Royal Houses And Mansions For Immigrants
DANNI “cannot believe it’s possible to get a £1.2 million mansion on state benefits.”
Danni appears on the Sun’s Page 3, responding to the front-page news, “Mother of all council houses”, the tale of the mum-of-seven, Afghan refugee who lives in a £1.2 mansion in Acton.
Readers learn that taxpayer Toorpakai Saindi’s residence causes the local council to pay her landlord £12,458 a month in rent.
Landlord Ajit Panesar says: “I can’t help it if the law says I should get paid that amount of money.”
Ms Saindi says: “I don’t know why they pay so much.”
It’s a tough one to work out, but the Sun Says column uses phrases like “gravy train”, “benefit” and “barmy” by way of clues.
As for Danni’s original poser, we can only says it is not so very odd for foreigners to be made so welcome in Blighty and not a million miles up the road in Kensington the Teutonic Princess Michael of Kent and spouse have agreed to pay commercial-rate rent for their Kensington Palace digs for the first time.
The couple will be charged £120,000 a year from 2010 to remain at the royal residence in London, where they have been living rent free since 2002. The Kents have two children.
If anything, Ms Saindi has been short changed…
Posted: 8th, October 2008 | In: Immigration, Media, Page 3 Girls, Royal Family Comments (3) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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October 9th, 2008 at 9:11 am
well, apparently the council HB office told the landlord exactly how much he could charge. So he did and they pay it.
The furore is gathering pace though…. especially as it THREE of the ‘children’ who are over 18!
Had to laugh this morning when it was reported the council were called in to do the garden.
You couldn’t make it up!
October 9th, 2008 at 9:07 am
A £1.2 milllion mansion?
Using the standard formula, a monthly rent of £12,458 would be appropriate for a property valued at £2.5 million.
October 8th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
Hmmmm…. I wondered when I read the story of the house in Acton why she has to have 7 bedrooms when two of her ‘children’ are over 18? (one of them is 22 ffs) to me that makes 5 dependants. weird, unless they’re all different sexes of course.
Once again I don’t blame the mother or the landlord, I blame th ridiculous system that lets it happen.
Maybe the Prince and Princess could claim housing benefit for their gaff also? They have no jobs and two kids still at home……….