Outrage As Furniture Giant Mocks Bedroom Tax Victims | Welfare Weekly

Last Updated: June 1, 2015By

A furniture giant has sparked outrage after releasing an advert which appears to mock victims of the hated bedroom tax.

The advert from Furniture Village shows an image of a bed and says customers can save £270 on a luxury mattress, adding “this should help towards the bedroom tax”.

Source: Outrage As Furniture Giant Mocks Bedroom Tax Victims | Welfare Weekly

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3 Comments

  1. Chris Tandy June 1, 2015 at 11:14 am - Reply

    The tragedy of this futile attempt at humorous advertising is how it shows the bedroom tax is to many people, ,a perfectly acceptable part of 21st century life.
    The only glimmer of amusement I can wrench from it, is that it shows how acceptable the term ‘bedroom tax’ has become, despite the tory desire to stick with the risible ‘spare-room subsidy’.

  2. Jim Round June 1, 2015 at 11:45 am - Reply

    Outrage?
    More like a whimper.

  3. paul4cowick June 2, 2015 at 4:50 am - Reply

    It’s actually worse that that, as one of Furniture Village’s non-executive directors is Tory MP for Stevenage, Stephen McPartland. Guess how he voted on Bedroom Tax during the last Parliament!

    http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24888/stephen_mcpartland/stevenage/votes#welfare

    He “voted very strongly for reducing housing benefit for social tenants deemed to have excess bedrooms (which Labour describe as the “bedroom tax”)”

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