Friday - December 07, 2007

JUST HOW STUPID CAN A WELFARE SYSTEM GET?  VERY!

I have a real problem with this story. Or I should say with the people involved.

Read it and I’ll explain why.

Stubborn son stops Lotto millionaire moving.

http://tinyurl.com/3a4m3b

Last Updated: 6:32am GMT 07/12/2007

A Lotto millionaire cannot move into her £1 million new home because her teenage son refuses to leave their council house.

right here guys.  It’s a “council house.” That means it’s at the expense of the taxpayer.  Council housing (low rent or free) Like our welfare housing. It’s an apt. in a bldg. So, her little shits don’t wanna leave and what’s she do?  Read on.

Jenny Southall won £8.4 million on

(that’s almost 17 million dollars)

the National Lottery last year and bought a brand new, five ­bedroom home for herself and her three children. But her son Jamie, 15, prefers to remain in their terrace home on a council estate to be close to his friends.

the house cost $1,000,000. Wish they’d publish online photos as they do the paper. AND .. she has bought more then one.

Mrs Southall, 44, stays overnight in the house on the Ringland estate in Newport, South Wales, to look after her son while their new home in gated grounds just a mile away lies empty.

Jamie said: “I prefer living here rather than moving up to the new house. I am used to having my mates round and we can chill out here more than at the new house.”

One of his friends said: “Jamie is happy just staying in the council house where his mates can visit him without having to tiptoe around.

“He’s not looking forward to it. He doesn’t want any of us to think he is getting flash and too big for his boots.”

Mrs Southall, a divorcee, and her three children moved into their council house last year after staying in a hostel when she lost her home because she could not pay the mortgage. But a few months later the part-time cinema supervisor hit the jackpot on the lottery.

She was quick to share her good fortune with her family.

She has bought houses and new cars for her mother, two sisters and two brothers and has given them £250,000 each. Mrs Southall’s widowed mother Jeanette, 69, sister Angela, 45, and brother Andrew, 44, have all been bought houses within a few yards of each other. 

She paid off the £5,000 of student debts of her 20-year-old daughter Lauren and then looked to make herself comfortable in a neo-Georgian house with five bathrooms and its own cinema room. It shares a five-acre private woodland with three similar houses and is next door to Celtic Manor Golf Resort, the Ryder Cup course.

Mrs Southall, who, according to friends, has already spent half of her jackpot win, was given the keys to the house last month but has kept on her council house home and friends are still visiting her there.

A family friend said: “Jamie has not yet come to terms with his mum’s vast fortune and does not want to upset his friends by thinking he is flash. He just doesn’t want to go to the new place and, like millions of other teenagers, has dug his heels in.”

Mrs Southall’s former husband, Waynne, is still paying £200-a-month ($400) maintenance for their two youngest children, Jamie and Kyle, 18.

so, she wins 17 mil and he still has to pay support?  And they’re 18 ???

Mr Southall, a fork lift truck driver who has remarried since the couple’s divorce five years ago, said: “I don’t mind fulfilling my obligations to my children. I just hope that in all this spending Jenny has set money aside for the future of our children.”

oh don’t worry Mr. Southall. She’ll spend till there’s none left and you’ll still get the bill.  Unless you can arrange an accident.

Mrs Southall has discussed the situation of her occupying a council house with officials from Newport council.

A spokesman said: “Having won a lot of money is not a breach of the tenancy agreement as long as the person is still living there.”

And that’s the bottom line folks.  Their system is really, really Fraked up! I haven’t a problem with her winning money. Great.  But with almost 17 million dollars, shouldn’t the damn stupid city council say OUT!  ??  Why is the taxpayer responsible for the whims of her offspring? And why should her ex still have to shell out hard earned money?  I don’t get it. It’s stupid. And what’s with oh the teens dig in heels?  What ever became of parental authority?  Or is that a violation of teen rights?

end of story and rant. 

Posted by Drew458     on 12/07/2007 at 11:32 AM   
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