If you can't see how revolting The Times has become imagine this headline instead.
In recent weeks The Times has progressed from campaigning against trans people to attack our leading racial equality charity and now traveller communities. History has lessons for us about standing by whilst 'other' minorities are targeted - and the importance of solidarity.
What I don't get is, what's wrong with people being different? Why shouldn't people travel if they want to? Why can't we have decent spaces for them? Why do we all have to live like The Times thinks best? Aren't all our lives made better by rubbing up against difference?
If we collectively or individually experience 'others' as somehow undeserving of compassion and humanity that's on us, I'd say. You don't like how travelling communities live? Well, who is that on? Isn't it on us? Shouldn't we create spaces in which they can live better?
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Priti Patel takes time off from bullying her staff to breach the ministerial code by trying to help an associate win a PPE contract. mol.im/a/9580491
Jassal's client went on to win a £103m contract, the award of which we are judicially reviewing. crowdjustice.com/case/contracts…
This case 👆 may be the most important @GoodLawProject is involved in. We have received leaks of information from multiple sources. And we are slowly piecing the puzzle together. We still need more but there is a real suggestion of corruption about the emerging picture.
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.
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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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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“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]
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]