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Petition update, 07 September 2007

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That that the principle of `work for those who can, support for those who can't' should extend to everyone in the UK, including people seeking asylum; notes that thousands of people seeking asylum are ending up destitute rather than returning to poverty and/or persecution; supports Church Action on Poverty's Living Ghosts campaign, which aims to end the needless destitution of people seeking asylum; believes that it is in the interest of the whole of UK society for people seeking asylum to be allowed to take paid employment while they are in this country or NASS support if the are unable to work; and recognises that this would stop many people disappearing into destitution.

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• Kathleen Brown
• Julie Hastings
• Stella Christie
• Christina Soper
• Claire Paterson
• Patrick Coleman
• Catherine Rodgers
• Alison Jackson
• Russell Baines
• Melanie Purdie
• Hilary Jowett
• Ted Salmon
• Monica Grant
• Rachel Claire Morrow
• Sister Eileen Cassidy
• Cassy healey
• Freda Parkinson
• Arthur
• Janet Barrow
• Barbara Sweeney
• Carol Condon
• Jean Kirkpatrick
• Mary Smith
• Teresa Ryden
• Margaret M Sheldon
• Stephanie Romaine
• Sara Cannon
• Anne McCarthy
• Nicola Freeman
• Silvana Dallanegra
• Mary Barrow
• Martin Chamberlain
• Stuart Cameron
• Gemma Owens
• Mary Hinde
• Margaret Wilson
• Margaret Byrnes
• Maria Honess
• Anthony Alban GUMMETT
• Mary McCormack
• Shaun Brown
• Richard Lloyd-Jones
• Judith Midgley
• Janet McDermott
• Sister Damian
• Alexander Broadway
• Sheila Gregson
• Kath Jackson
• June Hainsworth
• vivien bowman
• Sarah Dunne
• Nikki Davey
• Peter Jordan
• Rebecca Marcus
• Brónagh Ward
• Julian Weinberg
• Rachel Marcus
• Edith Brash
• John Heaney
• Katie Webber
• Joan Faber
• neil levene
• Jessica Kingsley
• Flora Hoori
• Laura Bannister
• Chantal Jacobs
• Chloe Zadeh
• Joanna Ish-Horowicz
• M Grenada-Bryan
• Majdi Osman
• Jonathan Samuel
• Rachel Heilbron
• Marcus Freed
• Emily Mann
• Natalie
• Alison Denham
• Lorna Brockett
• Samantha Hunt
• Phil Godfrey
• DEBORA COHEN ASERRAF
• sarah walpole
• John Roy Hiscock
• Debbie Young-Somers
• Ronete Cohen
• Axelle de Fremery
• Su Hall
• Margaret Trivasse
• thomas p stones
• Diana E Forrest
• Ron Singer
• Maureen Rennie
• Marie Abery
• Margaret Carter
• Naomi Gibbs
• Catherine Harris
• Lyndsay Spendelow
• Natalie Aronson
• Marge Ellis
• Valerie Hill
• Peter Rushton
• Hugh Foy
• David Toze
• Nia Davies
• nicola kelly
• Claire Campbell Smith
• Ciro Leonidas Rodriguez Torres
• karen naughton
• Marion Charley
• J. Adams
• Michael Barrow
• Richard Chessum
• maria mackie
• Ayo Alese
• Tom Shepherd
• sylviane Ronson
• Claire Smith
• gemma Barker
• Joanne Hamer
• Bev James
• marta fernandes
• Emma Clifford
• Bernie Sacco
• Sarah Boutros
• Jenny Rice
• Jonathan Kennedy
• Elizabeth Welch
• Thomas Ashmead
• Heather Grinter
• Nicki Heywood
• Christoph Klinger
• Clare Cochrane
• Michael Wagstaff
