The Curious Case of Violet-Anne Wynne

All that would do is give a licence to ANY parent of a child to do whatever they wanted to, safe in the knowledge that the State will have to house them in a nice house. Once you push out a babby (or get a girl pregnant) then you would be free to spend every last cent you have on whatever you want because the State will have to house that child, and also house you.

Why would anyone bother their bollix being responsible or working?

The clowns who saw her name on the ballet sheet and gave her number 1 when it was common knowledge to anyone who had the internet she owed thousands in arrears should be asked to explain themselves.

Including her expenses...she earns double what myself & OH earn combined...and we have managed to buy our own house...

C'mon Brucie. Entertain us.

Explain to us why it is inappropriate to mention about one politician's past which involved an admitted sustained period of refusing to pay rent to a charity that had provided them with a house, but it is appropriate for you to go on and on about unproven (and denied) allegations about another politician for a single incident which allegedly occurred at a music festival when they were a teenager or early 20's. The former resulted in a court judgment against the person. The latter resulted in nothing except an allegation which was denied.

As you appear to be fond of saying yourself - Sad.

I wasn't aware any of their spouses were before the courts or that they were going to the papers looking for help because of the number of children they had.

In contrast, it was published in March, when pleading guilty to possessing illegal drugs, that a particular individual had 16 previous convictions already at that time - most of which were for road traffic offences, including two for driving without insurance:

It says that sentencing will be on June 15th.

There is a more recent case of the same man being charged with other offences, including driving without insurance related to an incident before last Christmas. Only charged of course and innocent unless proven guilty. The report is below.

If things are in the courts, and in the paper, people are entitled to comment on them. Same as any other story. It's not as if they are rooting through your man's bins to find out secrets. Don't be kidding yourself that if it were any other politician or political party that the papers would not be printing the court reports. As regarding medical condition, that has apparently been trotted out as an excuse rather than a case of someone surreptitiously finding that out and publishing it.

It is also relevant to the story (put out by an individual themselves) that they are having difficulty in obtaining rental accommodation. You have to put things into context. Yes there is a shortage of housing, but if I had a house, I'd be very slow to rent to people with such a past record. Surely you would be too? Anyone on here who would criticise a landlord for not taking a chance on them can put themselves forward as a personal guarantor for their rent if they wish. The lady currently has a well paid job, but it is not a stable job and it could be gone at the next election.

Feel free to nominate any government minister, or any other party politician, who has been in the media for the wrong reason and it is likely that I won't back them up.

Edit: Here is another example of the son of a former politician who was in trouble and it was published in the paper as such:

You say that people keep going on about that lady. One way to stop that would be for there to stop being new stories related to these things in the paper. And a good way to stop that is for people to try to stop getting into the trouble in the first place.

I'd be more curious as to why people like you defended that allegation Brucie?

(You defended it more than me. I never even commented on that incident. The only mention I made towards it was to point out the hypocritical posters who made a big thing about it while trying to hush up other incidents.)