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Answer for -KC, London Boy ( 212/07/2010, 20:32 ):
People who contribute to this country, who love this country, who are ready to defend this country.

- Nick, London, 20/07/2010 00:15
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God help us, I work for a local government and have been given a pay freeze for the next two years. They are draining the education system, the NHS, housing. Something has got to give.

- Rose, London, 18/07/2010 18:15
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I currently spent 8 months in the UK studying. I paid 12000 pounds fees, 10000 pounds accom and ploughed plenty of money into the local economy and was happy to do so. However, I couldn't wait to leave for home! The UK has changed dramatically over the past 15 years of my visiting your Country. The indigenous people of England are now the minority and are treated as a "cash cow" by the Government. Heaven forbid, if you suggest that alleged Asylum Seekers are taking liberties, you are howled down as Racists for doing such and apparently is a crime, so much for freedom of speech!

I hope the new Government fixes problem urgently. It is grossly unfair that the hard working tax payers are funding these "bottomless pits of cash grabbers". I know how hard the working class work and are so disgruntled with the way they are treated.

These Asylum Seekers should drop to their knees and thank every tax payer of the UK for the generous protection they are provided. Instead, they spit in your eye and refuse to assimilate to the traditional way of the United Kingdom.
I really love your Country and your people are wonderful, generous and fair. it is time that the Government look after the indigenous people and freeze immigration immediately and sort things out.

- James Line, Melbourne Australia, 18/07/2010 01:02
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I'd prefer to give the money to the people of Somali. We could feed 8000 of them a week for this money in aid and not just house 9 of them!!

- KJS, Glasgow, 17/07/2010 22:03
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I have just been laid of from work, i have worked for 28 yrs, 3 being in the armed services serving queen and country, now i am out of work and seeking the help from our Government, I am getting nothing but Questions, Questions, Questions.
I cant go into to much detail as i have only got 1190 characters left.
But how wrong is it that the government can justify paying That sort of money out to a family, no questions asked when i am not even asking for £600 per MONTH not week but Month, and i am being told that iam not entitled to any help from the Government with my Council tax or Housing Benefits, and that i will only get £90.24 every 2 weeks and that's for myself and partner to eat pay the bills and rent.
Now there has got to be something wrong there.
I hate to say it but is it any wonder Foreigners want to come into our country, its not because they love the country or think its the best country, Like I Do, but because its the best country you come to if you want to make money from a government no questions asked.
When i went to my local Jobcentre to find out what i can do to get back into work, i was made to feel very small in the way i was spoken too, and that was it i was spoken too and not asked what they could do for me to help me in getting back into work.
The short of it was they were no help what so ever.
It is a sorry state when you cant even get help from the government, I have served loyally for 28 yrs.
All i have got from this is a big Phone bill.

- larry melbourne, Chatham, Kent, 14/07/2010 18:26
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If the Conservative council in Kensington and Chelsea pays asylum seekers £8000 a month in housing benefit, perhaps voters might consider how successful the Conservative government is likely to be in reducing public spending.

- jontie, london, 14/07/2010 10:53
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I cannot believe this is happening someplace other than the USA. You almost cannot blame Nur, he's just laughing while eating up the tax money. When he even begins to justify it and says "we deserve this", that's when he becomes a piece of stink. Turdlers like Nur will leech off of the system as much as they can. Are real workers who live in "poor" areas, pay taxes, and contribute to society a bit baffled and upset? I'd want IMMEDIATE action, not "we will be looking into it"

As a neighbor said "whoever granted his family the housing should be immediately fired and he should be evicted immediately afterward"

Just like the U.S., politicians pointed fingers and then the standard "we can't do anything until...." Sad to see another great country on it's inevitable journey into collapse.

- KMONET, Massachusetts USA, 13/07/2010 20:46
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Stories like this want me to give up

- Mario Kempe, London, 13/07/2010 17:17
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This is a flipping liberty.

