Jobless Somali in lavish £2m house paid by you.

[cal72]

And there was me thinking they had started to clamp down on this sort of thing.
Reading this has really fking narked me in a big way.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2025895/Ho...

Article said:

The Somali refugee, 49, demanded to be moved to the six-bedroom property in West Hampstead, north-west London, with his wife Sayida and their children after deciding their previous accommodation was inadequate.

ETA = Alternative link as the DM is unpopular.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/immigration...

http://www.britishbusinessfinder.com/news/article/...

Edited by cal72 on Monday 15th August 12:31

[Digga]

Yes, the piracy gene is disturbingly prevalent in Somalia.

Talk to anyone about the state of UK prisons and you'll find Somalis have, of late, injected a new and unwelcome dynamic to the gang culture therein.

[Rude-boy]

cal72 said:

And there was me thinking they had started to clamp down on this sort of thing.

But there will always be some that got in before the rules changed:-

sMail said:

Housing benefit was recently capped at £400 per week, but the Khaliifs are able to claim more because they moved before the change came into force.

[cal72]

Just came across this also.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2026057/Co...

My fking piss is reaching steaming point.

[thinfourth2]

cal72 said:

Just came across this also.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2026057/Co...

My fking piss is reaching steaming point.

Well stop reading the daily wail

Its designed to make you angry

Its the worst newspaper in this country by a long long way total gutter press with a face of respectable middle england

[cal72]

To be honest, if it is true it really does not matter who actually wrote the article.
I would feel the same regardless of where it was printed.
There must be at least 2 feckless gits in the commons with common sense enough to know that this is one of reasons where up st creak and that stopping it maybe one of the ways to cure the system.

[justayellowbadge]

Even if true, from what I gather, the bloke is quite legally taking advantage of the housing system.

I don't agree with it, but it doesn't justify splashing him and his family across the paper.

The Mail truly is a hateful rag.

[off_again]

Who to blame? The Somali family who is being offered these things? The local council for allowing this to occur? The rental property owner for leasing the house out?

Hard to pin the blame on any single one person. More of a "the system is at fault" problem where this type of thing has gone on for a long time, unchecked. I am sure there are excuses for all those involved. The Daily Mail exists purely to annoy, irritate and highlight the extreme.... hate filled paper, wrapped up in an attempt of middle class sensibility.

[thinfourth2]

cal72 said:

To be honest, if it is true it really does not matter who actually wrote the article.
I would feel the same regardless of where it was printed.
There must be at least 2 feckless gits in the commons with common sense enough to know that this is one of reasons where up st creak and that stopping it maybe one of the ways to cure the system.

29 familys living in council houses worth over a million

Wait ten minutes and our leaders will of lost 29 million on useless st

In the mean time the council will still own the 29 houses worth over a million

I'd find other places to vent your anger at

[Defcon5]

thinfourth2 said:

In the mean time the council will still own the 29 houses worth over a million

I would imagine the council rent the houses from a private landlord and then sub let to the council tenant. Thats certainly how it works round here

[justayellowbadge]

Defcon5 said:

thinfourth2 said:

In the mean time the council will still own the 29 houses worth over a million

I would imagine the council rent the houses from a private landlord and then sub let to the council tenant. Thats certainly how it works round here

Nope, council owned.

I'd wager there's a damn sight more than 29 privately let 1M+ properties that are funded by benefits.

[rover 623gsi]

off_again said:

Who to blame? The Somali family who is being offered these things? The local council for allowing this to occur? The rental property owner for leasing the house out?

Hard to pin the blame on any single one person. More of a "the system is at fault" problem where this type of thing has gone on for a long time, unchecked. I am sure there are excuses for all those involved. The Daily Mail exists purely to annoy, irritate and highlight the extreme.... hate filled paper, wrapped up in an attempt of middle class sensibility.

The council can’t be at fault as they are legally obliged to house them – I would guess that the council doesn’t have any empty social housing large enough for the family involved therefore they have to be placed in the private sector and given where they are then that property is likely to be expensive to rent.

The longer term solutions are:
Cap housing benefit – this is coming into effect
Refuse to house people in expensive areas – this will inevitably happen to a degree as a result of the benefit cap
Change the law so that local authorities anywhere no longer have a duty to house people – I think this is unlikely
Build more social housing – unlikely given the current economic and political climate

[FarleyRusk]

thinfourth2 said:

Well stop reading the daily wail
..

Its the worst newspaper in this country by a long long way total gutter press with a face of respectable middle england

So the story isn't true then???

[Shuvi Tupya]

cal72 said:

And there was me thinking they had started to clamp down on this sort of thing.
Reading this has really fking narked me in a big way.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2025895/Ho...

Article said:

The Somali refugee, 49, demanded to be moved to the six-bedroom property in West Hampstead, north-west London, with his wife Sayida and their children after deciding their previous accommodation was inadequate.

Article also said said:

Their old house, in Coventry, also had six bedrooms but, at £1,000 a month, was a fraction of the burden on the Government.

fking joke..why move them to central London from another city, especially for another 6 bedroom house

[carmonk]

£8K a month. Incredible. I have never, and I will never, earn £8K per month. And that's, like, working. Handing what amounts to a lottery win to a bunch of foreign scroungers is to my mind a criminal act far worse than most of the looting we've seen recently.

[HowMuchLonger]

Is this really the sort of kitchen you would expect in a £2m house?


If the house were to be rented at full market rate I would expect at least £200,000 worth of improvements would be needed.

[Prof Prolapse]

Bloody Somalians coming over here. It's not like we dumped thousands of tonnes of toxic waste on their doorstep is it?

[Four Litre]

Steam is now pouring from my ears and nostrils after reading that.

Whoever thought of or agreed that in the council needs to be

a) Executed
b) Executed
c) Tortured and Executed

[carmonk]

Prof Prolapse said:

Bloody Somalians coming over here. It's not like we dumped thousands of tonnes of toxic waste on their doorstep is it?

Happily not, although it wouldn't be a bad idea.

[Mr Happy]

carmonk said:

£8K a month. Incredible. I have never, and I will never, earn £8K per month. And that's, like, working. Handing what amounts to a lottery win to a bunch of foreign scroungers is to my mind a criminal act far worse than most of the looting we've seen recently.

That's £96,000 per year on rent alone. I'd assume their neighbours must be earning combined incomes of well in excess of £250-300k to just be able to afford their houses and live day to day. It makes you sick to think that if you played the system well, you could live like a king.