make it up, political correctness gone mad, I'm not a racist but, taking our jobs, apologies to the Poles, etc
You know what I'm talking about, innit.

oh, by the way "H", if that is your real name, anyone who loses their job and becomes unemployed clearly deserves NOTHING. Hey must have been lazy or dishonest.
God,I love the internet.

- Peter, London UK

So I can wrest a fortune from poor hardworking people living in cramped conditions just by having a load of kids?

I live in a small flat in a low-quality block that I share with another well-paid professional. I've been saving for years and can't get a decent home. Why don't the councils share the money out fairly - instead of taking some people from nothing to unimaginable riches while pushing other people down below the water level.

Most people don't have a right to a seven bedroom mansion in one of the plushest parts of the country. They have to move somewhere cheap and share a small room - people with actual jobs in London often have to rent a sofa for hundreds of pounds per month then pay a fortune in tax to make somebody who does nothing for anybody incredibly wealthy.

You have to earn that sort of wealth - all the decent people do.

- Tristan, Oxford, England

You cant seriously beleive that Norman.

This is a serious missuse of public money which would fair much better being invested elsewhere.

Move the family to a cheaper part of the uk or something, The areas may not be as desirable but when you're in need anything will do!.

- John, London

There is probably a lot more to this story than is being told. For example, it isnt clear if the £170k includes the rent, if it does, then it is the landlord that is pulling a fast one trying to get the max rent the law will allow.

- Adrian, Orkney

This just stinks of some kind of scam between landlord and tenant. I think this is probably just one example of the many hundreds of similar stupendous similar stories throughout the UK. I work my guts off doing 15 hrs days working for myself to support my family. I pay my VAT, I pay my NI, I pay my Tax, I pay Tax on fuel, Tax on food, Tax on clothes, Tax to just have my car on a road, Tax on my fuel, Tax just for having a business.... the list goes on. Sometimes I do wonder if I just went on the dole, worked the system like so many do then I would have a stress free easier life and I too would be entitled to the same benefits as above, pop out a few more kids and wahay a 7 bedroom house here we come! Get one of my nippers to limp and wahay...Get a Motability People Carrier (apparently you get a choice of colour and model). Its sounds more attractive the more I think about it, but hey no I can't do that because I have been taught to work and have morals. TAX TAX TAX thats all this country is about and I can see exactly where my and other hard working peoples money is going. Inadequacies of local councils, government and keeping the PC Britain happy.

- Jason, Northampton

i just want to say that how do you know that they never intended to work? they might be working their heads off, and yet here we have you criticising them wiith your little o im disgraced and bla bla bla, why are you people so racist for, if you say oh go back to afghanistan then why dont you go back to your country and have a splendid time there! go to a coountry where there is war and every secound of your life is in danger from the taliban? would you like to live there, in movies you have people crying over breaking up in relationships, how do you think that feels?

- Izzy, london, enfield

"It was great in Afghanistan, every house over there is enormous - this place would be as big as something we would give chickens but we are just grateful for what we can get."

First of all, everything this person has said is rediculous and lies.

Secondly, half these kids are over 18, why are they receiving benefits? Get a job like everyone else over 16.

Thirdly, the housing system in this country is rediculous. If I became unemployed due to injury, life would be almost unbearable on tiny benefit payments, however one of these kids is going to be able to afford to go to a private business school?

This government really should be ashamed when the rest of us are struggling and things like this are still going on.

- Danielle Barton, Ascot, UK

disgrace, i get only £55 week to live on have no central heating, broke 3 years ago and told by benefits agency i do not qualify for any help fixing it. This after having just come out of hospital after a heart operation.

- David, Newcastle upon tyne

I give up.

- Paul, Bristol

If the council pays the people then they pay them. the council is paying for it, even if you pay the tax only like 000.10% goes into the payment, its not theyr fault anyway, it was the councils choice. and i hink that hes right, if you win a lottey ticket, then you take it. no?

- Lauren, england, harrow

If she has children over the age of 18 ..which she does surely this means that the obligation to house her family is reduced ie housing only those under the age of 18 or indeed 17 if her children are not at school and God formid! working!!

- Indie, Slough

Easy and simple...

Someone needs to answer for this mess and soon. The genuine 'non-scrounging' British Public demand it.

- John, London

Expensive T-shirt Jawad is wearing for a refugee. I wonder what cars they bought with the benefits?

