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 .

Faster typer than me, Pelagrina!

Done

Half a million should get heads turning and Amber Rudd struggling to justify it.

The pace of signatories has picked up somewhat this morning I notice.

Woo hoo. Let's try and keep this going. Thanks you to everyone whose signed and bumped

As promised I've changed my username. You can't use mumsnet in your username so this is as close as I can get.

Petition is now at 102471

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/216539

Buuuump

Wow 103,418 now.

Signed earlier, shared. This is appalling and I’m ashamed. Like a pp said-this is an easy way to deport people and get some stats.

bump

Oh just seen over 100K that is great will keep an eye on the news to see what happens.

I expect journalists look at the lists to see what people care about maybe it will get more press as well.

Over 100,000 signatures!
Everyone who signed will get an email saying when Parliament will debate the issue, and a live link to the debate.

OK, so you pushed your DH into getting himself sorted. Brilliant. Lots of other people didn't get sorted. It smacks of a lack of compassion to say 'oh well, they made their bed' when they are in fact British citizens who should be treated decently. What this government is doing is not acceptable and alongside getting justice for Windrush, this is also about raising awareness of just how racist and xenophobic this government is.

My issue is that I don't like it when the whole story isn't told, when the media put a spin on things. There is no acknowledgement that this isn't just something that has appeared out of nowhere, no one saying, "I should have done something in the 80s." or "I didn't realise it applied to me in the 80s" It makes me distrust the rest of the information when I know we aren't being told the whole story and I think that ultimately works against the people affected.

So getting justice doesn't sit right with me, getting help for people who missed the opportunity to regularise their position I absolutely support. Again using racism doesn't fit as this affects Australians, Canadians and other commonwealth people many of them white.

Everything seems to have to assume hysterical proportions now which I find distasteful.

I suppose the other issue for me is it brings back the frustration with my husband and the proof of why he was wrong to try and ignore it.

By the way I have never said, "they made their bed" I would just like a bit of honesty in the story.

If people are giving out information it should be accurate, e.g. the OP said in the late 80s some of the people affected would be children but it isn't true as it only affects people who came her before 1971.

peach give it a rest.
You may not like this and in an increasingly dark world this gives me hope that there is a little light left in the UK.

Signed. Thanks for highlighting.

"Give it a rest"?? You can't tell another poster what to say

You can disagree vehemently, but saying "give it a rest" is not on.

Signed!

Signed

I think we all hear you and understand where you're coming from peach.

Message recieved and understood.

I signed. I hate what tis country is becoming.

I have the privilege of working with someone who came to England on the Windrush. They have spent a long life working for others, and still do.

It is obscene that these people - invited here, and taught to think of England as "Home" - are being expatriated or in any way made to feel insecure.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-43726976

"however, the home office did not keep a record of those who were given indefinite leave to remain..."

The government are asking people to be more competent than their own departments

Sorry saucy and peach . You are quite right.

peach - I would argue that this is disproportionately likely to effect people from the Carribean because societal racism means they are likely to have been poorer and therefore less likely to have afforded/ had reason to maintain in date passports. My dad and his siblings are Australian and came over in this era. They haven’t been effected because they have maintained a valid passport from childhood with indefinite leave to remain stamped. They didn’t become British citizens like your husband in the 80s as dual nationality wasn’t an option and there wasn’t obviously an advantage. My dad has subsequently become a dual National by sitting the citizenship exam but his sibling has not.

You really are coming across as very unsympathetic to people being denied health care and being threatened with deportation after living almost their entire life in the UK.

Signed

Signed.

Thank you OP, I have signed.