UK to pay up to 200m in compensation to Windrush victims

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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/apr/03/uk-pay-windrush-victims-200m-compensation-lives-damaged-hostile-environment-policy

The home secretary, Sajid Javid, has announced that the government will pay up to £200m in compensation to people whose lives were damaged by the Home Office’s mistaken classification of thousands of long-term British residents as illegal immigrants.

The announcement comes almost a year after the government admitted that its treatment of the Windrush generation had been “appalling” and promised reform of its immigration system and compensation to those affected by hostile environment policies.

“Nothing we say or do will ever wipe away the hurt, the trauma, the loss that should never have been suffered by the men and women of the Windrush generation, but together we can begin to right the wrongs of Windrush,” Javid said.

The home secretary said there would be no cap on the fund, making it impossible to estimate how much money will eventually be paid to victims. Payments will not be restricted to people from the Caribbean but made to anyone who has been in the UK since 1988 who has been wrongly classified as being here illegally and as a result lost the right to work, access to healthcare and the ability to rent property.

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Cameron, May, Johnson et al created this mess

[Pope George Ringo II]

1. Sometimes it's cheaper to just do the right thing in the first place

The British government appears to have forgotten that.

[malaise]

2. That happens when you are pandering to the racists,

yearning for 19th century British imperialism and have no knowledge or understanding of your own fugging history with regard to Windrush.

[Pope George Ringo II]

5. I'm sure everything will be all Sir Garnet once Brexit is complete.

I don't think Victorians used that phrase to mean "a post-apocalyptic wasteland," but a Victorian label seems appropriate.

[malaise]

6. I have not heard that phrase for decades

How thoroughly appropriate

[Pope George Ringo II]

9. Don't admit that.

You'll date yourself almost as badly as I did throwing it out there in the first place, but then I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus.

[malaise]

10. LOL

I'm proud of my age

[HipChick]

3. Thanks for posting Malaise...

[malaise]

4. Hopefully the same will happen in the US

after this regime is removed

[HipChick]

7. I'm not holding my breath...I keep thinking about those kids in cages..

Can't imagine being separated from parents too, and being in some facility...

[malaise]

8. I am stunned that there isn't more outrage

Seriously