First of all, how is Kensal Green (a prestigious LDN area) in a poorer state than the war ridden Somalia these guys came from?

Secondly, why the hell should they be rehoused because they didn't "like the local shops"? Ingrates.

Thirdly, what's wrong with the system when these people get housed in a £2.1m property? Send them up North or something if London is full? Sheesh.

This system is a total mess and needs changing immediately.

- Calvin Robinson, London, 13/07/2010 16:13
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This is a flipping liberty.

First of all, how is Kensal Green (a prestigious LDN area) in a poorer state than the war ridden Somalia these guys came from?

Secondly, why the hell should they be rehoused because they didn't "like the local shops"? Ingrates.

Thirdly, what's wrong with the system when these people get housed in a £2.1m property? Send them up North or something if London is full? Sheesh.

This system is a total mess and needs changing immediately.

- Calvin Robinson, London, 13/07/2010 16:11
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Hang on! What were you voted in for you muppets??? Change the damn rules immediately!!! This is unjust... Joe Bloggs on my street lives in a 2 bedroom council property along with a wife (some sort of)... 2 kids (one bit porky and one bit lanky)... 3 dogs and 2 cats!!!

- Liberal, West London, 13/07/2010 14:55
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I would encourage all rate-payers to find out how much of their council taxes are being used in such a wasteful way. I would then encourage everyone to withhold the % deemed wasteful, whether it's 10-20% or more. If enough people do this, the council will have to listen. If they threaten to sue, stand firm. It's an outrage.

- kevin Lynch, London, 13/07/2010 13:24
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I'm so offended by this! Him and his family didn't like there house in Kensal Green so end up in Kensington. If I had my way, they would be out by the end of today, on a plane and sent packing! As a working Tax payer I don't want my tax wasted on foreigners coming here and demanding whatever they want when we have elderly people and british families living in poverty and bedsits.Charity begins at home and this means people who were born here!

- Paul Humphreys, Essex, 13/07/2010 13:08
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The UK, the dustbin of the world. You offer free benifits for all & the global trash aims for the UK. I'd love to put my feet up all day on a beach in, say Austarlia, and get benifits for a luxury lifestyle, but the Ozies wouldn't stand this. They have a backbone & don't follow this human rights bull!

- Dom, London, 13/07/2010 11:59
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There have been comments stating that withdrawing these crazy levels of benefits is in some way racist.

How can we afford to pay these levels of benefits, who made up these crazy rules, in one corner we have a politician telling us that millions must be saved from schools and hospitals, in the other corner we have a politician deciding to pay a level of benefits that the claimant could only dream of or attain by winning the lottery.

If anybody is in any doubt why economic refugees are travelling through 30 different countries to get to the UK, perhaps you now know the answer.

- SteveM, London, 13/07/2010 10:46
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I read this morning about the projected rapid increase in Britain's ethnic minorities within the next 40 yaers. Well, what a surprise when the entire benefits system favours having more and more children with no reference to the means to support them.

- Alan J, London, 13/07/2010 08:47
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I do not agree that these and many other people can live such a lifestyle. First of all the sad thing about England is that 'not going to work when you are physically able to go'is becoming a culture. I work hard to pay my rent just like many other hard working people in the UK do but this is getting out of hand.
I would feel guilty and embarrased to cash in on benefits if i am able to work. What do these guys tell their families on what they do? Is there no shame? If you can't have a job then why have 7 kids? They have forgotten where they came from, they were poor so why say that the poor areas in London make them unhappy? They did not like the schools nor shops? I just think the government has spoiled these people...send them back so they can remember where they came from, the concentration camps in Somalia.
I am not a racist, in fact i have friends that are Somali's but stealing taxpayers money when they are physically able to go to work is just a bit too far.
What is the next thing they will tell their family? 'Oh i have to look for a full time job because they are cutting on house benefits from next year' and that is exactly what i mean by creating such a disgusting culture. I think the new government should introduce courses on how to get out of bed and look for a job cause i can do it so why can't they?

