Somali mum is ungrateful (From Times Series)

Somali mum is ungrateful

9:00am Friday 9th May 2008

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I found your piece on the Somali mother-of-six waiting 13 years for accomodation on Barnet's housing waiting list annoying, to say the least.

This woman does nothing but complain. There is not a single word of gratitude for the taxpayers who have kept a roof over her head, food on her table, and clothes on her back. Not a word of thanks for the health care, the education, the generous benefits, all paid for out of public money.

She seems to think this country owes her a living. She seems not to understand that all these services are not pulled out of thin air but paid for by the hard work of others.

Has she ever tried to help herself in any way? Could she not at least have learned English in all the years waiting for accommodation? Maybe if she had, she could have got a job and contributed something towards her upkeep and that of her large family.

Allan Smith, Orange Hill Road, Burnt Oak

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