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Bedroom Tax Campaign Irvine Public Meeting 2013

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Bedroom tax Irvine public meeting introduction. In the opening remarks by Denise Morton chairing the meeting, a comparison was drawn between the campaign against the bedroom tax, the Poll Tax and the rent strikes of a century ago and how people power defeated the high rents and the Poll Tax and how people power can do the same today with the bedroom tax. Denise talks of war time Britain 100 years ago when food prices were going up, the cost of fuel was going up, the price of clothes were going up and rents constantly going up. Sounds familiar doesn't it? said Denise. "Not a lot's changed in a hundred years. But eventually they had to stop putting these rents up and the reason was because the women of Glasgow said "we're not having it!" We're not having you landlords putting our rent up when our fathers, our brothers, our sons, our friends are fighting a war. And eventually something like 32 unions in Glasgow agreed with them that this was not on, and they joined them in a huge march in Glasgow and the government caved in. The people won. 75 years on they tried something similar with the Poll Tax and the people did away with that which is proof that people power works. We can bring an end to the bedroom tax too if we stick together.

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Bedroom Tax Campaign Irvine Public Meeting 2013

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