[Josy]

SUPER-scrounger Susan Greenfield celebrated the birth of her 12th child — at her seven-bedroomed home created with £45,000 of taxpayers’ cash.

The benefits sponger, who rakes in £30,000 a year in handouts, returned home to a house decorated with banners and balloons by relatives a day after little Junior’s birth at Wishaw General Hospital.

And her welfare payments are set to rise by thousands more after the baby’s arrival.

Yesterday we watched as the serial mum, wearing stripey pyjama shorts and a baggy blue top, sauntered along her street with a pal puffing a ciggie and surrounded by kids.

There was no sign of the new baby, who remained indoors.

Last night one neighbour in Viewpark, Lanarkshire, fumed: “Some say this is number 12, others think it’s 13. There are even bets being taken on just how many she has.”

Boyfriend William Findlay, who has been with Greenfield since 2006, is the father of the latest child. The warehouseman — known as Willie Boom Boom —is also the dad of her eleventh child, born in December 2010, and two daughters aged six and four.


The neighbour went on: “When Susan discovered she was pregnant some of her pals said she should think about having the pregnancy terminated.


“Then she went for a scan and was told the baby would be a boy. She said Willie had been desperate, daft, to have a son and to try to make him happy, she went ahead and had his child. Willie isn’t the most popular guy in the area.


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There is so many things wrong with this scenario, something needs to be done about situations like this imo, like limiting benefit entitlement to a certain number of kids that way they may be a bit more careful of getting pregnant in the first place, then theres the amount of cash it cost to accomodate them in a specially adapted council house, it's just ridiculous.

Opinions?

[Marc]

There's THAT much money in it?!

Seriously that's mental!

[King Gizzard]

Alot of that money goes on drugs by the looks of her

Most of them will probably end up in that situation themselves, people need to be able to prove they're ''fit and proper'' before having children but I guess that's kind of impossible because you can't stop someone from having them..

I agree with your benefits cap thing

[AnnieK]

I agree....I think everyone entitled to children but benefits should be limited to two or so children...if you want more get a job where you get maternity pay then go back to work....

Although the government have to help too... It's so expensive to get nursery places etc that a lot of people are worse off if they go back to work so there needs to be more incentives to work.

[Marc]

******* me she's disgusting

[Roy Mars III]

Jesus.

Agreed that there should be a limit to how much benefits a person can receive. I mean, my cousin has ten kids but they can support them by themselves

[fruit_cake]

legend

[Ninastar]

she sounds like a treat

[CharlieO]

I swear 30,000 a year isnt that much??

[CharlieO]

I swear 30,000 a year isnt that much??

[Josy]

Originally Posted by CharlieO

I swear 30,000 a year isnt that much??

It is when she does nothing at all to earn it, plus its going to rise again because of this newest baby she's just had and she also lives in a double council house that cost the council 45k to adapt to accommodate her, really unfair actually when there is over 12,000 people on the council housing register in her area alone.

[joeysteele]

It is near obscene in my opinion. There does need to be something done as to the number of Children the State has to support with no provision whatsoever from either Parent.
She won't for sure have to worry about the bedroom tax then.

[michael21]

Originally Posted by Josy

There is so many things wrong with this scenario, something needs to be done about situations like this imo, like limiting benefit entitlement to a certain number of kids that way they may be a bit more careful of getting pregnant in the first place, then theres the amount of cash it cost to accomodate them in a specially adapted council house, it's just ridiculous.

Opinions?

are they not new rules coming in that limit the number of children that can get benfit i think it the 1st 3 then that it might have to check the internet to see when it come in

[michael21]

here a better story on the same topic http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...=feeds-newsxml

Latvian mother who already receives £34,000 in benefits demands a bigger council house for her TEN children

[Jack_]

I'm really quite sick of stories like this appearing in red top tabloids and other trashy papers which give those who are welfare dependant a collective bad name. The demonisation of this group of people is really quite appalling, cases like this are few and far between and are vastly exaggerated and it's awful that they're used as means to target often the most vulnerable and needy people in society.

