I can't survive on £500 a week benefits

Festy · 03-12-2013 12:16AM #1

A single mother with eight children who receives £2,000 a month in state handouts has complained she is struggling to make ends meet.
Marie Buchan, 31, whose children range in age from 12 to two months, lives in a three-bedroom housing association house in Selly Oak, Birmingham, but says it's not big enough and has applied for a bigger one.
And she says her benefits payments, which were reduced from £582 a week to £500 a week in September after the government introduced a cap on handouts, are not enough for her family to survive on

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2516745/I-survive-500-week-benefits-says-Birmingham-single-mother-eight.html

My heart bleeds for you

Fr_Dougal · 03-12-2013 12:18AM

UK
Daily Mail

Number of fcuks given:0.

Sauve · 03-12-2013 12:19AM

Festy wrote: »

My heart bleeds for you

Are you for real?
£500 for nine people?
That averages out at £55 per person per week.

I couldn't live on £55 per week. No chance.
Well, maybe as a one-off I could, with no rent or bills to pay out of that.

dobman88 · 03-12-2013 12:20AM

FFS, I work full time and don't even earn that never mind take it home!! Ungrateful kunt!!

hfallada · 03-12-2013 12:22AM

In fairness maybe she shouldn't have had a **** load of children, if she wasnt going to support them herself, but instead rely on state handouts.

Sauve · 03-12-2013 12:22AM

dobman88 wrote: »

FFS, I work full time and don't even earn that never mind take it home!! Ungrateful kunt!!

Do you have 8 dependants at home?

.Henry Sellers. · 03-12-2013 12:23AM

Her fanny must be in bits, she deserves every penny.

Links234 · 03-12-2013 12:23AM

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

UK

Daily Mail

Number of fcuks given:0.

I'd really love to hit people who post links to the daily fail over the head with a rolled up newspaper. That'd be one use for that waste of paper

Boombastic · 03-12-2013 12:23AM

how many fathers, how much do they contribute?

MrStuffins · 03-12-2013 12:24AM

Sauve wrote: »

Do you have 8 dependants at home?

If you can't afford to feed 8 kids, son't have 8 f*cking kids!

Sauve · 03-12-2013 12:27AM

MrStuffins wrote: »

If you can't afford to feed 8 kids, son't have 8 f*cking kids!

That's not the point.
She does have them, they're here, and they're real, innocent children, so they need to be taken care of. Maybe even educated so they don't end up in the same unfortunate situation their mother is in.

What would you do, feck the whole lot of them out to fend for themselves?

Mint Aero · 03-12-2013 12:30AM

C*nt

dodderangler · 03-12-2013 12:30AM

Why doesn't she go work on the streets then. Already well used to her legs been open. 8 kids ffs at 31 and where's the father or fathers???
P1ss off and sing another song to someone who gives a sh1t

03-12-2013 12:32AM

dodderangler wrote: »

Why doesn't she go work on the streets then. Already well used to her legs been open. 8 kids ffs at 31 and where's the father or fathers???
P1ss off and sing another song to someone who gives a sh1t

What a disgusting post that is.

I don't know what's worse sometimes - articles printed in the Daily Mail, the people that comment on them, or some of the people that post here.

keith16 · 03-12-2013 12:32AM

dodderangler wrote: »

Why doesn't she go work on the streets then.

P1ss off and sing another song to someone who gives a sh1t

Why are you worried where she works if you don't give a shit?

April O Neill II · 03-12-2013 12:33AM

dodderangler wrote: »

Why doesn't she go work on the streets then. Already well used to her legs been open. 8 kids ffs at 31 and where's the father or fathers???
P1ss off and sing another song to someone who gives a sh1t

Doubt she'd get a good price after 8 kids...

dotsman · 03-12-2013 12:33AM

And how much is she getting from the dad(s)?

Having one "accident" isn't the worst thing, having two is pretty bad luck, but having eight??? By the age of 32?

Karl Stein · 03-12-2013 12:34AM

I envy a single Mum who lives in a shoe
with so many kids she didn't know what to do
down to the social for buggies galore
selling them for profit door-to-door.

Lapin · 03-12-2013 12:34AM

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

UK

Daily Mail

3. Story is about 6 months out of date.

MrStuffins · 03-12-2013 12:34AM

Sauve wrote: »

That's not the point.
She does have them, they're here, and they're real, innocent children, so they need to be taken care of. Maybe even educated so they don't end up in the same unfortunate situation their mother is in.

What would you do, feck the whole lot of them out to fend for themselves?

No and it's ridiculius to suggest I am saying the kids should be kicked out on the streets to fend for themselves.

But isn't that the attitude that lets a lot of benefit scroungers away with this?

"Well, if I just have the kids they can't let me and them starve".

