{"id":19886,"date":"2013-03-30T06:16:40","date_gmt":"2013-03-30T06:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=19886"},"modified":"2013-03-30T06:32:22","modified_gmt":"2013-03-30T06:32:22","slug":"the-lyrics-to-you-cannae-have-a-spare-room-in-a-pokey-cooncil-flat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/03\/30\/the-lyrics-to-you-cannae-have-a-spare-room-in-a-pokey-cooncil-flat\/","title":{"rendered":"The lyrics to You Cannae Have a Spare Room in a Pokey Cooncil Flat"},"content":{"rendered":"

These are the lyrics to You Cannae Have a Spare Room in a Pokey Cooncil Flat:<\/a><\/p>\n

I\u2019m a welfare state wean, we live on the bottom flair<\/em><\/p>\n

But we\u2019re no allowed to even live there any mair.<\/em><\/p>\n

They say we\u2019ve got too many rooms, in our social rented flat<\/em><\/p>\n

We've an eight by ten foot boxroom where you cannae swing a cat<\/em><\/p>\n


\n<\/em><\/p>\n

Chorus:<\/em><\/p>\n

:Oh ye canna have a spare room in a pokey cooncil flat<\/em><\/p>\n

Ian Duncan Smith and Co have put an end tae that<\/em><\/p>\n

They say \u201clive in a smaller house\u201d, they say that is their plan<\/em><\/p>\n

When the odds against you finding one are ninety-nine to one <\/em><\/p>\n

----<\/em><\/p>\n

Noo ma auntie\u2019s in a wheelchair, but these Tories dinna care <\/em><\/p>\n

They say they have a deficit, she got to pay her share<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a360 a month they\u2019ll take, then leave her tae her fate<\/em><\/p>\n

Whilst gieing millionaires a tax cut, cause they say they\u2019re due a break<\/em><\/p>\n

-----<\/em><\/p>\n

Noo that Buckingham Palace looks a pretty roomy gaff<\/em><\/p>\n

And the ludger there gets benefits at rates that make me laugh<\/em><\/p>\n

A civil list, plus tax perks, near ninety million pounds<\/em><\/p>\n

With her other dozen mansions lying empty a\u2019 year round<\/em><\/p>\n

-----<\/em><\/p>\n

Noo those MPs doon in Westminster must think that we\u2019re \u2018a dense<\/em><\/p>\n

Wi their second home apartments, where the public pays their rent<\/em><\/p>\n

They're even get a food allowance, two hundred quid a week<\/em><\/p>\n

But they\u2019re claiming we\u2019re the scroungers, is their arse up in their cheeks?<\/em><\/p>\n

-----<\/em><\/p>\n

So we\u2019ve formed a Federation and we\u2019re gonna have our say<\/em><\/p>\n

The Bedroom Tax it has to go, and we ain\u2019t gonna pay<\/em><\/p>\n

We're gonna march on London tae demand our civil rights<\/em><\/p>\n

Like nae mair Tories and their Liberal shite<\/em><\/p>\n

No idea who owns the copyright. Hope they will forgive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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