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  Bedroom tax is worthy of Stalin, says government's poverty tsar
  
  Frank Field condemns change to housing benefit as 'flawed' and says scheme
  
  will eventually prove to be more expensive
  
  Frank Field: 'The government is introducing social and physical engineering on a
  
  scale that Stalin would have been proud of.'
  
  The government's poverty tsar, Frank Field, has condemned the "bedroom tax" as
  
  a form of social engineering that would have made Joseph Stalin proud.
  
  On the eve of the introduction of the change, in which housing benefit will be cut
  
  for tenants in social housing with a spare room, the former welfare reform minister
  
  predicted that the new system would eventually prove to be more expensive.
  
  Field told the Guardian: "Housing officers are having to go round and tell people and
  
  they are in tears. These people have not wanted to be in what the government
  
  now defines as the 'wrong' house for them to be in.
  
  "The government is introducing social and physical engineering on a scale that Stalin
  
  would have been proud of. The way they are doing it is so extraordinary."

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