This Shannon Matthews business

Lorns · Thu 10 Apr, 2008 15.43

Even when Shannon first went missing i thought something stunk. My first thought was that the stepfather was behind it.
The recent arrests and charges is only scraping the top of the barrel. I think it's likely there will be lots more twists and turns. None of them seem to have many brain cells between them and Michael Donovan seems to be the dumbest of them all, which is probably why he was given the task of taking Shannon into his home, too thick to foresee the consequences of his role in this scam.

Stuart* · Thu 10 Apr, 2008 16.16

This is certainly a facinating case. It's not even clear yet what the motivation was behind any of this. If it was to try to make money then it wasn't planned well at all; and it probably failed in that respect.

Maybe it was just a sequence of events (ie the Mother leaving her b/f, then changing her mind) that subsequently got out of control. If so, then it's surprising that with all the people involved, not one of them had the intelligence to see where it was all heading. With that level of ineptitude it was only a matter of time before someone blabbed.

It was obvious simply by the circumstances in which Shannon was found that there was more to this than an abduction. At least now the girl is safe, and by all accounts happy. Perhaps something good has come out of the whole thing, although more by accident than design.

Lorns wrote:The recent arrests and charges is only scraping the top of the barrel.

Bless. What a sweet mangled metaphor

Nini · Thu 10 Apr, 2008 16.23

StuartPlymouth wrote:
Lorns wrote:The recent arrests and charges is only scraping the top of the barrel.
Bless. What a sweet mangled metaphor

You're wrong Stu, that metaphor was apt.

I get your code now Stu. Each time you make one of your bitchy and most times uncalled for remarks you cap them with

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Don't change it, helps me to step around your proverbial mounds of shit that fall from your fingers.

Stuart* · Thu 10 Apr, 2008 16.26

Nini wrote:I get your code now Stu. Each time you make one of your bitchy and most times uncalled for remarks you cap them with .

Don't change it, helps me to step around your proverbial mounds of shit that fall from your fingers.

I wasn't being bitchy! It made me chuckle, and I also PM'd Lorna to let her know how much it made me laugh.

Nini · Thu 10 Apr, 2008 16.27

Buggering buggery!

I concede.

Gavin Scott · Thu 10 Apr, 2008 16.32

At least it wasn't written in parentheses in tiny letters as is Stu's MO at the moment.

Still, its better than Brekkie's god damn double-spaced posts.

Chie · Thu 10 Apr, 2008 17.41

Lorns wrote:Even when Shannon first went missing i thought something stunk. My first thought was that the stepfather was behind it.
The recent arrests and charges is only scraping the top of the barrel. I think it's likely there will be lots more twists and turns. None of them seem to have many brain cells between them and Michael Donovan seems to be the dumbest of them all, which is probably why he was given the task of taking Shannon into his home, too thick to foresee the consequences of his role in this scam.

According to press reports quoting the mother of Donovan's biological children, he was banned from seeing them by Social Services after the school found an 'inappropriate note' in one of the children's lunchboxes.

Lorns · Thu 10 Apr, 2008 18.11

StuartPlymouth wrote:
Nini wrote:I get your code now Stu. Each time you make one of your bitchy and most times uncalled for remarks you cap them with .

Don't change it, helps me to step around your proverbial mounds of shit that fall from your fingers.
I wasn't being bitchy! It made me chuckle, and I also PM'd Lorna to let her know how much it made me laugh.

TSK!
Calling me an honary blonde is not Bitchy eh? I'll hit ya wiv me 'andbag darlin!

Stuart* · Thu 10 Apr, 2008 18.32

Lorns wrote:I'll hit ya wiv me 'andbag darlin!

I'd rather you "sent the boyz round to sort me aahht"

Stuart* · Sat 12 Apr, 2008 16.27

Latest reports are that Shannon's Mother is being investigated for benefit fraud. Apparently she received £400 a week by claiming that she was caring for 4 of her children while living on her own. I'm sure it doesn't cost £100 to feed and clothe a child for a week.

The fact that she wasn't on her own isn't what amazes me here, but the fact than ANYONE can receive £20,000 a year (tax free) in benefits in the first place. That's roughly equivalent to the take home pay of someone on a £26,000 salary.

She's reported as saying "I earned it. I put the food on the table." She seems to have completely missed the concept of earning; somebody else earned it, paid tax that was handed to her on a plate for doing nothing more than being unable to keep her legs shut whenever she met someone new.

If she was on a benefits scam then this woman was incredibly stupid to put herself in the public eye.

Lorns · Sat 12 Apr, 2008 17.15

And we're still financing her stint at her majestys pleasure. Well She hasn't got much to worry about with this Economic depression on the horizon then has she. Either way she will get provided with a roof over her head at our expense . All doom and gloom today and to think i was looking forward to the weekend.