Family-Of-Six Left Living In A Tent

[Eve]

I was reading this earlier and despite the headline (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2439231/Maidstone-family-6-living-tent-refused-council-house-wont-pets.html), it seems they are all actually adults.

I don't know a huge amount about social housing but I wondered what would be the issue in them being homed separately or in smaller groups, maybe split the pets between them seeing as they are determined not to give them up.

There may be other circumstances which they haven't chosen to say in the article about whether any of them can (or will) work to be able to rent privately or, with the benefits they may be claiming why they can't afford jointly, something a bit better than a tent.

Is it just me?

[boxtops]

Hounded makes them sound - er - not very desirable....

[Ric.ror]

I liked the comment underneath about getting the RSPCA invloved

[EcclesCake]

I keep looking at the pics and wondering if they tidied up for the photographer......

[pusskin]

Is it me that i think they look like gipsies?

Also , they dont seem hard done by at all, apart from living in a tent.

[DJHawkes]

the daily mail probably were sent this story from a local paper, would be interesting to see the local story rather than just the shock factor of the mail

[mccfluff]

http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kent_messenger/news/tent-family-6643

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[pusskin]

yee, i guessed correctly. Would never want gipsies near me!

[mackfender]

yee, i guessed correctly. Would never want gipsies near me!

WOuld that comment be regarded as racist ?

[baza]

pity they did not have a canary, it could have got a job down the coal pits. If they traded the tent for a caravan they could move to Dale Farm.

[mrs.chappie]

They're fooling nobody. That's a plastic budgie in that there cage.

[DJHawkes]

why does she want a permanent home if she is a traveller?

[askyourgran]

So lets get this straight, those people are travellers who won't give an inch to get a proper home. They are living in a tent because of they won't give up the animals, they are running electricity from an end of terrace house for lighting heating and possibly TV. Why bother trying to help people like that, and furthermore who is paying the electricity bill at the end of terrace house they seem to have access to?

[boxtops]

Just read the blogs at the bottom of fluffy's kentonline link - seems most other people agree with us!

[DTCwordfan]

They could look at the way N American Indians lived, some learning lessons there, perhaps.

[boxtops]

It's a friend's house, AYG, according to this http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2439231/Maidstone-family-6-living-tent-refused-council-house-wont-pets.html

[DJHawkes]

strikes me that travellers these days not only don't possess a dictionary to look up what the word means, they're softies, my kids great great grandmother was a traveller and she was born and brought up in vans and tents in epping forest and also related to the kent boswells and Lees, who knew what the word traveller meant,

[seadogg]

Their electricity supply looks lethal. Should be fun when winter sets in.