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Re: The Windrush Generation

Post by Grafenwalder » Tue May 08, 2018 2:10 pm

Guest wrote:No comments from May's vapid cheerleaders on here, how telling. :shake head:

Their silence is deafening and is sickening to believe anyone could turn a blind eye to it. But the coalition of chaos wagon blunders on.

Barry lawyer says Windrush families are living in fear

"Some people think this is just about the Windrush generation - who are now [aged] around 70 - but often I am helping first and second generation children - people who were born here," she said.

"Typically, the children - now around 50 - have birth certificates, but this doesn't grant them a right to a British passport.

"These children went to school here, registered with doctors and dentists.

"They then got a national insurance number and worked.

"No issues were raised about their nationality or immigration status, so they went through their lives in total ignorance as to their lack of official status."

"Imagine having lived here all your life, trying to enrol in university and being told you can't unless you can prove you are a descendent of the Windrush generation," she said.

"That is what is happening.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-43913263

After Windrush, stop talking about ‘illegals’. Start talking about people

Words matter. That is perhaps the simplest lesson delivered by the Windrush scandal. When placed next to the terms immigrant and asylum seeker, language such as “floodgates”, “swarm” and “bogus” have a real world impact. In 1995, the then Conservative home secretary, Michael Howard, helpfully talked of Britain as an “attractive destination for bogus asylum seekers and other illegal immigrants”.

Twenty years on from Howard’s intervention, David Cameron would describe migrants in Calais as a “swarm of people”, while the Sun complained that European judges had opened the “floodgates to illegal immigrants”.

Amber Rudd herself, as she struggled to answer a straightforward question on removal targets, was nevertheless at pains to make a distinction between “Windrush, who are legal migrants” (despite many never having been migrants in the first place) with “people that are here illegally”.

On the same day that Rudd finally resigned for misleading the country – or for not being fully aware of the facts (take your pick) – Piers Morgan on ITV’s Good Morning Britain could be seen “grilling” Diane Abbott on Labour’s policy regarding “illegal” immigrants. For Morgan, “It’s not a difficult question”. In reality it seems a simple answer only when the language employed dehumanises thousands, enabling a culture of casual brutality and neglect that we have seen typified in each Windrush story.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/08/windrush-illegal-migrants-immigrants

Re: The Windrush Generation

Post by Guest » Tue May 08, 2018 6:05 am

No comments from May's vapid cheerleaders on here, how telling. :shake head:

Re: The Windrush Generation

Post by Grafenwalder » Mon May 07, 2018 11:36 pm

Yet more insanity from May's 'Coalition of Chaos'. :roll: The only good part about this case is unlike most Windrushers snared up by May's madcap "hostile environment" legacy from her tenure as HS in the HO is Mr Dadabhoy has some serious financial clout to see this case through the courts. Personally i hope he seeks massively huge damages from May and financially ruins her because God knows, she's done irreparable damage to this country. She's unfit to hold office as PM and should be immediately dismissed. She has to go and Javid must totally overhaul that HO and bring in the pest control to rid it of May's evilness. He may even need an exorcist.

'Credible and honest': the company director facing deportation to Pakistan

Saleem Dadabhoy is facing deportation under paragraph 322(5) of the Immigration Act despite three different appeal courts having scrutinised his accounts and finding no evidence of any irregularities, and an appeal judge ruling that he was trustworthy and credible. His deportation would lead directly to the loss of nearly 20 jobs, all held by British citizens, and the closure of a British company worth £1.5m.

“Due to my revenue generation at Connexion Electrical Ltd, where I am a director, the HMRC has enjoyed over £100,000 of tax receipts,” said Dadabhoy.

Dadabhoy was served with a deportation order under paragraph 322(5) in November 2017 after an eight-year dispute with the Home Office to remain in the country. It has so far cost Dadabhoy £15,000 in legal fees and will cost him another £7,000 if it goes to court. “Money isn’t important to me,” he said. “My family has enough to enable me to hire the best lawyers and barristers for this fight over whatever period it takes.

“I’m doing this because paragraph 322(5) links me to terrorism, which is the last thing a Muslim would want to be associated with because it not only hijacks and sabotages your identity but also restricts you to travel around the world, which would be especially damaging to me, belonging as I do to a business family who has property interest around the globe,” he said. “Even if I returned to Pakistan tomorrow, this paragraph 322(5) would make it virtually impossible for me to get a business visa, which would be a great hindrance to my family’s business, and my career and personal life.”

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... ration-act

Re: The Windrush Generation

Post by Grafenwalder » Mon May 07, 2018 2:04 pm

Rolluplostinspace wrote:At least 1,000 highly skilled migrants wrongly face deportation, experts reveal
At least 1,000 highly skilled migrants seeking indefinite leave to remain (ILR) in the UK are wrongly facing deportation under a section of the Immigration Act designed in part to tackle terrorists and individuals judged to be a threat to national security, MPs and experts have said.

In the latest scandal to hit the Home Office after the Windrush crisis, a range of MPs and immigration experts have criticised the use of the controversial section 322(5) of the act, with two saying the crisis-hit department is truly wicked and abusing its power.

