Anti Bedroom Tax Protest at Trafalgar Square and Downing St London 30/03/2013
Anti Bedroom Tax Protest outside Trafalgar Square and 10 Downing St, London on 30th March 2013. Citizens are worried about the tax claiming it is going to crush the poor. People on benefits are concerned that they would have to move to smaller accommodation.
"Bedroom tax, have you ever heard anything more ridiculous? I am here to rebel against bedroom tax. Axe the bedroom tax. The idea is to get people to move out of homes that are bigger than they need. The bedroom tax is basically if you have a spare room that is not being used then your benefits could be cut in certain circumstances. Massive dig to the poor people of this country. I think it's wrong. People have got the right to protest. It's disgusting appalling invading people's personal space. It's going to break up families and break up communities. I think it is disgusting I think its just part of the Tori government dismantling welfare state. Whilst the MPs hand themselves more expenses more money we suffer. Its 7 pounds a room isn't it? It's a tax on poor people. The whole system is skewed towards the wealthy. You are paying enough as it is why do you have to pay more? To fill the whole that was made by giving a trillion pounds of our money to bankers. The poor get poorer and the rich are getting richer. Cuts cuts no way make the greedy bankers pay. Its very very clear that there is a dividing line between the rich and the poor. We've definitely got a corrupt system. How do you make the greedy bankers pay? Banks have been allowed to rob the country. Stop the bonuses. Axe the bedroom tax. The poor are being asked to subsidies and pay for the mistakes and the flagrant theft of the nation's assets by these bankers aided and abetted by these Tori cabinet of millionaires so we are out here today to say no we are not having it the rich caused this crises and yet poor people on housing estates working poor the unemployed are being forced to pay the price. Can't pay won't pay axe the bedroom tax. Peaceful protest at the moment. I am being taxed for my disabled daughter she has had that room for over 10 years because she is a similar age to my other daughter who is not disabled they are saying they can share a room and they are going to charge me 20 pounds 97 a week from what? From the benefits they give me for her disability? Bedroom tax is a load of stupid idea will cost more to implement and its ridiculous. My mom will have to pay for my sister to share a room with me. This is a tax on the poor by the rich and we shall not pay or the rich. And we won't be able to have food very week we won't have dinner on the table. Just making sure that people can exercise their democratic right. We don't live in a democracy. This is a deliberate ploy to hit the poorest as hard as possible. They are taking the shirt off my back I can't afford to live I am gonna be living on 20 pounds a week. The money we have to live on is not really enough. Get him out get him out. Cameron out it's the worst government we ever had in history in Britain. Mr. Osborne where is your economics degree? We are here for all of the other people in London who are going to be made homeless when this tax comes in. I don't see what this protest is actually going to do solution wise. Believe it or not I am actually trying to do something at the moment. We need to unite and fight. Decide what we are going to be doing next. This government and this country hasn't seen anything yet this country is going to burn and burn like they have never seen before. I think that they should get the royal family and all the politicians to disclose how many houses they've got let alone bedrooms and are they going to pay any bedroom tax no they are not. He wears cor blimy trousers and he lives in a council flat. You think the government aren't killing and raping us now? They are fucking killing people they are sending our kids over there to kills their kids over there what's that for? Most people do realize that we have got corrupt governments but they can't find a solution to this and that's what the problem truly is."
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Given that working people have to pay £550-600 p/month rent for a bedroom in a house, I can't understand why they say it is unfair.
I totally agree with you, there is no party for the people in the middle, they only pander to extremists and lobbyists. The expenses scandal showed how 'honorable' they were and all parties were guilty to some degree.
IF WE COULD ONLY SHARE THE PASSION AND ENTHUSIASM OF THESE WONDERFUL PEOPLE ! DEAR FRIENDS IT IS TIME TO STAND UP AND BE COUNTED..... STAND STRONG X
Raising the tax on over £150k was predicted to bring in £750 million, in fact it was much less. You have to raise £100 Billion to get rid of the deficit, where is the money going to come from? Which rich people?
