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Problems Evolved from Bedroom Tax Acceptance

Our routines of 'obedience' we incorporate within our lives as habits, that some defend to their death, has an impact shaping our views influencing our behaviour, especially when it is from our own government. We accept new legislations without question, without question! These legislations controlled by corporations we indirectly invite to lead our Governments while we idly stand back allowing brands and logos to re-shape our lives by endless corporate advertising. Our own Government is using the mass media to advertise that social housing tenants are lazy individuals that don't work, sponge of the state, moan, and spend welfare money on booze, cigarettes and luxury holidays abroad. Demonizing us as bad citizens and a disgrace and this is how we are being advertised. And as usual, people who cannot think in any abstract way believe, comply and accept these new found emotions towards the poorest of communities. That would be 'hatred' by the way, to cause the predictable class divisions between the different sectors of the working classes, the lower classes and homeowners.

Elites use the media like an 'echo chamber' full of propaganda tactics about the good reason for 'Bedroom Tax' to influence, brain wash, hood wink people, our local populace to behave. Corporate power is a de-politicalisation of our local communities as corporate forces diminish our democracy making democracy impossible to be. So people speak out less and less, and are unable to think or articulate the 'real' reason for social and local discord, for domestic turbulence and class divisions.

This 'Bedroom Tax' does not have our best interests at heart for anybody, which is manipulated by unseen hands to exploit and impoverish hundreds and thousands of peace loving families and individuals across the country. Unleashing repression of great magnitude dissolving our freedom of speech and removing us from our homes under a form of blackmailing procedure all in the name of profit or sorting out the books. Placing the monetary system, a corrupt and man made economic place mat, to exist and put before living human beings who want to live peacefully, left alone to get on with life.

With no ounce of 'empathy' Crawley social housing tenants witness the hollow acts of democracy from our own council as our constitutional rights for our liberty becoming less meaningful, actually meaningless. Just like our consent by 'us' the governed, is meaningless.  Our political theatre creates the same pretence as any other play acting. The pretence that under the guise of a pretend democracy, filled with democratic debates are hollow, shallow with no depth. Our community tends to accept social policy under obedience, believing our officials know best, our government knows what it is doing. It is a classic symbol of 'eyes wide shut' is what fills most communities these days, with people scared to critique their local Council.

We are now receiving vague and undemocratic messages regularly claiming for a better tomorrow, although a bit difficult when the 'Bedroom Tax' is stealing food from the poor's table. Perhaps they suggest for a better tomorrow the poor just buy a smaller table, plates, pots and pans of miniature sizes for that matter. Promises or better tomorrows has been everyday for every tomorrow until people realised tomorrow never comes.

The 'Bedroom Tax' is governed by the undemocratic elite that choose to dictate to maintain their supply of wealth but take from the poor to disempower.. These creatures control our political and social systems from global infrastructure to infiltrate our local infrastructures and have no mercy, no compassion and certainly no empathy. We as locals in our own communities are in danger of being muzzled if we don't stand up to corporate powers who dominant our politics, our every day lives. We need to puncture the power vacuum the council has adopted and release the cold heartedness that has developed within.

There is now great deteriorating political confidence that is tragic even amongst the most harden right wingers who think the poor mess up the national economy, it effects us all. My Nan said 'this is how it started back in 1940'. She lived as a young girl in Berlin and witnessed a sector of society get demonized, black listed and forced out of their homes. Frighteningly enough she may be right?



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I would like to share my thoughts on the effects of the 'Bedroom Tax' which has been much written about in the Crawley News.

We lower classes are responsible for our actions, but we are not responsible for our place in the world, others invisible to us do that. We know they are not seeking our best interests, hence, in order for us to be alive, we have to pay, and pay, and the pay some more. By electing a political party we vote for, it is just a change of face, a change of colour from blue to red, red to blue and at present blue to yellow to change back to red. In its present form I don't feel any democracy, especially with the 'Bedroom Tax', or as someone called it 'the children can't leave home tax'.

I see giant corporations managing in many different ways to not pay tax in this country but they are allowed to make profit just same. I see 'us' those already carrying economic and monetary enslavement as heavy baggage everywhere we go, increasingly having no loopholes to avoid tax or payments.

We get taken to court immediately with hefty fines for our cheek if we try to dodge even a small tax payment. Or if we fall behind with a mortgage, our home is threatened by the bankers. Our political system seems based on commerce and our human experience has been reduced to commerce. A commerce based system disregards people, as each person is now a commodity forced on a treadmill to produce even more goods. If our local council can only view things from a commerce perspective then the hardship will increase.

