charlotte

Fighting for an Independent Windrush Compensation Scheme and real justice for Victims.

[charlotte @ctobierre]

It’s so difficult to find any words, Its just so sad.
Anthony never stopped pushing for fairness and justice.
He was incredibly kind, funny, supportive, Just a really good person and a really lovely friend! https://t.co/mnijjCUTES

[Melissa Sigodo @melissasigodo]

After fighting for half a decade for Windrush compensation, Hetticia & Vanderbilt say the Home Office should not be in charge of the scheme when they caused the harm.

‘What the Home Office is professing to do, they’re not doing. Being refused time and time again is traumatic’

[Melissa Sigodo @melissasigodo]

Founding member of Windrush Lives, Anthony Williams has died. Despite serving in the Armed Forces for 13 years, he was left destitute & forced to pull out his own teeth after losing access to healthcare because of the Windrush scandal. https://t.co/99LlSKF6AN

[BBC Essex @BBCEssex]

Windrush descendant honours ancestors with display https://t.co/273BAg5OEE

[Melissa Sigodo @melissasigodo]

News from the Black community is more important than ever. When society seeks to erase our experiences, we need our stories told & we need real journalism that holds power to account. I’m doing that at the Community Reporter and it’s free to subscribe👇🏾
https://t.co/liccQHAE2i

[Truth Speaker @EsheruKwaku]

@clivefosterwc @ShabanaMahmood @MikeTappTweets
How can the WINDRUSH SCHEME require a child of Windrush to have lived in the UK all their life, since birth or since arriving when HOME OFFICE specifically ran a Hostile Environment Policy of locking them out of the UK?

[Melissa Sigodo @melissasigodo]

The Black studies course at Birmingham City University is set to be axed leaving 5 Black staff members at risk of redundancy. Students have written to vice chancellors raising concerns that the plans appear to contradict the uni’s own DEI aims.
https://t.co/lYZwNe3ao6

[Glenda Caesar @GlendaCaesar]

This is the reality of the impact this has on those affected. The retraumatising & the questioning over & over again does not help

[charlotte @ctobierre]

This is a window into how the Home Office are running the compensation scheme, cruel and hostile.

[Melissa Sigodo @melissasigodo]

Hetticia, 70, was hospitalised twice in one month from the stress of dealing with the Home Office’s Windrush compensation scheme.

‘It has taken a toll on my physical health, my emotional and mental health’

She & her husband have been denied compensation a total of 8 times

[Melissa Sigodo @melissasigodo]

Hetticia, 70, was hospitalised twice in one month from the stress of dealing with the Home Office’s Windrush compensation scheme.

‘It has taken a toll on my physical health, my emotional and mental health’

She & her husband have been denied compensation a total of 8 times

[Maud'dib/WVSG/Windrush Victims Support Group/ @Mauddib8]

@melissasigodo And the worse thing is this case is not isolated, we know the stress physical and mental has contributed to the deaths of hundreds if not thousands of victims, those of you who know the history of my own case know that the @ukhomeoffice drove me to attempt suicide.

[carron pierre @blonde1_pierre]

👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

[Chris (#Scandal still NO Justice PO GF WR) @Chrisviews43]

Windrush victims know firsthand just how cold and wrong the Home Office can be, but this is a new level of darkness.
And the worst part is, this is being delivered by a Labour government.
We have said it repeatedly, your Home Secretary will be the death of the Labour Party.
@Keir_Starmer you are really condoning this?

Absolutely disgusting.
Slowly, people are seeing Labour for who they really are. When they say it’s a choice between Reform and Labour, they don’t mean one is better than the other. They mean who can be most cruel.

Children as young as five who are living legally in the UK are being told by the Home Office they must leave the country even if their parents have been given permission to remain.

The Guardian has seen five letters sent to children by the Home Office telling them they must leave the UK.

LETTERS TO CHILDREN AS YOUNG AS 5.

WHAT THE HELL? https://t.co/zywljGRsn3

[charlotte @ctobierre]

@EsheruKwaku It’s unbelievable that after 7 years of the failing compensation scheme, the Home Office still cling on to the scheme. It should absolutely be removed.

[Ngozi Chinegwundoh @gertrudengozi]

@EsheruKwaku That does not even include the Home Office Commonwealth "Windrush" Scandal victims still stuck overseas in Nigeria and other Commonwealth countries. @clivefosterwc - I'm waiting for you to address the issue of non-Caribbean victims overseas. @symeonbrown

[Truth Speaker @EsheruKwaku]

REMOVE IT FROM THE HOME OFFICE
if 3764 claimants were given £10K initial award, then that amounts nearly 38 million of the 127 million figure.

If you then divide the remaining 89 million by the number of claimants, you get £23,645 per claimant 🫩

https://t.co/t4SFKOmwXH

[Chris (#Scandal still NO Justice PO GF WR) @Chrisviews43]

Windrush victims and Post Office victims should be a national shame for every government that has failed them.

But Labour came into power promising change, justice and a different way of doing things.

So where is it?

Windrush victims are still fighting for proper compensation, still being rejected, still being made to prove pain that the government caused.

Post Office victims are still waiting for full justice, still stuck in redress schemes, while the people and companies responsible seem to move slower than snails when it comes to accountability.

These are not small issues. These are two of the biggest scandals in modern Britain, and both involve ordinary people being destroyed by the system.

Labour had a chance to show they were different. Instead, victims are still waiting, still chasing, still being failed.

What is the point of voting out the Tories if Labour just manages the same injustice with a different badge?

Justice delayed is justice denied.

[Lorna_TVeditor @Lorna_TVeditor]

The Windrush Scandal is not over.
👇🏾

[Monsieur Cholet @stugoo17]

Survivors of the Windrush scandal have been given memorials and apologies, but they're still being denied fair compensation and actual justice. The Government promised to fix this—let's make sure they keep their word. Please add your name to help right this wrong: https://t.co/QlO4jCsUJ4 via @38degrees

[Jonathan @jabberwock951]

Let's be clear, this isn't intended to help young people.

Big companies will be paid public money to take people on, make them do grunt work for little/no pay, then kick them out after a year or two with zero prospects.

[charlotte @ctobierre]

@melissasigodo Hope you are alright Melissa, Tricia and Vaun’s story is incredibly sad and what makes it ever harder is the lack of empathy and justice from the Home Office.