Freud Deliberately Misleads House of Lords Over Bedroom Tax…Again!

Did you know – according to the ignoble Lord Freud – that:

·         200,000 1 bed properties become available in social housing each year

·         There have been “a matter of more than 100 FTT (bedroom tax) appeals.”

That is what he told the House of Lords and he is yet again being totally disingenuous.

1)  200,000 one bed SRS properties each year?

The actual and universally accepted figure is 68,000 not 200,000 and so we see Lord Freud tripling the amount of the real figure as is his want.

2) “…a matter of more than 100 FTT appeals?”

Having personal knowledge of over 80 bedroom tax appeals myself just from one small part of Merseyside alone and further knowledge, some first-hand and some second-hand of a further few hundred bedroom tax appeals in Merseyside and hundreds more across the UK we again see Lord Freud knowingly misleading the House of Lords yet again. Read more on the Speye blog.