Life Is Not A Bowl Of Mulberries

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Sian Killean is fed up with benefits claimants living the high life.

I was shocked to hear that Cheryl Prudham (32), a benefits claimant and the mother of 11 children, had been seen in the Westfield Stratford branch of designer store, Mulberry.

It has been reported that the Prudham family is receiving £39,000 a year in benefits. Already in the spotlight for the family’s £5000 holiday, Cheryl Prudham has drawn even more attention to herself by visiting a shop in which handbags sell from £200 to around a thousand pounds.

She insists that she is entitled to nearly £40,000 of tax payer’s money because she has a large family. Now expecting her twelfth baby, she explained that ‘I get more benefits with every child, so I can afford a big family.’

It’s all right for some! There’s a logic to it, but surely this is nothing short of shameless.

I can’t help but feel anger towards those who feel that they deserve and are entitled to so much money. If that amount, multiplied by the number of people who behave in this way, was re-allocated to the services which ordinary, decent people really need, the whole country would be miles better off.

I can see there has to be income support for families in need, but people who are openly abusing the system should have their benefits cut.

They are an insult to hundreds of thousands of parents working full time and over-time to raise their children, who wouldn’t even dream of shopping in Mulberry.

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