Bedroom Tax

[surge]

Perhaps lost in the US general election interest, there was a rather important supreme court decision on the bedroom tax today.

The government has spent 3 years trying to get this disabled persons to pay up in what is now recognised as always being lawfully wrong, which you may or may not wish to try to justify.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/...ine-carmichael

[goslow]

It's a reasonable idea but the implementation of it has been fvcking woeful.

[Eric the Half a Bee]

It's a reasonable idea but the implementation of it has been fvcking woeful.

It would have been a reasonable idea had there been enough properties with less bedrooms for people to move to. There weren't, so people were forced to accept it whether they liked it or not. The government would have known this.

[Feedback]

I don't think it is a ringing endorsement for government decision making if 2 out of every 7 things they do turn out to be illegal either though is it?

i would hazard a guess thats its considerably less than 2 out of 7. you are only looking at those cases that got to the supreme court. what about the cases where the government had no case to answer?