Skip to main content
Work with the NEU
Bedroom tax victims insulted by Creme Egg 'thank you' gesture
Bridgend housing association attempted to console hard-hit residents with sickly confectionery gift

Cash-strapped Welsh tenants hit by the bedroom tax have been offered a free Cadbury’s creme egg as a “thank you” gift for coughing up extra rent.

The Star can reveal that Bridgend housing association Valleys to Coast (V2C) offered the sickening Easter sweetener in a letter sent on Tuesday to residents of its 6,000 homes.

Head of neighbourhoods Nigel Draper thanked tenants for their “efforts to pay the shortfall” a year after the Tories slashed their housing benefit.

The 95th Anniversary Appeal
Support the Morning Star
You have reached the free limit.
Subscribe to continue reading.
Similar stories
An aerial view of housing in south west London, July 31, 2026
Housing Crisis / 25 August 2026
25 August 2026

Social Housing Action Campaign blasts PM’s decision to break commitment to allocate 100% of Affordable Homes Programme to social rents

Reform UK Treasury spokesman Robert Jenrick speaking on social care during a press conference at Millbank Tower, London, July 30, 2026
Politics / 16 August 2026
16 August 2026

‘Ultimately, all of Reform's policies benefit big business and attack workers and the poor,’ Diane Abbott MP tells the Star

A sign in a field by the M40 near Warwick, protesting the changes to inheritance tax (IHT) rules, November 2024
Landownership / 22 October 2025
22 October 2025

CAROL WILCOX argues for the proper implementation of the land value tax, which could see unused plots sold off and landlords priced out of landlordism, potentially resolving the housing and planning crises