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(not satire – it’s the UK today!)
Worrying evidence is emerging that one of the presumably unintended consequences of the bedroom tax is that drug gangs are benefiting from it.
Tenants who are getting into debt because of the government’s so-called ‘spare room tax’ are being approached by drug gangs who are offering cash in return for being allowed to make use of the rooms as ‘safe houses’ for growing and refining drugs.
Here’s an article about it from local paper the Birmingham Mail:
Council tenants hit by bedroom tax ‘farm out rooms to drugs gangs’
I’d love to hear Cameron wriggle out of that one at Prime Minister’s Question Time.
But unfortunately for us – Her Majesty’s Opposition are stuck in the Westminster bubble just as much as the government is – so they’re not likely to know anything about it either let alone question Cameron in parliament about it.
Anyone feel like telling them?
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It is a worrying trend, but honestly, I cannot find it in myself to blame the tenants, most of whom are desperate. All that Cameron and his government has done, is made it easier for criminals like the drug gangs to take advantage of people who are desperate not to be homeless. How is that helping either the economy or the crime rate? The man is so stupid it makes my eyes water.
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I’ll tell them, will also tell him how much of a gobshite I think he is and how out of touch with the real world he is!!!!
Bellends the lot them!!!
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I bloody well feel like telling the sodden rags of shite, let me at ’em
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I can’t bring myself to condemn the tennants, they are being forced into ever increasingly desperate situations and you hit a point where survival instinct takes over…who wouldn’t do anything to keep a roof over their heads and food in their bellies?
This is a sorry reflection on the failed policies of a failed, inhuman and corrupt government.
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Reblogged this on HUMAN RIGHTS & THE SIEGE OF BRITAIN POLITICAL JOURNAL.
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Reblogged this on Vox Political and commented:
I wonder if this will get a paragraph in Clegg’s independent study of the Bedroom Tax?
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If people are doing this Cameron and IDS will simply have them prosecuted. Cause and effect just don’t register. They will simply think ‘well you chose to use your spare room for drugs, off to prison with you’ – even though that will still cost more.
There is no reasoning with this government. They are aliens (reminds me of the Observers from the recent scifi tv show Fringe; IDS even looks like their leader!)
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The war on drugs also benefits drugs gangs, when are we going to stop that too?
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please sign the petition in this article…
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/neil-sleight-downs-syndrome-set-2420088
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It was obvious fall out from an uninformed and ill thought out policy whose primary objective was to making disabled and mentally ill-people homeless (Which absolves Governments and local authorities of their “Duty of care” requirement). The empty properties would then be available to the Tories favourite sound bite and solganised “Hardworking people who…blah blah blah”…Cheap housing aimed at maintaining minimum wages…Property values only esculated when Thatcher banned public housing construction. Making any true blue tory property owner extremely rich in a very short time, with no personal effort what so ever…Now its time to pay the piper – rent values outstripping minimum wage…so steal housing from the weakest members of society to meet the shortfall – “Economic fascism” is my favourite slogan..believe me our rights, liberties and freedoms are as much under threat from these nazis as they were by Adolf Hitler…its a case of recognise your enemy and also recognise ther battle is allready underway…
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Reblogged this on thepositivevoice.
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The bedroom tax and the other bloody silly laws they have made will take years to put right. Its time the rich had to pay there tax, And its time mps stopped having everything for free. If I had my way most of them would end up in court.
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Capitalism at it’s best…let The Market decide!!!!!!
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Reblogged this on Social Awareness.
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Reblogged this on THE SIEGE OF BRITAIN and commented:
Have already sent to several people. Pass it on far and wide!
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Are we also to believe that government (of whatever colour) is to blame for the increased trade in counterfeiting due to levels of taxation on tobacco? I think not.
The link between bedroom tax and involvement in the cultivation of illegal drugs is somewhat tenuous to put it mildly.
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I agree the link between bedroom tax and cultivation of drugs is tenuous at best, but I do believe that it’s not beyond drug growers and dealers to offer to pay for a spare bedroom, no questions asked, because they know the tenant is struggling to pay the bedroom tax. That I think is quite a firm idea.
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Sent a link to this to David Cameron’s twitter account, https://twitter.com/David_Cameron , whether or not he reads it, I don’t know.
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I’ll take a ringside seat to that, I’ve seen your youtube vids! 😀
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Sent to my m.p.
Unfortunately Conservative.
Will see if I get reply.
Not holding my breath.
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this is very true i already have been ask to do this for a very good return BUT I WILL NOT THANKYOU YOU TORY SCUM FOR PUTTING MANY PEOPLE IN THIS VERY BAD DELEMMA
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the bedroom tax would not be needed to create more housing if the councils had restocked when they sold a huge amount of there so called social housing ,some councill,s have not built any new housing in over thirty years ,and many councils have lost enormous amounts of public money on stupid business ventures ,were talking millions and millions , and now their set to waste more public money in court cases eviction notices, the councils are using the bedroom tax to gain the rights of the remaining properties as away of forcing tenants to move and so start new tenancy s with less rights. “So Mrs Unfitting , due to government putting up the pension age, you are deemed as working age and are just a carrier bag that your children came in ,we need the house you live in we still own it we’ve fuck up our budget and wasted it now we want controll on the rest of the stock” The government told councils raise some funding themselves this Bedroom Tax is the most stupidest IDEA they could of ever have come up with along with every other fuck up the councils do.WAKE UP EVERBODY The Goverment are not to blame they will support any think that makes money for them. The councils are the robbing low life scum bags and its not just the poor that their taking from ,ever wondered why services have gone down and cost gone up ,they should be accountable for every penny of public money and how they spend it. Councill rent ,councill tax ,parking ,clothes banks they cream off , recycling , the solar inventive huge money and much more. Housing officers are spending most of their days in court and poseing in magazines showing false figures of their progress in the communities and lording around like they own the properties personally themselves , So the Goverment can save a lot of money by looking at the cheating councillors that are robbing us all and the Goverment because every money saving incentive the Goverment introduces for people of this country , the councils jump on it and cream it all for them selves. As for drugs the Goverment or the councils will soon find away to tax it lol. To anyone approached to grow drugs say no its not an excuse to cover bedroom tax. Defend your rights to the home you have maintained and kept for the years you have lived in it.
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Yes I agree Hitler was more humane than Cameron at least he put his victims out of their misery , Narcissistic the whole Goverment.
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