Windrush Petition

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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 .

Done - 84690 now

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/216539

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Thanks for sharing this, signed earlier in week and kept checking have been depressed at the lack of signatures, delighted it’s picked up. Four pieces of evidence for every year is impossible I couldn’t do it! I couldn’t do it for my youngest, she has a nursery and a doc, I don’t claim child benefit. I honestly don’t know how I would get four pieces of evidence showing she is here in the uk right now!

Imagine being told to provide four pieces of evidence per year for the past 50 years that you've been a UK resident. Bureaucratic monsters.

Signed.

It’s a disgrace.

Signed.

The Government and Civil Service should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves

Evening bump. The human in you knows this is the right thing to do...

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Come on you so wonderful mumsnetters! Instead of listening to the truly divisive Enoch Powell speech on radio 4 help get this petition to 100k. Instead of rivers of blood ....rivers of love....

If you do I'll change my name to mumsnetisfullofgs

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Have a look at thiswww.itv.com/news/2018-04-11/windrush-generation-nhs-worker-lost-job-and-faces-deportation-despite-living-in-the-uk-for-more-than-50-years/

Glenda Caesar came to Britain with her family, aged 6 months. Over 50 years ago.Worked for the NHS for 16 years, until she was fired for not being able to prove, under the new rules, that she is entitled to be here. No suggestion that she's here illegally. But she can't find the passport she entered on, so is not allowed to work or claim benefits, and could be deported to a country where she doesn't even speak the language.

Britain 2018.

Bump again - still need 300 as type.

Signed before. But sharing

That's chilling, Dancing.

Britain 2018 in-fucking-deed.

It is sad but people could have easily resolved this in the 1980s and they chose not to. They were adults and some at least well educated, doctor, teacher, nurse etc. I just don't understand people ignoring the issue and then 30 years later it is all someone else's fault.

When my husband registered in the 1980s he had no original documentation, it was a simple form and passport application. I am so glad I persuaded him to do it.

Yes well they didn't did they peach. I don't recall any publicity in the 1980s whatsoever.

Well there was Sian, I'm not psychic neither is my husband or his mother and we all heard about it. The thing that makes me less sympathetic is the blaming other people, my husband would be in exactly that position if I hadn't nagged him, his mum did as well. At least be adult about it and admit you messed up but now need some help. I don't like the victim culture and always blaming others. That is why I haven't signed yet, I probably will but I would like a shot if people owned their own part in this.

Out of interest peach, why did you have to push your husband? Why didn't he just do it of his own volition?

Because he is ace at putting things off, ignoring what is in front of him, which I assume is similar to all the people who didn't do it. If he hadn't done it and was now complaining I would sympathise but tell him he brought it on himself which would be the truth. He even said at the time that people would end up getting deported and still needing pushing to do it. I think I even had to phone and get the forms for him. I was fuming and I think that is why I remember it well.

peach if this shit shower of a government hadn't decided to create a 'climate hostile to immigration', none of this would have happened - the Windrush people would just have been allowed to stay. But Theresa May decided to create this toxic culture of hatred against immigrants, because her party wanted it, because her party were terrified of UKIP and of their own voters. None of it was necessary. They could have gone the other way, but they chose to pander to xenophobia.

The Home Office has been turned into a machine for kicking out non-Brits, and that was a choice.

Wanted to sign but don't live in UK...

It's an absolute disgrace how these people are being treated.

thats why I haven't signed it yet... nice. As long as you and yours are taken care of, screw anyone else that didn't have support around them to understand the possible reprocussions. Stop using a thread intended to raise awareness of this issue to pat yourself on the back and validate your martyrdom. It's incredibly distasteful.

It would have mattered if they wanted to go abroad for a holiday. They might have wanted to visit their homeland when they retired, not that my husband does and I would love to go, or a grandchild might have decided to have a wedding abroad. I think it only cost the price of a passport so not much to lose and you didn't need any evidence that I recall. My husband didn't even have a birth certificate as they didn't issue them where he came from.

I don't like Theresa May and her government but worrying about future politics was what made me push my husband to sort it out. Maybe some people were naive and didn't see the danger but as I said above my husband could see the danger and still didn't want to do it.

Cognitive you might like all this being a victim, I think adults need to own their mistakes, we all make them.