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5 May, 9 tweets, 4 min read
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If you’ve followed the #WindrushInjustice, you may know Anthony Williams. Anthony is a former soldier who was found insufficiently British and turfed out of employment. He explains why the Windrush Compensation Scheme is an extension of the hostile environment. [1/7]
He slightly underplays the horror that befell him there: left to languish without a job, access to benefits, or crucially, access to health services, Anthony developed a gum infection which spread. He lost all his teeth. @WindrushLives [2/7]
Anthony’s story hit the media last year. Shortly afterwards, @ukhomeoffice made him his first offer - £18,500. Over the 2nd half of 2020, media interest in his case increased, and in lockstep, the HO made him a higher 2nd offer at the end of the yr. 2 points here: [3/7]
First, the Home Office only acts when it is exposed to media risk. Along with Anthony, Glenda Caesar saw her offer rise as she gained visibility; shortly after publication of this article, Vernon Vanriel was flown back and put up at govt’s expense. [4/7] theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/a…
Second, despite the above, his most recently revised offer fails to account for the damage that was done to him. Anthony’s life will never be the same. But his current offer in the Impact on Life category is calibrated to the level for which this is the tariff description: [5/7]
And that’s £18k less than the putative spend on @10DowningStreet's glam-up for a temporary residence.

Go figure. [6/7]
(NB: The ** in part 4 above - while media risk is the most reliable bellwether of @ukhomeoffice interest in a claimant, it’s not a given. Remember Anthony Bryan, the subject of the Bafta-nominated Sitting in Limbo? Well:) [7/7]
Later in today's takeover we @WindrushLives will be sharing more claimant stories and threads, but in the meantime, it is worth noting that it is not just claimants who think the @ukhomeoffice aren’t fit to run the Windrush Compensation Scheme…
...Even the architect of the Scheme Martin Forde QC publicly acknowledged the argument that the HO should ‘not be marking its own homework’ as ‘the institution is tainted’: theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/d… @ameliagentleman

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5 May
🚨@WindrushLives Closing Thread🚨

We’ll be off in a minute, so a few final thoughts:

First, we hope you’ll agree that the Windrush Compensation Scheme doesn’t work, was never really intended to, and is an insult to victims, for whom #WindrushInjustice continues.
Where do we go from here?

It is vital to centre the lives and experiences of Windrush survivors and to continue to keep tabs on and understand how the compensation scheme is really working (or not) for the people that matter – the claimants.
To that end, we are delighted to announce a collab to rival Ivy Park (ok, not really): @WindrushLives x @GoodLawProject will in short order be publishing a questionnaire designed to gather the data that the Home Office can’t, or won’t.
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5 May
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Let’s interrogate what reparation for the #WindrushInjustice ought to look like.

Strategically, we are committed to improving the existing Scheme ASAP and taking it away from the HO so that claimants can get the compensation they are owed. [1/20]
But that word - ‘owed’ - is an important one here. The injustice done to the Windrush generation and their families is about more than material losses from loss of employment, for example, although that is of course a big part of the harm done. [2/20]
It is also about the stripping of citizenship and the rights that come with it, and deprivation of dignity, identity and a sense of belonging. [3/20]
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5 May
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You’ve now seen the scale and depth of very much ongoing #WindrushInjustice. You’ve heard directly from victims.

Even more than an advocacy and support group, @WindrushLives is a network of victims, and this is what we want: [1/7]
This demand - that the Scheme be taken out of the @ukhomeoffice - is based on the Home Office's own stats. As experts inc @JacquiMckenzie6 have noted, the HO is barely keeping its head above water with a little over 2.5k claims - between 17-20% of its own expected total. [2/7]
It’s also based on the fact of the hostile environment. Virulent racism and a rabid desire to throw people out of the country under any manageable pretext are just *fundamentally incompatible* with restorative justice and reparations. We can’t believe this needs saying. WL [3/7]
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5 May
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“I got more stressed trying to get the information they” - the Windrush Compensation Scheme - “were asking, than actually losing my passport.”

Welcome to the ‘hostile compensation scheme’, a service brought to you, the taxpayer, by @ukhomeoffice. [1/25]
So you’ve had your life and livelihood upended by the whims of a puerile govt policy pursuing a populist project that runs contrary to the staggering weight of evidence derived from economics, history and demographic science! Ain’t that something? [2/25]
Chin up - here is a Compensation Scheme we’ve designed to make amends for our unjust, racist ways. Just one thing though: if you want some of this money, there are some forms to fill out, and we’ll need some supporting evidence. Nothing tricky... [3/25]
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5 May
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GASLIGHT, v: to manipulate by psychological means causing a person to doubt their own sanity.

This is a thread about an ongoing limb of the #WindrushInjustice that isn’t well reported + remains under the radar as a result: passport confiscation. @WindrushLives [1/21]
There is a contingent of Windrush victims that we don’t talk about. They are British-born, British passport-holding Black people with Windrush parentage, who have had their British passports *taken away* by @ukhomeoffice for the legally valid reason of [*crickets*]. [2/21]
In the next 5 tweets, you will see the unbelievable story of Carl Nwazota. This will be the most shocking and enraging 10 minutes of your day, for a number of reasons which we’ll go into down thread. Please give this your undivided attention. [3/21]
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5 May
Earlier we linked to this article by @MayBulman @Independent which exposed how ‘less than £6.2m has been paid out of the £200m promised to victims’: independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n… @WindrushLives [1/4]
In part this is because just 1 in 5 of those who have applied to the Windrush Compensation Scheme have received any compensation - and even then only after waiting for months or years. [2/4]
Meanwhile, as the paperwork drags through an unfit system, ‘at least nine people had died before receiving Windrush compensation as of 31 August.’ [3/4]
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