Anyone who works at the Home Office, in any role: at some point, just saying you were only doing your job and following orders is going to no longer be an acceptable defence. Stop enabling these wrongs, and stand up for what is right, before it is too late
History shows us there will be a public enquiry into the hostile environment policy, and these kinds of actions. It may be in 10 years or so, but it will happen. Do you really want to be waiting to be summoned to account for what you did or didn’t do? What you saw and heard?
Picture yourself walking into the court past the press (who are by now of course ‘shocked’ by what is emerging about the HO), your evidence televised live and recorded for the history books.
“I honestly didn’t know it meant they’d stop a 6 year old from being with his mother”
“I honestly didn’t know it meant they’d stop a 6 year old from being with his mother”
... but what did you do? Did you speak out? Did you refuse to follow orders? Did you blow the whistle?
Or did you turn a blind eye to keep your job? To avoid an argument?
“I didn’t do anything wrong. I was just doing what I was told. It wasn’t my idea. I was just doing my job”
Or did you turn a blind eye to keep your job? To avoid an argument?
“I didn’t do anything wrong. I was just doing what I was told. It wasn’t my idea. I was just doing my job”
Instead, you can help stop this now.
@ameliagentleman is an amazing journalist, and @guardian has a great lawyer with experience of protecting whistleblowers like @chrisinsilico and @shahmiruk
It’s time for you to blow the whistle and share what you know, to put things right
@ameliagentleman is an amazing journalist, and @guardian has a great lawyer with experience of protecting whistleblowers like @chrisinsilico and @shahmiruk
It’s time for you to blow the whistle and share what you know, to put things right
@ameliagentleman @guardian @chrisinsilico @shahmiruk If you need more motivation you can read @ameliagentleman’s articles on the hostile environment, and Windrush in particular, at theguardian.com/profile/amelia…
This is what the Home Office is doing
This is what the Home Office is doing
... and how about the terribly designed and applied Prevent policy?