Its is not just the bedroom tax but also the council tax on the poor. I call on everybody to refuse to pay; just refuse; if enough people; say a 100'000 say no it could bring down the government like the poll tax. I am not going to pay; I am going to ignore them as I will ignore the summons to go to court; so I get arrested; go to prison; big deal; what's so bad about prison and who's paying for me when I'm inside the government and when I come out I am still not going to pay. EVERYBODY REFUSE.
i would be peaceful as i am a peaceful person and i would not comply. I said give me £100 would you just say no or would you question me as to why i think you should pay me £100. “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” ― Richard Buckminster Fuller
WELL DONE EVERYONE AM SO HAPPY SOME PPL ARE BOTHERING TO DO THESE PROTESTS...
Shops are shutting down all over the place in Glasgow. Agreed.
im on benefits i only get 53 pounds per week and now i will have to pay 29 per week for this bedroom tax this will leave me with 24 pounds per week for to spend on council tax electric gas food toiletries and other bills so im actually going to struggle to survive so it is unfair to expect people such as myself to live on 24 pounds a week
it's a pity Oliver Cromwell isn't still around. He had the perfect solution to Tory Hatred against ordinary people. To quote Cromwell "Our swords are in God's hands and our faith is in the Lord"
very true and the way to protest would be to stop working, paying tax and conforming to the system that was designed by the rich to keep the poor poor
giving right to protest and free speech you got a choice to work hard or be poor and it's up to everyone
Solidarity!!
(rest of my comment) as long as most of my taxes go to People that need it, people, like me, who have paid into the System but got made redundant or became ill. They deserve it. That's the difference between us and 3rd World countries. That we care for our poor and vulnerable. What's wrong with that??? Paul Roth needs a kick in the face. Aaarrgh! Anger!!
Tory 28% Labour 42% LibDem 11% YOU KNOW WHO TO VOTE FOR. GET RID OF THE TORIES.
I remember when the so called "poll tax" was being brought in, how the labour councils paid people to go on marches against it. My partner and I were on low wages and the council put our rates up by 100% meaning we had to sell our flat - we would have been better off with the poll tax, but it was widely mis reported just to score political points ! I know lots of people on the dole who evaded it, to them it was business as usual not having to pay rates as the debts were written off in the end.
RE$FUSE TO PAY: BRAND TOGETHER; MASS REFUSAL; WE CAN CHANGE THE LAW IF WE STICK TOGETHER AND SAY NO, NO, NO. I WILL NOT PAY.
£23 Billion in housing benefits !!!! If we don't get a grip of this our kids & grandkids will be paying to keep the idle scroungers in a job.
peaceful non compliance implies that one had an obligation to comply.if the mafia knocked on your door and said pay up,would your response be i am peacefully not complying or would you ask who are you and what evidence do you have that i even have to answer that question, before you get threatened with violence to comply of course.
Doesn't matter if it's tory or labour, the same draconian measures will be taken regardless. WAKE UP PEOPLE IT DOESN'T MATTER WHO YOU VOTE FOR
Resistance then Revolution thats what we need
WHO DOES NOT GET IT !!The country can't AFFORD to carry the spongers anymore. There is not enough of us working to pay out all the giros.....
Bedroom tax out, mansion tax in!!!!
TAKE MONEY FROM THE RICH NOT THE POOR!!!!!
peaceful non compliance is the only protest ! its in the Magna Karta and Gandhi swore by it !
i am disabled but i have been told fhat i am not exempt
i know it dont sound or look like i am being serious, but i am quite serious. Anarchy is Love ! We dont need a government and we dont need rules.
I'm really happy to see this.
I have not contradicted myself I am not talking about the average working man I am talking about the rich people who can afford to pay taxes. Also people who are disabled can't work!
Good point Philip Jarvis...might I suggest that the best place to set up "Carboard Box City" is on Lord Freud's private estate? Just one concern though...will he view this new City of Paradise as taxable? Maybe he will think that those CONDEMned to live in Cardboard boxes should be paying a "Box Tax" i.e they have too much space in their own personal box? That means they are depriving somebody else of living space. That is completely unacceptable, so you have to cough up again..LOL
THE SYSTEM IS CORRUPT
You don't have to pay anything, it isn't a tax, you simply get given less. It's like me saying "I know I usually give you £20 for your birthday, but I've run out of money, so I'm only giving you £10" and then you saying that I have 'taxed' you £10. I know things are tough, but the fact is that the country can't keep borrowing money to pay for benefits, and before you start with the 'rich should pay more tax' thing, the deficit is over £150b, more than all the income tax collected from everyone
don't py it...what cn they do if no one pays it? they can't jail everyone...
