Bedroom Tax Song: You Cannae Have A Spare Room in a Pokey Cooncil Flat

Posted on March 29 2013

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5 Responses

Simon says:

March 29 2013 at 5:19 pm

Good old Scotland – always ahead of the English with social justice! We are living in a world governed by Fraudsters and thuggish oligarchs. We need a peoples uprising, perhaps a general strike. The English have always been forelock tuggers and brown-nosers of the wealthy (sorry for generalisation but element of truth here). I’ll be at the protests on Saturday but I’m afraid the vast majority of the populace is in a media-induced trance and doesn’t give a Friar Tuck!

Methodist Church has done some good research into how the Govt. is perpetuating myths about the poor: http://www.methodist.org.uk/news-and-events/news-releases/lies-about-poverty-shattering-the-myths
- Richard Murphy says:
  
  March 29 2013 at 6:11 pm
  
  That report is great
- Ian Stevenson says:
  
  March 29 2013 at 10:42 pm
  
  The Church of Scotland, Baptists and United reformed Church also contributed.
  Have you seen any mention of this report in the media?
  
  The Nonconformist tradition was not one of forelock tugging. English Socialism owed more to Methodism than Marxism, said Crossland (I think)
  But part of that tradition was that the right choices are usually the hard ones and a lot of the public still think if it’s painful there is probably right and we have no choice. That is what the austerity party are telling people.
  That is why it’s important that radical voices like Richard’s and those of the Modern Monetary Theorists are heard. If it wasn’t for the web there would be even less chance for these ideas to propagate.
  - Richard Murphy says:
    
    March 30 2013 at 6:09 am
    
    Being a radical means you are denied a voice
    
    It doesn’t stop us trying
LisaRob says:

March 30 2013 at 12:24 am

Heres the lyrics

I’m a welfare state wean, we live on the bottom flair
But we’re no allowed to even live there any mair.
They say we’ve got too many rooms, in our social rented flat
We’ve an eight by ten foot boxroom where you cannae swing a cat

Chorus:
Oh ye canna have a spare room in a pokey cooncil flat
Ian Duncan Smith and Co have put an end tae that
They say “live in a smaller house”, they say that is their plan
When the odds against you finding one are ninety-nine to one

Noo ma auntie’s in a wheelchair, but these Tories dinna care
They say they have a deficit, she got to pay her share
Â£60 a month they’ll take, then leave her tae her fate
Whilst gieing millionaires a tax cut, cause they say they’re due a break

Noo that Buckingham Palace looks a pretty roomy gaff
And the ludger there gets benefits at rates that make me laugh
A civil list, plus tax perks, near ninety million pounds
With her other dozen mansions lying empty a’ year round

Noo those MPs doon in Westminster must think that we’re ‘a dense
Wi their second home apartments, where the public pays their rent
They’re even get a food allowance, two hundred quid a week
But they’re claiming we’re the scroungers, is their arse up in their cheeks?

So we’ve formed a Federation and we’re gonna have our say
The Bedroom Tax it has to go, and we ain’t gonna pay
We’re gonna march on London tae demand our civil rights
Like nae mair Tories and their Liberal shite