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Related: About this forumGovernment loses two bedroom tax cases.
This is breaking news, but it's brilliant news.
Appeal Court judges rule so-called bedroom tax is discriminatory in two cases brought against UK government
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35418488
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Government loses two bedroom tax cases. (Original Post)
Bad Dog
Jan 2016
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LeftishBrit
(41,450 posts)1. Good news!
Of course, it does not strike down the bedroom tax in general; but even protecting disabled children and domestic violence victims is important. It is criminal that the government did not exempt these groups in the first place (even apart from the fact that the bedroom tax is criminal in the first place!)
Bad Dog
(2,044 posts)2. You're right those groups should have been exempted,
but that won't stop the government appealing against the ruling.
Denzil_DC
(8,978 posts)3. Which, according to the BBC, is what they're going to do.
Bastards. That is all.
Bad Dog
(2,044 posts)4. The grandfather was interviewed on BBC News 24.
He's not a well man either. It's a disgrace, but Kudos to the BBC for following it with a story about Cameron defending the Google tax rip off.
