NOW IN PAPERBACK! The Windrush Betrayal - discounted here
https://t.co/bkMvxu0B7q
May 30, 2022 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Still struggling to understand why the Home Office commissioned this history (at taxpayers' expense) and then went to such lengths to avoid making it public theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/m…
The historian's conclusions are stark - eg
between 1950-1981 "every single piece of immigration or citizenship legislation was designed at least in part to reduce the number of people with black or brown skin who were permitted to live and work in the UK” BUT
May 21, 2021 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
Losing track, but I think this is the 8th detailed and damning investigation into #Windrush and the hostile environment that I've written about for the Guardian
Eye-poppingly extraordinary defence of Theresa May's hostile environment policy from her ex-aide Nick Timothy, describing it as a "sensible policy", adding "I was never warned" that the wrong people could be targeted.
Why does an army veteran who spent a decade in the British army, and has lived here for years paying taxes and national insurance, have to pay £27,000 in NHS bills, after an emergency operation to remove a brain tumour?
Dear @patel4witham I would like to send you a copy of the book on Windrush I've written because on the basis of today's debate I'm worried that you and your colleagues are muddled about the causes of the problem guardianbookshop.com/the-windrush-b…@patel4witham in every debate about #windrush there is a lot of buck-passing between parties about who was originally responsible for the hostile environment and who should be blamed
Nov 12, 2019 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Very sad but also angry to hear that Hubert Howard, 62, died today
He spent the last weeks of his life in intensive care, still fighting to get citizenship.
Arrived in UK aged 3 from Jamaica, only finally granted citizenship here 3 weeks before he died
theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/n…
He had hoped that #Windrush compensation money would allow him to make a trip back to Jamaica to visit his mother's grave. But he was still waiting for compensation
Apr 28, 2018 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Gove says no one has responded with more grace and commitment (or something like that) to #windrush than Amber - but that is not true. Less than a fortnight ago she had done nothing at all (at least publicly) to show this was an issue she was worried about
A fortnight ago the guardian had already published many detailed accounts of people made homeless, sent to detention centres, sacked from jobs, unable to visit dying parents, refused benefits, asked to pay for NHS treatment - I think around 10 already printed
