The bedroom tax: the day after
Posted: November 13, 2013 | Author: julesbirch | Filed under: Bedroom tax, Housing benefit, Social housing, Welfare reform | Tags: bedroom tax vote |Leave a commentYesterday’s bedroom tax vote has left me wondering if our political system is capable of righting what is such an obvious wrong.
A Labour motion calling for immediate repeal was defeated by 26 votes – a narrower margin than the government might have expected – while a government amendment effectively saying it is all Labour’s fault passed by 31 votes. Could things have been different?
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