The Mirror's Real Britain columnist Ros Wynne-Jones wraps up warm to meet yet another victim of the hated tax ahead of another chance to get rid of it
You couldn’t call Dee Newman’s house in Breightmet, Bolton, a home.
The walls are wet with damp, mouldy furniture is pushed to the middle of
the room. The freezing air smells of decay.
Dee is wearing several layers of clothes, including her dressing gown, showing me her eviction letter. I am still in my coat.
“I’m being charged Bedroom Tax on a place that’s uninhabitable,” she says.
Her house is so damp her two kids cannot even visit.
As a policy, the Bedroom Tax is now so full of holes that it is barely afloat.
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Dee is wearing several layers of clothes, including her dressing gown, showing me her eviction letter. I am still in my coat.
“I’m being charged Bedroom Tax on a place that’s uninhabitable,” she says.
Her house is so damp her two kids cannot even visit.
As a policy, the Bedroom Tax is now so full of holes that it is barely afloat.
Read more...