- VRV, London, England, 13/07/2010 08:14
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Just got a half year tax bill for £15,000 so it is good to hear that the money I work so hard to earn is being put to good use, NOT. The coalition should introduce emergency legislation enabling extreme cases such as this to be addressed immediately waiting until next April will involve the waste of hundreds of millions of pounds which will simply enrich a small number of private landlords and could be better spent elsewhere. Faced with lower rents or empty properties landlords will quickly reduce their demands. The current situation currently inflates rents for everyone and should be addressed immediately.

- Ian, London, 13/07/2010 06:29
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Can your journalists discover the identity of the person in Kensington and Chelsea who signed off and approved this nonsense ? And give some background to hem .Would be very interesting....?

- Albr, Manila Philippines, 13/07/2010 06:12
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He's an undercover millionaire Somali pirate actually!!

- janda, cebu philippines, 13/07/2010 01:40
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Hopefully the new rules will make London feel vaguely like a British city again.

- Touchstone, London, 13/07/2010 01:03
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I am just over 50 years old and like a lot of people my age worked all my life, I have never had any benefit from any of the governments I have worked under. I am not a racist but why can people walk into this country never work or want to work and walk away getting full benefits. We have got to change the system now to stop cases like this happening again & again.

- Glen, Kennington, 13/07/2010 01:01
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Im born and raised in London UK, I was forced to leave as there was no where I could afford to live.
So I had to leave, I Got a normal job in Canada and was able to rent a single bedroom flat.
Why is this impossible in the UK?
And why was there no help for me, a single normal paid working person, (I dont want to live with my mum when im 40)
and why are those from overseas put ahead of those born in the UK, and why are children like housing cash points!
I never wanted to leave the UK, but had no choice.
Sad to leave my family behind!

- John Staines, Toronto Canada (Ex-Pat), 13/07/2010 00:45
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To those who think this is all made up, try playing around with the government's online benefits calculator at

I claimed I had 8 children, no income and lived in Kensington. I was told this entitled me to benefits of £136,000 per year.

- Kev, Bromley, 12/07/2010 22:22
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At least now we know why there is an enormous black hole of debt....because this is just one tiny case, there are millions more.
This story leaves me speechless. It couldn't be invented it is so illogical and unfair to the average, hard-working British family.
Keep printing stories like these, until our new coalition government sits up and takes notice.

- Sidney Marks,, London UK, 12/07/2010 22:00
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- BW London - If they just want 'a place to live' as you put it, they should have been satisfied with the previous 5 bedroom house. If my life was in 'danger' in my home country and a foreign country offered to take me and my SEVEN kids in, and house us at their expense, then I would be overjoyed even with a caravan. Bring on next April when this guy will be forced into putting his clothes on before midday and conducting the buses again.

- JP, Mcr, 12/07/2010 20:38
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SO,Ms spokeswomen!who should live in this 2.1 million house only white people??

- KC, London Boy, 12/07/2010 20:32
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Come on Bullingdon Boy step in and do something.

- stuart, chesterfield,derbyshire, 12/07/2010 19:43
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Thats what you get when you sell off all the councils houses that used to house families cheaply (conservative) and let house prices rise extortionately (labour). You cant blame the family,they just want a place to live.

- BW, London, 12/07/2010 19:35
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I'm afraid the rules that are being so effectively exploited go back to Mrs Thatcher & the eviction (or not) of Bangladeshi squatters in Tower Hamlets.
The law is an utter ass & can be changed by Parliament in an afternoon.
Reinstate the points system for a start.
If these people are unemployed, send them up North (Scotland) to be unemployed at less cost to us.
The Welfare State was open for corruption from the start, but now we have no immigration controls it is a magnet worldwide.
If any Londoner could go to California & claim asylum & get a 20 bedroom mansion with 2 swimming pools free, London would be empty.
That's what these greedy & ungrateful people are getting compared to what they got in their own land.
We are fools to tolerate it.
I hope all Conservatives turn to UKIP if this vile situation is not cleared up PDQ.