[Marc]

Originally Posted by CharlieO

I swear 30,000 a year isnt that much??

s**t me how much money do you have then/have money spent on you

[Ninastar]

Originally Posted by Jack_

I'm really quite sick of stories like this appearing in red top tabloids and other trashy papers which give those who are welfare dependant a collective bad name. The demonisation of this group of people is really quite appalling, cases like this are few and far between and are vastly exaggerated and it's awful that they're used as means to target often the most vulnerable and needy people in society.

She's not vulnerable in the slightest. She's given birth to 12 kids just to get benefits.

Lazy old twat is what I'd say she is

[Munchkins]

Originally Posted by Jack_

I'm really quite sick of stories like this appearing in red top tabloids and other trashy papers which give those who are welfare dependant a collective bad name. The demonisation of this group of people is really quite appalling, cases like this are few and far between and are vastly exaggerated and it's awful that they're used as means to target often the most vulnerable and needy people in society.

Just what i was going to post
gives everyone on support labelled lazy and scroungers

[armand.kay]

I know she gets money for every child she has but doesn't it mean she has another mouth to feed and another baby to buy cloths, nappies etc. for, so won't she just end up with around same amount left over as before to spend? so what's the point of her having more kids?

[Ninastar]

Why have kids if you know that you can't afford it?

[armand.kay]

Originally Posted by Jack_

I'm really quite sick of stories like this appearing in red top tabloids and other trashy papers which give those who are welfare dependant a collective bad name. The demonisation of this group of people is really quite appalling, cases like this are few and far between and are vastly exaggerated and it's awful that they're used as means to target often the most vulnerable and needy people in society.

This. Some people genuinely need benefits and people like her are giving them a bad name and making it harder for them to get the help they need.

[Jack_]

Originally Posted by Ninastar

She's not vulnerable in the slightest. She's given birth to 12 kids just to get benefits.

Lazy old twat is what I'd say she is

I never said she was vulnerable, I said I'm sick of exaggerated stories like this being used to scapegoat and target some of the most needy and vulnerable people in society, i.e. those majority on benefits who do actually need the money and contrary to popular belief, do actually claim and use the money fairly. It's stories like these (which, like I said, are few and far between) that are constantly pumped out by the tabloids giving people reasons to stereotype all welfare claimants as the same, and labels such as 'scroungers' to be passed around without any thought whatsoever. While this kind of demonising goes on we have big corporations ****ing everybody over left, right and centre and does anybody know or give a toss? No. Weird that.

[Kizzy]

Oh, are the tories creating a moral panic again like they did in 93...
A woman with 12 kids costs the taxpayer £45K,
Dozens of MP's cost the taxpayer 3 times that every year in expenses...
This is a tory government, masters in the art of spin and subterfuge, and people fall for it time and time again.

[Mystic Mock]

Wow I could imagine 12 or more kids would drive anyone insane, then you've got the fact that she's probably only having these children for the benefits.

Something needs to be done about it tbh.

[Nedusa]

Originally Posted by Jack_

I'm really quite sick of stories like this appearing in red top tabloids and other trashy papers which give those who are welfare dependant a collective bad name. The demonisation of this group of people is really quite appalling, cases like this are few and far between and are vastly exaggerated and it's awful that they're used as means to target often the most vulnerable and needy people in society.

I agree there are too many stories like these appearing in tabloid newspapers for their shock value, they are in reality a very very small minority of a much larger socially deprived underclass who rely on a variety of benefits to survive.

I think we have seen recently an increase in these types of sensationalised articles which reinforce this lazy idle ignorant benefit claiming stereotype. I have to wonder if there is not a more sinister plot at work here. It's no secret the current Govt is desperate to overhaul the whole benefit system and needs public opinion onside so it has cover when the axe falls and thousands of recipients will find their benefits vastly reduced or stopped.

The current system is too complicated and is open to certain abuses but it does offer a safety net to the most disadvantaged members of our society so any reform has to measured, fair and should focus on helping the people who need help the most. Using the press to create a climate of fear and loathing for these people to justify savage cuts is not the answer...!!!