Bedroom Tax Is Top of List of Complaints in Clegg's Constituency

The first thing you see when you walk on to Liberty Hill in the Sheffield suburb of Stannington is a static CCTV camera. It keeps an eye on a cluster of social housing that residents say their MP Nick Clegg has never visited. His constituency of Sheffield Hallam is one of the country’s most well-off. It has only 1.5% unemployment. The CCTV is to counter anti-social behaviour. Yet in Stannington, residents’ concerns are not about each other but about Mr Clegg’s government. The hated Bedroom Tax is top of their list of complaints. There are 1,700 people in Sheffield Hallam hit by it. And because of its high concentration of council houses most are in Stannington. Clegg’s abrupt U-turn on the hated “spare-room subsidy” as his Government would have us call it has not gone down well here. Read more on the Daily Mirror website.