Thread by @WindrushLives

We are an organisation that benefit from this. We are made up of and represent some of the most marginalised people, whom the Home Office would like to simply paper over, out of existence. Without GLP, we would be light years behind where we are now.

https://twitter.com/mirahammad10/status/1493902251202654210

A lot of the noise over the past 24 hours has come from mouths which would neither know Windrush victims existed, nor care to do anything to help them. Advocacy for the marginalised does have to be aggressive at times; the institutions who do the marginalising sure as sh*t are.

So while it may be fun (and maybe useful, but let’s face it) to have the intellectual arguments, do also bear in mind that we, and a lot of groups like us in other sectors, need people like GLP in our corner breathing fire at those that try to stomp us into the ground.

Literally as I post that I see a respected (including by me) commenter making the opposite point.

I wish we had the privilege of always having an entirely dispassionate, detached, austere reading of “the point of the law”.

When the government is standing on someone’s neck, doing whatever you can to help for their immediate safety and protection are not “hyper partisanship”.

If this sucks - and I can see the argument - ask why it is necessary. This society that we’ve built is an absolute mess.

Grammar abandoned that last tweet, didn’t it. 😂

Anyone who is concerned in the least about actual fairness and justice has been at the sharp end of a propaganda war waged by the state. Eg, where is the flood of outraged commentary from general users on comms etiquette when the Home Office lies about asylum seekers?

https://twitter.com/jolyonmaugham/status/1493927196175568901

(By that I don’t mean “make stuff up” - it’s a point about where the interests lie. And I’m talking specifically about *general* commentators of the sort who are piping up about a press release, not specialists, like the long suffering heroes of migration/asylum Twitter.)