• Susan Hobley
• stephen willett
• Canon Cyril Roberts
• Nicholas P A Jowett
• Geoffrey White
• Jan Foden
• pam wortley
• Ruby Kirkwood
• Margaret Joan Lunt
• Martin Greenland
• S M WARNES
• Jasper F Hodges
• M.Gilbert
• Christina Hodges
• Judith Leverton
• Matt Hodgkinson
• Tim Gopsill
• Gertrude Kamya Othieno
• Jonathan Taylor
• Rebecca McCormick
• John Hutchison
• shona lillie
• Patricia Impey
• Jackie Coutts
• Danny Sherwood
• Ian Smith
• Louise Watson
• Ruth Bain
• Steven Berry
• Bruce Payne
• Kerry Baiden
• William Needham
• Komarine Romdenh-Romluc
• Cyril Bezant
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• kyra drinnan
• Richard Missenden
• Vanessa Trentham
• Elizabeth Coleman
• rose tyrrell
• Peter Graystone
• Nick Wall
• P A Watson
• Rob Kay
• Zoumiya Kouache
• Judith Cefalas
• Geoffrey Stuart Hill
• henry oakley
• Peter Todhunter
• David Billingham
• Stella Solloway
• Jennifer Adams
• Helen Coyne
• S. J. Habboub
• Susie Lynch
• Jan Daley
• Susannah Cowtan
• Bernadette Carden-Flynn
• Andrew Levy
• Diana Dut
• Laura Farthing
• Penny McCanny
• John Green
• virginia
• Marian Hussenbux
• Juliet Morton
• Dr. Maggie Hammond
• Bridget Young
• Ian Fletcher
• Colin MacDonald
• Samantha Sartain
• Roberta Nancarrow
• Lee Sartain
• Jon Young
• Jan Bogg
• Sue Wheat
• Rowena Sison
• Steven Cann
• Elizabeth Elliott
• James Clayton
• Rev H.P.Barkham
• carolyn smyth
• Kevin Daws
• david nelson
• Jessica Hogg
• Rev John Churcher
• sue macbeth
• PAULINE SWANCOTT
• Brian Abell
• Chris Brown
• Joy Adams
• EDWINA TONNER
• Sara Stafford-Williams
• Matt Davies
• Philip Clements-Jewery
• Clare Duffy
• Patricia Anne Wilson
• Jennifer Auton
• JUNE PETTITT
• Stephen Rippon
• Michael Page-Chestney
• Sophie Erskine
• Ken Ilett
• Helen Marrs
• Jeremy Thompson
• AKOI BAZZIE
• Andrea Jones
• Kath Critchley
• Elizabeth Rendall
• Pam Roche
• James Ramsay
• Ruth Shaw
• Peter Aylward Reed
• Stanley H Platt
• Liz Stinson
• Daniel Garbutt
• Ann West
• Christopher Dove
• Aglaia Barraclough
• Ruth Lister
• Kemo Ceesay
• Louisa Kate Silverside
• Michael Bowman
• Kate Smith
• William Russell Jones
• Michael Cook
• Frances Smith
• Gillian.M.Ahmed
• Tom Adams
• Noel Lynch
• Lisa Bonto Farmo
• Antonia Dunn
• Michael O'Hagan
• Riaz Qureshi
• Susan Tompkins
• Qamer Qureshi
• Bushra Ghouri
• Zaigham Qureshi
• Abu Baker
• Seonad Forbes
• Sarah Smith
• Rhonda
• Kerry Moore
• Diane Ryan
• Dr Rekha Vara
• taib kasnazany
• Roland K. SOME
• JohnBrocklebank
• Chris John Ross
• Nadine Bukuru
• Mary Potter
• Councillor John Alan Fletcher
• Jana Buresova
• Richard Parker
• sophie gakure
• Alida Guest
• alison burrell
• Nick Burke
• Helen Ross
• Anne Burghgraef-Roques
• Bell Family
• James Torrens
• john purves
• Ben Gilchrist
• Saif Jung Khan
• Naeem Malik
• cinaed decanntun
• Anna Topaka
• Biswajit paik
• Katherine Sullivan
• Anna Smart
• Heleen Jalvingh
• Eileen Barnett
• jude Hawes
• Anna-Linnea Rundberg
• James Read
• Jolyon Jones
• Andy Lund
• SusanVaux Halliday
• William McArthur
• carol shoilan
• simon Thomas
• DEBORAH HAWKER
• Judy Grill
• Matthew Christie
• helen Jenkins
