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InarticulateQuilter<p>Companion articles about quilts featuring the history and personal stories of some of the UK’s <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Windrush" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Windrush</span></a> Generation </p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gd481lj9xo" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.com/news/articles/c4gd481l</span><span class="invisible">j9xo</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce48yg2rgero" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.com/news/articles/ce48yg2r</span><span class="invisible">gero</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/QuiltingNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>QuiltingNews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Quilting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Quilting</span></a></p>
Open Rights Group<p>Windrush scandal 2.0 ⚠️</p><p>Up to 200k people who live legally in the UK could end up undocumented due to the eVisa scheme.</p><p>In a rush to digitise proof of the right to be in the UK, many older and digitally excluded people could be denied access to services and housing.</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jul/03/rollout-of-evisas-could-drag-200000-people-into-windrush-style-scandal" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/j</span><span class="invisible">ul/03/rollout-of-evisas-could-drag-200000-people-into-windrush-style-scandal</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/evisa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>evisa</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/migrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>migrants</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/ukpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ukpolitics</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/ukpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ukpol</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/windrush" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>windrush</span></a></p>
Open Rights Group<p>The UK eVisa scheme is the Windrush scandal on repeat.</p><p>Thousands of people could find themselves unable to prove their legal right to be in the UK.</p><p>But there's a simple solution to this mess: allow physical proof of immigration status.</p><p>Write to your MP ⬇️</p><p><a href="https://action.openrightsgroup.org/write-your-mp-allow-physical-proof-immigration-status" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">action.openrightsgroup.org/wri</span><span class="invisible">te-your-mp-allow-physical-proof-immigration-status</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/evisa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>evisa</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/migrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>migrants</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/ukpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ukpolitics</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/ukpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ukpol</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/windrush" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>windrush</span></a></p>
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://threads.net/@josiah.mortimer/" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>josiah.mortimer</span></a></span> Mr "Island Of Strangers" trying to convince us he likes Black People now? </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Starmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Starmer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/IslandOfStrangers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IslandOfStrangers</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Windrush" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Windrush</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BlackMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BlackMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKPOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UKPOL</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UKpolitics</span></a></p>
Emeritus Prof Christopher May<p>The Windrush Compensation Scheme denied compensation to 2/3 of applicants, but those who appealed with legal advice/support received much larger settlements.</p><p>The Govt. may now claim the scheme is being differently managed, but you can see why the Tories didn't want applicants to get legal aid... </p><p>As with the Post Office scandal/criminal actions, its yet more evidence of how state institutions callously chew up normal folk.</p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/windrush" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>windrush</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Horizon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Horizon</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jun/16/windrush-scandal-victims-got-less-compensation-due-to-lack-of-legal-advice-funding-review-finds" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/j</span><span class="invisible">un/16/windrush-scandal-victims-got-less-compensation-due-to-lack-of-legal-advice-funding-review-finds</span></a></p>
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈<p>Another 10 year saga over a racist policy that countries like Gilead now are running away with.<br>Don't fix anything, don't build anything, just take out some abuse on a Minority and call it day. That is Westminster. </p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/may/27/windrush-generation-uk-deportation-order-revoked-gersham-williams" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/m</span><span class="invisible">ay/27/windrush-generation-uk-deportation-order-revoked-gersham-williams</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Whiteness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Whiteness</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BlackMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BlackMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Windrush" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Windrush</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKPOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UKPOL</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKPOLITICS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UKPOLITICS</span></a></p>