- The Convenient Truth, Reading, England, 12/07/2010 18:37
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I strongly object to my tax money going towards paying housing benefits of £2000.00 a week. Why should we the tax payer pay anything towards people who are clearly not interested in doing any work for themselves. Change the rules before it is too late.

- Penny, West Sussex, 12/07/2010 18:36
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- dee, west coast, MJ, East Anglia,Charles Baxter Sutton, Surrey Its alright you saying change the rules now. We can't do that because these people would then be homeless and could claim against the government.Some process take a while to change and there has to be a period to allow these people to find somewhere else.

The Labour government brough this in and have left us with a legacy of chaos that has created situations like this.

Next April when the law changes with the maximum of £400 set for Housing benefits these people will have to move out and lets keep an eye then on what happens.

Labour will never be forgiven for what they have done to us all.

- Patrick Mc Crossan, OPINION LAMBETH LONDON, 12/07/2010 18:31
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@Jock
You better hope you, your family or your friends don't catch some life threatening illness and you'll THEN see how LUCRATIVE these so called benefit systems are.

The morons who actually believe this NONSENSE don't realise how the government and councils use the media to set up families , especially from abroad, to get the SHEEPLE riled. The problem with this country is the BILE used to attack the poorest while the billionaires lining the street of London can hide under the benefit radar. ALL YOU NUMPTIES WHO BELIEVE THIS RUBBUSH SHOULD READ THE ALTERNATIVE MEDIA ON THE INTERNET THAT IS NOT OWNED BY THE RICH ESTABLISHMENT TYPES WHO HAVE AN AGENDA TO RIDICULE THOSE LEAST ABLE TO DEFEND THEMSELVES.

- dee, WEST COAST, 12/07/2010 18:27
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The problem is, as soon as a more sensible, (cheaper) alternative is suggested, which would make a saving on the £100,000 p.a. housing benefits to which this claimant is entitled (thanks to New Labour) he'll play the 'race card.' Thanks again to New Labour tolerance, political correctness and all the other claptrap we're saddled with.
Tony, Mandy and Gordon shafted us good and proper.

- Boris Norris, Azahar, Spain, 12/07/2010 18:07
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For all of you who voted three terms of Labour, this is your poisoned legacy. Gordon Brown, Tony Blair, Harriet Harperson et al, thank you for turning my country into a global rubbish tip.

- David, London, 12/07/2010 17:56
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For all of you who voted three terms of Labour, this is your poisoned legacy. Gordon Brown, Tony Blair, Harriet Harperson et al, thank you for turning my country into a global rubbish tip.

- David, London, 12/07/2010 17:45
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As neither husband or wife have a job, why do they have to live in London? Why cant they get a cheaper house in somewhere up north which costs significantly less. For the record, I work almost 12-14 hours a day, am exhausted with the daily grind of living just to pay my mortgage. I feel like a total loser in life. How do i get a house in a nice neighbourhood with good schools and live on benefits? Something is very very wrong and the person who signed this off should be fired immediately. Any moron, even a council worker, could do the maths and know this is excessive housing benefit

- Maya, London, 12/07/2010 17:29
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Rules rules & more rules. Goodbye England

- Grim Reaper, Hell, 12/07/2010 17:22
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@ Melvyn Windebank, Canvey Island, Essex

DID YOU READ THE ARTICLE, OR WAS IT A LABOUR EDUCATION YOU SUFFERED UNDER?

THEY ARE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT RULES DECLARED BY LABOUR AND UNFORTUNATELY WILL NOT BE CHANGE FOR A YEAR.

Hopefully you will have heard me all the way over on Canvey Island?

Or is it simply a case of selective reading/hearing?

- Frank, Home Counties, England., 12/07/2010 17:07
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Benefits should be limited to what an individual can earn when employed or if unemployable the minimum wage.

This housing benefit for these scroungers should be deducted from MPs salaries until it is stopped.