- Jd, London

I'm shocked and sickened. I can barely afford to feed my kids and pay the bills. I've worked all my life. I feel totally destroyed that every night I go to bed worrying how I'm going to pay the next fuel bill.. and this happens, half of that family aren't even minors

- Polly, Bradford, West Yorkshire

Forget the house. What I find more galling is the fact that she gets £170,000 a year in benefits as well as the £12,500 per month for the house. By my reckoning that means she is getting the equivalent of £320,000 net every year. For an honest worker to receive that sort of net salary, they would have to be earning over £600,000 per annum. Not many in teh UK earning that - not even our overpaid MPs with their John Lewis List benefits and all the other cons they get

- Rob, London

This family cannot be blamed for 'taking a lottery ticket' as one of the family put it. It is what was offered to them, why wouldn't they take it? They did not go property hunting and decide they would have this particular house. I understand why everyone is so indignant, and so am I as a taxpayer, but why the racial undertones? It is the lawmakers of this land who are out of touch with reality and need to understand that their laws and guidelines are causing financial and social problems for the communities they were designed to help, and resentment from those providing the funding. It is a political issue. I do not blame the landlord either. Again, why wouldn't he accept as much as the council are willing to pay? Our local councils also need to get sensible and stop wilfully misinterpreting housing law. They have a duty to do what is 'reasonable' under the circumstances. Unfortunately, it leaves me to conclude that this council is either reckless and profligate, or as has been suggested, sordid. I am sorry for this family who will now be harassed. I am sorry for myself and other taxpayers, and I am very sorry for the state this country is getting itself into.

- B Williams, Friern Barnet, UK

Norman I do not mind helping a 'few' people but I do object to supporting thousands! The reason why this Country is wealthy is because our ancestors fought both militarily and socially through the union movement, to build that wealth. Now their descendants are losing their lives in a foreign country while the rest are being stealth-taxed to support those too lazy or cowardly to sort out that country.

- Dave Bristol, Bristol England

If I wrote what I really think about this case it would be unprintable. Absolutely disgusting waste of money on people who have made no contribution to this country while our pensioners worry about their tiny, mean pensions.

- Shirley, London

They didn't come here to seek refuge, or educate there kids, they came here for our ridiculous benefits and welfare system. If they wanted refuge they would have stopped at the first safe country! If they wanted to educate their kids they definitely wouldn't school them here, I find this story abhorrent and a sad reflection of what this country has come to, its the British tax payers who are bank rolling these parasites, enough is enough !

- Paxton, N17

Poor mum, having to clean all that house. I wonder why they got lost in it if it's only as big as the place they used to keep hens in back home in wonderful afghanistan.It's the heartfelt gratitude that both the tenants and landlord feel that touches me the most.....

- Hippymummy, oughterside, cumbria

"It's not that we wanted this big house - my mum is not happy because she has to clean all of it."

POOR YOU!

What makes me laugh is that these nauseating media ultraliberals in their all-white English neighbourhoods of Hampstead and Chiswick who want to see more of these "poor impoverished people" who live with the rest of us will soon find them on their doorstep. And I wonder then will they start getting as fed up as the rest of us with people in the street speaking every other language but English.

- Abu Hamza, Finsbury Park

The last time I walked past this house there was at least one BMW and several other smart cars parked outside it. The occupiers probably shifted them before the camera arrived. At least my £50 fine for stopping outside the tube station is going to a good cause.

- James, Bures

Why are so many people being negative about this poor woman, and her children.

She came to this country to seek refuge, and hopefuly a better life.

The least we can do in the affluent west is to try and help a few people.

- Norman Baxter-Stevens, London

shocking, disgusting.....
i think it is absolutely appalling the way the benefit system is abused like this.
somebody who has paid into the system for years and through no fault of their own becomes unemployed, is entitled to 120 pound a fortnight...!!! and may lose their homes....words fail me or rather it would be unprintable........disgusting,

- 'H', london

This is what you get when you vote Labor. Rank corruption.

- James, New Malden, Surrey

Mick,
I'm not aware of any 7 bedroom council houses being sold thanks to Thatcher or anyone else.

Steve,
Squalor, my apolagies

- Chris, London

The council employee who authorised that level of rent should be investigated. Is he/she perhaps receiving a commission from the landlord? That cannot possibly be the market rate for that house. Also, surely the smaller children can share bedrooms. This is absolutely ridiculous. I hope voters in Ealing will remember this come the next election. We hear so much about 'key workers' needing accomodation in London. Just exactly what 'key' position does this lady fill? Seven bedrooms could accommodate seven nurses. Enough is enough!

- Beatriz, London

I’ve been thinking for some time of emigrating to a country that would welcome my enriching presence. I suppose I can take my pick of Muslim countries - they’re all charitable. On arrival I will of course tell them I have no intention of working but would like a seven-bedroom mansion to live in and an income to keep me in a lavish lifestyle, all paid for by that country’s taxpayers. They will surely welcome me with open arms. After all, I’m British and we provide these facilities for their people all the time.

- John, Salford, UK

it is absolutely disgraceful.
honest taxpayers who lose their jobs lose their homes and somebody who has contributed nothing to the system gets this sort of benefit.
disgraceful....shocking!!!!! words fail me....

