Thread by @WindrushLives

It has been clear for a while that @ukhomeoffice is unfit to run the Windrush Compensation Scheme, and unwilling to make the kind of changes needed to fix it. You've probably seen us "calling" for the Scheme to be moved.

Calling time's over now. [1/6] independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

With @GoodLawProject, we have started the process to seek judicial review of @pritipatel's decision to keep control of the Windrush Compensation Scheme. It's a decision that is mind-boggling in one sense bc @ukhomeoffice is demonstrably terrible at running the scheme; [2/6]

but in another sense, it was inevitable - the HO does not and will never accept that Windrush victims need genuine reparation, and that the process should be approached in the same way as it would if the victims were white, wealthy and/or of a different social class. [3/6]

There is a big, existential conversation that must be had about the Home Office and its role in promulgating racism and social dysfunction. But Windrush compensation is extremely time-sensitive. By its own admission, *at least* 23 people have died without a penny. [4/6]

If we leave them to it, they'll carry on making tiny, inconsequential tweaks ad infinitum at the speed of pushing treacle up a hill. E.g., recently we saw that the Scheme is going on a hiring blast... TWO YEARS after chronic understaffing became clear. [5/6]

Victims see this - the HO is waiting for them to die out so it doesn't have to pay out.
This is shenanigans.
Give it up or come to court. [6/6]