In 2010, landing cards of Windrush arrivals were destroyed. Then people who’d come as kids, like this little boy, now seniors, threatened w deportation, loss of NHS treatments, benefits. Many lost everything & suffering continues. But #SewellReport says no institutional racism. 
On how report barely mentions Windrush, put brilliantly by @ppvernon - ‘if they had focused on the scandal, they would have had to admit that there was a systematic, structural failure in the way that the Home Office targeted the Windrush generation’ theguardian.com/world/2021/apr…
In 2018, twelve Commonwealth Caribbean countries asked for a meeting to discuss the Windrush scandal with the government before the Commonwealth Heads of Gov meeting held in UK, were denied. So much for the hands of unity in the Commonwealth..
This photo from 1962 of people at Waterloo station is by the brilliant Howard Grey - the Network Rail history site has more.
It’s such a disgrace that the landing cards were destroyed. Such a rich historical archive of Black history and British history - thrown into the bin.
It’s such a disgrace that the landing cards were destroyed. Such a rich historical archive of Black history and British history - thrown into the bin.
Just seen on @meenalsworld thread of analysis - the #SewellReport said fact that the Windrush arrivals’ contribution to the UK was celebrated at the Olympics Opening Ceremony was progress. Right, celebrated on TV while on the quiet the policy of deportation was commencing
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