Yelling at the TV again

laineybird2000

It just makes me so mad though...

Watching "How to get a council house"

Young woman demanding the council re home her and her child as she's due to be evicted for non payment of rent. States she couldn't afford to pay the rent and it's not really her problem. She's sitting there in designer clothiers, full make up, nails perfectly manicured, false eye lashes, loads of jewelry, the bare faced cheek.

GolfFoxtrot

I thought the same, and the other woman, all I could think of was how awful her teeth were.

The_ICT_Engineer

Yet another made for Tv program.

LilElvis

laineybird2000 wrote: »

It just makes me so mad though...

Watching "How to get a council house"

Young woman demanding the council re home her and her child as she's due to be evicted for non payment of rent. States she couldn't afford to pay the rent and it's not really her problem. She's sitting there in designer clothiers, full make up, nails perfectly manicured, false eye lashes, loads of jewelry, the bare faced cheek.

Perhaps I could lend you my psycho-insomniac-toddler? Then you would be thankful that you aren't watching Mr F'ing Tumble on CBeebies or Disney's Frozen for the 5th time that day. My 'adult' telly consists of BBC Breakfast for half an hour in the morning and a few minutes of an ancient QI on Dave before dozing off at night.

Big_Tree

I can't get my head round the two generations of a family that have lived in the UK for 25 years and can barely speak English........

Personally, I wouldn't allow anyone into the country unless they can speak English

Faith177

I've had to stop watching those kinds of programmes as I fear a) what will happen if my blood pressure goes any higher and b) that my remote might up imbedded in the screen :-/

jjj1980

I watched this and was quite confused about the single mother. When being interviewed by the Housing Options lady, she said she doesn't receive Income Support or JSA and when Housing Benefit was mentioned, she brushed the question off without it being answered by anyone.

If she did qualify for Housing Benefit, I thought when renting from the council this was still paid direct to the council, therefore not giving chance for the tenant to spend it on other things.

Did anyone else pick up on this bit and manage to work out what was going on?

laineybird2000

LilElvis wrote: »

Perhaps I could lend you my psycho-insomniac-toddler? Then you would be thankful that you aren't watching Mr F'ing Tumble on CBeebies or Disney's Frozen for the 5th time that day. My 'adult' telly consists of BBC Breakfast for half an hour in the morning and a few minutes of an ancient QI on Dave before dozing off at night.

Ahhh, I don't miss those days... I broke the mr tumble cd when that stage passed. Hang in there buddy, salvation is in the pipeline xx

LilElvis

laineybird2000 wrote: »

Ahhh, I don't miss those days... I broke the mr tumble cd when that stage passed. Hang in there buddy, salvation is in the pipeline xx

Doesn't feel like it - she cut chunks out of her hair this afternoon. It was nearly waist length - 'was' being the operative word

Morglin

jjj1980 wrote: »

I watched this and was quite confused about the single mother. When being interviewed by the Housing Options lady, she said she doesn't receive Income Support or JSA and when Housing Benefit was mentioned, she brushed the question off without it being answered by anyone.

If she did qualify for Housing Benefit, I thought when renting from the council this was still paid direct to the council, therefore not giving chance for the tenant to spend it on other things.

Did anyone else pick up on this bit and manage to work out what was going on?

She didn't appear to be claiming the right benefits, but this government has bought in a system of paying HB, direct to tenants, so that may be why the rent wasn't paid.

I don't know why they didn't just continue to pay rents, for social housing, direct to the landlords.

Lin :wall:

pmduk

Morglin wrote: »

I don't know why they didn't just continue to pay rents, for social housing, direct to the landlords.

The Government were warned that this would be the outcome, but chose to ignore the advice.