Living Large: Beats Working

Or so this mother-daughter combo seems to think:

A mother and daughter who get £34,000 a year in handouts because they are too fat to work say they’d rather be happy and on benefits than depressed and thin. Janice and Amber Manzur weigh a total of 43 stone and are so overweight they have to use mobility scooters to get around.

But both women refuse to diet and mother-of-two Ms Manzur, 44, insists: “I’d rather my daughter live life on benefits being fat and happy than depressed and thin.” Ms Manzur lives in a three-bedroom house that has been customised by the council to accommodate her disability and drives a Fiat Quibo disability car worth around £15,000.

Ms Manzur said: “There’s no point in dieting, it doesn’t make a difference. I’ve always been big and I’m too fat to work, so I have a genuine disability. I should be miserable but I’m happy. I know this is the way I’m meant to be.”

Be sure to click on the link for some live-action photos of Britain’s welfare state in action.

Ms Manzur said her and her daughter have been the victims of cruel comments from strangers. She said: “We attract quite a bit of attention when we pop to the shops on our matching scooters. “A man once compared us to a herd of elephants. Another rolled down his car window, called us “fatsos” and said, ‘Get off and walk’. We just ignore them. We can’t change the way we were born.”

At least one member of the family is working, though.