[guide.chat] thousands of protesters march through towns
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- Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2013 19:28:17 -0000
Bedroom tax: Thousands join protest marches held up and down the country
against benefit cuts
16 Mar 2013 13:28
Thousands of campaigners join peaceful marches in towns and cities across the
UK to protest against controversial new scheme
Benefit cuts: Thousands have pledged to join protests against the 'bedroom tax'
today
Protests are taking place up and down the country today against government
plans for a new 'bedroom tax'.
Thousands of campaigners have joined peaceful marches in more than 50 towns and
cities across the UK to tell David Cameron that his controversial new scheme is
not acceptable.
The tax is expected to affect 660,000 people when it comes into effect next
month and will hit the poor, vulnerable and disabled the hardest.
Under the Government''s welfare reforms, those deemed to have a spare bedroom
in their council or housing association home will have their housing benefit
claims reduced by £40 to £80.
More than 17,000 people signed up to join the rallies, which kick-started at
around 1pm.
The protest's national organiser, Dr Eoin Clarke, said: "This is a cruel policy
that primarily hits single parents, and the adult disabled.
"Even children deemed disabled but not 'severely' so, are affected. Carers, the
terminally ill, battered wives and husbands are all affected.
"Soldiers living in single accommodation or indeed foster parents with more
than one foster child are hit, despite the Government's talk of a U-turn.
"There are times in history when people must stand together in defence of
common decency - that time has come."
According to the National Housing Federation, those affected also include
separated parents who share care of their children and couples who use a spare
bedroom when recovering from an illness or operation.
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Simone Eggar
6:30 PM on 16/3/2013
If I was a Conservative MP or Councillor at this point in time I would be
ashamed to be associated with my Conservative Government. I would recognise it
has pointedly created a law that is not only discriminative against a
vulnerable section of the country's population but one that this section of
society have absolutely no way it which to comply. All options of compliance
are beyond a reasonable expectation for those it is leveled towards. Many
others sectors of society, not at this point in time included in this Bedroom
Tax Law, would also find it impossible to comply with. It is a law that states,
Pay, Move or Take a Lodger. Move! Where to? Pay! Out of £71.70 per week to live
on and pay all other household bills? Take a lodger! How, realistically without
detriment to benefits and risk becoming worse off? If I were a Conservative MP
or Councillor I would seriously question my Government's intelligence and
common sense because any Government that can knowingly make a law impossible to
meet by those it's aimed towards, should not be in power. Or wonder to myself
if I belong to something more sinister looking a little like a form of ethnic
cleansing.
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Kenny Blong
6:16 PM on 16/3/2013
@chrisdsteward a Tory York councilor, argues with me, saying only a couple of
hundred people in a handful of towns are protesting, until i show him this
page, then he suddenly goes quiet. send him a little message, and voice your
opinions about the bedroom tax and how it will impact on those most vulnerable
in society
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Nicole Haydock
6:05 PM on 16/3/2013
Over 1000 protesters in the centre of Manchester.
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Cathy Bradberry
5:39 PM on 16/3/2013
i,m disabled get £222 every 2 weeks on ESA and been hit by that council tax
scheme my bill is £132 a month leaving me and my partner to live on £268 a
month of which £100 of that i have to put on the electric as i have storage
heaters. Its disgusting what the government are doing to us
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Paul McCartan
5:37 PM on 16/3/2013
People power in action - anyone in North Lincs that wants to get involved then
get in touch - paulmccartan@xxxxxxxxx
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Polly Birmingham
5:33 PM on 16/3/2013
search antibedroomtax or Bedroom Tax...think its unfair...join the fight here
on FB for details of more protests
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Gemma Ingram
5:09 PM on 16/3/2013
Not a word on the news, wish i had known as i am desperate to stand up to these
knobs running our country! I have never been so mad, i just hope this is a
lesson to us all, PLEASE START VOTING PEOPLE!!! for anyone, vote roland rat for
all i care, just dont let Dave back in!! Bloody chinless wonder!
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Lee McGrail
5:08 PM on 16/3/2013
Huge protests all over the country and nothing on TV about it ...Just shows how
corrupt this government and the BBC is and how much in pocket Cameron is with
murdoch.
welcome to Camerons dictatorship
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Richard Dumnonia Tucker-O'Meat
4:10 PM on 16/3/2013
It's funny how this government has a lot to say about countries known for human
rights abuses, yet are breaking Article 8 of The Human Rights Act.
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Valerie Rettie
4:08 PM on 16/3/2013
and not a mention of it on TV news!!!
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