On the 15th, at about two in the afternoon, Lovejoy started a thread on this topic. Brown showed up to call him a racist, because the woman is not an immigrant.
McTag responded in that thread, in one post writing:
McTag wrote:This woman is clearly taking the piss, and her bluff should be called.
She has a new five-month-old baby, so she needs another bedroom? Not on benefits, she doesn't.
No doubt Westminster CC will now get a grip on this.
Brown responds with his usual political rectitude gestapo hysteria by writing:
ebrown p wrote:Quote:This woman is clearly taking the piss, and her bluff should be called.
She has a new five-month-old baby, so she needs another bedroom? Not on benefits, she doesn't.
No doubt Westminster CC will now get a grip on this.
I don't think anyone would disagree (given the reported facts of the story). The objection is the attempt to make this woman into an "immigrant" when in fact she is a British citizen who was born in London. It is the racist immigrant bashing of someone who isn't an immigrant that makes this thread so infuriating.
If this thread had been titled "Why do Brits live in Britain?", we could have a rational discussion on the merits of the case. I am afraid without the race-baiting part of this thread, we would probably all be in agreement that a British single mom shouldn't be getting a 100,000 pounds a year to live in a mansion. But, that wouldn't make for a very interesting discussion.
That last sentence is very revelatory--Brown isn't interested in the discussion unless he can rant about immigration and racism. McTag then responds as follows:
McTag wrote:Okay it might be off-topic, but we have to get away (us Brits, I mean) from the mindset that a single woman with no means of support except benefits can have ever more kids and expect the Council to house them.
Then Brown, who has already said that this story would not be interesting without the "race-baiting" to which he referred, responds with this:
Now go read the first post. Not only did Brown claim in the other thread that this would not be an interesting subject for discussion with out the "race-baiting" angle, and then turn around to start this thread--he couldn't get past the first post without dragging in "immigrant bashing," his description of the Lovejoy thread. I have no problem with following him here to rub his nose in his obsession and his hypocrisy.