Now I admit that the flaw in this plan is the time it would take to procreate seven times over.

But it will be worth the wait, I promise you. For once you have produced an extremely large number of dependents and combined it with no income of your own, the wonderful world of the welfare state will open up for you forever. And you don’t even have to be British to get on the gravy train.

You could be like Toorpaki Saiedi, the unemployed single mother of seven from Afghanistan, who is in receipt of almost £12,500 a month in housing benefit alone from Ealing Council and lives, at the expense of local council taxpayers (of whom I am one), in a palatial seven-bedroom mansion in nearby Acton.

It’s at least three times the size of the house that Mrs O’Flynn and I saved so hard to buy and bring up our children in and the garden is ten times as big.

We stopped at two children because we worried about being able to afford to give them a good standard of life. But I’ll try not to sound bitter.

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While Labour keeps the furore over George Osborne and the billionaire’s yacht going for another day, the whole nation is quietly going down the pan.

The stock market is slumping, the public finances are in an horrendous state, unemployment is soaring and even the Prime Minister admits we are entering a recession.

I am none too impressed with Mr Osborne’s judgment over Nat Rothschild and the Russian tycoon.

But do I really think the latest twist to this story - that Osborne was slagging off David Davis while Peter Mandelson was slating Gordon Brown – is important? Not in the slightest.

Almost as many people knew that that Davis was unpopular among David Cameron’s inner-circle as knew that Mandelson and Brown can’t stand each other. It was hardly a state secret. 

I am astonished that the so-called “quality” press and our leading broadcasters are paying more attention to this silly holiday bitchiness than to fundamental political problems facing the nation.

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The Beeb produces many good programmes, but one thing that continues to infuriate me is the liberal-left bias in its coverage of current affairs.

This morning an item on the Today Programme on Radio Four really took the biscuit. The programme was covering some research by Lib Dem home affairs spokesman Chris Huhne which revealed that only half those convicted of gun possession are being sent to prison for the mandatory five year term which is meant to accompany this offence.

Judges are using what is supposed to be an exceptional power of “discretion” to deliver lower sentences than those voted through by Parliament in 50 per cent of cases. Now, you would think the story would revolve around a row over judges undermining the will of the democratic legislature.

Not a bit of it. Limp liberal Huhne argued that this showed mandatory sentences were flawed. He backed up the right of judges to use their discretion so frequently even when Parliament had voted for mandatory terms. Fair enough for the Beeb to air his view, after all, it was his research.

But who did the Beeb get on to debate the subject with him? W

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