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    'Brick up your doors, knock down the walls': Labour MP Frank Field makes dramatic

    call before 'bedroom tax' hits

    The cut will reduce a claimant's housing benefit payments if their home is deemed

    under-occupied

    A former welfare minister has delivered a dramatic appeal to landlords to take direct

    action against the "bedroom tax" by knocking down walls or bricking up windows in

    protest against housing benefit cuts.

    Thousands of people will protest tomorrow against the changes, which come into

    force on Monday, in more than 50 demonstrations in all parts of Britain.

    Further campaigns of civil disobedience are planned next month over the bedroom

    tax, under which people face losing up to one-quarter of their housing benefit if their

    home is judged to be under-occupied.

    The Labour MP Frank Field urged a revival of the defiant spirit of the 17th-century

    when glass was replaced by brick in homes across the country in an attempt to avoid

    the hated "window tax" introduced to pay for the Nine Years' War.

    A Poll tax in the making ?

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