Jobless non-English speaking Somali and family handed £2million home in posh London neighborhood - Polidicks

[quote]They say beggars can’t be choosers. But in the case of jobless Somali refugee Saeed Khaliif and his family, it seems they can. The Mail yesterday revealed how the Khaliifs have been given a £2million home in one of London’s most exclusive neighbourhoods, with taxpayers funding their £8,000-a-month rent. Luxury home: The £2m house where the Khaliif family live in North-West London The family had rejected a previous six-bedroom home in Coventry - where the bill for the public would have been a more reasonable £1,000 a month - simply because they wanted to live ‘closer to their friends’. Yesterday the Daily Mail tracked down their old address in Coventry and found a beautiful semi-detached house in one of the city’s most desirable districts. The red-brick Victorian property is situated opposite a park known as Gosford Green which has survived since the 1300s, and there is also a parade of shops and restaurants nearby. [img]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/08/15/article-0-0D6D5E3400000578-539_224x613.jpg[/img] [img]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/08/15/article-0-0D6D612200000578-158_224x613.jpg[/img] [img]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/08/16/article-2026409-0D6E254700000578-295_468x553.jpg[/img] [img]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/08/15/article-0-0D6D716800000578-682_468x325.jpg[/img] Ungrateful: Saeed Khaliif and his wife turned down another luxury home in Coventry so they could be near friends in London Their fellow refugees in the area said the ‘very lucky’ family should have counted their blessings to have been given such a property. Abdi Ibrahim, chairman of the Coventry Somali Community Network, a charity which works to integrate Somalis into the wider community, said: ‘In all my time in Coventry I have not even seen a six-bedroom house advertised for rent. From yesterday's Mail 'My family have been stuck in three or four-bedroom accommodation - a six-bedroom house is exceptional. This family should really have stayed in the area because it is much cheaper than in London.’ Mr Khaliif, 49, moved to the seven-bedroom property in West Hampstead, North-West London, with his wife Sayida and their children after deciding their previous accommodation was too far from their friends, even though Coventry is barely more than an hour away by train. Leafy West Hampstead is one of the most sought-after areas in London, and well beyond the reach of many well-heeled house-hunters in the capital. Plenty of living room: The lounge area of the £2m home provides plenty of space for the Khaliif family Mod cons: The kitchen is fitted out with all the latest gadgets On top of their free accommodation, the family is also thought to be eligible for a raft of benefits including incapacity benefit, income support and child benefit, which could potentially add many thousands of pounds to their monthly haul from the taxpayer. The Khaliifs and their brood of children - eight youngsters have been seen at the property - fled war-torn Somalia and arrived in Britain about three years ago as asylum-seekers. Since then, they are believed to have been granted refugee status, allowing them to claim benefits. Speaking via his children, who act as translators, Mr Khaliif said he had not worked since arriving in the UK and admitted he was on benefits. Room with a view: The property contains six double bedrooms - some with walk-in wardrobes Their new home has a 90ft garden and has been recently refurbished, with a large living room, sprawling kitchen, six double bedrooms - two with walk-in dressing rooms - and five shower rooms, four of which are en-suite. Another living room has been converted into a seventh bedroom. Councillor Jonny Bucknell, who is on Camden council’s housing committee, said: ‘There are big families living locally who need more space, and I’ve never managed to get anyone rehoused. ‘It is shocking that these people can just turn up from out of town and get such a magnificent property. The whole country is rightly outraged.' Read more: [url]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2026409/Saeed-Khaliif-Ingratitude-Somali-refugee-family-given-2m-London-home.html#ixzz1VD0RyUwo[/url][/quote] As a foreigner I'm both intrigued and disgusted to see such generous accommodations being given away to the undeserving. War-time refugee be damned if you haven't bothered to adopt the country's language or get a job in three years, let alone demand even more generous accommodations from an already generous system. The UK welfare system seems pretty interesting, I admire the fact that it's much more supportive than what we have in the states, but at the same time it seems to have it's moments of ridiculousness. thoughts?

This is old, and wrong.

Seems like the Englishman is the minority nowadays

[QUOTE=Zenpod;31765172]Seems like the Englishman is the minority nowadays[/QUOTE] What? That couldn't be further from the truth.

I'm not sure whether or not to rate friendly for the homeless foreigners getting a house or to rate dumb because the rent is coming out of taxpayers pockets.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHa5g2RVeQ0&feature=related[/media]

How could I tell this was dailymail by only the title.

oh wow my family's jobless where the hell is my million pound house. y daily mail, y do this

Delete this thread before people who don't know what the Daily Mail is think this is true.

