https://leftfootforward.org/2015/10/community-sponsorship-the-silver-lining-to-theresa-mays-speech/ Left Foot Forward is the home for UK progressives. We provide evidence-based analysis on British politics, news and policy. Fri, 06 Nov 2015 18:55:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.5 https://leftfootforward.org/2015/10/community-sponsorship-the-silver-lining-to-theresa-mays-speech/#comment-724648 Fri, 06 Nov 2015 18:55:00 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=107853#comment-724648 i can find no first hand evidence of her support for communiity sponsorship, did it happen and where is this recorded? Important as we want to get such a scheme up and running asap email [email protected] or post on pembrokeshire for refugees facebook

]]> https://leftfootforward.org/2015/10/community-sponsorship-the-silver-lining-to-theresa-mays-speech/#comment-723429 Fri, 09 Oct 2015 01:41:00 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=107853#comment-723429 The silver lining to Theresa May’s speech – when she got off the podium.

]]> https://leftfootforward.org/2015/10/community-sponsorship-the-silver-lining-to-theresa-mays-speech/#comment-723390 Thu, 08 Oct 2015 11:09:00 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=107853#comment-723390 Does British society really need ‘enriching’ as this article puts it? Its a very vague term.

]]> https://leftfootforward.org/2015/10/community-sponsorship-the-silver-lining-to-theresa-mays-speech/#comment-723380 Thu, 08 Oct 2015 07:58:00 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=107853#comment-723380 But this is also at the same time that community groups in the uk are struggling to survive because of the massive government cuts to local authorities- who are traditionally the largest funders of community groups. Only this week Third Sector published an article lamenting the death of thousands of community groups around Britain. The idea will simply not work without funds, and May is looking for the voluntary sector to bail out the government who don’t really want to help refugees- and especially don’t want to pay for them. It might sound ok, but is disingenuous- this government wants to do as little as it can for people in need whilst not looking evil. It’s the same trick as cutting benefits and saying everyone will be saved by a new minimum wage. They are really nasty bastards.

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