[joeysteele]

I largely agree with your stance on this one.

I really am fed up of seeing the sledgehammer being wielded against the weakest and poorest in society, even more so against the vulnerable too.
I am in favour of benefit reform and rooting out anyone claiming benefits fraudulently or not being entitled to some benefits they get but the way this Govt has gone about this is near obsessional and wrong as well as being costly too.

I personally agree with the 1% rise cap on benefit payments but I am totally opposed to things such as the so called 'bedroom tax' coming in.
It has to be totally wrong and unjustified to have given a secure tenancy to someone as to a house,who then in time finds themselves on a low income or too ill to work, who has been told the Govt decrees they must have something like £130/140 a week to live on and cover bills but in addition are entitled to full housing benefit and full council tax rebate.
For them to only then come along and say via a form of political and financial levering that to stay in that house, they are going to remove funds from their housing benefit and council tax rebate which they will then have to find from the funds they were told they had to have to live on and cover other bills.

That to me is a total disgrace and my fury at the Lib Dems for supporting these measures knows no bounds.
I have been as part of my Uni work, been involved with people on these issues who are going to suffer massively.
A man of 63, suffering from early dementia has lived in Council housing since he was born, actuallyin the house he still lives in but now living alone.
Because he has 2 bedrooms unoccupied by nobody living there with him, he will now have to find around £90 every month from April next year to stay in that house.He will also have deductions to his council tax rebate too.

In the UK in the 21st century to hear of that even being thought of by any Govt infuriates me. This bedroom tax likely will and I hope it does, become this Coalitions Govts 'poll tax'.

The more I learn as to this cowardly attack on the weakest,poorest and most vulnerable in society just makes me really dismayed and more angry at this Govt which actually seems to have a death wish as to the next election anyway as to both the parties in it.

In this all together they say, I see little evidence of that the more I find myself involved with those being savaged at the bottom end of the scale by this heartless Govt.

Their idea to reform welfare and benefits are right, the means they have used,in my opinion anyway, bring shame to any decency.