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Originally Posted by RUDEBOX
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Bedroom Tax Protest - Wirral Partnership Homes
8 April at 12:00
Wirral Partnership Homes in Birkenhead, United Kingdom
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People should be more bothered about putting a little back into society instead of whining about it and happy to bleed it dry . Example Moreton day centre for vulnerable adults is bein shut down and people rely on places like these for rest bite ! Looking after a disabled person 24 /7 would take its toll onany person. Its a shame that people would go to so effort to rally about the thought of losing a bedroom that's prob filled with junk anyway than things that matter to others maybe its time we all thought of others not just ourselves.

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Paul - you will find that those opposed to Bedroom Tax are oposed to ALL the Cuts, whether directly affected or not.

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Originally Posted by SUExx
Originally Posted by insanekitty
Sorry folks but not to be controversial but because I have a voice and an opinion, I agree with it.
Why should I, as a working person who pays tax, NI and the bloody rest, pay for someone to live in a 3 bed house and only use 1 bedroom!
People may have their own reasons for claiming housing tax benefit to get their "free" home but I have to earn mine and pay it myself, so please forgive me for not giving a toss that some estimated 660,000 working-age social tenants – 31% of existing working-age housing benefit claimants - will have to pay extra.

I get nothing back from the State. I pay 40% of my wage to Tax and another 11% to NI, thats over 50% of my wages gone before I see a single penny of it. Yes I am fortunate enough to have a job but bugger me if we only just make ends meet!
I can't afford a foreign holiday every year and have a 9 year old car, so if by paying your way for "spare" rooms then hopefully this will alleviate the burden on the tax payers of this country.
Oh! I only have a 2 bedroom ex-council house which is pretty big enough for both the wife and me and our teenage son.

Please everyone don't take this as any sort of personal attack but just my point of view and probably of many of other people on here just not willing to air their views.


I agree with the above statement, again i say life isnt fair. It wasnt fair that the men in our place had to come off shift because the 24hour security went to out side firm so the men had to go on days AND LOST THEIR SHIFT ALLOWENCE PAY. They had been on shift for years and now were losing a conciderable amount of wages. So this bed room tax is you paying out were the shift men were losing out.



But no acknowlegement at all about these posts, we are all losing out in some way or another. Thats why some of us who arent affected by the bedroom tax,will be affected other ways eg hours cut at work, pay frozen and we still have to pay our mortgage.

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Rotty, Im expecting lots of peeps will want to take pics of your 'box' tomoz. haha x

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Originally Posted by Katryn
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Bedroom Tax Protest - Wirral Partnership Homes
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Wirral Partnership Homes in Birkenhead, United Kingdom
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Also, constituents of Angela Eagle MP are meeting at Wallasey Town Hall on 12 April at 6pm.

We have questions for Our Ang lol. Not that she will turn up-she rarely does.

But thats ok-media are invited and will out her for the plastic poliitician that she is. smile

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Originally Posted by paul110180
People should be more bothered about putting a little back into society instead of whining about it and happy to bleed it dry . Example Moreton day centre for vulnerable adults is bein shut down and people rely on places like these for rest bite ! Looking after a disabled person 24 /7 would take its toll onany person. Its a shame that people would go to so effort to rally about the thought of losing a bedroom that's prob filled with junk anyway than things that matter to others maybe its time we all thought of others not just ourselves.
Council tax is on the rise also.why not bedroom tax,Surely the ones who get rent paid and benefits who dont want to work,will pay there keep somehow, instead of protesting about it.disabled are exempt also foster carers,pensioners.

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Exactly, lots of people in work would prob like to take to the streets to protest about having to work twice as hard for no extra pay when staff leave and arent replaced. LIFE IS STILL UNFAIR TO ALL.

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Originally Posted by SUExx
Exactly, lots of people in work would prob like to take to the streets to protest about having to work twice as hard for no extra pay when staff leave and arent replaced. LIFE IS STILL UNFAIR TO ALL.


I get taxed more = live with it.

They get less benefits = up in arms, kicking off.

Don't even get me started on what is fair. I'd live to regret my words.

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Bedroom Tax Song: You Cannae Have A Spare Room in a Pokey Cooncil Flat
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Originally Posted by SUExx
Exactly, lots of people in work would prob like to take to the streets to protest about having to work twice as hard for no extra pay when staff leave and arent replaced. LIFE IS STILL UNFAIR TO ALL.


Single Unemployed mum with two children = £1,400 per month.= Approx. £16,800 per annum.
No council tax to pay
Housing benefit given
Rent equals poss. £600
Need two bedrooms

Single Working father with two children = £1,400 per month =Approx £16,800 per annum
Pays Council tax
Pays Tax
Pays National Insurance
Pays Rent £600
Needs two bedrooms
Pays to get to work
Pays child maintenance
Expected to have children 2/3 nights/days per week

Single Unemployed father with two children= £71 per week = £3,692 per annum
Housing benefit given
Needs 2 bedrooms
Will have to pay BT if social housing
Needs to see children and feed them
No Council Tax
Needs to pay bills
Needs to travel to collect children
Needs to travel for any possible job interview

Now, if I am wrong, please let me know, but it would
a) seem that the chaps get a far worse deal than the females, and
b) It would seem that working at the moment on a fairly average salary for this part of the country, is clearly, very hard to get by on. Who is worse off?
If the companies began to increase the salaries some, I think more would be prepared to get out and work, more would go into the council tax pots and maybe this BT would not needed to have happened.

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rude, i signed my home over to you yesterday, keep the plants watered & make sure you keep up the mortgage repayments, or you will get EVICTED. LOL, have a great time tomorrow, alone we whisper, together we shout.
http://newsnetscotland.com/index.ph...of-millionaires-imposing-the-bedroom-tax

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rude, you have got to read this and tell everyone else you speak to at the protest tomorrow to link on, or put the link on your FP
http://speye.wordpress.com/2013/03/29/bedroom-tax-only-the-tenant-can-get-rid-of-it-and-heres-how/

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Originally Posted by guitarlad
Originally Posted by paul110180
People should be more bothered about putting a little back into society instead of whining about it and happy to bleed it dry . Example Moreton day centre for vulnerable adults is bein shut down and people rely on places like these for rest bite ! Looking after a disabled person 24 /7 would take its toll onany person. Its a shame that people would go to so effort to rally about the thought of losing a bedroom that's prob filled with junk anyway than things that matter to others maybe its time we all thought of others not just ourselves.
Council tax is on the rise also.why not bedroom tax,Surely the ones who get rent paid and benefits who dont want to work,will pay there keep somehow, instead of protesting about it.disabled are exempt also foster carers,pensioners.
Foster carers, disabled and some pensioners are not exempt..
They have merely put a few more quid in the DHP pot.

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