Dole Queen's Country House:

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2283258/Dole-queens-country-pad-The-idyllic-vicarage-Forest-Dean-benefits-mother-Heather-Frost-used-live-owns-1-000-parrot.html

How does this woman do it?

Never done a day’s work in her life, yet

Receives £865.92 in benefits

Once live in a vicarage in the idyllic Forest of Dean

Treated her partner to flying lessons, owns a £1,000 parrot, and a horse which costs £200-a-month in stable fees.

And soon to be handed the keys to a £400,000, taxpayer-funded 'eco-home'

[sir.prize]

AOG 'bent' the rules slightly. The woman lived in an idyllic vicarage in the Forest of Dean.

[ichkeria]

Who I wonder is the more work shy? The mother who dumps her children in a nursery or with relatives and sits in an office all day surfing the net or the woman who stays at home all day working? Extreme example I know but we shouldn't brand someone as lazy just because they don't take paid employment.
That's all

[hc4361]

She certainly won't have that house forever. As the children grow up she'll be moved into smaller properties and the new house will be reverted to two homes unless there is another large family that qualifies for it. It has been designed that way.

[Baldric]

Has she actually been called lazy then, I must have missed that?

[sir.prize]

This is what you missed, Baldric

Yesterday her father waded into the row branding her 'lazy' and saying she needed to 'get off her backside' and get a job.

[ichkeria]

Yes: she had been called lazy by her own dad as I pointed out earlier. That's in an article in today's local paper

[hc4361]

Yes, she has. In this headline:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2283068/Dont-lazy-daughter-Heather-Frost-400-000-home----make-backside-work.html

And that so called 'luxury' house that is being built has a train line running at the end of the garden.

[hc4361]

Who would employ her? No previous work experience, no references and just how much time off would she need for looking after sick children, taking them to dentists, doctors and so on?

Her father didn't bring her up - he abandoned her mother when she was a child. Maybe he should be looking at himself.

[Baldric]

Ok, I must have skipped over that bit!

[Prudie]

A train line, how awful. properties near railway lines should be left to working couples who can't afford any better to live by. I mean none of this is the woman's fault, it's not like there's any way to stop getting pregnant.

[Svejk]

A train line,you say. Tut tut, can't they find her a secluded spot.

[emmie]

train line, that's all right then...
she must be able to claim quite a bit off the system for the children, and her father said he has no idea how many dads there are, not just one that's for sure.

[hc4361]

Well she won't be getting pregnant again, after her cancer op.

[hc4361]

He may be her father but he's no dad. Her parents divorced just after she was born - a fine example of family life.

[pdq1]

Looking after 11 kids without a resident father can't be a picnic but it seems the state is encouraging women to have more babies. At the other end of the scale families on benefits are seeing their spare rooms taxed and encouraged to move to smaller properties.

If every soldier was to have his own accommodation we would run out of money and space. Instead the lower ranks have to sleep in a barrack room with about 20 other soldiers. They could do something similar with this woman with the boys in one room and the girls in another instead of demanding a house with 6 or more bedrooms.

[emmie]

many people get divorced, so what.

[sir.prize]

hc4361 - Not unsubstantiated gossip at all.

Her jet-set lifestyle was revealed by her partner's daughter Leanne, 34, who said: “She loves to brag and boast about what she’s got. She once bought Dad microlight lessons for Christmas and likes buying gifts for all of her ­neighbours.”

[ichkeria]

Her 'dad' is a disgrace IMO. One of these 'I worked my fingers to the bone since I was 14 blah blah blah' why can't everyone be like me.
All that lovely work but not much of a CV as a parent

[ichkeria]

'Jet set' ha ha ha it gets funnier :-)

This case does raise important issues - but when they are treated in such a way by the Daily Mail to tweak the jealous instinct in people (how must the barren poverty-stricken office-bound women of Britain be feeling) then there's no chance of a sensible debate

[emmie]

really so you know him personally do you, no more than we know her, only what has been reported in the papers, it looks like he remarried her mother several years after the divorce, but they split again, it happens, what gets me is that she says she doesn't believe in abortion, fine, but there is such a thing as contraception, why if you can't support your children financially should you expect others to do it, that is the disgraceful bit.