How to make a good thing backfire in a few easy steps. Most Labour Party people and a wavering chunk of the British public think the bedroom tax is as punitive as it is useless. Even those softened up by decades of relentless benefit-bashing and support it would at least expect Labour to be opposed to it, even die-hard Tories. So using Parliamentary time this week was good politics. It showed that Labour MPs (well, most of them who spoke anyway) actually, deeply, genuinely cared. Continue reading →