{"id":1102,"date":"2014-09-05T15:57:05","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T14:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=1102"},"modified":"2014-09-07T19:13:33","modified_gmt":"2014-09-07T18:13:33","slug":"tories-defeated-cruel-tax-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=1102","title":{"rendered":"Tories defeated in cruel tax vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>A major step forward in redressing the injustice of the government\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hated bedroom tax has happened today, (September 5) in Parliament, with the Commons voting to exempt more people from the tax.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The government defeat was thanks to a huge turnout from Labour MPs, some of who even moved around their Friday constituency appointments to make it down to vote.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The private members\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 bill to reduce the number of people hit by the tax was put forward by a backbench Lib Dem MP and received wide support from the party, who has now changed its stance to oppose the measure.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe government should scrap the hated bedroom tax following the overwhelming vote by MPs against the cruel tax on bedrooms today,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 said Labour\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Rachel Reeves.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bDavid Cameron and Nick Clegg\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s cruel and unfair bedroom tax has hit hundreds of thousands of people across the country causing misery, hardship and forcing families to rely on food banks.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She pledged, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bIf the government won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t ditch the bedroom tax, then the next Labour government will.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When put to a vote, the second reading of the bill carried by 306 to 231. It will now go to the next committee stage. Should it pass through into law, the bill would see disabled people exempted from the bedroom tax. The Tories opposed the exemptions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bToday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s announcement is significant, there is a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel for thousands of families who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve had the bedroom tax forced upon them,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 said Unite Community\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Colin Stuart.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe have been at the forefront fighting this vile levy and our members won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t give up until the bedroom tax in the dustbin for good.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bMPs who voted today need to make sure they stick to their convictions and see this through to the end \u00e2\u20ac\u201c we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be pushing them all the way.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A major step forward in redressing the injustice of the government\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hated bedroom tax has happened today, (September 5) in Parliament, with the Commons voting to exempt more people from the tax. &nbsp; The government defeat was thanks to a huge turnout from Labour MPs, some of who even moved around their Friday constituency appointments [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[76],"wps_subtitle":"Commons vote to exempt more people from bedroom tax ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1102"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1104,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions\/1104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}