I see what you did there, with your 'odd exception' from your previous post.
Good work.

Incidentally, is it all them bastads running about being the real issue that's playing with your head?

But you aren't - and that is the whole point.

Its coincidental if someone takes council or HA property that under the NEW rules falls into the category of having an "extra" bedroom, the plain and simple fact is there are insufficient numbers of "correctly" roomed dwellings to satisfy the NEW rules.

Let me give you an example - you are a two parent, two child family, you have a boy aged 9 and a girl aged 8 years, you apply for LA or HA accomodation and you are in receipt of housing benefit, they offer you a three bedroomed house which being of a typical british standard is two double bedrooms and what we normally call "a box room", you accept it because it means that your children can have their own bedrooms.

From April 1st your housing benefit will be reduced by 14% because, according to the NEW rules your two children should be sharing one bedroom, despite the fact the the LA or HA never offered you a two bed unit and cannot offer you one still.

Just to rubber stamp the arbitory and punative nature of the NEW rules, if your two children were two boys and aged 14 and 15 then your housing benefit would still be reduced because some fekkwit decreed that they too should be sharing one bedroom.

This new housing benefit rule should have been laughed out at the first cabinet meeting, should have been rejected at the second meeting with a whisper in Camerons ear "Margaret wants to ask if you remember the poll tax", but we've reached a point where there are no new ideas in Plan A, no more screws to tighten, the presumed slack in public services that the whole shaky policy was based on has been proved to be somewhat smaller than envisaged then when it was all the rage at Oxford during those PPE debates, its time to step up the divide and conquer tactics - I dread to think what rhetoric is to follow in the next few weeks to try and justify their plan, or u-turn as the case may be.

Well they've got you hooked, good and proper.

If you lived in Poland in 1939 you'd be pointing out your local Jews to the police as "social failures".

Probably gone to ask the almighty why he allowed them 6 million defenceless men women and children turn into smoke?

Either that or he's gone to feed his rabbits.

Why shouldn't two teenage boys share a room???

And if the HA of LA can't offer you suitable accommodation, why not look to the private sector?

Have you heard of Godwin's Law?

Do you think social housing might be less expensive than renting from a private landlord generally, possibly, maybe?

Maybe, but many manage it.

And how would you think that many of the poorest and those on low incomes manage to do that?