- Overtaxed, Farnham UK, 12/07/2010 16:53
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This is how local government gives kickbacks to their rich mates. Landlord buys a house at a premium price and can't get the rent, so gets his mates in local government to make the repayments out of revenue extracted from workers and businesses at the point of a gun.

- murph, Blackheath, 12/07/2010 16:33
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@Dee, West Coast - have you been out in the sun too long today, dear? This has nothing to do with people being "framed for the papers", or us having a cheapshot at the poor. It's about a blatant abuse of our welfare system by people who have contributed nothing to the pot. Meanwhile we have pensioners, who have contributed all their lives, struggling to buy enough food to see them through the week, and struggling to pay bills. Mr Nur and his family must be laughing up their sleeves.

I read this in the papers yesterday, and was livid. Can't someone in charge exercise some backbone and have the housing benefit rule changes imposed now?

- Jock, Glasgow, 12/07/2010 16:19
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The Housing Benefit system has been a joke for years.
If you are going to change legislation to save money
do it straightaway. Now we have Nick and Dave in Da House and they are apparently so keen to save money, this case and hundreds like them drive a carthorse through any pretence that they are actually going to sort out the mess left by Golden Gordon.
Action this day chaps- not words!!!!

- Letting Agent, London, 12/07/2010 15:54
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In the meantime they will tell countless OAPs that they will have to pay for their care home even if it entails selling their house, I don't care what the rules are this is very very wrong so do something now not next year, when they change the rules start on child benefit as well payment for the first three kids and no more then gradually reduce that to one child over a parliament.

- James, Grays Essex, 12/07/2010 15:50
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Another establishment go at the benefits system. The vast majority on benefits struggle to cope and on the rare occasion when the government and local council SET SOMEONE up for papers like the standard to criticise it is shameful in that Lizzie sits on her ass all day and gets paid millions but she like all her masonic hangers on get only praise from rags like the evening standard.

Why do you get rid of your tory toff journalists and editors and STOP USING THE POOR AS A PUNCHBAG.

- dee, west coast, 12/07/2010 15:48
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£104,000 a year??????????????????

Jesus I hate Labour, actually I think Jesus hates Labour!

- Frank, Home Counties, England., 12/07/2010 14:46
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Whats this got to do with Labour? We have a tory council and Tory government now so why blaim Labour.

Anyway, perhaps someone could convert a bendy-buses into caravans that would solve the problem we could always park them in Parliament Square!

- Melvyn Windebank, Canvey Island, Essex, 12/07/2010 15:34
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This raises a number of issues, and I'm amazed the council hasn't cottoned on to the fact that they may well be being defrauded:
Why did the landlord raise the rent from £1050 to £2000? Did anyone check?
Could there be a 'cashback' arrangement between the landlord/tenant/third parties?
Which Council official authorised this? Surely there must be cash limits beyond which the decision is referred upwards...

- Magnus, London, UK, 12/07/2010 15:28
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Just like the last lot, no guts and no backbone.

- Davey_buoy, Chertsey, 12/07/2010 15:25
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Politicians are so dumb sometimes, first Thatcher and the Tories sell off all the councils housing stock, where did they expect the poor to live after that? Then Nu-Labour go and support this debacle..

- Toby, London, 12/07/2010 15:14
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I wish I was a Somalian with no regards for anything but myself with 14 kids and no job.
instead I'm working all hours of the day and have to pay for everything myself... I'm such a loser

- Amir, London, 12/07/2010 15:05
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How much of the £950 does the Landlord pay back to the tenants? Cosy.

- Ted, London, 12/07/2010 15:05
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Move rule changes up now - nothing to lose and more to gain exposing these people we are all paying for

- Paul, London, 12/07/2010 14:55
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£104,000 a year??????????????????

Jesus I hate Labour, actually I think Jesus hates Labour!

- Frank, Home Counties, England., 12/07/2010 14:46
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People that are shocked by this story, there's many more cases like this. I am aware of families who've had two houses connected to become one, so their lovely large families can live in them. This is paid for by the tax payer of course!