Femme_Fatale · 03-12-2013 12:34AM

MrStuffins wrote: »

If you can't afford to feed 8 kids, son't have 8 f*cking kids!

The point was though, that saying "I don't get that much per month" (and this often is what these grievances boil down to rather than actually caring about society and where taxpayers' money in general is going) is moot unless the person saying it has eight kids.

Yes, she's stupid, careless and irresponsible for having eight children (ditto the father) and having to be relying solely on benefits to raise them. One or two children in such circumstances - these things happen, and happen to lots of responsible people, but eight is miles too far.
However, those eight children are here - pointless saying she shouldn't have had them when that can't be undone now - and they need to be provided for. They are the important ones here and aren't to blame for their parents' irresponsibility.

The Daily Mail only interviewed her and only published it to rabble-rouse and **** with people's heads and demonise honest, decent single mothers/people on welfare (i.e. the majority).

B.A._Baracus · 03-12-2013 12:34AM

Something I don't get about the Daily Mail....
People on here keep saying it's full of crap - am not disagreeing :P Clearly the daily mail love being sensationalist. But to what level of crap? Like there is a face to this story... a name ...

Do they just blow stories out? like reality is this woman could be on £300 but thats not going to anger readers so blow it up to £500?
Or, as crazy as it sounds, it's not really Marie Buchan 31 but Sarah Jones, 33, aspiring hairdresser from east essex with her children whilst husband/daddy is off camera :pac:

Or she is just some woman who honestly wants more money from the goverment and thinks by going to the mail it will help her?! I honestly don't know. lol. I just keep reading how the daily mail is full of crap on here.

My name is URL · 03-12-2013 12:35AM

Sauve wrote: »

Are you for real?
£500 for nine people?
That averages out at £55 per person per week.

I couldn't live on £55 per week. No chance.
Well, maybe as a one-off I could, with no rent or bills to pay out of that.

She had 8 kids over the course of 12 years... whether a person in her position has enough in £2000 per month is neither here nor there when you think about it. How much would be enough, and should the state be expected to provide whatever it is?

It's self-entitled bullshit.. she can either afford to look after 8 kids with what she has, or should be deemed unfit to care for so many.

Sauve · 03-12-2013 12:35AM

dodderangler wrote: »

Why doesn't she go work on the streets then. Already well used to her legs been open. 8 kids ffs at 31 and where's the father or fathers???
P1ss off and sing another song to someone who gives a sh1t

Wow. Charming.

Would it ever occur to you that maybe she's not as well educated or well rounded as you are? Maybe she didn't have the type of upbringing that instilled more self-worth into her. That maybe she doesn't know any better, and attitudes like yours will never stop the vicious cycle that she's in?

Peadarpan · 03-12-2013 12:38AM

Whoa they are mixed-race children too LOL. Imagine that, the father walked out :rolleyes: I'm not touching this one with a barge pole.

Femme_Fatale · 03-12-2013 12:39AM

Peadarpan wrote: »

I'm not touching this one with a barge pole.

You just did.

bigneacy · 03-12-2013 12:39AM

You don't know this woman's situation. How do you know she's not recently widowed by a well paid family man? I don't know her situation either but that's my point. It's immediately *rabble rabble rabble* how many fathers? *rabble rabble rabble* free house *rabble rabble rabble* state scrounger

I wonder would the hard line, right wingers of AH be quite so acid tongued if they met this woman, seen her kids or witnessed her situation? Or god forbid; checked facts before condemning this "ungrateful kunt" (sic)

dobman88 · 03-12-2013 12:41AM

Sauve wrote: »

Do you have 8 dependants at home?

That's not the point. I work hard for my money, whether I have kids or not. She does fcuk all and gets £500 a week and is complaining about it!!

It is the complaining that pisses me off, she should be happy with what she gets.

IvySlayer · 03-12-2013 12:41AM

What an ungrateful leech.

hfallada · 03-12-2013 12:41AM

.Henry Sellers. wrote: »

Her fanny must be in bits, she deserves every penny.

I wonder will she try and claim vaginal rejuvenation on the NHS also.

Femme_Fatale · 03-12-2013 12:44AM

Amazed her hotness hasn't been commented on; that's usually deemed the most important element of these stories. After Hours, what's going on...?! :pac:

Oh wait, the likely state of her fanny has been mentioned a couple of times. Balance restored.

My name is URL wrote: »

It's self-entitled bullshit

Not gonna argue with that, but moreso in relation to her own attitude - the kids do need to be provided for.

she can either afford to look after 8 kids with what she has...

Don't know whether the €55 per person is enough each week - I guess it depends on needs of the individual. I assume it would be enough for a child some weeks though?

I can't survive on £500 a week benefits

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