THE campaign group behind “crime scene” attacks on the homes of Poole councillors and the town’s MP's office has defended its actions.

As reported in the Daily Echo, the Bournemouth branch of UK Uncut said it had put crime incident tape across drives and posted fake blood-covered cotton buds and eviction notices through doors as part of the countrywide “Who wants to evict a millionaire?” campaign.

Along with councillors, Poole MP Robert Syms’ constituency office was one of the premises attacked.

Those targeted blasted the tactics, with Poole councillor Mike White branding it “sick”.

Now, the group has issued a statement over the row.

It said: “On April 1 the government introduced the bedroom tax, making 670,000 people worse off for having a spare room, even if it’s for a disabled partner or child, or foster children to sleep in at the same time as giving 13,000 millionaires a tax cut.

“In reaction to this and in response to a national call-out from UK Uncut, Bournemouth Uncut took our creative civil disobedience straight to the people who are directly pushing and benefiting from these cuts.

“Bournemouth Uncut is a local group part of UK Uncut, a grassroots movement using direct action to fight the cuts and highlight alternatives to austerity.

“On Saturday April 13, 2013, a group of activists took action as part of UK Uncut’s nationwide ‘Who wants to evict a millionaire’ that saw actions round the country, including London, Manchester and Chelmsford against the governments changes to housing benefit dubbed the ‘bedroom tax’.

“We are disappointed at Cllr Mike White’s decision to brand our actions sick, and feel that what this government of millionaires is doing to single-mothers, disabled people and low-earners up and down the country is what is actually sick.

“In reaction to Poole MP Robert Syms' statement to Bournemouth Echo where he claimed direct action would make him and his government ‘more determined to make sure [they] make fairer policy in terms of housing’ Bournemouth Uncut say that they will continue to work with other direct action groups locally and nationally until the ‘bedroom tax’ is added to the ever growing number of coalition u-turns.”