Loudmouth hard-left Labour MP Apsana Begum is still living in a taxpayer-funded council house despite earning mega money.
Is this a window into the socialist, entitled, benefits Britain that awaits us under Labour - it certainly raises serious questions about how people can game the system and live a life on the taxpayer take…which of course is not what Ms Begum is doing here at all.
Radical pro-Palestine Begum attacked the Tories last week for having no solutions to the housing crisis.
In fact, it's been a theme of her time as an MP since she was elected in 2019...
Now it’s turned out that despite being on just under £90,000-a-year, and there are question marks over whether or not she’s actually on more than that, she is living in a flat we’re all paying for.
In a sense, she’s got her hand out twice: We pay her wages, and we pay for her house.
I’ve got a solution: Go and rent your own home. Stand on your own two feet.
This woman was endorsed by radical left-wing group Momentum, nominated on an all woman shortlist, she’s escaped punishment for standing alongside the Palestine Solidarity Campaign that responded to the Hamas attack by organising a demonstration at the Israeli Embassy.
Let's take a look at the numbers here, they're pretty damning:
The average salary where she lives is just over £30,000, the average salary in the UK is just shy of £35k, that's nearly a third of her £86,584 MP salary.
In her area there are around 20,000 families on the housing waiting list, and she’s living in a council flat despite being an MP.
She said years ago that she didn’t really need the council flat…she’s part of the problem isn’t she?
Many people will find it absolutely insane that somebody earning roughly £90k-a-year can still claim benefits. But here we are in modern Britain. And people are happy to do it.
Analysis of Office for National Statistics data from 2020-21 showed a record 54.2% of people - that was 36 million at the time - now live in households which received more in benefits than they contributed in taxes.
In places like Lambeth in London, the average rent is £2745-a-month. People who’ve just arrived to this country can get it subsidised at around £487-a-month.
And today it's emerged that migrants are being given taxpayer subsidised social housing just off the Portobello Road in London. They're paying £151-a-week for a 3 bedroom property, normally that would be £860-a-week. And they are allowed to sub let spare rooms, to rent them out, and keep the profits! This is an absolute mickey take!
People are bang at it in this country when it comes to claiming benefits.
We have the highest tax burden since WW2. And your taxes are paying for people like Apsana Begum. Are you happy about that?
