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The full explanation of why
#Windrush
became and remains a scandal is here - it's a long and upsetting story which didn't fit into newspaper articles so I wrote a book to try to explain.
Now in paperback
And audiobook
On
#WindrushDay
here's
@ameliagentleman
reading the opening from the audiobook of The Windrush Betrayal, her investigation into the ongoing scandal.
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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?
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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
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You’d think that 2 years after the government apologised for
#windrush
Anthony Bryan might have received compensation for having been wrongly detained for 5 weeks
#SittingInLimbo
. He hasn’t.
Only £360,000 of a compensation pot meant to pay out £500m has been distributed
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Hard to understand why the Home Office wants to deport people who were born in this country to places they have never visited
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It's strange how Suella Braverman says here that 4,000 people have received Windrush compensation when the actual figure is only 1,681 - much lower.
The press office says she made a mistake
But this was the most important figure for the interview
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My Dad is 90 today and has been working every day in this studio for the past half a century
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The Guardian has given me the time and space to investigate the
#Windrush
scandal over the past six months. Please support independent, investigative journalism like this, so that we can continue to hold power to account
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#windrush
victims I'm talking to are surprised by Rudd's resignation - they identify Theresa May as the architect of the policy that caused them so much pain
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Alf Dubs summoned to meet three Home Office ministers and seven officials hoping he will drop his Lords amendment which seeks to force the government to maintain protections for child refugees.
Curiously large government delegation.
He refuses.
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Paulette Wilson and Anthony Bryan delivering a petition signed by 100,000plus people asking the government to implement all the recommendations of the
#Windrush
lessons learned review and calling for swift compensation payments
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David Cameron volunteers at the Chipping Norton foodbank??
Such a weird thing to do.
Foodbanks only became a phenomenon in Britain because of the policies he introduced
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Exciting waiting at Lunar House - immigration HQ - as Albert Thompson (who now he's no longer in hiding in own country, wants to use actual name Sylvester Marshall) met staff who took 2 hours to rule he wasn't an illegal - after 9 yrs of hell
#windrush
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#windrush
important to remember that 10 days ago the gov thought this issue was sufficiently trivial that they thought fine to reject Caribbean diplomats' request for meeting
10 days on suddenly the Home Secretary keeps saying how upsetting she finds these stories. Odd.
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Man who has lived in UK for 41 years (since he was four) has had his deportation to Jamaica cancelled.
Which is good news, although seems crazy that anyone thought it was a good idea to deport someone to a country they have no memories of and where they have no ties.
#windrush
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The worst thing about
#SittingInLimbo
is that this isn’t even a particularly extreme example of how the hostile environment ruined lives. Just one of 1000s Lambs to the slaughter': 50 lives ruined by the Windrush scandal | UK news | The Guardian
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Writing this made me angry
If the government is so sorry about
#windrush
now, why weren't they sorry six months ago, or even 8 days ago?
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Struggling to understand why army veteran, who served 14 years, risking his life in Aghfanistan/ Iraq, who helped train 2 sons to play rugby for England, is blocked by immigration rules from returning home to UK to be with wife as she has cancer treatment
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An ambulance driver, sacked because of
#windrush
, still trying to get his job back
A gardener, whose tools were thrown away when the council evicted him, still too poor to buy new ones
A year after Windrush - life is still difficult
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2.5 years after the Home Office realised it had wrongly locked up Anthony Bryan for five weeks
And one hour before a BBC drama about him was broadcast
The Home Secretary offered him a phone call to discuss his situation.
Weird timing
#sittinginlimbo
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Rudd says "This should never have been allowed to happen"
#windrush
But she and Theresa May allowed it happen and ignored repeated Guardian reporting of outrages for six months...
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Please read this
It's one of the most upsetting and enraging pieces I've had to write
It explains why despite the chaos, we need to pay attention to today's
#windrush
report
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This story has been so sad to report on - many of the people I interviewed were in tears when they described how upsetting it was to be classed as an illegal immigrant after 50 years in the UK
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I felt terrible interviewing this GP with Covid. She was so weak, a month after contracting it, that it was very painful for her to talk. In the end wrote most of this and emailed it because talking was too exhausting.
She was furious with Matt Hancock
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I forgot to say THANK YOU to my editors and colleagues at the Guardian who pushed this scandal on to the front page. Thank you
Journalist of the Year is
@ameliagentleman
of
@guardian
for her work exposing the scandalous treatment of Windrush immigrants
#BJA2018
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“A few weeks after the Rochdale case, we dealt with a case of 10 white men in North Yorkshire who had been abusing young girls, and they were all convicted and they got long sentences. It didn’t get the level of coverage,” he says.”
