“It’s just a money-making scheme,” said Sylla, a mother of three children whose £1,800-a-month rent in east London is paid entirely by housing benefit,
Yes Love, but who’s making the money? That’s actually something close to national median wage (even if not median full time income) just for being alive, isn’t it?
What does Sylla’s husband think about it?
Yes getting up the duff by a succession of men is a fantastic money making scheme and one of the best career opportunities created by the oh so caring welfare state. Add in a few mental health difficulties if you wish to further this career love
How does London’s housing stock compare with similar cities, such as Karachi, Lagos or Sodom?
I envisage MTB’s roaring about the Channel, machine gunning the boat people. Any illegals caught on land would be hurled from the top of St Pauls, with full coverage on Twitter.
The drop in population growth would finally allow you Brits to catch up with the housing shortage. But only if you conscripted all the demonstrators, whingers and uni students to work as builders labourers.
@ Boganboy
The houses that *they* built wouldn’t be fit to live in (even if they stayed up when someone tried to live in them).
Any illegals caught on land would be hurled from the top of St Pauls, with full coverage on Twitter.
Not really suitable. The nearby ‘Walkie Talkie’ would be ideal though.
The houses that *they* built wouldn’t be fit to live in
Not radically different from what most UK housebuilders churn out then?
I had a look on Rightmove to see what you can get in East London for £1,800 a month and found a listing where the letting agent specified they were looking for renters with a household income of £54,000-plus….
What happened to all those ads specifying “No DHSS”?
MC, who needs an income when it’s housing benefit paying for it?
MC
£54,000 gross works out at £3,364 per month after tax and NI.
Sylla is already getting her £1,800 monthly rent paid and presumably she’s also getting help with her council tax. By the time you’ve thrown in all the benefits for her and 3 kids it must be very close to that £54k p.a. figure.
I wonder where she and the kids go for their holidays. It won’t be Butlins.
There’s a benefit cap of £2,110 per month, so she’ll have just £310 left after paying her rent.
Silly me, she’s obviously in one of the many exempt categories. Probably a disability in the household.
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