Taxpayers pay £1,600-a-week for family of ex-asylum seekers to live in luxury five-storey home

A Somali family are living in a luxury £1.8million five- storey house in central London funded by the taxpayer. Nasra Warsame, 40, has lived with seven of her children and her elderly mother in the six-bedroom house since October. Westminster council pays the £1,600-a-week rent for the former asylum seeker. The fully-furnished house, within walking distance of the West End, has three sitting rooms and four bathrooms. The main lounge has two leather sofas, a flat-screen television and a glass coffee table. Annual rent for the house would cost £83,200. Mrs Warsame's home is part of an impressive 1960s development of modern apartments and houses. There is a large glass sculpture situated in the middle of a courtyard outside the family's front door. It is understood the rent being paid by the council is twice the going rate for a property in the area. It is unclear why this is the case. Meanwhile, Mrs Warsame's husband Bashir Aden, 50, and another of their children are living in a separate property in nearby Camden. ----Cost: The house costs the public purse a massive £83,000 a year---- 'The new house we moved into in October is a nice house and it is in a nice area,' Mrs Warsame said. 'It is quiet and it is convenient and we do not want to leave. 'It is better than the house we were living in in Maida Vale which was quite small. We were getting complaints from neighbours that the children were being too noisy.' Mrs Warsame and her husband fled unrest in Somalia in 1991 and claimed asylum in Britain. They have since been granted citizenship and all of their children were born here. But the family could be evicted from their house, as it is claimed it has been rented out illegally. Philippa Roe, of Westminster council, said: 'It's important to note that the amount of housing benefit payable for tenants is determined by government policy and not local councils. This rate is calculated and updated on a yearly basis according to the value of the local rental market. We have absolutely no discretion in this area. 'Property rents in Westminster are among the highest in the country so it is perhaps unsurprising that a family claiming housing benefit for a property of this size would need to submit a claim for this amount. 'We would, however, like to see the entire housing benefit system changed to enable councils to have more control and essentially the ability to limit the amount of money claimed where appropriate.' Last year it was revealed Afghan single mother Toorpakai Saiedi and her seven children were given a £1.2million property complete with 100ft garden by Ealing council in West London. Mrs Saiedi, 35, received £170,000 a year in benefits. Some £150,000 of that is paid to a private landlord for the seven-bedroom house. A Department for Work and Pensions spokesman said: 'We capped the Local Housing Allowance in April because it was unacceptable that a small number of people received exceptionally high levels of Housing Benefit. 'We want the system to be fair, both to families in need and the taxpayer.' (my view)-I want to vote BNP! they should NOT be in this country,they do NOT work,they didn't work for that huge house....send the niggas back!look at the smile on the shits face.....he doesn't care that he is ripping the taxpayer off......VOTE BNP!

Question!

HOW DOES TAXING STUFF LIKE PETROL(GAS if your American)AND OTHER EMISSIONS COMBAT CLIMATE CHANGE?????????? ----because to me...taxing people is to make you more money,money DOES NOT combat global warming...your using global warming as an excuse to make loads of money from us all.....YOU DO NOT AND NEVER WILL CARE ABOUT OUR CLIMATE......am i wrong friends or right???

Australian aims to breed 'green' sheep that burp less -LOL FUCKING LOONEY TOONS LOL

Australian scientists have said they are hoping to breed sheep that burp less as part of efforts to tackle climate change. The scientists have been trying to identify a genetic link that causes some sheep to belch less than others. Burping is a far greater cause of emissions in sheep than flatulence, they say. About 16% of Australia's greenhouse emissions come from agriculture, says the department of climate change. Australia's Sheep Cooperative Research Council says 66% of agricultural emissions are released as methane from the gut of livestock. "Ninety per cent of the methane that sheep and cattle and goats produce comes from the rumen, and that's burped out," John Goopy from the New South Wales Department of Industry and Investment told ABC. "Not much goes behind - that's horses." The scientists in New South Wales have been conducting experiments in specially designed pens where they measure how much gas sheep emit by burping. They have found, from tests on 200 sheep so far, that the more they eat, the more they belch. But even taking that into account, there appear to be "significant differences" between individual animals, Mr Goopy said. The scientists' goal in the long term is to breed sheep that produce less methane, which produces many times more global warming than carbon dioxide. "We're looking for natural variations so we'll steer the population that way, " said Roger Hegarty, from the Sheep Cooperative Research Council. (my view)-I know ozzies are thick and stupid but come on!

Lawyers target thousands of 'illegal' file-sharers

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German 'Robin Hood' banker gets suspended sentence

A German bank employee who secretly transferred money from rich to poor clients has been given a 22-month suspended prison term. The 62-year-old woman, dubbed the 'Robin Hood Banker', moved more than $11m (£7m) in 117 transfers. The court in Bonn was told that the employee, who has not been named, took no money for herself. The bank made a loss of more than $1.5m (£1m) when poor customers were unable to pay back unauthorised overdrafts. The employee was accused of allowing overdrafts for customers who would not normally qualify for them. Small pension She then used the money from richer customers to temporarily disguise the loans during the bank's monthly audit of overdrafts. The woman has begun reimbursing the bank for the losses, reportedly from a small retirement pension. She could have faced a four-year prison sentence, but the court decided on leniency as she had confessed immediately and did not profit personally. The woman was also considered to have suffered enough, through the loss of her job and the requirement that she pay back the lost funds. (my view)-The woman did NOTHING wrong..the rich have it made.......they do not struggle and this just proves the helping the poor and doing the right thing.....gets you arrested ect.....A FUCKING HATE THE GOVERNMENT...we want want want..thats all you think about....MORE MONEY! sick