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  • Use www.gravatar.com to create an Avatar for your e-mail address and use it on many supported sites July 7th, 2008 - 11:24pmAlison Brownlee said...

    Somebody please wring the necks of those two feckless morons to stop from them from breeding yet more dysfunctional brats whom will end up as worthless leeches like the parents are.

  • Use www.gravatar.com to create an Avatar for your e-mail address and use it on many supported sites July 8th, 2008 - 1:32ampaul faulkner said...

    I am absolutley disgusted with this programme and sincernetly hope that you didnt contribute any of the liecnce fees money ot this delequant family. they weere in essence, complete idots. How dare they smoke and drink so much around 14 kids at home? Not surprised the other 6 left but when we saw one of them (who had A BABY SO NO SURPRISE)and another daughter who had baby. the whole house wAS FULL OF SHIT AND IT LOOKED DISCUTSING. hOW DARE THEY ASK A 14 YEAR OLD LOOK AFTER AND OUT TO SLEEP A 4 YEAR OLD.

  • Use www.gravatar.com to create an Avatar for your e-mail address and use it on many supported sites July 8th, 2008 - 10:07ambobbi dowds said...

    i can not beleive that these people get away with this..the stae funding their booze and cigs. the kids need to be removed asap ...parents need to be put to sleep.they are a waste of space on this earth. and what happened to the poor dog they left in the street when they moved..i hope the camera crew made sure it was given to a rescue centre.poor kids..poor animal.

    i know there are many more families like this ...what a world we live in.

  • Use www.gravatar.com to create an Avatar for your e-mail address and use it on many supported sites July 8th, 2008 - 1:37pmpaul e said...

    The man is a "menace" to society with "no excuses" which he frequently "trots out", he says he "doesn't care", but he does, but only about himself!

    He should be "ashamed".

    He has deliberately "chosen" his life and should start taking responsibility for it, immediately!

    Even the children make excuses.

    The worst part about "this man" is, he is "intent" on "teaching his children" to survive ("by hook or by crook").

    What a "role model"to have as a parent!

  • Use www.gravatar.com to create an Avatar for your e-mail address and use it on many supported sites July 8th, 2008 - 1:40pmmonkeenuts said...

    oh strongbow,

    u came and you stopped me from shaking,

    and i need you now oh stronbow

    genius!!!!!

  • Use www.gravatar.com to create an Avatar for your e-mail address and use it on many supported sites July 8th, 2008 - 1:42pmPaul e said...

    From the BBC website:

    He has children with four different women and has left enough space on his back in case latest wife, Petrina, is willing to have another baby.

    "The tattoo covers quite an area, but I would make room if I had any more children.

    "One of the reasons I've had so many is because I can. There are people out there who would love to have one child let alone 20.

    "The other reason is I don't believe in contraception whatsoever. I love miracles and every birth is a miracle in itself."

    Mr Holpin, who is a registered alcoholic and dependent on sickness benefit because of his epileptic condition, previously lived in a three-bedroomed council house with his wife and nine of the children.

  • Use www.gravatar.com to create an Avatar for your e-mail address and use it on many supported sites July 8th, 2008 - 3:54pmken said...

    They should have all the kids taken away

    he should have it cut off.How the hell have social services allowed the children to live in such squalor? my grandchildren was taken away for a lot less, in fact no proven reason

  • Use www.gravatar.com to create an Avatar for your e-mail address and use it on many supported sites July 8th, 2008 - 4:51pmGreg 'holpin' Hughes said...

    I'm one of mikes kids who doesn't live with him and for those people who think that my dad and his wife are a waste then you try bringing up 9 kids without a spot of trouble or mess no one is perfect they do what they do to surive just like the rest of the world!!!!!!! By the way the dog was the next door neighbours!!

    Greg 'Holpin' Hughes

  • Use www.gravatar.com to create an Avatar for your e-mail address and use it on many supported sites July 8th, 2008 - 5:32pmholpin said...

    hi agree with u greg, my old man is your old man couzen they use 2 live in focriew my grampa and your grampa was bothers my grampa was name jack and yesterday on tv was a great programm to show every 1 how hard it reli is.

