The bedroom tax. An entirely punitive policy allegedly designed to shove “under-occupying” social housing tenants into size-appropriate properties when there is a massive shortage of one bedroom homes. Not that it matters to the Tories, of course. Very few people hammered by this policy are likely to place their cross against the blue party anyway [...]
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I’ve just been to protest about the bedroom tax at the PM’s 10-bedroom country house
Apr 5th, 2013 by Michael Meacher.Together with David Winnick MP and Kelvin Hopkins MP, I’ve just been to protest about the government’s Bedroom Tax at the Prime Minister’s official residence at Chequers in Buckinghamshire. We called on Cameron to pay the Bedroom Tax on his 10 spare bedrooms at Chequers – this is what we said in our letter: Bookmarks Hide Sites
Social cleansing Tory-style: housing benefit cap plus bedroom tax
Mar 26th, 2013 by Michael Meacher.On 6 April, the start of the new financial year, on exactly the same day that 14,000 millionaires in the UK get a £40,000 per year rise in their net income from the abolition of the 50% rate of income tax, thousands of Britain’s poorest people will be forced then or soon after out of [...]
Join another round of protests against the ‘Bedroom Tax’ next weekend (30 March)
Mar 25th, 2013 by Jon Lansman.Following the nationwide series of protests on 16 March, a further fifty protests are taking place on Saturday 30 March throughout Britain against the Bedroom Tax. to send a further message to the Tory-led government that we’re united in opposition to this cruel, unworkable and counter-productive attack on poor and vulnerable people. These events are [...]
Bedroom tax: Labour should follow SNP lead
Mar 25th, 2013 by David Osler.Britain is about to witness the first co-ordinated attempt by multiple local authorities to obstruct a Westminster edict in almost three decades. Good news, but don’t dust off those ‘defiance not compliance’ badges just yet. Sassenachs who haven’t been keeping up may need to be told that eight Scottish National Party councils are to follow [...]
What next on the bedroom tax?
Mar 18th, 2013 by Andrew Fisher.Saturday’s protests against the bedroom tax were pretty impressive. Nearly 60 demonstrations held across the UK – with sizeable marches in some cities (like Manchester and Liverpool). In Croydon about 60 people turned up to a lively demo – with support from the Leader of the Labour group on the council, the local trades council, [...]
Up your bedroom tax, Duncan Smith!
Mar 13th, 2013 by Michael Meacher.So public and political pressure does work, even against this government. You can always tell when a Minister’s in trouble – they get irritable and tetchy, as Duncan Smith has been over the last several days. Just 3 weeks before the hated bedroom tax comes into force, he has been forced to make some concessions. [...]
Join the protests against the ‘Bedroom Tax’
Mar 12th, 2013 by Jon Lansman.This weekend, Saturday 16 March, over 50 protests are taking place (mostly at 1pm) throughout Britain against the Bedroom Tax, to send a clear and unequivocal message to David Cameron that we’re united in opposition to this cruel, unworkable and counter-productive attack on poor and vulnerable people. The majority of the protests have been organised [...]
Cathy Come Home: then and now
Feb 11th, 2013 by Lucy Reese.Although I’m a child of the 70s, I’ve always had a fascination with the 60s. A strange time of change and experimentation that seems so different from the world we live in. I love the music, fashion and art of the 60s and am inspired by the radical ideas that emerged from this turbulent decade. [...]
Scrap the bedroom tax, and regulate private rents
Feb 4th, 2013 by Meric Apak.It is not often I agree with this government. But I do on one count: the housing benefit bill is clearly out of control and must be brought down. Speaking at prime minister’s questions on 30 January 2013, David Cameron said “we are now spending as a country £23bn on housing benefit and we have [...]
