uk bedroom tax,the road to riots

what are you candy ass tards going to riot with ? hah your riots ain't worth shit

Over your history, you have had some rather unethical tax schemes perpetuated by the government and some you found unique ways of overcoming such as bricking in windows to avoid the window tax.

However, the bedroom tax hurts those disabled and in government housing who were offered a place with more than one bedroom.

Bedroom tax warning
[link to www.scotland.gov.uk]

Bedroom Tax
[link to www.spareroom.co.uk]

No seriously, soon there shall be a meter on your bed.

Dont you just love where this is going....

Lucky im not in council housing and even luckier I got land in kashmir. Im moving there sooner rather than later. What a shithole the uk truly has become

I agree. Might get better for us all after Scottish independence but I've got a feeling Salmond’s government will be even more totalitarian than nulobor was. Running out of options over here.

Oh really? You obviously don't remember the Poll Tax riots...

I can't remember seeing any Americans rioting with their precious guns either...

what the hell is a bedroom tax?

the tardism is strong with the islanders.

time to rid of the beds we have, how can a room be a bed room without a bed?

Definitely ^^^

It's not as drastic as OP is making out. Basically people in social housing, with more bedrooms than they use will be asked to pay up or relocate. They will be allowed to sublet the spare room to cover the tax if they choose to. I agree with OP's sentiment but this is not the spark we need.

thanks for clarification. sounds pretty legit to me.

I keep wondering if they're going to try to count my office as a bedroom. Maybe I should rent out the floor space in it to some homeless and just trip over them every morning when I log in.

Oh never mind, it only applies to council housing.
Guess I'm safe.

"Welfare reforms will cut the amount of benefit that people can get if they are deemed to have a spare bedroom in their council or housing association home"
[link to www.housing.org.uk]

Why all the smugness from Americans?

Have you looked around you lately?

CHAV TAX

Think "Murphy Beds" [link to www.google.com]

or inflatable bed

what will this tax look like? you pay for the number of beds you possess or what?

Someone explain this to me?
What is Universal Credit?

I may live here but I've always had an aversion to taking government money because I feel like it makes me obligated to them. I don't even know what half of this stuff is.

"What about lodgers?
From April 2013 lodgers will count as occupying a room under the size criteria rules. Any income from a lodger will be taken into account and deducted pound for pound from benefit apart from the first £20. This reverses under Universal Credit – lodgers will not be counted as occupying a room and the size criteria reduction will apply, but any income from lodgers will be fully disregarded and will not impact on the amount of a claimant’s Universal Credit award."
[link to www.housing.org.uk]

Stick your bedroom tax in the cupboard, close the cupboard and then vacate the bedroom closing the door behind you, descend the stairs, turn to face the front door, open and walk out and burn. Crash and burn baby... crash and burn...

That wont work, this is basically a tax on tenants who have rented accommodation, the specification of the house is applied.

IE a single person living in a home with 1 or 2 spare bedrooms will have to pay if those bedrooms are not being utilized under specific rules.

Too funny...MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

David Fuckface Camoron.

Truly sucking the bile-infected cocks of the 'powers that be'

Bear in mind this only applies to government subsidised housing. You own your house you can have ten spare bedrooms if you like. Imagine it was across the board though, think of the bill for Buckingham palace

The spark will be whatever straw breaks the camels back.. Which really could be anything at the moment.. from utilities to taxes.. although taxes, any tax is usually a favourite..

One excuse for.. not sure which of our civil wars it was, but the Ship tax was a good enough excuse to oppose government and start a civil war..

(just off to look it up)

Ship Money - [link to en.wikipedia.org]

So that would be one of the causes of English Civil War number 1 of 3.

Yeah, from what I read the number of bedrooms is defined by the agency that rented out the flat... not according to if you are hiding beds.

There are some cities around me that are already implementing similar measures. They do it through zoning, certain areas are allowed a particular density, if you have more people in your house than the given density, you pay a fine (tax).

I think its related to agenda 21.

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This only affects benefit spongers anyway.

WGAS

Being a "subject" is irrelevant. We all have to live within the laws of the land you smug prick.

Then you wonder why the American colonists threw George's tea in the harbor (opps...harbour).

I think this is basically just a tax to claw back some of the money from people they couldn't house in smaller accommodation; because it either wasn't available to house them at the time, or they lived under different circumstances at the time of the initial rent agreement.

CHAV TAX

Socialism at its finest.