  • Use www.gravatar.com to create an Avatar for your e-mail address and use it on many supported sites July 8th, 2008 - 7:09pmRoger Carlucci-Hodson said...

    What an enlightening programme. I was shocked at the squalor the children are living in. I believe the DSS has a lot to answer for in letting families like this claim more and more benefits to the point where the father is unable to get a job to support his family as the benefits paid outweigh any income.

    I do think the children deserve a better home and chance in life and the parents do not deserve them. To be honest I agree with other comments on here that they should be shot...especially after playing with a bowie knife in the park at this time when knife crime is on the up. What an example to set!

    I will offer to bring up on eor two of the children if they need a better home.

  • Use www.gravatar.com to create an Avatar for your e-mail address and use it on many supported sites July 8th, 2008 - 7:45pmgemma said...

    hi just to get my views and point across i lived with this man 4 years , he got 3 kids with my mum and they was married he was with her 4 the money tat it she was disabled and tat all he wanted was money! he treated us badly made us stave , beat up up and alot more ! hes a nasty man aqnd i hope who ever watched the programe sees the real him! all he cares abou is himself! dirty man u wil get wat u diserve in the long run! ur the fool coz my life been turned roun 4 the better ur the same nw as u was over 12 years ago ! get a bloody life and let them poor kids hw a life 2 !

  • Use www.gravatar.com to create an Avatar for your e-mail address and use it on many supported sites July 8th, 2008 - 8:02pmdocko said...

    this man should have his knob chopped off! His poor poor kids having a dad like that

  • Use www.gravatar.com to create an Avatar for your e-mail address and use it on many supported sites July 8th, 2008 - 8:23pmjohn wayne said...

    A newspaper recently published the Top Ten towns in Britain that claim the most benefit, FOUR of them are in Wales. The sad fact is this family is not unique and the government know it, we must all write to our MP's stating we want an end to benefit except for people who really deserve it. These scum bags are bleeding the country dry.

  • Use www.gravatar.com to create an Avatar for your e-mail address and use it on many supported sites July 9th, 2008 - 2:13amClaire said...

    I enjoyed this documentary and while I would not want to live next door to the family it was obvious the couple tried to do the best they could for their children and they all seemed happy. There are parents out there who are a lot worse and who purposely hurt their children.

    People can complain all they like about the fact that this family may rely on state handouts etc but theirs is not a lifestyle I am envious of and if it means that I as a tax payer am paying towards their living costs in order to feed their kids etc it's fine because I prefer the way I live.

    Anyway good luck to them.

  • Use www.gravatar.com to create an Avatar for your e-mail address and use it on many supported sites July 9th, 2008 - 9:36amGreg 'holpin' Hughes said...

    Gemma if u read this contact me I'm mikes son Greg it be wicked 2 hear from u agen aint spoke 2 u in years

    Giv me a txt 07842702853

  • Use www.gravatar.com to create an Avatar for your e-mail address and use it on many supported sites July 9th, 2008 - 11:18amgemma said...

    thats the thing he isn a nice man i knw him very well , did u hear him swearin @ the children smokin in front off a 4 month old! drinkin havin the kids 2 slave after them , every time u seen them there was drink and smoke! i wouldn like 2 think wat he is like withou the cmarea on will nver forget wat he was like 2 me and my 2 sister not by him! thank god but my 3 brothers! my 1st brother he was 3 month and was adopted , other 2 the 1 was 1 year old went in 2 care the other was 2 ! so hw can u say he cares 4 them? he hasn and never will! wel he hurt me and my family tat all i can say he knw wat happened and so do we and tat there 4 life nw! takin the littl baby out f the pram 2 push his drink oh how classy?! and sellin 1 off the kids xmas present 4 15 pound and spent 12.50 on cans oh yeah hw thoguhful! he caqres abou him self so does she! liek when they was cumin 2 my mums and sleepin with his wife nw dirty stinkin man ! the kids r not happy u coul see nicola cookin she didin wanna do it! not an enviroment 4 kids 2 b brought up any hw ! thank god im nothin 2 do with him any more coz when i was he make my kife hell! 6 year old kickin me 2 bed turnin the lights on and off sayin freddie gonna get u ! tat is prob the smae nw with his kids tat y the young boi has 2 get the baby 2 sleep!

