Archive for the ‘Parenting’ Category
July 12, 2011
I have just learned the local council is planning to steal the entire contents of my house.
My twelve year old son and I were evicted from our home by the evil, grasping sub-prime mortgage lender Southern Pacific Mortgages Limited or SPML for short.
This bunch of thieves was a subsidiary of the dishonest bank Lehmanns Bros which caused the Worldwide financial disaster which we are still struggling with today, with rapidly increasing job losses and poverty everywhere.
So, the council sent me a letter telling me why they have a legal obligation to re-house my son and I, then announced (more…)
Tags:bureaucracy, Government, Homelessness, housing benefit, Life, News, Politics, Poverty, state benefits
Posted in Bureaucracy, Children, Family, Homelessness, Life, Local Councils, News, Parenting, Politics, Single Parents, Social Services, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment »
July 8, 2011
Oh, my fellow Wowsers, have I got a tale to tell you !
I don’t think you could make it up really. Truth is stranger than fiction they say, and I wouldn’t dare invent all these events and expect anyone to believe it all – unless it was all true. But it is all true, and I can prove it; so here goes.
I’d like to start at the beginning, but that was a long time ago, so it can wait while I just catch up with the present – somewhere in the middle of the story, so to speak. Anyway, I’m too tired and too busy right now to think all the way back to that beginning some thirteen years or so ago.
In a way, it started even earlier than that I suppose; when I (more…)
Tags:Children, Homelessness, Life, News, Politics
Posted in Bureaucracy, Children, Family, Homelessness, Life, Local Councils, News, Parenting, Politics, Single Parents, Social Services, Uncategorized | 2 Comments »
December 16, 2010
It is right suddenly unemployed/ill people should receive housing support to prevent the nasty minded lenders throwing them out on the street within a few months – which is what they generally try and do.
But the housing benefit system is utterly, utterly poisonous because it costs the taxpayer a fortune, lines the pockets of the lenders & completely fails most people falling on hard times. I know this because (more…)
Tags:benefits system, bureaucracy, child poverty, family, housing benefit, Politics, Poverty, Single parents, taxpayers, the benefit trap, unemployment, welfare reform
Posted in Bureaucracy, Children, Homelessness, Life, Local Councils, Parenting, Politics, Single Parents, Social Services, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment »
November 29, 2010
And reduced me to complete poverty as a single father, forced into bringing up my son without his mother.
Its all done and dusted and I have custody now and have done for ages.
Briefly what happened was: (more…)
Tags:benefits system, bureaucracy, child poverty, family, Government, housing benefit, jobs, Politics, Poverty, Schizophrenia, Single parents, Social Services, state benefits, taxpayers, the benefit trap, unemployment, welfare reform
Posted in Bureaucracy, Children, Homelessness, Life, Local Councils, News, Parenting, Politics, Single Parents, Social Services, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
November 9, 2010
By Christopher Booker
Published in the Sunday Telegraph 7th Nov 2010
Refugees flee the tyranny of social workers
There was a time when Britain took pride in offering a safe haven to the victims of tyrannies in other countries. Today we see this in reverse, with scores of families each year fleeing this country as the only way to escape a vicious system bent on seizing their newborn children for no good reason. Last week I heard two more such horror stories and this week I will relate the first, in which I am legally compelled to disguise the names.
Roger and Carol lived happily in Doncaster with their five-year-old daughter. One day last November they had a marital disagreement, involving no more than raised voices. They were overheard by a neighbour who called the police. The couple were arrested and held for nine hours before being released without charge. But the police had (more…)
Tags:bureaucracy, child poverty, single father, Single parents, Social Services
Posted in Children, Family, Parenting, Social Services, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment »
October 28, 2010
I was propelled unwillingly from being a modestly prosperous middle class Tory voting professional type into the benefits cess pit because my partner became ill with schizophrenia.
There were three children to look after, one a baby; and then there was one mad woman to look after as well. Mad people tend often to be a full time job a lot of the time – particularly when they are busy being a raving psychotic.
I’ll never forget the night my stepdaughter (more…)
Tags:benefits system, child poverty, Children, family, Homelessness, Poverty, Schizophrenia, single father, Single parents, Social Services, state benefits, the benefit trap, unemployment, welfare reform
Posted in Children, Family, Life, Parenting, Single Parents, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »