Comments on: The new poll tax? The bedroom tax, welfare reform and independence https://blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk/referendum/the-new-poll-tax-the-bedroom-tax-welfare-reform-and-independence/ Informing the Debate Tue, 02 Apr 2013 12:06:15 +0000 hourly 1 By: Eileen Carson https://blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk/referendum/the-new-poll-tax-the-bedroom-tax-welfare-reform-and-independence/#comment-2674 Tue, 02 Apr 2013 12:06:15 +0000 http://blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk/referendum/?p=356#comment-2674 All of which ignores the fact that real power over Welfare and Benefits resides solely with Westminster as Reserved Matters!

]]> By: The new poll tax? The bedroom tax, welfare reform and independence | Referendum 2014 | Scoop.it https://blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk/referendum/the-new-poll-tax-the-bedroom-tax-welfare-reform-and-independence/#comment-2669 Tue, 02 Apr 2013 09:31:11 +0000 http://blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk/referendum/?p=356#comment-2669 […] Dr Nicola McEwen, ESRC Senior Scotland Fellow, reflects on the welfare turn in the independence debate. She raises doubts about the prospects that the bedroom tax can play as important a role as the poll tax in the campaign for greater Scottish self government.  […]

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