Supermum??? I don't think so!

[daffy654]

http://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/blackpoolnew s/Life39s-hectic-for-Blackpool-mother.5095510. jp

Stories like this make me so angry. Why would anyone keep having kids when they know they can't financially support them?
The father says he gave up work 6 years ago due to Tourettes Syndrome and they have had 4 more kids since then. I fail to see how having Tourettes means you can't work-many years ago I encountered a hospital porter who suffered from this condition and he obviously still worked!

[tiggerblue10]

He gave up work to enable them to get benefits Daffy.

[stompe]

f*uck

[stompe]

Tourettes^^^^

[craft1948]

lol stompe - he gave up his job as a painter - well he'd have fallen off the ladder wouldn't he......

[redcrx]

"I had to give up my job as a painter six years ago because I was diagnosed with Tourettes,"

i thought tourettes was something from childhood rather than an illness picked up in later life? how come he suddenly couldnt work?

[daffy654]

I know this is only a wikipedia link but it definitely says that onset of Tourette's is from childhood!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourette_syndrome

[wendilla]

He gave up work so I would have to pay more in my taxes to keep them in the style they are accustomed too. Free housing no council tax to pay and I bet they got state of the art tv. Tourettes Syndrome does not stop him from working

[monkeyeyes]

A man up a ladder 'effing and jeffing' would be nothing out of the norm here in Blackpool.........

[k8bailey]

PMSL at all the comments on the article - yeah, but no, but yeah, but no. Shut up you don't know nuffink of nuffink!!

I only wish I could afford a sunday roast like that, and that I could spend all day, every day looking after my little girl, but some of us have a little self respect. Though sometimes I wonder why I bother going to work to earn �45 a day, and pay �34 a day nursery fees surely I'd be better off letting the state support me? I'm just not sure I'd be able to sleep at night!

[keyplus90]

And that does make me feel even worse when I have paid heavy amount of tax for over 17 years until I was made redundant at the end of January 09. I went to job centre and they have asked me to provide proof that I applied for at least 4 jobs each week to get about �55 a week. If I do not find a job as audit manager, management accountant, finance controller etc then I may have to add cleaning, catering or something else as a job category that I should be willing to accept or else ..............guess what, yes no money.

I guess about 2.5 million people would be in cleaning industry very soon.

[Goodsoulette]

He's probably got some sort of adult onset tic disorder. If you aren;t particularly well educated the chances are that you have to work with the public, kissing their arses to some level. I can't imagine that with the tremors he could actually do his job properly and reemployment chances are probably slim, Im not saying impossible just improbable.

[tamborine]

keyplus90.....sad to know of your redundancy. One door closes another opens! Try catering - ���s to be had there ;)

[daffy654]

Goodsoulette.... The hospital porter I mentioned who had tourettes worked with the public,I nearly split my sides laughing when he was wheeling me to the x-ray dept and he kept shouting obscenities.lol Not ideal when you have a collapsed lung and a chest drain inserted!

[daffy654]

Their eldest child has learning disabilities,there is every chance that he also gets DLA in his own right...it can be claimed from age 16.

[Goodsoulette]

Aye, daffy, I get you there and pretty amazing that a trust would designate that sort of work to someone who has the condition. Honourable, I suppose but possibly not the best person to be taking care of people in vulnerable conditions :S I just have a lot more questions that need answering before I declared them skanky spongers, they looked well dressed, well fed and werent sat there moaning about not being able to afford this that or the other because money went on fags and booze and drugs.

It's not an ideal situation, and to most of us having 11 children when you dont have a few million in the bank seems nuts but they clearly budget and Im sure thats a task and a half for a family so big on benefits. Lets say they get 2000 to 2500 in cash for bills, food, clothing, school trips etc etc thats not a whole load for 13 people is it???

I dunno, I feel like Im making excuses but say this guys ticks are so bad he can't paint any more.... not everyone on benefits is a blagger btw, then maybe he's not well enough to look after the kids on his own. Leaves them in a cr@ppy situation in my opinion. No one really wants to struggle on pathetic money

[Goodsoulette]

That I have to concede to totally. Seems like craziness and not a life that I would wish for myself (even with all the money in the world, being pregnant sucketh :D )