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“That fundamental inability to understand immigrants as people who stay and contribute, rather than as people who come and take, remains a central obstacle to any meaningful debate about immigration.”
@garyyounge
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Enormous thank you to
@PrivateEyeNews
and Paul Foot's family and to charities like
@Praxis_Projects
@RMCentre
@camdenlc
AND mostly to all the Windrush people who agreed to be interviewed
Guardian's Amelia Gentleman wins prize for Windrush reporting
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#windrush
Rudd "this is a failure by successive governments" - it isn't
It is the direct consequence of Hostile Environment policies introduced by Theresa May
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Anthony Bryan, 60, (50 years in UK, 5 weeks in detention centre), one of the first interviewed in the Guardian: "I feel like I helped bring down the Home Secretary. I feel sorry for her in a sense because it looks like she is taking the punishment for Theresa May,”
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The most disturbing
#Windrush
case I encountered:
Joycelyn John, arrived in the UK aged 4, worked as a chambermaid at the Ritz, was forced 50 years later into self-deportation back to Grenada, when Home Office branded her an illegal immigrant.
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Unspeakably sad to hear this
I last saw Paulette a month ago when she delivered a petition to Downing St calling for faster justice for
#Windrush
victims.
She was angry and so weary of all the apologies
Paulette Wilson dies aged 64
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This is the saddest
#Windrush
story
Dexter Bristol lived in UK for almost half a century
Sacked from his job, because no passport.
Denied benefits.
Classed as an illegal immigrant.
Collapsed in the street.
Died.
His mother blames the stress.
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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
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Londoner Sylvester Marshall has finally received the NHS cancer treatment he was told he wasn't eligible for (despite 4 decades working, paying taxes in UK). Thanks to help of
@Praxis_Projects
he didn't need to pay the £54,000 he was asked for.
#windrush
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So glad that Anthony’s son called the Guardian in December 2017. If he hadn’t picked up the phone all this might still just be routine, forgotten Home Offive unpleasantness
#SittingInLimbo
And here is
@ameliagentleman
with the original story of Antony Bryan. Sitting in Limbo
@BBCOne
#Windrush
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Suella Braverman's decision to abandon three post-Windrush reform pledges was unlawful, the High Court hears
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This will be broadcast on Monday and is really worth watching
This is the shocking true story of Anthony Bryan. Just one of the hundreds of victims at the heart of the Windrush immigration scandal.
#SittingInLimbo
Monday 8th June, 8.30pm
@BBCOne
&
@BBCiPlayer
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Annoying to hear Conservative MPs talk about the "inadvertent" consequences of government policies causing
#Windrush
. It wasn't inadvertent.
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Apologies (but not really) for retweeting.
Anyone who watched
@floellabenjamin
present Play School in the 80s will understand that reading this is like getting an unexpected gold star from a kind primary school teacher 40 years later - possibly the nicest tweet I've ever had.
Your book The
#Windrush
Betrayal will serve as a turning point in not just political but also social history. It will become a classic. So you are a winner as your book has
#madeadifference
#presstheresetbutton
@ameliagentleman
❤️
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Priti Patel's review of NHS surcharge paid by international healthcare staff working in the NHS, so they can access the NHS treatments they work to provide, seems to have concluded that it's a good thing and must stay.
And that the charge should increase.
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Paulette Wilson didn't want to talk to the media about the experience of being sent to immigration detention (after 50 years in the UK).
It was the worst experience of her life and was upsetting to talk about.
But her decision to talk made a difference...
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Still cannot understand why the Home Office decided it was necessary to send six enforcement officers at 5.30am to the home of this law-abiding woman
Footage emerges of 'distressing' home visit by immigration officers
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I slightly feel again that this issue of deportations is a red herring because the much wider issue is the number
#windrush
people whose have been ruined in other ways - forced into homelessness, unemployment, not able to travel, get NHS help
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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
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Really hope that Home Office watched
#SittingInLimbo
and speeds up its work on paying out compensation to the thousands affected by
#windrush
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Characteristically defensive/risible Home Office response to people's dismay over the decision to keep the NHS surcharge - that international NHS staff must pay, on top of taxes, to use the NHS services they are providing.
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Two years ago this was the really happy picture we published in the Guardian after
#Windrush
people got an apology in parliament for their treatment - everyone felt incredibly optimistic that things would be fixed and (as the government kept promising) wrongs would be righted
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13 years in the British army, 43 years in the UK, Anthony was told when he was 50 that he was here illegally.
Denied NHS treatment, he had to treat himself when he had a gum infection - removing his teeth using vodka as anaesthetic.