- Karim, London, 12/07/2010 14:38
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Ha, remember all you lot out there banging on about 'Nu' Labour being soft on..(you choose). Now what say you?

- Gary, London, 12/07/2010 14:30
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I am so glad I do not live in the UK. What a terrible treason the government commits against the hard working, honest people of Britain. I feel so sorry for families who work hard and then live in fear of crime from the world's useless, all of whom now reside in the UK. this is not Asylum. Asylum is living somewhere safe. This is opportunism and the loony left wing showing how great they are by giving a bone idle, uneducated, non-citizen the life of luxury he does not deserve. I often see cases of this and it disgusts me. The worst thing is that the people of Britain have had their civil liberties eroded so far that they cannot even say anything about it in case they are branded a racist.
A sick, disgusting society is what the UK has declined into. I visited in April for 3 days and it was 3 days too long.

I used to live in the UK and it was ok a number of years ago, but it horrifies me now as a bankrupt, crime-infested, violent mess with no family sor social structure.
My advice to anyone who has a choice, is to leave. I have heard Australia is a good place for British people. Go there, before its too late, and will the last person to leave please turn off the lights.

- Andrew, Tel Aviv, Israel, 12/07/2010 14:27
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This is absolutely ridiculous!

Get this guy a job and send them to a cheaper area!

This is called management in any language.

- Michaella, London UK, 12/07/2010 14:21
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Andy Woodhead: no doubt he lost his job because routemasters were phased out in 2008, replaced by driver only bendy buses and there are no bus conductors anymore

- Don't be a bigot, London, 12/07/2010 14:15
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This is just a complete p*** take of hardworking taxpayers. I bet that the council won't be able to evict them when the rules change because of their 'human rights'.

- Susan, London, 12/07/2010 14:04
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Someone had to sign this off, did they not just step back and say this can't be right. Are all the people running this country morons or gutless wonders ?

- George, London, 12/07/2010 13:59
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Having been out of work for the last six months this year and for other lengthy periods over the past ten years, struggling to pay our bills this really annoys me.

We either seem to expend disproportionate sums supporting asylum seekers/immigrants or leave them destitute on the streets. There needs to be a balance, but more so one where those who come here for economic reasons are deported as soon as they require support by the state.

This family are just a burden we don't need right now. Deport them.

Maybe I should submit a bill for my mortgage payments over the periods I have been out of work to the DwP.

- Adam, Harrow, UK, 12/07/2010 13:56
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This country is broken. Maybe I should squeeze out some kids and scrounge off the government too, my £450 a month rent would be pennies in comparison. Where is the incentive for people to go out and work hard to earn a living? Disgraceful.

- Sophie, Leicester, 12/07/2010 13:53
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The maximum the council will pay is £400 per week! OMG. I just did a search on a property website to see what this gets you in an aspirational area like Ealing. I suggest all of you hard working taxpayers do the same although you might need a strong drink afterwards to calm you down.

- Dave, London, 12/07/2010 13:44
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Why doesn't the Coalition use this family as a test case to change the rules now. Then again, perhaps the MPs having to "sleep rough" in Westminster 'cos they can't have a second home (ah bless) could all club together and rent somewhere affordable in um, Kensal Green. Better still, why doesn't everyone in local or cerntal government take ruddy responsibility? they can start by listening the roar of the silent majority going apoplectic with this kind of nauseating situation.

- Charles Baxter, Sutton, Surrey, UK, 12/07/2010 13:17
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Why stop at the seven kids?, I think Buckingham Palace will fit around 100 so bit more to go I reckon before they can house you there, maybe thats more to your liking Sir...But please its us the taxpayers pleasure Sir.

True Winners are the landlords in this case a dodgy off shore company who obviously know the right people in the councils, thyed better buy more stock to house his 7 kids when they get older and their sprogs so better buy up some more properties so I for one will never get on the housing ladder

Sort it out Cameron this country stinks to high heaven, your rich mates will have to take a cut sooner or later.....

