"You do not have to be a single teenage parent to get a council house and collect benefits because you have a child, you can be married and you get the same benefits."

People in need jump the queue for council housing, while married couples with one child, still find themselves a long way down the list behind families with sveral children, or families with 2 children of different sexes who's children are too old to share a bedroom, and need a bigger house. It's this short circuiting the system that causes a lot of the resentment in some quarters.
They could always come up to the highlands where there are short, or no waiting lists for council accommodation in some villages. Of course there's no work, no decent public transport, and damned little entertainment that you can get to without a car.
Giok