Speaking to BirminghamLive, Miss Coffman said: "We've been living in one room and we've just had to get on with it. But it's becoming a nightmare.
"My support worker actually said we are classed as 'homeless' because of the severe overcrowding and the state of the home as it's beyond repair.
"In January 2019 I started having a leak in the hallway I thought it would be sorted.
"We have been mopping up the leak in the hallway - but it's got to a point where my ceiling has started to fall down and I can't cope."
Really? Let's take another look at the family, shall we?
...the mum, who has an eight-month-old baby girl, another girl who is two next month, and a boy, aged three, said her move pleas with the council had fallen on deaf ears over the last two-years.
Hmmm... *counts on fingers*
The council isn't - for once! - fooled either:
"There is a lengthy waiting list for properties at present," a city council spokesman told BirminghamLive.
"We are aware Ms Coffman is in a one-bedroom flat and since moving in her family has increased to three.
However, as you will appreciate from the length of the housing list it could be some time before she is rehoused."
She could always rent privately. Or keep her legs together.
Well, Julia, come another bout of Krautish tetchiness, the boyfriend might be called up, or the so might be old enough to have to go. The scruffy working class can be mightily loyal to their country sometimes, and might just be there to stop the bullet that was meant for one of your loved ones. No doubt many of the casualties in the First and Second world wars came from conditions on a par with this.
ReplyDeleteI have some sympathies, in that the Council ought to fix the problems caused by the tenants upstairs. Noting just how many Labour councillors there are, is it any surprise that it's all fucked up? Isn't a Labour Council rather like the slum landlord Rackman?
Is it, incidentally, a flat or a maisonnette?
Just remember, everything bad that happens to you is somebody else's fault and therefore it is somebody else's responsibility to sort the problem out. Back in 1990, my future wife and I both had jobs, we applied for a mortgage and bought a little house, we kept up with the payments until we owned it. We used contraception until we were financially secure and had one sprog. We paid into pension funds so that we were OK when we retired. How fortunate we were that the evil Tories didn't ruin our lives.
ReplyDeleteOr she could keep having babies until she gets a nice house - I think that is her plan.
ReplyDelete"...the boyfriend might be called up..."
ReplyDeleteI feel safer already... 🤣
"Noting just how many Labour councillors there are, is it any surprise that it's all fucked up?"
None whatsoever!
"Or she could keep having babies until she gets a nice house - I think that is her plan."
Undoubtedly!