Thread by @WindrushLives

In the past 10 days, the @ukhomeoffice has:
(i) arranged deportations to Jamaica (cf Feb 2020) in the middle of a pandemic, where some detainees will not have had any family contact before deportation, on unknown legal grounds (yes, b/c really, can they be trusted?) [1/6]

https://twitter.com/BARACUK/status/1331654984862208000

(ii) had a whistleblower - senior ex-official @cheamfields (Alex Ankrah) expose jaw-dropping racism within its ranks that conclusively disqualifies it from having control of ANYTHING intended to “right the wrongs” committed upon Windrushers; [2/6] theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/n…

(iii) had its head, @pritipatel, pretty deafeningly un-exonerated of a campaign of bullying so toxic a mandarin on a £190k salary is pursuing an ET action that won’t net anywhere *near* that instead of taking a settlement out of rage/spite; [3/6] google.co.uk/amp/s/www.busi…

(iv) and been found to have broken its statutory duty under s 149 Equality Act 2010 in its handling of Black Windrushers and their descendants.

Even by our current subterranean standards, @ukhomeoffice is a humiliation. [4/6] equalityhumanrights.com/en/publication…

This racist, dysfunctional, nuclear waste dump of a department - under the leadership of a human being so evidenceably corrosive she’s a real-time self-caricature - has absolutely no business administering a compensation scheme intended to make good for its own misdeeds. [5/6]

Branches of state shouldn’t mark their own homework; this Acme-villain govt dept must not be allowed to reform, repair or correct itself.

The Windrush Compensation Scheme must be taken away from @ukhomeoffice now. [6/6]
#WindrushCompensationScandal

(v) In its continuing race to the bottom, now the @ukhomeoffice is being challenged on its insistence on detaining asylum seekers in barracks which effectively seem to be makeshift prisons. [7/6]
theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/n…

(vi) And another of @pritipatel’s hot takes on the law - illegally entering homes for immigration enforcement actions, something they did to a number of Windrushers too. [8/6] theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/n…

This is a dept that if asked to organise the sandwiches at a WI meeting would find a way to set the village hall on fire, make the vicar cry, and produce a photo of an out-of-date meal deal that somehow poisons a bunch of Black and brown people at the end of it. [9/6]

(vii) The Pritster and co turn their skills to the humane consideration of asylum appeals on grounds of female genital mutilation. [10/6]
politics.co.uk/comment-analys…