Here's the BBC's programme synopsis:
'Intimate and honest documentary following daily life with 49-year-old Mike Holpin and his controversial and ever-expanding family. Living with his third wife Petrina and their nine children in a three-bedroom terraced house, Mike's home is hugely overcrowded and the kids often double up because there is not enough space for them each to have their own bed. With benefits of 27,000 pounds a year to live on, however, Mike appears oblivious to what other people think of his family and we follow them through the chaos and extravagance of Christmas, the prospect of Mike being jailed for drink-driving, and his boys getting in trouble with the police.'
Comment is pointless but one of the more amusing revelations was that the subject of the programme is (Is anyone surprised?) claiming incapacity benefit because he is epileptic and an alcoholic, about which he is philosophical, admitting to the camera that he can understand that he is unemployable (he isn't) as he wouldn't employ a liability such as himself but the biggest howler, for Gruff, was his description of his children, in their presence, as 'foul-mouthed fucking animals' when told that they'd sworn in front of 'mammy'.
What can one say apart from to advocate the enforced sterilisation of such people, and their numerous progeny?
Postscript: The video is still available at 22:02, 23/7, although it comes with the distraction of a man signing for deaf viewers.
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