Telford MP calls on councillors to back Labour Campaign
MP David Wright has called on Telford & Wrekin Council to sign up to Labour’s campaign to oppose the Bedroom Tax.
The council has a motion for debate before it at this Friday's full council meeting and Mr Wright is calling for all councillors of all parties to support it.
The Bedroom Tax will hit 660,000 households, two thirds of them home to someone with a disability at exactly the same time as the government gives a massive £100,000 tax cut to 13,000 millionaires.
David Wright MP said:
“I hope councillors in Telford & Wrekin from all parties back Labour’s call for David Cameron to think again on the Bedroom Tax.
“Two thirds of the households hit are home to someone with a disability, and he is hitting families of soldiers serving our country who will have to find extra money for their son or daughter’s bedroom, and foster families helping children in need of a home.
“In Telford thousands of people living in council or housing association homes who receive housing benefit will be hit. This isn’t about tough choices, it’s about the wrong choices.
“And on the very day the Bedroom Tax comes into effect David Cameron is giving thousands of millionaires a tax cut of £100,000 a year.“
Labour’s Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Liam Byrne said:
“Labour supports sensible welfare reform but the bedroom tax is crazy. Cameron and Iain Duncan Smith have been forced to admit that it is impossible for their plans to solve under-occupancy because there aren’t enough smaller homes for families to move to.
“The Bedroom Tax is now in total disarray. Ministers must now admit they have got this horribly wrong and think again – before it’s too late.”
