Manchester and Salford set to march against the Bedroom Tax
Article published: Friday, April 19th 2013
Residents marching against the hated bedroom tax will hold another demo tomorrow on the steps of Manchester’s town hall.
Two feeder groups will march from Manchester’s Piccadilly Gardens and Broughton in Salford to meet in the city centre’s Albert Square.
The “tax”, which will slash housing benefit for people in social housing by 14 per cent if they have one spare room and 25 per cent if they have two or more, has been the subject of protests up and down the country.
Manchester is the part of the country worst hit by the tax, with Salford a close second.
Honor Donnelly from Wythenshawe, an area of the city hit hard by the tax, said “I’ve lived in Wythenshawe in the same house for 15 years. I have been a nurse, a mother, a graduate”.
“I would love to have a job, but I can’t find work. My children have now grown up and left home. Now because of the Bedroom Tax I am expected to pay another £25 a week for living in my own home!”
Broughton Against the Bedroom Tax member Marina Brabiner said, “My mum and her generation survived the war on rationing. Now with the Bedroom Tax we are in a war situation.
“I can no longer afford to eat meat. I’ve had to stop buying a newspaper. On top of the gas and electric, now I have to pay the Bedroom Tax, on top of the Council Tax.
“I worked all my life since I was sixteen years old. I had to give up when my mum was ill and needed looking after. Now every day I look for a job – but there are no jobs. I would love a job. I did not work all those years to live this kind of life.”
Last weekend activists travelled to the Trafford home of Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne to hand out symbolic eviction notices as part of a national “Who Wants to Evict a Millionaire” day of action called for by UK Uncut.
Manchester protesters will assemble at 1pm in Piccadilly Gardens Saturday 20 April, leaving at 2pm and marching to join Salford protesters in Albert Square.
Salford assembles 1pm Mocha Parade, Lower Broughton. Demonstrators depart at 1.30pm marching to Albert Square in Manchester
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Utterly disgraceful .
Comment by Will on August 6, 2013 at 7:59 pm
We must smash the Bedroom Tax , and the thatcherite Exploiters .
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