- 'H', london

If the councils had not sold off all of their council houses they would not need to rent. Looks like we owe another vote of thanks to Margaret Thatcher.

- Mick, London, England

You couldn't script it !

I do not blame the tenant in anyway, the blame lays directly at the feet of this Labour government who pander for the minorities.
£12000 a month £144000 a year, the system is out of control.

- Simon, Hanworth

Where's Squaler?

- Steve, London

Hey do not be surprised! Your talking about the Ealing Council, They are a bunch of monkeys as it is! Mismanagement and Excess and unneeded spending is their Key council feature!

- Phil, London

"Ms Saindi approached Ealing council, which had a legal obligation to find her a seven-bedroom property, in July after being made homeless."

Interesting. I doubt she was living in a 7 bedroom property before she was made homeless. Sounds like an easy way of getting a bigger, nicer house for free.

- Paul, London

These people need to be sent back to where they came from. Britain cannot afford, in so many ways, to give huge handouts to all and sundry who come over here to claim benefits.
This case in particular is utterly disgusting, with the (foreign?) landlord receiving an astronomical rip-off rent. Sounds like a conspiracy.
MPs need to pull the plug out and control our country properly.
And to think that in the midst of the current financial chaos, the queen is asking for more money and prince Charles is using a half million pounds of TAXPAYERS' MONEY to go off on a jaunt to the far east with his former mistress. D-I-S-G-U-S-T-I-N-G!

- Henry Higgins, London, England

Wow! I work very hard. I pay all my bills and have a 7 year old son. Perhaps I should give everything up and maybe I too could live in a rather nice house like that!

WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS COUNTRY. MADNESS.

- Imogen, London

It is absolutely disgusting that there are some people who are working hard for their money, and actively contributing to the economy, and those people can barely get a foot onto the housing market, yet this woman has seven children, one of which (the 22 year old) shouldn't even be considered a child but an adult! It is no wonder people would rather live on benefits, and to think whereas that money could of gone. A much worthy cause!

- Anger, London

And NuLabour says that immigration benefits the country...

- Ab, London

Charming,
Whilst our Armed Forces live in Squaler

- Chris, London

In Richmond the council housing was transferred (against the tenants voting). Families are counted at 'the point of entry'....so a mum then has more children but they do not count as they did not exist at the point of entry. So British mums stay in over crowded accomadation. A luxury development was built in Kew with a few for social housing. Who did they give them to? Kosovons of course. The Brit mums remain in the slums.

- Nikki, Richmond

Our Pensioners who have worked all there lives and contributed to this country are too frightened to turn on the heating because of the tiny pensions they receive as they cant heat and eat and our Nurses and Teachers cannot afford to get a step on the property ladder and this woman comes here has given nothing to the country and gets all the benefits I AM SICK OF THIS COUNTRY and Goverment who allows this to happen !

- Linda Cliff, London

Please say that this is a joke. Has the country finally descended into madness?

- Wintle, Kingston

Stop blaming the claimants.
There is a scheme for landlords to offer properties to council as an alternative of gaining a permanent property. A friend of mine who is quite ill, waiting to be made homeless, approached Westminster's council. They don't want him as a permanent tenant, so send him to private landlords. Out of desperation, he went to visit some of them.
The supposedly landlord was not the owner but a 3rd party con man, the rent was far above the market value, had no heating, was dirty and in the middle of refurbishment process that was abandoned a while ago. More or less he was asked to move in a rotten flat. On the top of it all my friends was bullied by that con man, with pressure sale techniques and harassed on the phone for taking that property. The rent was supposed to be in cash too??

Councils are just making legal, illegal practices and allow greedy landlord to suck the finances normally allocated to the people in needs.

Stop blaming the poor people. The councils avoid their responsibilities and run scams in complicity with landlords.

- Lauren, London

I wasn't aware that the council was obliged to provide housing for a 22 year old ......

This is an absolute disgrace.

- Pete, N1

So... all of the children and herself are afganistanis,... Is it not possible for the elder (adults) in the family to be housed independately thus allowing them to be rehoused in the normal sized council house.... failing that cannot the adults of the family take care of them all with their jobs... and pay the rent themselves... It would be interesting to know how much benifit goes into that house..and like Ms saindi states ...its the councils problem ..not hers ...(typical)

- Jean Doherty, salford england

Would it not be possible to solve the Taliban problem by importing all these deserving Afghans in the UK., giving them accommodation, food, education, healthcare etc., and then sending them back when they had experienced western society for some years? Can we not calculate the cost of this as against spending money fighting them? Perhaps it would be cheaper in the long run? They would then return to Afghanistan full of political correctness and things would be marvellous for them.

- Jonathan Montmorency, cooden, uk

There are lot's of empty properties in Liverpool, why don't send this family there? These people are not working and never intend to work, so they can live anywhere where there are schools and hospitals available.

- Olga, London

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