espanyolswan wrote:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/9880720/Unemployed-mother-of-11-is-keeping-horse.html
Thanks for the link.
Seems The Telegraph have been sending their reporters to the Rupert Murdoch Memorial College for Shoite Reporting too - the outrage in that article is over the FACT that someone in receipt of state benefits can have the temerity to spend £200 of those benefits EVERY MONTH on what they call in their article "a nag".
And how do we know all this ?
Ah yes, an unknown, un-named stable hand who says "They must spend at least £200 a month on her" and even goes on to explain how she jumps to that conclusion (if indeed the unknown stable hand is a real person) by informing us that the family pay £65 a month to leave the horse in their fields and the vet visits "quite often" so thats at least £200 EVERY month then.
"They bought the horse eight months ago" she helpfully adds, "horses are expensive, I know, I've had them all my life"
But hang on, "it has breathing difficulties", so its not a horse anymore, or even a pony (which is what it looks like), its "a nag" and she bought it from a previous owner who had kept the horse in the same paddock - bought ? Are we sure she bought it , and for how much, well the unknown stable hand doesn't know that, doesn't know whether the previous owner just gave it to the family, doesn't know how much they pay to keep it there really, doesn't say how often the vet visits or how much the bills are, doesn't really tell us anything at all other than gossip.
But still, its a bloody disgrace isn't it, call the Taxpayers Alliance and see what they think, just don't ask them what they'd do about large families with parents out of work or you might find that they have an Ultimate Solution which involves these brood b1tches being force to pick just two of their litter and have the rest handed over to decent tax paying folk like you would with a litter of mongrel dogs - that'd learn 'em.
with a welfare to work company. It was £10 to last all week for lunches and could only be spent in certain places. On the very first day I ended up spending £5 on a modest drink, sandwich and snack deal at one of those posh coffee bars. I could have gone to Tesco's with this voucher and spread the costs over the week by spending £2 every working day but have you seen what lunchtime takeaway is at Tescos 
- I'd rather go a bit hungry than eat crap food which is my choice of course.
) comrades what my meal was like so this makes me a food critic. 
