General News Discussion

[thesecretingredientiscrime]

Is it just me who hopes Vicky Price goes down as well?

[fred quimby]

Is it just me who hopes Vicky Price goes down as well?

[thesecretingredientiscrime]

You Dirty Boy

[Rufus Gwertigan]

I am getting annoyed with constantly been asked to sign petitions against the so called "bedroom tax". I must be the only person I know that agrees with the principle of the idea. My issue is with the amount of cash put forward in the Discretionary Housing Fund to support those with compelling cases of hardship.

[thesecretingredientiscrime]

I have no problem with the bedroom tax, as long as you put the royals and MP's through it first.

[Rufus Gwertigan]

Private tenants only get benefit for the number of rooms they need and I have always thought it unfair the same principle was not passed to social tenants.

[thesecretingredientiscrime]

Cameron wins 3% budget cut in Europe with help from the Germans it would seem...

[jenw]

Private tenants only get benefit for the number of rooms they need and I have always thought it unfair the same principle was not passed to social tenants.

[Rufus Gwertigan]

One of the major problems with the bedroom tax is that there are simply not enough houses for people living in underoccupied properties to move into. I am a Housing Officer and this piece of the Welfare Reform is going to cause a huge amount of hurt to some of the poorest and most vulnerable in society.

This will end up increases the nations benefit bill as we have to pick up households made homeless and have an increase in Housing Benefit for those that move into the private sector.

[Paul ™]

This will end up increases the nations benefit bill as we have to pick up households made homeless and have an increase in Housing Benefit for those that move into the private sector.

[Rufus Gwertigan]

Yup, agreed.

Is that an English thing, as certainly not the case in our house.

[eFestivals]

so this topic can be archived eventually, a new topic has been started to continue this discussion, here:-

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