I can tell that there is going to be a bunch of people pissed off at this, and a bunch of people who will get angry at them and say "You're middle class and white", followed by more.

hahaha you know if this is true, all i can do is laugh. I'm not trying to be racist or distasteful, but England and the US really, truly fucked themselves over by bringing their slaves into their countries all those centuries ago, now, I know many of you will probably rate this dumb and will make butthurt responses, but it's the truth. I'm not saying these foreigners don't deserve to be in any country they want, I'm just making an observation. Look at Ireland, I doubt there was many slaves here that were foreign, because they just enslaved the Irish. I barely see 1 black person per month, possibly not even 1 black person per half a year. Although i don't live in the city.

Aw, the Daily Mail is so cute when it's biased!

[h2]daily fucking mail[/h2]

I call bullshit. Were are the riots when you need them here?

Homeless people that do nothing getting offered a six bedroom house is way over still, imo.

[img]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/08/15/article-0-0D6D612200000578-158_224x613.jpg[/img] Is it me or is she a bit :downs: But yeah, this is retarded how they can get what most working people spend a lifetime getting.

Please provide a real source.

So I take it that Daily Mail is the English version of Fox News?

[QUOTE=Hazard Fox;31765987]So I take it that Daily Mail is the English version of Fox News?[/QUOTE] It's incredibly sensationalist.

The people in parliament just read the daily mail and do whatever it says.

[QUOTE=Hazard Fox;31765987]So I take it that Daily Mail is the English version of Fox News?[/QUOTE] Its bad but its not [I]that[/I] bad.

Is this true? That's a level beyond fucked up.

[QUOTE=lukepker;31766595]Its bad but its not [I]that[/I] bad.[/QUOTE] Case in point: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eBT6OSr1TI[/media]

[QUOTE=Megafanx13;31766687]Case in point: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eBT6OSr1TI[/media][/QUOTE] Okay maybe its worse than I thought, but still not as bad as fox news, its just a different type of bad.

[QUOTE=AzzyMaster;31765228]How could I tell this was dailymail by only the title.[/QUOTE] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eBT6OSr1TI[/media] [editline]16th August 2011[/editline] FUCK

[QUOTE=lukepker;31766802]Okay maybe its worse than I thought, but still not as bad as fox news, its just a different type of bad.[/QUOTE] I would say that it is indeed a different type of bad, and has less prominence, but I'd also say it's just as bad. [editline]16th August 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Mingebox;31766848][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eBT6OSr1TI[/media][/QUOTE] I'm afraid I've already posted that.

[QUOTE=geoface;31765284]hahaha you know if this is true, all i can do is laugh. I'm not trying to be racist or distasteful, but England and the US really, truly fucked themselves over by bringing their slaves into their countries all those centuries ago, now, I know many of you will probably rate this dumb and will make butthurt responses, but it's the truth. I'm not saying these foreigners don't deserve to be in any country they want, I'm just making an observation. Look at Ireland, I doubt there was many slaves here that were foreign, because they just enslaved the Irish. I barely see 1 black person per month, possibly not even 1 black person per half a year. Although i don't live in the city.[/QUOTE] I thought Ireland was steadily becoming more and more New Poland. I don't think mass immigrations have as much to do with slavery as you might think.

[QUOTE=Hazard Fox;31765987]So I take it that Daily Mail is the English version of Fox News?[/QUOTE] Fox news at least tries to keep up a pretense of professionalism.

[QUOTE=geoface;31765284]I'm not trying to be racist or distasteful, but England and the US really, truly fucked themselves over by bringing their slaves into their countries all those centuries ago, now, I know many of you will probably rate this dumb and will make butthurt responses, but it's the truth. I'm not saying these foreigners don't deserve to be in any country they want, I'm just making an observation.[/quote] Yes, because disagreeing with the notion that "black people in your country bring your economy down" is being butthurt. [QUOTE=geoface;31765284]Look at Ireland, I doubt there was many slaves here that were foreign, because they just enslaved the Irish. I barely see 1 black person per month, possibly not even 1 black person per half a year. Although i don't live in the city.[/QUOTE] [I]"Yeah man, I don't see any Black people, and look at how good Ireland's doing!"[/I]

[QUOTE=Mingebox;31766955]Fox news at least tries to keep up a pretense of professionalism.[/QUOTE] Many of the Fox news reporters are very unprofessional.