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General Category => Politics & Current Affairs => Topic started by: Rhiannon on August 09, 2018, 05:36:06 PM

Title: Good news re refuges
Post by: Rhiannon on August 09, 2018, 05:36:06 PM

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/aug/09/plans-to-remove-womens-refuges-from-uk-welfare-system-dropped

Thank goodness.

Title: Re: Good news re refuges
Post by: ProfessorDavey on August 09, 2018, 05:39:25 PM

Quote from: Rhiannon on August 09, 2018, 05:36:06 PM

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/aug/09/plans-to-remove-womens-refuges-from-uk-welfare-system-dropped

Thank goodness.

I agree - this was a big issue for a refuge near me, with our ex MP heavily involved in the campaign to get the proposed changes scrapped.

Title: Re: Good news re refuges
Post by: Steve H on August 10, 2018, 07:18:29 AM

Only under a Tory government would it ever have been contemplated.