Still waiting for compensation to be finalised
"I had to pull my own teeth out because I wasn't entitled to NHS treatment."
Ex-serviceman Anthony Williams tells James O'Brien the devastating impact being a Windrush victim has had on his life.
@mrjamesob
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Quite depressing to see Theresa May celebrating Commonwealth day.
Almost a year on from
#windrush
scandal and still no compensation paid to Commonwealth victims.
By end of last year only one person had received hardship fund payout.
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people wrongly deported from UK have died – Sajid Javid
It's amazing that we still don't know the full scale of this scandal
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This is nice but I spoke to a
#windrush
woman who was returned by the Home Office to a country she hadn't lived in for 50 years, offered £7,500 interim payment.
So I hope compensation is fair
Gatwick drone arrest couple win £200,000 from Sussex police
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This is really good news
NHS has withdrawn its deal with Home Office to share confidential patient data to trace overstayers for removal/deportation. Big victory for campaigners and fresh setback for
#HostileEnvironment
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THIS A BIT ODD SINCE I PHONED THEM ABOUT IT ON SAT NIGHT
#WINDRUSH
“Downing St said May had only become aware of the request on Monday morning and confirmed that she would be holding a meeting “at the earliest possible opportunity” with Caribbean leaders.”
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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
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A few minutes after this piece went online, the Home Office emailed Michael's lawyer to say that his documents had been approved - he'd been waiting two years... Man living in UK for 56 years loses job over immigration papers
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This is really annoying
An earnest declaration by Theresa May (her eyes straining to look sincere) of the debt owed to the
#Windrush
generation
When these same people are still suffering from the hostile environment policies she introduced and hasn't repealed
On this Windrush Day and every day, let us give thanks to those pioneering men and women. They crossed an ocean to build a future for themselves, their communities and the UK, the country that will always be their home.
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Trafficking of young people from Vietnam is one of the most disturbing things I’ve had to write about. Hard to understand why there isn’t more anger about how cannabis is grown in the UK
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#windrush
so upsetting to listen to PMQ buckpassing about who is responsible for problems triggered by the hostile environment policy
it's so predictable and undignified for the PM to keep saying: 'you started it'
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Compensation scheme asks
#windrush
victim to find payslips from bar job he did in the 1990s - but he was given only 48 hours to pack up life before being deported to Jamaica so obviously he doesn’t have them.
Victim criticises 'insulting' red tape
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Please don't let this issue get totally buried...
The questions that the
#Windrush
report must answer
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This may not be the moment...
but I would really love to talk to you,
@philiprutnam
, about what was happening in the Home Office in the year before the department apologised for
#windrush
amelia.gentleman
@theguardian
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Good news
Government u-turns on its decision to deny help to the Afghan British embassy guards in Kabul who were employed on contracts to the security firm GardaWord
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““I admit what I did was wrong. I know I am guilty of dangerous driving but it wasn’t a stolen car; nobody was hurt, I didn’t crash into anything, there was no damage,””
Man who has lived in UK since he was 14 deported for a dangerous driving offence
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Thank you to the Political Studies Association - it’s an amazing prize to win and to win jointly with
@carolecadwalla
is even better...
.
@ameliagentleman
and
@carolecadwalla
have both been announced as Journalist of the Year! Congratulations! Baroness Warsi is presenting the award to
@ameliagentleman
.
@carolecadwalla
is unable to be here tonight to accept her award.
#PSAAwards
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The Home Office gave me unprecedented access into its immigration HQ yesterday to watch the
#windrush
team at work.
It was a really upsetting afternoon.
13 years of pain, resolved in 45 minutes.
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This is one of the most upsetting
#Windrush
cases I've come across in two and a half years
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This is the 7th damning report on the hostile environment and Windrush that I've written about for the Guardian
Home Office broke equalities law with hostile environment measures
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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.
There were MANY warnings
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iain duncan smith (predictably) moving the subject from
#windrush
scandal to the entirely unrelated issue of illegal immigration - so vexing to see these attempts to connect the two
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I am so glad to hear this.
I would love to interview you for the Guardian about
#windrush
whenever you have time
I sent you a copy of The Windrush Betryal a few weeks ago. I know you are busy, but you can listen to it here if you have a spare moment
#SittingInLimbo
epitomises the unimaginable suffering endured by the Windrush generation. On behalf of successive governments, I apologise again to victims & their families. I will do all I can to ensure
@ukhomeoffice
protects & listens to every part of the community it serves.
