East Riding Council rejects plea to suspend 'bedroom tax'

“How can people move to a smaller properties if there isn't any? Because this is exactley what the Parasitic Government want! They want your money, your pension, even your property! There is a major campaign by these Zionists, to take and rob everything off you! They don't want you to have any form of life but only an existence so you can pay your taxes! These greedy zionistic parasites have a campaign to cause civil unrest so they can slap more staues, more policies and more taxes on you. Time to wake up Britian and make a stand!”

“This isn't a problem caused by the council its the conservative liberal democrat alliance. There are going to be big problems as there are not enough single bedroom properties available in some cities and the problem is very clear in hull as a large amount of them were demolished and people moved into empty council houses. This is going to lead to people living o the streets and let's see if it may also lead to rebellion in the same way the Poll Tax did. People will be unable / unwilling to pay and be getting evicted but refusing to leave properties and court cases coming unable to cope with numbers or house the numbers of people sent to prison. How can people move to a smaller property if there isn't one and if people have lived in a property while there children grew up say 18 to 20 years should they be expected to leave it because they lose their job and the children move out to start a family of their own”

“does the council know that they will be breaking the law when they take money off people.because it states by law you need a certain ammount to live on”

“so does that mean they will pay me as i have got more than 2 in a bedroom so technically speaking i am overcrowded....think i will put in an application for more money from them”

“What are we doing about this people???? It's time to make a stand against this parasitic Government and the other puppets in the Houses of Parliament and the House of lords! How can they implement another statue, when we dont subscribe to it! It's about time the poeople stood up to theses thieves because thats all they are doing! Theiving from us until we have nothing to give! And when you end up with nothing left, then what are gonna do about it? They have turned you into sheep and your walking merrily along ton their penn. Wake up and say 'Enough is enough!!!!!!!!!”

“Stop whining

We all know that a Labour council would have had people with too many rooms shot, just like the millions eliminated by the NHS under the previous Labour government

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“Theiving lying tories once again. Other councils are not going to charge the sick, poor and disabled council tax, they are going to tax empty second homes and empty properties.

Parno and his disgusting Tories wouldn't want to do that now would they? That would be a decent and upstanding policy.

If you are going to starve the poorest and kill the coldest, hand yer O.B.E. back Parnaby before you choke on it”

“This is a typical tory policy, ie not thought out properly! You are a parent or parents and your told your housing benefit will be cut because your house is too big, do you A, try and find a smaller property or B, have more kids to fill the extra rooms? I wonder how many women have got themselves pregnant to resolve this very problem? In the long run like all tory policy this will have a major detrimental impact on this country. The trouble with tories is they want to look tough but they always end up looking wet and pathetic.”

“It is no longer a "so-called" bedroom tax. Even the Daily Mail and the DWP refer to it as a tax which in effect it is. I am confident that there will be an angle for a legal challenge because the tax cannot be avoided by the vast majority of tenants no matter how keen they are to downsize.
The sale of councils houses is a major factor in the lack of alternatives. Pensioners are exempted except where tenants have a mixed household. The traditional source of 'excess' rooms is of course pensioner household especially single pensioners who survive their spouse. Councils have had a range of ways of persuading them to downsize. For ERYC to say they would have to put up council tax is absurd. There's plenty reserves and other funds. It will be interesting to see how Hull tackles this one (or indeed the 300+ councils in the same position).”

“Has there been any figures released show the number of people living in houses that are too small, and therefore demonstrating a need to move people out of larger houses?”