Letters / The only solution
Do you have a partner, relative, friend or colleague who has ended up with one room too many in their home? It might even be you.
Not by choice, but perhaps there was no other house available, maybe a family member died, but however you look at your home, you cannot remove this burden of space.
Take the door off it’s hinges or knock out a partition and the landlord will come in, and you will go out – homeless and with a bill for the damage.
You have no money to move and there is no available house into which you could move. What is the solution?
Well it’s not going to be found by your elected Liberal Democrat MP sitting in Westminster who supports the Bedroom Tax with the Conservatives.
He’ll write you over two pages of facts and figures explaining why we must have this tax (I have the document in my possession).
Justifiably it is to reduce the Welfare Budget of £220 billion! Lest we forget nearly 50 per cent of this goes on the Basic State Pension anyway.
Labour too have vowed to keep the tax.
The only solution, and it is exclusive to Scotland, will be made available to you all on 18 September 18 2014, when a simple cross in the box next to YES will mean NO to this, and many other, unfair taxes.
Liberal Democrats proclaim on their web page “we stand for a fairer society”.
You judge next time you meet someone absolutely terrified of losing their home or having to find extra money from nowhere to keep it, and you tell them you are considering voting no.
I couldn’t. And won’t.
Douglas Young
Sumburgh
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