Bedroom tax – landlords ARE the lazy consensus and focus on the wrong deficits!
Food for thought.
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SPeye Joe (Welfarewrites): is right to focus on the landlords
But they have missed a bit
Duncan Smith gave his ‘game away’ with the recent ‘House’ interview
“I want some behavioural change, but most of all I want councils to value their council property and the rents so they actually manage that property better,”
http://www.politicshome.com/uk/article/94890/iain_duncan_smiths_battle_for_britain_.html
He chose to ‘penalise’ the tenants, though, rather than the ‘landlords’
There must be some DWP ‘guidance’ on this policy, probably obtainable through an FOI………