Experts say the highly skilled workers – including teachers, doctors, lawyers, engineers and IT professionals – are being refused ILR after being accused of lying in their applications either for making minor and legal amendments to their tax records, or having discrepancies in declared income.

In one case, the applicant’s tax returns were scrutinised by three different appeal courts who had found no evidence of any irregularities. The same figures are nevertheless used as the basis for a 322(5) refusal because of basic tax errors allegedly made by the Home Office itself.

More here > https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/a ... ailsignout

Errm....re the bib, how many 'non-doms' and wealthy including some in government have been doing that for years under the guise of tax avoidance?!!

Re: The Windrush Generation

Post by Rolluplostinspace » Sun May 06, 2018 11:33 pm

At least 1,000 highly skilled migrants wrongly face deportation, experts reveal
At least 1,000 highly skilled migrants seeking indefinite leave to remain (ILR) in the UK are wrongly facing deportation under a section of the Immigration Act designed in part to tackle terrorists and individuals judged to be a threat to national security, MPs and experts have said.

In the latest scandal to hit the Home Office after the Windrush crisis, a range of MPs and immigration experts have criticised the use of the controversial section 322(5) of the act, with two saying the crisis-hit department is truly wicked and abusing its power.

Experts say the highly skilled workers – including teachers, doctors, lawyers, engineers and IT professionals – are being refused ILR after being accused of lying in their applications either for making minor and legal amendments to their tax records, or having discrepancies in declared income.

In one case, the applicant’s tax returns were scrutinised by three different appeal courts who had found no evidence of any irregularities. The same figures are nevertheless used as the basis for a 322(5) refusal because of basic tax errors allegedly made by the Home Office itself.

More here > https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/a ... ailsignout

Re: The Windrush Generation

Post by Punk » Sun May 06, 2018 9:05 am

Grafenwalder wrote:Windrush scandal: no passport for thousands who moved to Britain

New census data shows that about 21,000 people who moved to the UK before 1971 have neither a British passport nor a passport from the country where they were born, giving the strongest picture so far of the possible scale of the Windrush scandal.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/201 ... to-britain


May has a lot of blood on her hands. Any decent politician would put their hands up. Obviously, that rules her out. :shake head:

Re: The Windrush Generation

Post by Grafenwalder » Sat May 05, 2018 8:21 pm

Windrush scandal: no passport for thousands who moved to Britain

New census data shows that about 21,000 people who moved to the UK before 1971 have neither a British passport nor a passport from the country where they were born, giving the strongest picture so far of the possible scale of the Windrush scandal.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/201 ... to-britain

Re: The Windrush Generation

Post by Grafenwalder » Sat May 05, 2018 8:15 pm

'I'm glad we spoke out': Windrush victim who shone a light on the scandal

61 year old Paulette Wilson, UK resident for 50 years and worked in the House of Commons canteen, held in Yarl’s Wood immigration detention centre and removed to Heathrow where she was threatened with deportation to Jamaica – a country she has not visited since she was 10. She lost her home in 2015, a few months after the Department for Work and Pensions stopped her disability benefit payments. “They took my flat away.”

Mrs Wilson wonders if official racism was behind her treatment. As a child in Wolverhampton, she remembers being called “little black Sambo” and told “go back to your own country” and she got into fights occasionally at school because of these comments. But until this happened in 2015, she did not think racism was particularly prevalent here and she is reluctant to see Britain overall as a bad place, despite the terrible treatment she has endured over the past three years. “I have had a really good life here,” she said.


Disgusting and totally unforgivable.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/201 ... he-scandal

Re: The Windrush Generation

Post by Grafenwalder » Tue May 01, 2018 11:46 pm

Guest wrote:BREAKING - Theresa May Facing Parliamentary Ambush To Force Publication Of Windrush Documents

Similar tactic to that used to force Brexit impact documents

Theresa May is facing a crunch Commons vote that could force the Government to publish all papers and emails on the Windrush scandal – including details of her own role in the affair.

Labour announced it would stage the Parliamentary ambush on Wednesday to force the Home Office to hand over all internal correspondence linked to deportations, migration targets and their impact on Commonwealth citizens denied basic civic rights.

The tactic is the same procedure used to get the Brexit department to publish its impact papers late last year.

If enough MPs approve Labour’s Opposition Day motion, ministers would be required to provide the Home Affairs Select Committee with all papers, correspondence and advice - including emails and text messages - from 11 May 2010 up to 1 May 2018.

The documents would cover all contact between Ministers, senior officials and Special Advisers relating to policy decisions with regard to ‘Windrush generation’ cases.

It comes as Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn described the scandal as a “seminal moment” in the debate around race relations in the UK.

Read More:

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/…/theresa-may-facing-parli…

Excellent news. What i've hoped for all along and a step closer to having Mays head on plate. She must be held to account.

