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Just saw, spot on.

yes the poster of the comment (budgie) informed me,that they posted it on facebooks main page BT

I'd have thought you would have all been down to No.10 by now with your banners. No good going protesting after the event, if you want to stop it. Go on girls, were's the spirit. You aren't from the 60's/70's era (we were good)but you could give it a bash!

Granny, there is plenty going on, locally and nationally. The problem is lack of media coverage of Marches etc although it seems the media are starting to wake up now.

There is a London trip in the planning too, its a co-ordinated event with lots of charities/ groups involved. Pencilled in for May 4th

It will effect us for just 7 months then when son turns 10 in October, it will stop.

Considering bedroom tax comes into effect from April, I would have thought that May is a bit too late for a protest. Financial cost to reverse a system which has been put into place is extortionate. Why do you need media coverage before you go? It's guaranteed the media would turn up if you arrived. They didn't use the media in 60's and 70's.
It doesn't make sense, unless of course the organisers just want the attention after the event, pretending they've done great things for the nation. There are many out there who would have people believe they are fighting their corner but ultimately turn out to be 'big bags of wind'and are sitting around waiting for someone else to 'do it'! Organise your own. Many small groups can make a big sound.

we were protesting in Birkenhead last November and handing out flyers and getting people to sign the petition, rude herself has worked tirelessly with the facebook organising and we have thousands of members from all over the country doing their bit local to them, these are mainly unemployed/disable people so yes we would all love the chance to land outside No10 at the drop of a hat but illness and lack of money is a major factor

Probably haven't heard of Birkenhead in Westminster yet. Try 'Wirral' or 'Merseyside' and the carers for the disability sufferers can act for them.Link up with Manchester and Cumbria. Sit in the middle of Manchester somewhere... their very own media city!
No good making excuses when time is at a premium. Time to act!

there are no excuses being made the progress going on and the people we have on board is amazing, also if disabled peopled packed off their carers, if they are lucky enough to have one who the hell is going to care for them? i can only guess you have never organised a mass protest on this kind of scale before granny, its very easy for people to sit there telling others what they should be doing but not offering any help themselves

maybe we should all protest outside WPH main office Europa Boulevard, i'am up for it, i can round up some people from my area,

I agree with Granny, protesting should have been done last year as the reforms were being passed in parliment..bit late now.

I saw the last protest..not many turned out..hope more do next time!

the main problem was that people didnt know about it which is why i started this thread as soon as i heard and that was only in august last year!

surely it has nothing to do with the housing assocs...its MPs surgerys you need to protest outside!!

according to Lord Freud HA'S can re-define their properties,as most of the smallest bedrooms would measure less than 70sqft, which in the private sector is not classed as a bedroom but as a boxroom, so why should we have to pay tax on a bedroom that is not a bedroom
http://speye.wordpress.com/2013/01/20/is-the-bedroom-tax-unlawful-yes-it-must-and-has-to-be/
"""On Friday 7 December at Redhill Magistrates Court, Mr Mohammad Sarwar, Redhill, was convicted of breaching an overcrowding notice serviced on him under the Housing Act 2004.
Mr Sarwar is the landlord of 75 Knighton Road, Redhill, which is a house in multiple occupation (HMO) where rooms are individually let with access to a shared kitchen and bathroom. One room in the property, measuring 4.5 metres squared, was deemed too small for letting in 2007. However, on 28 March 2012, Environmental Health Officers found that the room was occupied.
I have emphasised the size above and of course the news release is wrong and must mean 4.5 square metres which is or could be 7 feet 5 inches by 6 feet 6 inches; whereas 4.5 metres squared is 14’9″ by 14’9″ which by any definition is a bedroom and quite a large one.
7 feet 5 by 6 feet 6 inches is in lay terms a boxroom and not a bedroom and as this news release says is ‘too small’ to be occupied.””

Not going to happen..its a load of tosh..HA's will not re-define.