SIR – Many people have criticised the Tory ‘bedroom’ tax claiming that it is part of the Tory ‘War on Poor’.
While there is certainly an element of that, I believe the real reason for the bedroom tax is the Tories immigration policy and specifically the new influx of immigrants due next year.
In 2014, people from Romania and Bulgaria are free to come live, work and claim benefits in the UK. Migration Watch suggest this will amount to at least 50,000 people per year and I would suggest they might want somewhere to live.
That’s not all. George Osborne is planning to cut child benefit for higher-rate taxpayers as we hear that £36.6 million per year in child benefit is being paid to children who are not in the country – under EU law, migrants can claim child benefit for children in other countries.
Anyone see a pattern forming here?
Jason Smith, UKIP Bradford chairman, Woodlands Avenue, Queensbury, Bradford
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