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by Steve Beasant on 22 October, 2014
Tories spent a full morning Committee session talking out a simple motion to agree that the Committee should sit in a desperate attempt to use parliamentary procedure to defeat Liberal Democrat MP for St Ives Andrew George’s Private Members’ Bill to scrap the bedroom tax.
Mr George said, “The mask has slipped. They have no shame. The ‘Nasty Party’ has reverted to type.
“Parliament overwhelmingly voted to get rid of the Bedroom Tax last month and now the Tories are trying underhand methods to frustrate the will of MPs and of the country.
“This is the Party which, when able to govern on their own, award wealthy second homers with a tax cut. So if the wealthy under-occupy their second homes the Tories reward them. If the poor under occupy their council home they penalise them.
“We’ve now seen that there is no end to their efforts to attack the poorest and the disabled.”
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with all due respect, it was Lib Dems that helped them put the bedroom tax there in the first place. Neither you nor any of your colleagues can claim that you didn’t know what was going to happen because you were told by disability groups, charities, constituents, unions – everyone that isn’t a tory in fact. Just as we warned you about the work capability assessment, workfare, universal credit, student loans, pay freezes.
Kudos to those of you who have taken it on now but don’t be surprised if your lack of action a year ago, and your persistence in ignoring the effects of other aspects of welfare reform, crucifies you when May 2015 comes round