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We are Taxing The Bedrooms of Dead Children

Scriptonite Daily | 28.01.2013 15:36 | Public sector cuts | London | World

It was reported today that when seven year old Becky Bell died of Cancer, her council sent her family a £672 bill for her newly empty bedroom due to the new Spare Bedroom Tax on the poor.
Britain is a colder place since the passing of the Welfare Reform Act 2012, which seeks to radically change the concept of social security. The social contract is being replaced with a Victorian welfare system. Today we look at the creeping impacts of the Welfare Reform Act and how it is making the poorest in the land suffer the consequences of the crimes of the wealthiest.



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28.01.2013 16:29

It's the despicable tory fucking scum who are about to do this .. no 'we' about it.

These bastards need stopping


Tactics

28.01.2013 20:22

One frail schizophrenic I know is being forced to move due to this tax. The nearest the housing association can offer her is somewhere with one bedroom thirty miles away.

Just another reason why I made this website and am going all Class War on the wealthy's pampered arses where one I would have cringed in fear. What the hell do the rich think will happen?

Once vulnerable, now bites the hand that feed
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