Want to move in with partner but scared I'll lose housing benefit

Pollycat

I think this thread has maybe gone off at a bit of a tangent.

MiddyMum is not the OP (unless she has used an AE).

The OP is Tillyabo - who has only posted the once and hasn't logged on to MSE since 25th July @ 10:37.

MiddyMum is the poster who took people to task for being rude and not being nice (post #14).

MiddyMum
I suggest you read the OP's post again and see if you think she is asking for advice on how to work the system to keep her housing benefit.
And, if she is asking that, she really doesn't deserve people being nice to her.

I can see from some of your posts on other threads that you feel that some people who post on here are maybe not as nice as you think they should be, but I'm not sure the OP in this particular thread really deserves you sticking up for her.

margaretclare

HB58 wrote: »

In that case, may I congratulate you on your articulate and well-written posts? I don't mean to be patronising - your use of English is exemplary.

Thank you very much. I don't take your remarks as patronising. Regarding the OP, maybe it touched a nerve because I grew up as the child of a single mother, in a family which was extremely poor, and poor in a way that no one knows nowadays because there were no benefits at all unless you count my grandad's old age pension. I absorbed much of my English through reading, and reading anything I could get my hands on. I was lucky enough to go to grammar school, and there we learned our own language very well, were exposed to its literature both prose and poetry. Although - the teaching staff tore their hair out when we lapsed into the local dialect!

English is a very rich language and it is possible to express oneself very well without lapsing into the kind of filth that was in those comments about the youtube clip.