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[KateMiddlet0n]

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This is our 4th thread now!

It's an AIBU about not all Tories being thick. Which is fair enough to start with, but I think it all unravelled fairly quickly - I haven't really looked at it properly.

Hunty, if you get time in between the various mind bending calculations (bless your heart) could you explain the Universal Credit stuff for lone parents on this thread? www.mumsnet.com/Talk/credit_crunch/a1362674-Tax-credits-is-this-true#28983814 have I got it wrong? I haven't have I?

Glitter, don't take it to heart, or try not to. She's one voice out of many who have wholeheartedly understood the situation and sent the email.

Have posted the world's longest post on that thread Glitter!

MrsMicaw- absolutely: except when they attack carers and the disabled they know full well they have managed to find a group who can't protest often for physical reasons: whilst taking my 2 asd boys on a protest would have some direct results, I suggest wed on;t want kettling as a screaming 12 year old attacks everyone in sight becuase he is in a crowd!

I can't get to my local council offices, it's 30 miles + there are no buses there!

I can however, still wield a pen, so will keep harrassing them by post and email.

Thanks all for the support on there. You know what it's like though that one little voice shouting louder than the others....

I very much do Glitter.

MrsM - I do think an active protest would be fab, if you can get a few people together in your area at the minimum the local press would be interested, and you can bounce off that to get national.

There was a hardest hit protest a few months back which lots of people attended. Unfortunately I don't think that got the attention it deserved either.

Can HQ not do anything sort of media wise?

Yes, but only the same sort of think EDCM are doing - sending out press statements etc.

They rely on us to make a lot of noise. Which is what we are trying to do with Frothers!

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If you look at the comments there's a magazine who are interested in all of this, worth contacting them frothers blog people?

Kate best of luck for your DS today

A heartwarming tale. Not. These people really don't like us at all do they? Cunts. All of them. If they apply it to all housing, fair enough. To just apply it to social housing is fucking appalling.

Have posted on the other thread, Glitter. Don't take it to heart.

I do think that she should have actually READ the blog and the article before spouting off, that was just plain ignorant.

Yes but even then it doesn't allow for specific circumstances, ie a paediatrican backed by ss has stated I NEED 4 beds. One for each child.

According to Local Authority calculations I will only be allowed to have HB for a 3 bed. Paed backing and ss means nothing, so we will get that penalty.

Hedley, they are targeting the most vulnerable again

and tapping in to the Daily Mail readers who get whipped into hysteria by the media about "greedy" council tenanats getting to live in houses that private renters/owners could never afford to live in

it sounds ok at first, but then,

like the getting people to do some voluntary work whilst job seeking did...and we know what we think about that

Is there a blog post in it, d'ya think ?

MrsM
If they were requiring families to move into other available properties, then I could see the point.

But when a family is in social housing, particularly those with disabled chidlren - how are they supposed to find the £600 a year, when their benefits are being cut anyway?

On how many sides can we squeeze a person before they pop?

MrsM, in that case, they should set up a robust "house swap" scheme within every local area

so that people are not forced away from jobs, schools, extended family and other sources of help and support in order to have a house with fewer beds

apparently, there is a big shortage of 2 bedders within social housing, so there is a good chance people would have to move area to comply

how is that helping anyone ?

Under these plans, 670,000 households ? two-thirds containing a disabled family member ? will be hit by an average £670 penalty every year because they are deemed to have a "spare" bedroom.

This is not thousands of older couples living in 5-bed houses. It is 450,000 families with a disabled family member.