- DC, Ealing, 12/07/2010 13:11
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i'm afraid boy cameron is the chinless wonder we were afraid to think he was the same goes for osborne we have elected a bunch of silly old school chums change the law or get out

- anon leicestershire, leicestershire, 12/07/2010 13:05
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And why exactly did he 'lose his job' ???????

- Andy Woodhead, London, ENGLAND, 12/07/2010 13:04
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What’s the bet they have a friend in the housing office and they sub let some of the rooms to others who also fancy a trendy address. The landlord and letting agent must be laughing all the way to the bank with a possible 3 year contract in their mitts.

The rule of logic tells me a bus conductors wage would never support a family of 8 but the state will step in and take over regardless of how much you haven’t paid into the system. When will the people in charge at Westminster wake up and smell the coffee we the tax paying population have had enough!

- Bazza Boom, Happy Hampshire, 12/07/2010 13:02
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Why don't you just go 'home' then geezer - you are a miserable excuse for a man

- Sanjay, Hounslow, UK, 12/07/2010 13:01
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Why is there no market value test ? We were paying double the market value in Kensal Green now double the market value in Notting Hill to a friend of a friend of the tenant - it sounds almost as if there is some sort of scam going on - maybe the Fraud Squad should investigate all these dubious claims

- Johnny Reggae, London, 12/07/2010 12:59
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"They had been unhappy in a “very poor area” and did not like the local school or shops."


Obviously beggars can be choosers! This is wrong on so many levels.

- Mark, Gerrymandered African Republic of Southwark, 12/07/2010 12:48
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What sort of house did he live in when he resided in Somalia? He should be offered a similar type of house as I don't see why he should unjustly enrich himself at the British taxpayers' expense.

- PATRICIA, LONDON, 12/07/2010 12:44
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Damn maybe I should stop working and claim benefits...this is so wrong...I live in Chelsea, yes on a council estate (becoming more like a private estate with people moving in and buying them) and I work damn hard for the pittens I get,can't get housing benefit as i'm £10 over their limit and yet these guys can get everything...no wonder people don't want to work

- Sarah, London, 12/07/2010 12:38
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They had been unhappy in a “very poor area” and did not like the local school or shops.

So maybe Mogadishu would be a better option ? Send them and all their scrounging compatriots back to the first safe country after they cross Somalian borders IMMEDIATELY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

- Andy Woodhead, London, ENGLAND, 12/07/2010 12:32
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A BUS CONDUCTOR AND UNEMPLOYED WIFE HAVE 7 CHILDREN AND GET GIVBEN A 2.1 MILLION POUND HOUSE BY THE COUNCIL. RE-READ THAT 20 TIMES AND STILL SEE IF IT MAKES ANY SENSE. AM AT A LOSS.

- Paul, London, 12/07/2010 12:22
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...they had been unhappy in a very poor area....thats because the poor live there most of then on benefits like your self if you dont like your current address because that silly old man lucian wants to paint you...you dont all want to be tarred with the same brush........try downing street for your next des res then you will know why the poor live where they live.

- scony, middlesbrough, 12/07/2010 12:17
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I pay £175 a week in rent, plus council tax and bills, and receive no benefit. I earn a middling amount of money. Under the new rules, housing benefit will still be extremely generous (£250 a week limit for single people). Even under the revised limits, I may be better off if I sponged off the state and didn't work.

- Alex Lewis, London, 12/07/2010 12:14
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Well Mr/Mrs/Ms Idiot (anonymous)Government spokesperson. CHANGE THE STUPID RULES NOW. Scoungers should not be given 8 months from now to plan. Sling them out with 1 month's notice. You lot are beginning to sound like Brown's mob. Well be warned, we will not tolerate this sort of incompetence for long. ANSWER the question Mr.Cameron WHY IS THIS STILL HAPPENING? Fix it NOW

- MJ, East Anglia, 12/07/2010 12:10
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