  • Use www.gravatar.com to create an Avatar for your e-mail address and use it on many supported sites July 9th, 2008 - 12:44pmTegwen Parri said...

    A brilliant documentary that broke my heart. I wanted to run over to the house and take all the children with me. I have been fortunate to have escaped such a squalid life and I hope that my children will too. For these poor children living in those kind of conditions and with parents who really do not wish to better their lives or their children, there is no bright future. And that's very unfair. I hope they can look further than this and change their lives for better.

  • Use www.gravatar.com to create an Avatar for your e-mail address and use it on many supported sites July 9th, 2008 - 4:28pmGreg hughes said...

    Gemma text me I'd like 2 hear from u cos ur stil techinally my step sis 07842702853

  • Use www.gravatar.com to create an Avatar for your e-mail address and use it on many supported sites July 9th, 2008 - 7:09pmGreg 'Holpin' Hughes said...

    Gemma jus want to no how u n ur sisters r thas all so please giv me a text! 07842702853

  • Use www.gravatar.com to create an Avatar for your e-mail address and use it on many supported sites July 9th, 2008 - 10:34pmLorraine said...

    I watched the programme and then went to bed, but did'nt sleep. I could'nt get them poor mites out of my head. What squalor they were living in, no sheets on the bed, filthy duvets and one of the children was only in a nappy throughout the whole programme and his little face always looked unwashed. I know when you have kiddies you don't expect a palace but you can teach your kids to be respectful and put things away after use. Every room was a total tip. I was totally apalled at the lack of concern with all the adults smoking in a small living room with all the kiddies and a baby! How selfish can you get. I could'nt believe Mike after being released from prison telling his kids off for swearing whilst he was away, but the only way he could get it across was swearing like a trooper himself! Both of them have no parenting skills other than to reproduce even more poor unfortunate offsprings.

    I felt very sorry for the eldest girl, all she seemed to do was fetch and carry and cook for the kiddies, at her age she needs a life with youngsters her own age and have a job of her own. She is nothing short of a skivvy for her parents, looking after these poor mites after they have been so irresponsible in bringing all these lives into the world. People like that should be forced to have a vasectomy or be sterilised. In this case it would be better for him to have a vasectomy, then he could'nt father anymore kids by any other woman.

    Both me and my husband work very hard and it peeves me to think that we are paying to keep that lazy drunken so and so out of work, so he can make babies, drink himself into a stupour and make his kids life hell. The comment about the dog saying it was a neighbours. In one of the shots the dog was in the house and when she went to collect him from prison, a comment was made about the police contacting them about the dog. So I don't think the dog was a neighbours. That is totally disgusting moving house and leaving a poor animal to defend for itself. That shows the mentality of this pair of morons.

    I hope this dog was found a better home than living with that lot.

    Please Social Services step in and check this out, you've hopefully seen the film, is'nt that evidence enough to remove the kids to have a better life elsewhere.

  • Use www.gravatar.com to create an Avatar for your e-mail address and use it on many supported sites July 10th, 2008 - 9:58amBo said...

    I agree with Alison Brownlee.

    People like this should not be able to infect the future with their stupid genes.

  • Use www.gravatar.com to create an Avatar for your e-mail address and use it on many supported sites July 10th, 2008 - 1:32pmAlydd John Mal said...

    that guy mike owes me £5...

  • Use www.gravatar.com to create an Avatar for your e-mail address and use it on many supported sites July 14th, 2008 - 12 midnightclare eldridge said...