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To understand the decades of racist decisions that led to
#windrush
Watch
@DavidOlusoga
's The Unwanted: The Secret
#Windrush
Files tonight 8.15 BBC2
It is brilliant and really disturbing
Vital context for anyone who watched
#sittinginlimbo
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Good question - I've been asking immigration charities whether they have noticed a change in Home Office approach since both Sajid Javid and Amber Rudd promised comprehensive reform.
They say no change.
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This lost passport story is the worst Home Office incompetence story - I can't get over the casual negligence that destroys someone's life for a decade (and then gets fixed effortlessly once
@sarahloumarsh
calls the press office)
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Exiled from the UK and his family for
NINE YEARS
because of Home Office errors, Trevor Donald has been told he is ineligible for British citizenship because of his long absence from the UK...
He is hurt and furious
#Windrush
injustices continue
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This is a really amazing and incredibly moving project
50 actors reading 50 paragraphs from a Guardian article - determined to ensure the
#windrush
scandal is not forgotten
'The fury pours from the screen': the Windrush Betrayal film made in lockdown
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Only 143 people have received compensation for Windrush
At least 5 have died after applying but before receiving a reply
2.5 years after first apologies there has been so little progress in getting justice for those affected.
‘I rejected the offer of £22,000 for 10 years loss of earnings’
@GlendaCaesar
,
@ameliagentleman
and
@JacquiMckenzie6
discuss the compensation scheme and the continued struggle for justice for the
#Windrush
generation:
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Government defeated in the Lords for the 4th time in 24 hours - after peers support calls to reinstate protections for child refugees
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Furious and sad to hear this ex-soldier's description of waiting for
#windrush
compensation so he can rebuild a life shattered by the hostile environment.
He spent 5 years destitute, too scared to open the door
15 months wait for compensation, no news
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This is how the hostile environment works:
It frightens and humiliates you
Until you agree to "voluntary" self-deportation
"When the hostile environment policy is working well, it exhausts people into submission. It piles up humiliations, stress and fear until people give up": a must-read piece by
@ameliagentleman
, on the inhumanity and cruelty of the Hostile Environment.
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Traveling to Jamaica to write about
#windrush
issues. Please get in touch if there are themes that need highlighting amelia.gentleman
@theguardian
.com
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Virgin airlines says it will no longer help to deport immigrants
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I thought I could no longer be shocked by different mutations of the
#Windrush
scandal, but Richard Amoah's account of being needlessly exiled for 975 days in Ghana is very disturbing
And no compensation yet.
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Very sad to have to attend this funeral today
Wolverhampton marks life of
#Windrush
campaigner Paulette Wilson
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"I had my first cry of 'go back to where you came from' about three months after Brexit. You could say it was a coincidence but I've lived here for a long time. I think something very unpleasant was unleashed then."
@kamilashamsie
#unbecomingbritish
Orwell lecture
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These stories are flooding in to the Guardian now
#Windrush
generation tell of holidays that led to exile and heartbreak
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44 years in London, over 30 years working and paying taxes, Albert is asked to pay £54,000 for cancer care, because officials have questioned his immigration status
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The collective pain and misery caused by
#windrush
is staggering
Here we've gathered 20 lives shattered by the policy
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Ilaitia Cokanasiga: 14 years in the army, tours of Iraq and Afghanistan + 2 sons play rugby for England
Told he had no right to live UK. Now stuck in Fiji, 10,000 miles away from wife who has cancer and missed son's World Cup debut.
#hostileenvironment
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#windrush
scandal spreads - Canadians now experiencing brutal treatment from the Home Office
'I felt like dirt': disabled Canadian woman told to leave UK after 47 years
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Every fortnight since I was about 8
@PrivateEyeNews
has been making me laugh
So am totally thrilled to shortlisted for their
#paulfootaward
award
Congratulations to
@carolecadwalla
and
@ameliagentleman
for making the short list for the 2018 Paul Foot Award.
#journalism
#paulfootaward
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A really disturbing example of the difficulties faced by EU nationals caught in the Home Office backlog of 500,000 unprocessed applications
Spanish woman in UK for 44 years sacked over post-Brexit rules
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Just listening to
@pritipatel
agreeing that
#windrush
compensation payments have been too slow
And inviting MPs to come and see the work of the compensation team.
I would love to come too - to write about the complexity of the work that is going on. Might that be possible?
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The full explanation of why the
#Windrush
became a scandal is here - it's a long and upsetting story which didn't fit into newspaper articles so I wrote a book to try to explain. Here is the beginning...
On
#WindrushDay
here's
@ameliagentleman
reading the opening from the audiobook of The Windrush Betrayal, her investigation into the ongoing scandal.
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Tonight at 8 I am having a telepathic birthday party. Everyone is invited.
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