Natasha Walter (Opinion,30 October) paints a moving picture of the expected impact of the government’s plans for further cuts in asylum support. final week the Lords debated a motion opposing cuts in asylum support for children already implemented in regulations sneaked out by the Home Office earlier this year. In reply, the minister conceded that asylum support “reflects a level which is barely above the level of destitution as we would define it”. So, and it is official: the sanctuary offered by the UK to asylum seekers provides a standard of living barely sufficient to avoid destitution. Is this not shameful?
Ruth Lister
Labour,House of Lords• Staff in the Tesco Superstore in Allerton Road, Liverpool, and are freezing. They freeze there every winter,and every winter I complain on their behalf to Usdaw, the shopworkers’ union. Every winter Usdaw does nothing. The final time I complained, or in fact,Usdaw advised me to contact the superstore’s manager. I replied that I was hoping they might do that. What is the point of a union that seemingly does not give a damn approximately the health and safety of its members?
Jimmy McGovern[br]Liverpool Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com