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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]
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]
There is absolutely no way @ukhomeoffice can regain the trust of people it *CONTINUES* to treat this badly, so let’s set that particular canard aside. Could the Scheme work in the complete absence of trust? *Maybe*, if it was run with an overwhelming show of good faith. [4/7]
*stares blankly into middle distance* We humbly submit that isn’t exactly happening. [5/7]
And so the Scheme must urgently be stripped from @ukhomeoffice and placed in the custody of a body independent of govt, with a clear and transparent governance structure. (Yep, they’ll probably have to make something new, for obvious reasons. #GoodLordProject) [6/7]
More broadly, we - the general public - need to apply ourselves assiduously to breaking the hostile environment. #BreakTheHE @WindrushLives [7/7]
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