The proposed bedroom tax in the Welfare Reform Bill will see people in social housing docked £14.00 a week if they are thought to be under-occupying their property.
“Get a lodger”, suggested Lord Freud in the House of Lord’s yesterday. Well, the truly noble Lord’s and Baroness’s did a cracking job of pointing out why this was such an unsustainable and destructive idea, so I won’t rehash all their arguments here. (They are handily transcribed here…)
I’ll just leave you with one example* of what this new type of household might look like.
Happy families.
* Apologies for complete lack of diversity… Playmobile really ain’t caught up with contemporary UK life.
mydaftlife 
Is that a playmobile wheelchair?
“Well, the truly noble Lord’s and Baroness’s did a cracking job of pointing out why this was such an unsustainable and destructive idea, so I won’t rehash all their arguments here. (They are handily transcribed here…)”
Wow, that was powerful stuff!
Yep! The little girl on the floor has a plaster cast somewhere too!
Yes, J, they totally rocked, bless em 🙂
Just Fabulous social commentary! I have no idea what else to say, save that like much of the U.S., the UK seems determine to win the race to end the social safety net.