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Post by ksl » Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:26 am

Only in the U.K.
by bodge » Fri Dec 09, 2011 4:31 pm

Another e.mail I just received.

The new breadwinner in the family..






This is preposterous! A doctor said that a woman in her late 20's came to the hospital today with her 8th pregnancy
She told the first doctor she saw: "My mum told me that I am the breadwinner for the family." He asked her to explain. She said that she can make babies and babies get money from the State for the family. It goes like this:

The Grandma calls the Department for work and pensions, and states that the unemployed daughter is not capable of caring for all of her kids. DWP agrees, and tells her the children will need to go into foster care.
The Grandma then volunteers to be the foster parent, and receives a cheque for £700 per child each month.

Total yearly income:
£58,800 soon to become £67200 when the 8th one is born, tax-free and nobody has to go to work!
In fact, they get more if there is no husband/father/man in the home! The brother does not count.

Not to mention free dental treatment, free housing, free council tax free school dinners, free tuition fees at college or Uni, free eyecare and glasses, free prescriptions and various other benefits...
Total value of all benefits combined probably approaching £100,000 per annum which would require an income of around £148000 to create. About my salary as a senior consultant with years of experience and surgical skills in a central London teaching hospital

Indeed, Grandma was correct that her fertile daughter is the "breadwinner" for the family.

This is how the liberal politicians spend our taxes.. When this generous programme was invented in the '60s, the Great Society architects forgot to craft an end date... and now we are hopelessly overrun with people who vote only for those who will continue to keep them on the dole.....
No wonder our country is broke! Worse, our Muslim brothers have been paying attention, and by mandating that each Muslim family have eleven children, they will soon replace the voting bloc above and can be running this country.


Don't forget to pay your taxes!!

There are a lot of “breadwinners”

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Post by sundaymorningstaple » Thu, 15 Dec 2011 8:06 am

Damn! And I though the blacks in the US had a system. The UK's system makes us look like rank amateurs. The difference? We have more of 'em doin' it, so in actual dollars spend we are the biggest fools, but the UK has them literally getting rich off the system. :o

I guess the British shouldn't say squat about the US then....... :P
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Post by JR8 » Thu, 15 Dec 2011 5:47 pm

Somali asylum seeker family given £2m house... after complaining 5-bed London home was 'in poor area'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -area.html

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Post by ksl » Thu, 15 Dec 2011 6:13 pm

JR8 wrote:Somali asylum seeker family given £2m house... after complaining 5-bed London home was 'in poor area'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -area.html
Shocking! I think all these obscene articles should be put on one youtube video, so it can do the circuit. The veterans have gathered over 100,000 signatures at the moment to cut back on foreigners. Though it's mostly refugees that are laughing at everyone!

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Post by JR8 » Thu, 15 Dec 2011 6:18 pm

Ironically the 'poor area' mentioned in the headline of the article is a few streets along from where PM David Cameron lives.

But I suppose compared to a £2m house on Kensington Place W8 just about anywhere else is relatively poor!

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Post by durain » Thu, 15 Dec 2011 7:59 pm

why do you think so many people want to get to the UK? it is the land of the free the minute you arrive, all paid for by the tax payer.

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Post by JR8 » Thu, 15 Dec 2011 8:28 pm

durain wrote:why do you think so many people want to get to the UK? it is the land of the free the minute you arrive, all paid for by the tax payer.
Well the benefits lifestyle is an enviable one it seems! Apparently there are even some three generation households where no one has ever worked in their life. It's mad.

The current government were proposing putting a cap on housing benefit, and as I recall the left were saying so many people on benefits would be forced out of London that it was tantamount to ethnic cleansing (or perhaps more properly social cleansing). I'd ask why unemployed people have a need to live in inner London, where most working people even on good salaries can't even dream of living?

This is the thing, to the left these people are the client state, the guaranteed votes that need to be encouraged in their ways. The Conservatives, i.e. the centre-right current government are so paranoid about appearing elitist and mean they can barely bring themselves to grasp the nettle.

It is no wonder the UK (and the EU) has so rapidly become an economic basket case in relative terms.

p.s.
- Did you know that if say a Polish carpenter comes to the UK and works, his children back home in Poland are entitled to UK Child Benefit?
- Did you know that if you were an immigrant (legal or not) you had to have worked for six months before being entitled to any benefits. The ECHR is now challenging this as discriminatory and illegal and demanding equal treatment for all, i.e the instant full menu of benefits from the day you show up stowed away together with 20 other Afghanis in the back of a lorry.
- Did you know that the EU is currently negotiating reciprocal pension rights with such countries as the Ukraine (which isn't even associated with the EU). Hence a Ukranian in the Ukraine who has worked in say the UK and meets the usual qualifying requirements is entitled to be sent the state pension.

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Post by Strong Eagle » Thu, 15 Dec 2011 9:02 pm

sundaymorningstaple wrote:Damn! And I though the blacks in the US had a system. The UK's system makes us look like rank amateurs. The difference? We have more of 'em doin' it, so in actual dollars spend we are the biggest fools, but the UK has them literally getting rich off the system. :o

I guess the British shouldn't say squat about the US then....... :P
This is seriously racist and not what I might have expected from an expat with 30 plus years in Asia, including marriage to non white races.

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Post by durain » Thu, 15 Dec 2011 9:51 pm

actually, i remembered once reading there were american from the US of A claiming asylum so that they can go on the UK benefit. and why not, it's a like free holiday, and you get free spending money!

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Post by JR8 » Thu, 15 Dec 2011 9:53 pm

durain wrote:actually, i remembered once reading there were american from the US of A claiming asylum so that they can go on the UK benefit. and why not, it's a like free holiday, and you get free spending money!

Fleeing the Obama regime.

Perfectly understandable :P :lol:

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Post by nutnut » Thu, 15 Dec 2011 9:54 pm

Makes me glad I'm no longer there!

Socialism... Great, until you run out of someone else's money!
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Post by JR8 » Thu, 15 Dec 2011 10:17 pm

nutnut wrote:Makes me glad I'm no longer there!

Socialism... Great, until you run out of someone else's money!

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Post by nutnut » Thu, 15 Dec 2011 10:33 pm

JR8 wrote:
nutnut wrote:Makes me glad I'm no longer there!

Socialism... Great, until you run out of someone else's money!

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Hahahaha, love it!
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Post by Jemil » Mon, 26 Dec 2011 3:06 am

JR8 wrote:
nutnut wrote:Makes me glad I'm no longer there!

Socialism... Great, until you run out of someone else's money!

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His head is the right size... not sure capt winkie is though ;)

Not sure why the story is surprising... yet another sl*g (pardon) milking the system with her stuck down hair living in a dump for some free money.... its precisely the reason I want to leave!!!

Met some women at the other end of the scale recently (Guardian readers no less), who were trying to convince me that "these women don't want to live like this" - oh yeah? pffff I should start a repository for stories of this nature to point them at hah.

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Post by JR8 » Sun, 08 Jan 2012 6:50 am

Here's one to get your blood pressure up KSL...

'For years, YOU'VE paid their £2,000-a-week rents. But the housing benefit gravy train's hit the buffers'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ffers.html


Nice idea the HB pay-out being capped, but I'll believe it when I see it actually happening...

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