Because of the limited empathy shown, limited unity grows, destroying our communities. This system was designed to serve the people and not destroy the people, so something has gone very wrong over the years. This commercially based reality is bogging down my neighbours, family and people in general. I see them all at the point of despair with grim expressions.

It is clear what is happing and we as people, divided as we are need the council to revise this Governmental oppression we are seeing. Everything we do is based on commerce as if this is the glue to hold life together, to purchase stuff that will inevitable become toxic rubbish to dump on our precious planet over and over again and again. We have to move away from constantly viewing everything from an economic viewpoint and remember people and families and how life is actually free.

Shelter is free, trees grow for free, food grows for free and life is born and created for free.

So why do we have to pay to be alive?

I thought our Government officials were nothing more than figures elected on trust, making them public trustees to work in servitude towards society.  We need the common unity to be put back in to our community, we are experiencing burglaries more frequently because of poverty. Poverty is a cruel torture a community can have forced upon it, affecting everyone like a disease within the community.

The corporate world and the state of hardship to me is clear testament to the wilful and blatant profiteering and breaches of trust that are being shown by people in power. We have an M P called Henry Smith who voted for an increase in student fees and this is the reason why both my daughters are not going to university.

He voted for the Welfare Reform Act 2012 which because of austerity measures means cutbacks, yet we the people affected by these cut backs bailed out the rich bankers.

It doesn't make any sense unless commerce means more than humanity and communities are filled with expendable individuals seen as commodities. Now our communities are being hit with an aggressive bedroom tax and benefits being cut as a financial depression gets smashed upon us. Our Government should take care of the poor and vulnerable and not fragment them further with insecurities.

Oppose the 'Bedroom Tax'.

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BEDROOM TAX - CRAWLEY RESIDENTS OPPOSE IT!

CRAWLEY INDEPENDENT TENANTS ASSOCIATION

UNITE TO DEFEAT THE BEDROOM TAX

OPPOSE EVICTIONS OF COUNCIL TENANTS

PUBLIC CONFERENCE - NO BEDROOM TAX

Saturday, 2nd February, 2013

St, John's Hall
Crawley Town Centre (3 mins from Crawley Station)

1.00 pm until 5.00pm

Open Public Meeting for all wishing to oppose the Tory's Bedroom Tax,

TEL: ROBIN BURNHAM 01293 425840 OR robinburnham@virginmedia.com

We need to repeal this legislation and as many cannot afford to pay,
and do not want to move as their home is a place they have spent years
investing in, and do not want a lodger or stranger in their home. As a
tenancy organisation we have now teamed up with Liverpool, Dartford,
Wirral and other areas up and down the country and have the support of
many councillors who are already attending our meeting. We need more
support however, from other areas for other council residents such as
yours in your ward as their representative.

I hope you get in touch with us, and I hope to hear from you. Many
thanks for your time and I shall await your response. I have outlined
some issues for you to see what is being said up and down the country.

Bedroom tax assaults the poorest who need support. Not all claimants
of housing benefit don't work but have low paid jobs and need housing
benefit.

Some residents can contribute to society but some simply cannot.
Despite ATOS striking all as fit to work, thousands are not and they
should not be penalised for their disability or illness and so on.

Some of the high powered bankers caused our financial mess, yet the
people bailed them out. Excessive salaries and bonuses are back, but
the poorest wages are all frozen or reduced.

There are 750,000 empty properties up and down the country.

It isn't about housing the homeless as private tenants or those who
pay their rent are not being asked to do anything.

It is simply those on housing benefit.

Siblings under 10 have to share a room to free up a bedroom is
outrageous. Same sex under 16 have to share a room also.

Disabled people who need Carer's to sleep over, loose their bedrooms
or need to prove their needs under ATOS, they don't stand a chance.

All low incomers are one pay cheque away from needing benefits if they
loose their job or cost of living goes up.

Lodgers who are homeless are not longer homeless once they have moved
in and could be with you for years.

Lodgers have right to make your home their home and may wish for
partners to sleep over too.

Council tenant looses their privacy and their home.

Council will evict tenant who fall behind paying the extra tax of 14%

Children forced to have strangers in their home can be made vulnerable
in an instance.

Lodgers can steal, causing domestic strife for the council tenant.

And so on and  so on, the list goes on.

Thank you for your time,

Debbie Simmons
Council Tenant Crawley Resident.

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