Brick up spare rooms, urges Labour MP Frank Field

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Mr Field is a former welfare minister, who represents Birkenhead in Merseyside

Senior Labour MP Frank Field has urged landlords to take "direct action" against housing benefit changes.

The government wants to end what it calls the "spare room subsidy" for social tenants, but critics have dubbed the move a "bedroom tax".

In a Westminster debate, Mr Field said landlords should "brick up" doors and "knock down the walls" in defiance.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-21946590

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Why brick it, build a shower room, build a study room with books you can buy cheap from auctions as long as the room is occupied they can not touch you. (use your loaf)

[thered]

Why brick it, build a shower room, build a study room with books you can buy cheap from auctions as long as the room is occupied they can not touch you. (use your loaf)

You can do what you want with your own house


cant do or brick anything up in a council home

either im missing something or this MP has lost the plot

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You can do what you want with your own house


cant do or brick anything up in a council home

either im missing something or this MP has lost the plot

On the other hand you could be right, but you can change to be a study room, or you can tell your council to move you to single bedroom house.

[thered]

On the other hand you could be right, but you can change to be a study room, or you can tell your council to move you to single bedroom house.

pretty sure if they rent it to you as a 3 bedder it will always be a 3 bedder with or without a bed

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pretty sure if they rent it to you as a 3 bedder it will always be a 3 bedder with or without a bed

Lets stick to the bedroom tax if there are no beds then no tax

[GastonJ]

The tax used to be based on number of windows, that's why so many windows were bricked up

Window tax - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Just 'cos it's a 3 bedroomed house doesn't mean it that it has to be 3 bedrooms really. At the days it's probably 6 or 7 'roomed' house - which when built 3 were used as bedrooms. It's ill thought out legislation designed to take the most from those with the least. If a council cannot supply the type of house, or even a private landlord, then why should the tenant have to pay? I've written this before, but in a lot of areas the councils will not have 1 bedroomed houses, is that the fault of the landlord or the tenant - becuase when the tenant took the 3 bedroomed house in good faith the council didn't stop them, nor was there any warning that their rent would be capped as a result. It's only now that it has changed and is being applied in a sh*t manner.

[thered]

The tax used to be based on number of windows, that's why so many windows were bricked up

Window tax - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Just 'cos it's a 3 bedroomed house doesn't mean it that it has to be 3 bedrooms really. At the days it's probably 6 or 7 'roomed' house - which when built 3 were used as bedrooms. It's ill thought out legislation designed to take the most from those with the least. If a council cannot supply the type of house, or even a private landlord, then why should the tenant have to pay? I've written this before, but in a lot of areas the councils will not have 1 bedroomed houses, is that the fault of the landlord or the tenant - becuase when the tenant took the 3 bedroomed house in good faith the council didn't stop them, nor was there any warning that their rent would be capped as a result. It's only now that it has changed and is being applied in a sh*t manner.

you seriously comparing a benefit to window tax


your right though why should tennants have to pay rent??????? its outrageous


Tell you what we will just up the pensioners money, cap benefits at ?1000 a week, make minimum wage ?50 per hour open more schools, get more police, get more doctors, build some more houses, build bigger hospitals, give free prescriptions to all, subsidise gas and electricity bills, make 10 lane motorways, fix all roads, pay everyones rent and council tax and we can all retire at 40 and millionaires can work till 80


Unfortunately Carlsberg dont run the country

Lets stick to the bedroom tax if there are no beds then no tax

Ok but its not a tax either "bedroom tax is slang"


its a reduction of housing benefit for people who were given homes that suited their families needs at a certain time.


Has anybody been promised by government to have their full rent paid for life??

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[nara]

Would you like some help?

[gc1966]

I want thered to become an mp,with that manifesto he would get a landslide majority

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On the other hand you could be right, but you can change to be a study room, or you can tell your council to move you to single bedroom house.

And therein lies a problem, the housing shortage is in all sized homes, so there are no 1 bedroom homes to move people into, but they are still expected to pay the bedroom tax when they actually cannot move to a smaller home even if they wanted to !!!