    I totally agree with Lorraine. I too was unable to sleep after watching this documentary. Why on earth were the children not removed??? The dog certianly had a lucky escape!

  • Use www.gravatar.com to create an Avatar for your e-mail address and use it on many supported sites July 14th, 2008 - 7:44pmCourt said...

    Never mind the dad, that woman was such a bad mother. She forgot to put her child to bed??? Her daughter cooks dinner? Her other daughter had no where to do homework?

    And if we do start on the dad, he says it's okay to steal from people if it's not family? So It's okay to mug me, even if what they take from me is important? He should have been left in jail to rot.

  • Use www.gravatar.com to create an Avatar for your e-mail address and use it on many supported sites July 17th, 2008 - 12:33pmRuth said...

    oh my don't f...ing swear now and don't f...ing steal from home only shops!!!

    WOT THE --- please Social step in now before it's too late to save those little ones--surely there's enough taped evidence!!

  • Use www.gravatar.com to create an Avatar for your e-mail address and use it on many supported sites December 29th, 2008 - 1:27amGorgonzola said...

    Well, what a bigoted, evil lot of correspondents you are. No tolernace, no understanding, just an outpouring of hatred and viciousness. And you say the Holpins should be ashamed? Look in the mirror. Thank God I don't live in Britain.

  • Use www.gravatar.com to create an Avatar for your e-mail address and use it on many supported sites January 26th - 1:01amconcerned said...

    what is bigoted and evil about thinking that a good for nothing drunk fathering 20 children he can not look after is totally irresponsable,what chance in life have those poor kids got with parents like that as role models, they are a disgrace and unfortunately represent the way our society is going!!

  • Use www.gravatar.com to create an Avatar for your e-mail address and use it on many supported sites September 22nd - 4:54pmnikola holpin said...

    this is mi dad and all u lot slagging him off wana take a long hard look at ur own familys

  • Use www.gravatar.com to create an Avatar for your e-mail address and use it on many supported sites September 22nd - 4:55pmrhiannonlucas said...

    hi efery one

  • Use www.gravatar.com to create an Avatar for your e-mail address and use it on many supported sites September 22nd - 5:02pmrhiannon louise lucas said...

    hi everyone its theyre friends its nothing wrong with them they have got a tidy places where they live in a nice tidy place and i am friends with them they are very nice people i love them to bits there arre tifdy as hell so nowone can call them of over accept theyre family ok so dont righ nasty comment on here ok because they are mega clean ok wrote by rhiannon lucasxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

  • Use www.gravatar.com to create an Avatar for your e-mail address and use it on many supported sites September 22nd - 5:05pmnikola holpin said...

    ive read all da comments and all the ppl tat wrote bad ones wana look at them selfs couse i fink u r worse then mi family in the long run

  • Use www.gravatar.com to create an Avatar for your e-mail address and use it on many supported sites September 22nd - 5:17pmrhiannon holpin said...

    I am 1 of the 20 kids and my mam and dad do look after us you need to get to no us you cant judge us by that tv programme. people who no us would say the same. those bbc people put on the worse parts and they put half of it on like cos my sis dont always cook,i can do my homework now and my little brother was only young and he dribbles so wat do you want us to do shout at him 4 dribbling?

    and when he was up stairs on his own he wasnt waiting to get to sleep cos the bbc asked my bro to wait behind the cam!

    those bbc camera crew should rot!

    gemma you lot went to care because MY DAD left to be with MY MUM and your mum couldn't look after you but it was not her fault coz she was disabled

    if you all dont like it then 4n social services because they been to our house and walked away happy so if you want to waste your time then please do!

    please jus leave us alone!!!

    rhiannon holpin

    age 13

  • Use www.gravatar.com to create an Avatar for your e-mail address and use it on many supported sites October 28th - 1:26pmrhiannon lucas said...

    mike holpin is mega and he have a tidy kids they are dressed tidy all the time because i use to bother with them all the time . they are very smart kids and all of the family are tidy

    lots love from rhiannon lucas and jonny lucas

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