Just a thought

I'm sad rather than condemnatory, that she should judge non-British as being less entitled to a decent standard of living than she believes herself to be, in my utopia, every one should have equal rights. I should also add that she also condemns immigrants use of the NHS, while she I visits the doctors on a frequent basis with numerous health issues. I know her personal circumstances, as she has told me.

thatbags, can't see any mention of 'worthless scum' in the OP, just an observation that the neighbour is being rather hypocritical.

Exactly.

Okay, next questions: (1) how do you know all this personal stuff about her finances? and (2) what business is it of yours if the agreement between her and her husband is that he earns money and she does all the chores connected with running a home?

Her comments, if reported correctly by you, are certainly unsavoury, but so is your disnmissal of her as worthless scum. By talking about her the way you have, you are being just as unsavoury as she was; it's only the target that's different.

Outofstepwithhumanity - do you really think that this lady is in the majority? Do you think that judgements (if judgements are even appropriate) should be based on superficialities, or that maybe serious thought needs to go into understanding where someone like this is coming from and why they are as they are? She is a fellow human being with a history and experiences of her own that have shaped who she has become. She cannot just be dismissed out of hand as a lesser being. There but for the grace and all that.

As I have said on another thread, successive governments have done nothing to help someone like this lady feel part of the mainstream of society; they have simply created more of the divisions that fuel this anger and prejudice. I am tempted to suggest that prejudice is a concept that is not alien to you.

Apparently we will get to the acceptance stage eventually outofstepwithhumanity so they say but I should hang onto that badge for when your neighbour realises she has been conned.

No! No children

Did she bring up a family?