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This is a drop in the ocean & just spin until we know full numbers deported, detained & those hounded out of their home country by the home office. Apology is crocodile tears & an insult to people still not given hardship fund, left jobless, homeless & unable to afford food.
Home Office covering up scale of the scandal by consistently refusing to answer my questions, including those to the PM back in April. This will all be viewed as just spin until every single person affected gets an apology and compensation.
According to @sajidjavid 6,507 people contacted the #Windrush taskforce, were considered possible #Windrush and referred for a call back to progress their case. 2,272 people have now been given documentation confirming their status.
Back in April, Amber Rudd claimed nobody had been wrongfully deported. Now the Home Office have identified at least 146 other cases of people who were detained or deported. #Windrush
Home Office shows cases as either being dealt with within 2 weeks or outside of that time-frame. No details about just how long some of these cases are taking. independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…
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If true, this is an unprecedented and historic humiliation for Theresa May. After two years of negotiations with the EU, she is not even prepared to let MPs vote on her deal.
The truth is that it's unlikely any form of Brexit could command a majority in this House. It is impossible to deliver on the 2016 referendum result because it was based on lies, false promises, and fantasy. No more negotiations in Brussels will change this fact.
Our politics is now well and truly stuck. The way to unblock it is to go back to the public with a People's Vote, which will either offer a mandate for a specific form of Brexit, or to remain in the EU.
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This report confirms the grim truth we already knew. The Home Office failed to protect Windrush citizens' "rights to live, work and access services" and "discharged its duty of care." It is a national disgrace.
bbc.co.uk/news/education…
The Home Office ignored warnings and recommendations for years. Rather than admitting its wrongs, it subjected British citizens to the brutal Hostile Environment. We still don't know how deep this goes. So far just 18 have had apologies.
Even after the scandal broke, the Home Office has shown a "surprising lack of urgency to identify other groups that may have been affected." The department is more interested in covering its own back than uncovering the truth.
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The audacious idea of European Integration was motivated by fear. But it was made possible by shared ideals: democracy, human rights, equality, freedom, and a refusal to submit to the tyranny of fascism, ever again.
The Brexiteers say we lost control because of the EU. But in reality they are still mourning Suez, Britain’s last fling of the Colonial dice.

Today we need to build a new image of Britain. One that brings this country together after years of division. Empire 2.0 is not it.
Our country’s story of renewal through Europe is a story of immigration.

Over their lifetimes, EU citizens pay in £78,000 more than they take out. But their contribution has not only been financial: our culture, our art, our music, and our food have been permanently improved.
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Whilst out for a walk with my dog this evening I actually had an epiphany regarding these so called white supremecists in America banging on about 'immigrants', what I am wondering is this, if it weren't for immigrants where would they be.
If you go back into history, I think
even the thickest might actually know the knowledge that I am about to impart. The story of the American people goes back many hundreds of years, in fact we in the UK have to take some responsibility for the problems the indigenous population have faced over the last few
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And this is special for me since there might be folks of a particular sign, either by Sun, moon or rising, who are your Ride-or-die folks. Well, #Cancers are mine. I don't have to go looking for them or that. It just happens. Consistently. So, they're dear people for me.
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Brexit seems to have run completely into a wall. This will be a thread on how to leave the European Union.

It's written by someone who thinks the idea is ludicrous so before you attack me leavers, instead think how objective that makes me, and how honest I'll be on the issues.
There are a number of significant hurdles associated with leaving the EU so we'll move away from the politics and divide them into bite sized chunks that everyone can understand.

When we've done that we'll look at what we have at the end and decide how we approach it now.
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Home
no one leaves home unless home chases you
fire under feet
hot blood in your belly
it’s not something you ever thought of doing
until the blade burnt threats into
your neck
and even then you carried the anthem under
your breath

#home #warsanshire #poems
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only tearing up your passport in an airport toilets
sobbing as each mouthful of paper
made it clear that you wouldn’t be going back.

you have to understand,
that no one puts their children in a boat
unless the water is safer than the land
no one burns their palms
under trains
beneath carriages
no one spends days and nights in the stomach of a truck
feeding on newspaper unless the miles travelled
means something more than journey.
no one crawls under fences
no one wants to be beaten
pitied
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Home Sec told @CommonsHomeAffs today that Home Office now believe 63 of Windrush have been deported - but they haven’t yet been contacted. Nor has HO yet tried to work out how many people have been wrongly detained. I urged them again to do so. We will keep pressing for answers
Home Sec told us he has suspended the “compliant environment” bank checks pending further checks for accuracy & admitted they have no idea how many landlord & employment checks are in error.
Also received letter from HO Perm Sec with new info on targets & bonuses which seems to suggest local enforcement teams were given both removals targets and bonuses based on them from 2015. Have asked for urgent clarification as we were previously assured this wasn’t happening
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It's tax time so I'm seeing a lot of stressful tweets from freelancer friends. No one gets into freelance art to crunch numbers, but managing that income is part of the job.

Everyone's situation is different, but here are some broad suggestions to help you out in the future:
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