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Didn't watch the programme as a review i heard said the programme didn't challenge the bigoted views. Anyway i thought that programme was about immigration not people on benefits.

Margaret Mountford and Nick Hewer have done previous programmes about benefit claimants.

"One of the things I find gobsmacking is that only 4.5% of tenants affected by the bedroom tax have been able to downsize. So in terms of meeting its original objectives of freeing up spare rooms for bigger families has failed almost completely."

The real agenda though was to save money at poor people's expense. The Tories saying it was to free up houses for families was baloney.

"The real agenda though was to save money at poor people's expense. The Tories saying it was to free up houses for families was baloney."

Mmm, not so sure that this is the case. I think they introduced the tax without doing a full study of the implications. This lot are incompetent. I remember when Gove in his rush to make a mark read out about 3 or 4 different versions of those schools who would have funding for rebuild work and those that wouldn't from the original Labour list.

Then there was the whole host of measures that Osborne brought in at a budget that he had to withdraw soon after e.g. the pasty tax etc.

A classic is the tripling of student fees where it is estimated that because so many are defaulting on payment or not earning enough to repay, the new measures are costing the government the same as they would have done if they hadn't tripled the fees.

I suspect that they thought there would be much bigger movements into smaller homes because they hadn't done the in-depth groundwork to see if that many homes were available.