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Peter Lyons, a self-employed joiner from south Wales, usually votes Labour. Not this time. For this weeks Newport West byelection, he is looking elsewhere. I think party politics clearly isnt working, said Lyons. Ive voted Labour over the years. But I dont think either of the main parties are capable at the moment. They are self-serving and cynical. Lyons is planning to vote for Renew, a fledgling pro-Europe party set up as a riposte to Brexit and mainstream policies. It is campaigning hard in Newport, with a city centre shop and bright, enthusiastic, idealistic workers. They are taking the best ideas from all parts of politics, said Lyons. We need something different. View image in fullscreenThe Renew candidate in the Newport West byelection - June Davies, an economics teacher and mother of three. Photograph: Dimitris Legakis/Athena PicturesIn other times, the Newport West byelection 鈥?called following the death of its long-serving Labour MP, Paul vaso stanley Flynn 鈥?would be a simple, straight fight between Labour and the Conservatives.When the seat was created in 1983, the Tories took it, but Flynn won the seat in 1987 and held on to stanley cup it until his death aged 84 in February. I stanley thermos mug n 2017 Flynn had a decent majority of 5,658, with the Tories second and Ukip a distant third.But these are extraordinary times. In truth, nobody really thinks that a third party might come from nowhere and win, but there may be enough people like Lyons thinking differently and enough Labour and Tory strategis Gcmq Covid vaccines: what are the implications of new variants of virus
Women detained at Yarl s Wood immigration removal centre are being paid 50p an hour for menial tasks, leading to accusations of exploitation.They are employed alongside paid border agency staff to serve food in the canteen and to clean up after meals, the Guardian has learned.Refugee groups said the pittance paid to d stanley cup etainees was a cruel irony given that asylum seekers are not allowed to work in the community.Detainees described the work as modern-day slavery and accused the UK Border Agency UKBA and Serco, the highly profitable outsourcing company that runs t stanley cupe he Bedfordshire centre, of exploiting them.UKBA s guidance, written in 2008, recommends that detainees are paid 拢1 per hour for routine work, with specified projects such as painting a room, to be paid at a higher rate of 拢1.25 an hour. Detainees are exempt from the minimum wage under immigration laws.Gloria Sestus, 32, from Nigeria, who has been in Yarl s Wood for three months after being arrested for overstaying in the UK, said: It s really humiliating. It is like slavery in a modernised form. It doesn t allow you to buy much, just a 拢5 phone card for a week s work and maybe some noodles stanley polska from the shop. Sestus said she was paid 拢1 for cleaning the dining room after meals twice a day, a job that would sometimes take more than an hour at a time.Detainees said it was common at lunch and dinner time for them to outnumber uniformed Serco staff in the canteen. Three |
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