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Me neither,at the end of the day,Who needs a three bedroom house with rooms laying empty,And rent getting paid from benefits.The goverment is hitting on everything even the working class.

Good letter that Rotty

well done Zubee, you're so right.

rude have look at this
http://www.labour.org.uk/cameron-and-clegg-face-councillors-revolt-over-bedroom-tax%2c2013-04-02

I wouldn't think this would make any difference to the Conservatives in Parliament.
Having failed to get the hoped for extra seats by the proposed boundary changes they are now hoping to get more votes from the workers by emotion stirring speeches about tax payers having to foot the welfare bill (knowing that the majority on benefits usually vote Labour anyway)

Need to make sure the Con and Lib councillors are often reminded that their positions are not a given

Leeds City Council is looking at ways to reduce the number of people who are being penalised for the under occupancy of a house.

“Officers at the council will be investigating the possibility of re-designating 398 three-bedroom low rise flats to two bedrooms, 341 five bedroom houses with a downstairs bedroom to four bedroom houses and 126 two bedroom multi storey flats to one bedroom.
http://newsfeed.leedsvirtualnewsroo...nants-affected.html#.UVyCrfbjuSs.twitter

rude is anyone putting up photos taken today?

Ive yet to put mine on lappy. Ed was sending his to the Globe. I'll upload mine now, see if they any good.

They've already renaded on the Boiler Room comments. Grrrrrr. The vid will be going on YouTube if everybody agrees.

Rotty http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8svKTh7zQA&feature=youtu.be

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Isn't it amazing how almost overnight (few months) some bedrooms were turned into box rooms by a simple partition, thus avoiding the bedroom tax in certain homes. Clever!!

Was that the WPH chief executive in some of the photos, and who were the other WPH managers there?

Whoever they were, I would hope that they were broadly amenable to the plight of those affected, although some of the recent WPH newsletters and bulletins have been somewhat bullish, and I have read them as basically saying: look, it's the government, not us, but nevertheless, pay your rent or we will move to evict you.

Personally, I don't think such threats are acceptable from a social landlord, so would be interested to hear if they were more empathetic face to face?

will alert you when the video of our meeting with them goes up on Youtube. Grrrr.

Will find the names of them too. brb

Thanks Rudebox.

Seems to me that some housing associations, such as Riverside, are actively supporting their tenants, trying to find solutions to mitigate the effects of the bedroom tax, whereas WPH appear to be simply taking the view that they can't afford not to collect the rent, and that's the end of it.

What gets me is all their worthy mission statements and stated aspirations of building sustainable communities, when the reality, certainly from their newsletters, is that is all about pounds & pence for WPH, underpinned with more than a hint of menace & threat.

Against this backdrop, it will certainly be interesting to clarify which managers were saying what face to face, as that's maybe when the reality of tenants' desperation finally hits home.

The lovely Gents were

Brian Simpson
John Mycock
Mark Armstrong

Ah, right.

Brian Simpson is the Chief Executive, & John Mycock is the Assistant Director of Housing, the latter of which made a few clumsy comments in the Wirral Globe a while back.

http://www.wirralglobe.co.uk/yoursa...ral_residents_affected_by__bedroom_tax_/

http://www.wirralglobe.co.uk/news/10013319.Social_landlords_respond_to__bedroom_tax__concerns/

I don't recognize the other name.