I was about to say I actually agree with you until you called me an idiot. Not that I care anyway because as long as I have all the stuff I have going for me, and everyone I care about is doing well, your opinions bounce off me like rain off the ground : )
taking to the streets protesting is not the effective solution as the establishment has the force to deal with that action however not voting, paying tax is an effective way of shutting down this establishment if all the people that take to the streets did this the establishment would soon have a problem. magna carta is just some agreement between dead people its not relevant to me as i was not present when it was agreed upon.
I can think of a number of reasons why able bodied people are unable to find suitable employment, despite your comment of there being "no excuse". One reason - Where I live there are AT LEAST 400 people applying for every one job vacancy (unskilled and semi skilled Labour in particular), so finding a job isn't the piece of piss you imagine it to be. Maybe in the rich and prosperous South East there is plenty of work, but where I live you need to contact "Miracles R Us" in order to find a job.
we are definately on the same page and i do understand where you coming from my view is violence is the modus operandi of bureaucrats.just imagine what compliance would be like if they could not use violence,
the possibilites are infinite and when love guides you the only limit is your imagination xx good to talk
To tell cameron "he can go spin" lol.
i do look for work and i am disabled but in my area there has only been 3 jobs available in the past 4 years
Whats's next ? - Anarchy is love !
help what are we going to do next?
knowledge is the key to release yourself from the prison of ignorance, the system is not founded on equality,civilizations are founded on the backs of slave labour, since the turn of industrial revolution man has been slowly but surely replaced by machines there is no manufacturing in the uk due to mechanisation and minimum wage hence the big business have shifted their manufacturing to asia,africa or east europe.in a country thats propped by debt is very surprising that people attack the poor
2:30 - 2:34 The girl in that part could do with eating a little less. She seems content with easy life now it's threatened she's angry as she will have to contribute
looks like i shall get plenty of sleep while this goes on hehe
if a riot breaks out theres not enough police there was like 100 police that was it :0
Good film
its hard the last job i went for there wer 208 applicants for just 1 vacancy get a job easier said than done especially when ur disabled
is that not peaceful non compliance ?
It's just easy money for the aristocrats.
TIME FOR CHANGE VOTE UKIP
but where is the jobs
does the law stop you from killing people ? prob not ! and if you did want to kill someone the law could nothing to stop you. And for the gangsters, is there any difference between the hooded ones on the street and the ones with suites in the big buildings ? i would are argue that the ones on the street are only rebelling against the ones in the big buildings.
is protesting not a form of legitimizing tax? after all who or what law says that you are a taxpayer? surely just not complying is the solution they can not lock up thousands of people for laws and regulations that are now just being created for fun, its not like they need the money.
To the Tories who keep leaving obnoxious comments on here about their fellow countrymen and women (some of these comments may even have orignated from Satan's botty personally) - all I have to say to you is this; "You haven't changed much, have yer! It is quite obvious that Compassion was never your strongest subject, and I'm therefore adwarding you all a Grade "D" in Compassion (which basically means that you've all FAILED..sorry).
This is not a socialist state where the workers work to death for the idle. I pay my taxes and i want them used properly not wasted. Where is the money that went to the banks ??? when are we getting it back ???? not in BANK taxes it needs to be in repayments.. they owe this country. UK is not keeping anyone here, if you don't like this country then fine just leave !!!
i honestly dont see the big deal? you are getting FREE accommodation paid for by the taxpayer, you should be grateful! benefits (excluding disability) are supposed to be short term. if you arent working but still living in an oversized house for free, what incentive is there for the taxpayers living in cramped houses to work and pay for you to have a spare bedroom?
whats the next step
what a sad life you lead
You seem to contradict yourself, on the one hand you say welfare cuts (its not a tax) are wrong and on the other hand you say people are struggling to live in a high tax environment. From where do you think welfare is paid? Poor working people have paid taxes for welfare for too long.
EAT THE RICH
Why don`t you people get a job instead off moaning.Very soon you`ll be paying for school fees and for school dinner.Why should we tax payers pay everything for you.End this benefit.