You got to get there before you die
On the bottom of the Daily Mail article where James Purnell and Chris Grayling duke it out over who’s the hardest when it comes to society’s vulnerable, there’s the story of the Ramond family:
Ray and Tracey Ramond have been branded Britain’s biggest beneficiaries from state handouts. The couple and their nine children hit the headlines three years ago when it emerged they received £39,000-a-year in benefits.
The headline to the piece is:
And then you see the accompanying photograph:
Life is good!
I don’t know about you but when I saw it my first thought wasn’t ‘just where is this Easy Street and how do I get there? It does indeed look easy there.’
Posted on December 30th, 2008 at 12:10pm under Culture, media and sport
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She definitely doesn’t lool like she’s living on Easy Street.
lool=look
Britain’s biggest beneficiaries from state handouts are probably the banks, no? Idle socialist rhetoric, I know…
“She definitely doesn’t lool like she’s living on Easy Street.”
Seems to me the solution is within her own hands, then…
I’m sure if they boiled up the youngest they could feed the rest for a week.*
PS: You know those non-articles that claim it costs £X,000 to raise a child? How does anyone expect the parents to raise nine of them on £39K a year?
*As one writer once modestly proposed
They’re obviously not on easy street with nine kids but it’s still £39k a year without having to do a stroke of work. That’s what winds people up.
…without having to do a stroke of work
Yeah, that’s right. Because raising kids isn’t work, is it? As a father of two, let me tell you that kids are a piece of piss. Feeding, cleaning, dressing, taking to school, fetching from school, reading, talking, engaging – they do it all for themselves.
Surely old horse-faced liz is a pretty big recipient of state handouts.
Her and the various companies involved in PPI contracts. and the banks.