Windrush, the Blood infusion tragedies, The Post Office, Murders by Special Forces in Afghanistan (not enough space to continue) - is there anything the UK Government can not solve (or at least put off until the next maladministration) by losing the records?
The ‘defence’ by the Home Office is very revealing
Edward Brown KC, acting for the Home Office, said the department was not obliged to implement a policy “which it no longer considers to be in the public interest”. He said Williams’ “recommendations were not legally binding and there was no obligation on the government to implement the recommendations”.
@JackTheCat ‘Exposed' maybe? It was obvious long before but politicians and the press did not want to know. History - one of my Dad’s colleagues, a Jamaican Nursing Sister and a close family friend died before her son was permanently prevented from being deported to a country he had never known. It cost us (friends and family) a lot of time, money and anguish.
May - a f****g disgrace with her clumsy incompetent hostile environment.
Remembering the time Lenny Henry lectured Theresa May on humanity and she was forced to sit there and take it. This is after Windrush and Grenfell too.
This is an institutionally racist state.
Researchers from UCL/Wellcome have found that the negative psychological impact of the #Tories' 'Hostile Environment' campaign on British Black Caribbeans was worse that the impact across the whole population of the #Covid pandemic & lockdown - which is a startling & unsettling conclusion.
This effect was then compounded by the #windrush scandal....
Its just one more thing that shows what a sh*tshow has been engineered by the Tories in the last decade & a half.
As of January 2024, only 13.8% of those eligible had received any compensation
Call on the Government to appoint an independent neutral body to oversee the Windrush Compensation Scheme and to pledge delivery of full compensation to Windrush victims as part of its forthcoming general election manifesto #UKPol#Justice4Windrush
As the #postoffice#horizon scandal reveals more & more details of appalling behaviour by #management at the PO & #Fujitisu, we now seem to be entering a #windrush phase with the Q. of differing treatment of ethnic minority #postmasters & a suspicion that accusations of #fraud were normalised due to #racist assumptions about the proclivities of particular ethnicities of sub-post-office owners.
Once again, we're going to find that #racism is not a problem the country has banished to history.
As someone who got entangled with Windrush - the son of an old colleague of my dads who had worked as a midwife for 40 years was threatened with deportation. £50,000 of money later and it was overturned. 5 years of stress and NO compensation or even an apology. He was ‘fortunate’ that his mum was well loved and had supportive ex colleagues who helped raise the cash.
You'll be unsurprised that @humanrightswatch , citing the #Windrush scandal, attacks on the right to strike & institutional #racism has concluded that:
'The UK’s nose-diving domestic human rights record undermined its efforts to promote the rule of law and human rights globally'!
I am so lucky to have a job that is all about wonder. I'm inspired by city buildings, non-human inhabitants of the metropolis and of course by London's human beings. I tell stories for adults and children, I discover and shape #narratives, I work with businesses, schools, institutions, individuals and charities, I mentor and teach storytelling.
This house is in #Lewisham it brightens my day every time I pass. It was created by Mr Pink, a reggae musician who came to London in the #Windrush era.
As someone who has always subscribed to the view that great #art is underpinned by great #drawing, I'm very glad to see Barbara Walker's #windrush drawings shortlisted for the #TurnerPrize. Hope she wins... but I suspect she won't
Theresa May continues to blame others for the consequences of the hostile environment while stating she regrets the term. But as pointed out here, the govt were fully warned of its dangers the same year that key legislation was implemented. Wendy Williams’ review showed this was a fundamentally flawed approach that would always have resulted in injustices - not simply a case of the ‘wrong’ people being affected https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/aug/31/theresa-may-says-she-regrets-using-term-hostile-environment