Ordinary working class people who happen to live in ‘Social
Housing’ are being attacked, because of this hideous tax.
Once upon a time a Council House was considered yours
for life. It was yours in all but name on the deeds. Somewhere you
could finally call home. My grandmother was one of the first in the country to
be given a council house. She was very proud of her semi-detached, red
brick, 3 bedroom home. It was quite small but had a neat little front and
back garden, a lock up outside room/shed/workshop, and a coal bunker. She
also had a tidy little garage that took up part of the back garden. But
most importantly, it was home for her and her young family. Yes! Her
children grew up and left home, but it was still her, her husband (granddad)
and her youngest daughter’s (Auntie) home, until the day she died. By
this time she had purchased her little red brick house, but if she had not, it
would have continued to be her secure and family home.
Now this, ‘ConServingOnlyThemselves’ government want to
abolish this right to Council housing, completely.
When you listen to Tories talk about this issue, the
overwhelming feeling is that these people do not think the working classes have
a right to settle in any ‘community’. It
is perfectly acceptable for these people to move on after five years, (term of
max tenancy) or before, as soon as their
income improves. They say it is to make way for more ‘needy’ younger families,
and it is only fair! What they don’t allow into discussion, is the fact that
many of these young families would be the ones who would lose out from the
right to live in their parents Council house, once the parental tenancy ended,
as it did in my late grandmothers example, above.
These advocates of getting rid of life long social tenancies,
often also believe the right to buy, by Council tenants, should be abolished,
too. More attitude of, “fine for me, not
at all right for the plebs to own their own home!” They quote cases where
‘their own’ class (middle/moderates) bought them all up! They use terms such as
exploitative and (greed) as being justification for abolishing the right of the
working class to own their own council homes.
A typical Tory
tactic that must be addressed by the Labour Party, in strong terms, if we are to save Social Housing from this Tory, ‘vulture culture’ we are forced to live in today.
In the meanest of times,
This Bedroom tax is worse than the old forgotten ‘Window Tax'
where people were charged extra for each window in their homes. The
window tax resulted in many homes blocking in their windows. This bedroom
tax will sweep away all hope of community life for every working class family in
the country. It is destructive and immoral. It has demeaned all
tenants in the media as scroungers who should be grateful to be housed at all!
(The propaganda machine is grinding mercilessly away at every opportunity -
Channel 5/3 and BBC worst culprits)
This cruel tax will ultimately force people to move away from
their friends and families. It is resulting in young families losing
their family links and security within their own communities. They become
detached, living far away from Granny and Grandad, uncles and aunts, cousin,
and friends that they have known all their lives. This tax is
destabilising young children’s lives by uprooting them from everything they
know and cherish. In many instances this is happening all because a
brother or sister left home. Or perhaps a parent died. Those left behind,
such as single parents who already struggle to survive in these times of forced
austerity caused by no fault of their own making, are left with two
choices. Either pay the tax and tighten their already tight belts, or
move away. Cut all ties. Live in cramp, basic housing, somewhere
they know no one. The social infrastructure of their whole lives,
gone. No family to support them, no friend’s close by, and their children
forced to uproot and start new schools. These families become the
‘Outsiders’ who often never take root.
This Tax is a shabby and shameful tax by a Conservative
government who serve only their own interests. They put the boot in and kick
the working class out into the cold. It is time to fight back! Force
these over privileged Tory brats to scrap this evil tax.
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