Another link here which is more direct; https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/p ... 31361.html

Also a poll showing 34% of those polled hold May more responsible for Windrush than Rudd, who polled just 4%. I agree.

https://news.sky.com/story/poll-britons ... l-11354001

Re: The Windrush Generation

Post by Guest » Tue May 01, 2018 10:11 pm

BREAKING - Theresa May Facing Parliamentary Ambush To Force Publication Of Windrush Documents

Similar tactic to that used to force Brexit impact documents

Theresa May is facing a crunch Commons vote that could force the Government to publish all papers and emails on the Windrush scandal – including details of her own role in the affair.

Labour announced it would stage the Parliamentary ambush on Wednesday to force the Home Office to hand over all internal correspondence linked to deportations, migration targets and their impact on Commonwealth citizens denied basic civic rights.

The tactic is the same procedure used to get the Brexit department to publish its impact papers late last year.

If enough MPs approve Labour’s Opposition Day motion, ministers would be required to provide the Home Affairs Select Committee with all papers, correspondence and advice - including emails and text messages - from 11 May 2010 up to 1 May 2018.

The documents would cover all contact between Ministers, senior officials and Special Advisers relating to policy decisions with regard to ‘Windrush generation’ cases.

It comes as Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn described the scandal as a “seminal moment” in the debate around race relations in the UK.

Read More:

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/…/theresa-may-facing-parli…

Re: The Windrush Generation

Post by Grafenwalder » Tue May 01, 2018 10:05 pm

Rolluplostinspace wrote:
Grafenwalder wrote:
Rolluplostinspace wrote:It could be you next!

EXCLUSIVE: Briton who has never left the UK is ordered to move to Uganda by bungling Home Office bosses - despite being born in SHREWSBURY

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/e ... ailsignout

Sheer madness. It's about time the men in white coats moved in on Downing street to get that idiot May locked away in a detention centre and deported.

The madness continues so it's back to business as usual. Yvonne Smith a 64 year old grandmother, banged up in a detention centre for the past nine months pending deportation...suddenly told "you're released" yesterday. A reporter from Channel 4 news met her outside and drove her back to her home in Birmingham where she was primary carer for her 92 year old disabled father who suffered a stroke. BUT...her ordeal was far from over.

How much more can people take of this unforgivable cruelty?

https://www.channel4.com/news/grandmoth ... stay-in-uk

Absolutely disgusting!
How many more are there?
Ministers need jailing.

The reporter also made a good point that during the journey, Channel4 news received an email saying Mrs Smith had only been released pending deportation. So why hadn't the HO informed Yvonne Smith when she was at Yarl's Wood? They told Channel4 news, but not the lady it affects which simply beggars belief.

It's about time May herself was held to account over the Windrush debacle. She was the architect behind the 2014/16 Immigration Act and she was the creator of her 'hostile environment' which brought about this mess. The woman has brought shame and disgrace on this country.

Re: The Windrush Generation

Post by Rolluplostinspace » Tue May 01, 2018 9:47 pm

Grafenwalder wrote:
Rolluplostinspace wrote:It could be you next!

EXCLUSIVE: Briton who has never left the UK is ordered to move to Uganda by bungling Home Office bosses - despite being born in SHREWSBURY

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/e ... ailsignout

Sheer madness. It's about time the men in white coats moved in on Downing street to get that idiot May locked away in a detention centre and deported.

The madness continues so it's back to business as usual. Yvonne Smith a 64 year old grandmother, banged up in a detention centre for the past nine months pending deportation...suddenly told "you're released" yesterday. A reporter from Channel 4 news met her outside and drove her back to her home in Birmingham where she was primary carer for her 92 year old disabled father who suffered a stroke. BUT...her ordeal was far from over.

How much more can people take of this unforgivable cruelty?

https://www.channel4.com/news/grandmoth ... stay-in-uk

Absolutely disgusting!
How many more are there?
Ministers need jailing.

Re: The Windrush Generation

Post by Grafenwalder » Tue May 01, 2018 9:34 pm

Rolluplostinspace wrote:It could be you next!

EXCLUSIVE: Briton who has never left the UK is ordered to move to Uganda by bungling Home Office bosses - despite being born in SHREWSBURY

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/e ... ailsignout

Sheer madness. It's about time the men in white coats moved in on Downing street to get that idiot May locked away in a detention centre and deported.

The madness continues so it's back to business as usual. Yvonne Smith a 64 year old grandmother, banged up in a detention centre for the past nine months pending deportation...suddenly told "you're released" yesterday. A reporter from Channel 4 news met her outside and drove her back to her home in Birmingham where she was primary carer for her 92 year old disabled father who suffered a stroke. BUT...her ordeal was far from over.

How much more can people take of this unforgivable cruelty?

https://www.channel4.com/news/grandmoth ... stay-in-uk

Re: The Windrush Generation

Post by malcom » Tue May 01, 2018 8:51 pm

Understandable if he was black, it just goes to show how poor our pubic servants are to make decisions like this.

Re: The Windrush Generation

Post by Guest » Tue May 01, 2018 7:27 pm

Rolluplostinspace wrote:It could be you next!

EXCLUSIVE: Briton who has never left the UK is ordered to move to Uganda by bungling Home Office bosses - despite being born in SHREWSBURY

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/e ... ailsignout


That happened when May was Home Secretary. I'm sure mad Mal will blame Diane Abbott :whistle:

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