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Windrush Petition

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Theworldisfullofidiots · 13/04/2018 23:29

Please would you consider signing this petition to provide amnesty for the windrush children who either lived most of their whole lives here or in some cases were born here but the home office has lost their paper work. The home office is a shambles but being successful in creating their hostile environment.
These people have lived their whole lives here because we asked their parents to work here. They had commonwealth status and then the rules were changed .

OP posts:
Enigmam · 17/04/2018 19:30

Windrush scandal: What it's like to face deportation after decades in the UK - Sky Newsapple.news/AQLa01qZGSESq0XOavVvoAg

More horrific experiences.

Penfold007 · 17/04/2018 19:58

Signed. I'm not a 'Windrush Child' but I'm as much at risk as they are. I'm not on my own there are thousands of us.

HelenaDove · 17/04/2018 20:09

Penfold Thanks

Penfold007 · 17/04/2018 20:30

HelenaDove Flowers

JustAnotherNameChangeObviously · 17/04/2018 20:40

Signed.

Another ex-Home Office person who saw this coming a mile off, and I wasn't even working in the area that has the most contact with Windrush people.

And we are not useless, not by a long way, but I agree with the poster who said that it's very difficult to operate with changing goalposts, thanks to the government.

OhYouBadBadKitten · 17/04/2018 20:53

We do need to keep fighting this, our society is beautiful because of all the parts that make it, to lose that not only is inhumane, it is also a travesty.

DamsonGin · 17/04/2018 20:57

Agree entirely BadKitten.

Beansonapost · 17/04/2018 21:00

What's the difference between this and slavery...

Signed.

RedToothBrush · 17/04/2018 21:02

We need some Home Office Whistleblowers to talk to the press...

OhYouBadBadKitten · 17/04/2018 21:04

You are right Red. It takes courage, but courageous people are helping turn things around and making a difference.

SabineUndine · 17/04/2018 21:22

To be a whistleblower you need to be tough and not to be reliant on a job for the roof over your head.

Darkbendis · 17/04/2018 21:26

Signed and shared.

RedToothBrush · 17/04/2018 21:32

There are lots of people who work at or worked at (past tense) at the HO.

At some point someone needs to do it. Otherwise they are complicit with what has happened to the Windrush children unfortunately, even if they don't like to admit that.

Bad things happen, not because people are bad, but precisely because people don't see it as their responsibility for whatever reason - which includes out of legitimate economic and social fear. Sadly, we rely on people to speak out in situations like this because they are the ones best placed to hold power to account and to stop it properly because politicians lie.

When they don't that's when things turn dark in a society. It says much for the culture of the Home Office and the overall state of the country that we don't appear to have whistleblowers given the sheer number of these type of incidents.

Theworldisfullofgs · 17/04/2018 21:52

I've heard that the home office was a v difficult place to work when May and her two 'advisors' Nick Timothy and Fiona Hills were there. I've had it described as bullying.

And I keep apologising...I was generalising when talking about the Home Office - I meant the government. I'm sure the individuals who work there worked v hard. It's easy and lazy to generalise, like the govt have done with the Windrush individuals.

Petition is at 164000

RedToothBrush · 17/04/2018 22:02

I'm sure they were hard working. Bureaucracy and deportation has an ugly history though.

opinionatedfreak · 17/04/2018 22:52

Signed.

I have colleagues whose parents are affected.

I work in the NHS. Their parents came to work in the NHS...

Topseyt · 18/04/2018 09:42

Bumping again for today. I hope more people will continue to sign this.

Theworldisfullofgs · 18/04/2018 10:46

Whistleblowers starting to come forward now
the “hostile environment” mission started in earnest in December 2012, with an inter-ministerial group set up on Migrant Access To Benefits And Public Services (we called it MATBAPS)

twitter.com/pollymackenzie/status/986286214985732097?s=19

Theworldisfullofgs · 18/04/2018 11:04

If you haven't signed please think about it, whatever your political persuasion or how you voted on Brexit. This is about what we want our country to be like.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/216539

MaureenNervosa · 18/04/2018 15:22

Bumping thread

downthestrada · 18/04/2018 17:18

I've signed this. I'm glad that it's still in the public eye. Bit disappointed that in my own circle of people I know, there's not much outrage about it. Anyway, I have shared on social media.

Peregrina · 18/04/2018 23:02

I note the way that May is now trying to pass the buck to Labour, and going on about the Labour party being riddled with anti-semitism. I suppose the Tories are lily-white here? Even if the move to destroy the documents was initially sanctioned by Labour, the Tories could have scrapped it as soon as they got in, if they chose to do so, but they didn't. The hostile environment is wholly May's doing, and changing the law in 2014 to remove the protections from the Windrush generation was also done when May was in the Home Office. So try as you will May, the responsibility is yours and the buck does stop with you.

RunningLines · 18/04/2018 23:04

I think that was a disastrous attack by May.

Amber Rudd must fucking despise her right now.

HelenaDove · 18/04/2018 23:28

Im NOT denying that racism is part of it but i also wonder how much of it is class prejudice.

Are there any self made millionaires or entrepreneurs from the Windrush group under threat of this?

Janniohlosty123 · 18/04/2018 23:48

Did you not hear the documents were destroyed during Labour's rule not hers.