ePetition - Council Tax Benefit Cuts
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Council Tax Benefit Cuts
• By proposing to cut the benefit paid to working-age
people in Brighton, the council are passing the £2.5 million
bill for tax cuts by a government of millionaires to the poorest
and most vulnerable citizens of Brighton.
• We believe that this is a betrayal of the mandate for change
and resistance to austerity that the Council were given in the 2011
elections.
• The council’s proposals can only increase poverty
poverty amongst the low-paid and wage-less citizens of Brighton,
and continue attacks on our rights, such as the recent jailing of
an 80 year old pensioner, Josephine Medhurst, for a ten year old
bill.
• Instead, our councillors should lead an active campaign by
community groups, trade unions, student organisations and all those
affected by the cuts in spending to demand that government return
the £2.5 million cut to the benefit budget and the £35
million total stolen from our city by Cameron, Clegg and
Osborne.
The petition will be presented to the Council meeting on the 13th December 2012.
This ePetition ran from 19/08/2012 to 29/11/2012 and has now finished.
96 people signed this ePetition.