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Topic History of: Corbyn wipes the floor with Andrew Neil Max. showing the last 5 posts - (Last post first)
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david
PaulB wrote:
Why does that video show Jeremy Corbyn with a really big nose? He doesn't have one.
david
robbiex wrote:
Labour introduced the spare room subsidy for private houses and there are no plans in the referendum to remove it. It is fair in principle but poorly implemented. A single person living in a three bedroom house isn't fair, but there needs to be somewhere for him to move to before it is fair to charge him extra.[/quote]
And that's the point. I was on benefits with a long-term health condition when I was offered a two-bedroom housing association property. I would happily have taken a one-bed or even a nice bedsit, but was offered this one, with the proviso that if I refused it, I would be taken off the housing list.
To then be hit with the bedroom tax, with money taken from my benefits, as if I was choosing to have a spare room knocking about, made me angry. A call to my council confirmed that there were no one-bedroom places available to downsize to.
The number of single men in two-bedroom properties in my area is huge. Not all are on benefits but several are. The policy was deliberately callous, because if it had been properly thought out and researched, it would have been obvious to everyone that there was nowhere for all these people to downsize to.
I am fortunate in that my long period of mental illness is now largely (but not completely) behind me, and I am back in full time work. Hopefully I will be able to move on in a few years when I have built up enough money, but I do fear for those who are left behind.
In The Know
robbiex wrote: but there needs to be somewhere for him to move to before it is fair to charge him extra.
They all had TWO years notice !
PaulB
robbiex
In The Know wrote: robbiex wrote: Perhaps they don't just think about themselves and how to bloat out their own riches and produce a better society instead.
have you ever heard a Labour member supporting the so-called bedroom tax ?
5 million people on housing waiting lists and they just want an extra bedroom for themselves (as long as someone else is paying for it !)
It was yet another bandwagon to just on ....
Labour introduced the spare room subsidy for private houses and there are no plans in the referendum to remove it. It is fair in principle but poorly implemented. A single person living in a three bedroom house isn't fair, but there needs to be somewhere for him to move to before it is fair to charge him extra.
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