Bedroom Tax could force severely disabled man to leave home
www.somersetguardian.co.uk/Video-Bedroom...89-detail/story.html

this is just another pathetic policy to claw back some money after people end up in situations beyond their control.

nothing will be achieved and little money raised but the harm this will do will be immense but the small minded Tories of the world will be appeased.
And when the campaign begins in earnest with groups of 1000s of council tenants become organised (it's happening) and demand "OK..now move me to somewhere smaller", the whole thing will fall in a heap as these petty schemes always do.

Decades of idiotic housing policies whereby taxpayer's investments in housing stock was sold off at below market value and councils forbidden to invest the money in new social housing has resulted in the ridiculous situation where private landlords are subsidised with taxpayer money to the point that to cease that, which will definitely not happen despite the ITKs wishing it so, would lead to a collapse in artificially inflated property prices.

Plus the creation of ghettoes of poverty and disengaged generations which self perpetuate the misery whilst idiots think exhortations to 'get a job and pull yourself together" will work.

I've watched London over the years in dismay : it's become a homogenised regulated entity- still with beautiful buildings- yet it reeks of ugliness. when I visit places I loved, Nightsbridge, Harrods and so on they seem crass temples to ghastly greed...and that was something Britain never was. Portobello Road where I lived for 20 years makes me ill with it's stupid little smart boutiques and bland coffee shops..as is Soho..places that are reproduced around the world like McDonalds.

Yet New York remains the same..why ?..because despite successive vile mayors attempting to change it, it is still a city of the super rich and everyone in between because half of NY flats are rent controlled or government housing. Hence young creative people can still move to NY, struggle but thrive there.

## housing policy lecture ends here.

When you fully consider just how much money this man is costing us, don't you consider a tiny contribution (with OUR money) quite reasonable ?

In The Know wrote:
When you fully consider just how much money this man is costing us, don't you consider a tiny contribution (with OUR money) quite reasonable ?

I still pay a little tax in the UK and I am more than happy to subsidies him.

Me too Hedda - I've paid millions in tax over the decades and want my taxes to be spent this way and not shoring up licence fee BBC to pay off liars.

hedda wrote:
I still pay a little tax in the UK and I am more than happy to subsidies him.

These people are utterly selfish (and think of nothing but their own "needs").
Do they ever stop whining ?

He's being asked to pay less than a cup of coffee a day (out of OUR money) and meanwhile they are under-occupying a home that a homeless family could use.

There are five million on the social housing waiting list - do these people EVER give a thought to them (and their needs) ?

If a homeless family could be homed, they may be able to get a job, pay taxes, make a contribution to society AND keep feeding those that forever have their hands out !!!!

comrade hedda wrote:
this is just another pathetic policy to claw back some money after people end up in situations beyond their control.

Can you answer a question for me ?

Why should some people get housing subsidised by others ?
(is that "fair" and "equal" in your loony little socialist world?)

A woman a few roads away from me had to move out of her house as she couldn't afford the bedroom tax. The Council had told her she faced a 12-year wait if she wanted to downsize.

Meanwhile, her old property is lying empty.

In The Know wrote:
comrade hedda wrote:
this is just another pathetic policy to claw back some money after people end up in situations beyond their control.

Can you answer a question for me ?

Why should some people get housing subsidised by others ?
(is that "fair" and "equal" in your loony little socialist world?)

Was the question too hard, hedda ?

david wrote:
A woman a few roads away from me had to move out of her house as she couldn't afford the bedroom tax. The Council had told her she faced a 12-year wait if she wanted to downsize.

Meanwhile, her old property is lying empty.

... for now.

Where is she living now (and more importantly, who is paying for it?)

PS - There is no such thing as "bedroom tax" - just a charge for occupying rooms that you don't need (and shouldn't have)

I seen numerous street petitions and rallies to ban the tax, they have very little signatures small group of protesters. It can't affect many and also on petition sites there are not many signatures, it only affects Chavs as they are one's who sign them and turn up to rallies.

Let the tax remain.

andrew wrote:
I seen numerous street petitions and rallies to ban the tax, they have very little signatures small group of protesters. It can't affect many and also on petition sites there are not many signatures, it only affects Chavs as they are one's who sign them and turn up to rallies.

Let the tax remain.

Remember the recent "protest" outside the Tory party conference in Manchester?

Local nutters groups were signing people up in Derbyshire for a "free" day out in Manchester - all you had to do was an hours protest first.

(Their posters also said "stop the cuts to the NHS" - which is a blatent LIE, the NHS is not being "cut" and has had increased funding year after year.)

Agree with you there ITK, the only cuts is the mental health units. I think the NHS should be privatise.