• Denise Hawker
• Andrew Tapp
• David and Catherine Aldis
• joe harvey
• Prof Michael Wang
• Nigel Halliday
• Seth Baines
• Elizabeth Smiley
• Joe W. Martin
• John Innes
• Suzanne Walker
• Georgina Freestone
• Tom Eatock Taylor
• mary tomkinson
• claire blades
• Julia Barton
• Elizabeth Ramsden
• Josiah Ross
• Margaret Henning
• Alexandra Scott
• Jennifer Downie
• JP Fisher
• Elinor Harris
• Joey Fagtongpun
• Mike Wheeler
• G Pickford
• Ben Sansum
• Andrew Crick
• Marie Allainguillaume
• Mick Brownsword
• Bev Duery
• Howard Hudson
• Jane Birdsey
• Gayle Findlay
• Rhian Williams
• Sarah Honeysett
• Jacquie Leach
• Christine Lewis
• Emma Gimblett
• Hannah Ward
• Jane Morgan
• Claire Kirby
• Qerim Nuredini
• Lisa Marie
• Claire Joels
• Stephen Burke
• Rev. J. Colin Smith
• Elizabeth Serpell
• natasha
• farhan momen
• Margaret Cook
• Andy Jones
• Joanne Vance
• Daniel Nathan Leonard
• Kate Stobie
• Mrs T Moyo
• janet evans
• Joy Bosworth
• Farah Wise
• Dr. Anne Griffiths
• Martin Archer
• Bill Atherton
• Michael Brockway
• Christopher Kerr
• nicola woods
• David Sewell
• c.m atherton
• John Young
• Dr Emily Hodgkinson
• Ruth A Jump
• Anna Fisher
• Amanda Moorghen
• Jasmine Davies
• A McCarron
• Kate McCarron
• alice faricy
• Deborah Grayson
• Paul Taylor
• Lynn Hancock
• Kathryn Ford
• Paul Reynolds
• Susan Mehouen
• Azam Zanjani
• Issa Farrah
• James Conway
• P Pannu
• Cecil Ballantine
• Robert Denny
• John Budd
• Tariq Ziyad
• Tracey Maegusuku-Hewett
• jacqueline mahon
• Michael Marsden
• Sharon Walia
• EMEK ALICI
• Sarah Longrigg
• Daniel Jones
• Virginia Shaw
• Jenny Medhurst
• Anne Pater
• Dominic Lafont
• Caroline Norman
• Farah Nazeer
• William Griffiths
• greg brown
• Alan Partridge
• rev k.graham hawley
• Loretta Madigan
• Veronica Piekosz
• Kath Sainsbury
• Kevin Leavesley
• Bill Wilson
• Celia Shires
• Revd Robert Watt
• Michael Wright
• Karen Davies
• Kate Harvie
• cynthia smith
• Kitty G-S
• Pat MacDonald
• Alastair Cherry
• Richard Bradshaw
• David Sills
• Barbara Morris
• Allison Noel
• Rev Ron Lewis
• Christina McKelvie MSP
• Richard Adetona
• Fiona Hulbert
• John Wills
• teresa mcandrew
• Sandra Parker
• Grace A. Buckley
• Ashley Wood
• Angela M. Cooper
• Christine M Eltherington
• Ron Smith
• Evelyn Kinsella
• Naomi Priestley
• john william barnett
• Brian Foskett
• Derek Turnham
• Rory Saunders
• Alina Armstrong
• Ian McKee MSP
• Bob Doris MSP
• Katherine Jackson
• Geraldine Butterfield
• Linda Harkins
• Dorothy MacLean
• Susan Rowney
• catherine Lander
• Rosemary Andoh
• Helen Russell
• Ingrid Tavkar
• Deborah Harvey
• Robert Eric Swanepoel
• Penny Haskell
• Bob Kirk
• Sheelin Kilroy
• Hector J Haddow
• rachel smith
• Rosa Morris
• Carol Anne Cooper
• Karin
• kimberley swain
• Mary Louise Macleod Neizer
• Rev. John Muir
• chris brogan
• Catherine O'Connor
• Jacqueline King
• Laura Warnett
• Andrew Orton
• Charles Etheridge-Nunn
• John Paul Barton
• Morag Mackay
• Hayriye Saricicek
• Robbie
• Louis Guiot
• Kevin Francis Egan
• Patrick Rooney
• david jones

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