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@junesim63" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>junesim63</span></a></span> what America is doing now, the Brits have been doing for years....</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Windrush" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Windrush</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BlackMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BlackMastodon</span></a></p>
JuneSim63<p>This is an absolute disgrace.</p><p>"The Home Office has agreed to fly home a member of the Windrush generation who lived in the UK for 47 years before being wrongly deported and forced to live on the streets of Jamaica in horrific conditions for more than a decade"</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Windrush" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Windrush</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/HomeOffice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HomeOffice</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/UKPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UKPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WindrushScandal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WindrushScandal</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Racism</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global/2025/may/16/uk-agrees-to-fly-home-wrongly-deported-windrush-generation-man-from-jamaica" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/global/2025/ma</span><span class="invisible">y/16/uk-agrees-to-fly-home-wrongly-deported-windrush-generation-man-from-jamaica</span></a></p>
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈<p>Before Gilead started deporting Human Beings the Imperial relic of the United Kingdom was doing it to people who had lived in the UK for DECADES.</p><p>But they are Black, so in the Home Office's eyes they're only guests here.</p><p>See also how the Whiteness changes the word "Windrush" from being a celebration of immigration and diversity, into a word for a Race Scandal. </p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global/2025/may/16/uk-agrees-to-fly-home-wrongly-deported-windrush-generation-man-from-jamaica" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/global/2025/ma</span><span class="invisible">y/16/uk-agrees-to-fly-home-wrongly-deported-windrush-generation-man-from-jamaica</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BlackMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BlackMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Whiteness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Whiteness</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Windrush" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Windrush</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKPOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UKPOL</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKPOLITICS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UKPOLITICS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Windrush" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Windrush</span></a></p>
EM SWSurrey🇪🇺<p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Windrush" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Windrush</span></a> scandal<br><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/HomeOffice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HomeOffice</span></a> spent £22,000 on failed attempt to stop Windrush report release<br>Hard-hitting internal investigation found roots of scandal lay in racist immigration legislation<br><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/apr/04/home-office-spent-22000-on-failed-attempt-to-stop-windrush-report-release" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/a</span><span class="invisible">pr/04/home-office-spent-22000-on-failed-attempt-to-stop-windrush-report-release</span></a></p>
Emeritus Prof Christopher May<p>Sometimes its easy to lose sight of the individual stories behind the callous 'hostile environment' that the British state presents to migrants... so here is a BBC story about two cases, which show the impact of the policy on individuals &amp; the difficulty of proving their British status.</p><p>Its heartbreaking but will also make you angry with the faceless bureaucrats &amp; smug politicians who cause so much pain needlessly!</p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Windrush" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Windrush</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/migrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>migrants</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c93lzl1vpeqo" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c93lzl</span><span class="invisible">1vpeqo</span></a></p>
Emeritus Prof Christopher May<p>Just in case you thought the disgrace of the Windrush Scandal had been resolved in favour of those the Home Office had wrongly denied (indeed worked to destroy evidence of) their right to remain in the UK, actually cases are still wrecking the lives of victims of the callousness of the Home Office.</p><p>As always once the press focus moves on s the Home Office 'forgets' its commitments to sort out the problem(s)</p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Windrush" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Windrush</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/citizenship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>citizenship</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/feb/02/windrush-grandfather-at-risk-of-deportation-after-almost-50-years-in-uk" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/f</span><span class="invisible">eb/02/windrush-grandfather-at-risk-of-deportation-after-almost-50-years-in-uk</span></a></p>
Steve Woods<p>Racist UK Home Office still racist.</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Windrush" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Windrush</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/feb/02/windrush-grandfather-at-risk-of-deportation-after-almost-50-years-in-uk" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/f</span><span class="invisible">eb/02/windrush-grandfather-at-risk-of-deportation-after-almost-50-years-in-uk</span></a></p>
Kriszta Satori<p><a href="https://journa.host/tags/BBCNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BBCNews</span></a> - Daughter of <a href="https://journa.host/tags/Windrush" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Windrush</span></a> man loses bid to remain in UK<br><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn4vpd18en0o" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.com/news/articles/cn4vpd18</span><span class="invisible">en0o</span></a></p>
Emeritus Prof Christopher May<p>Good for Yvette Cooper; she has reinstated the post-Windrush reform team at the Home Office but perhaps more importantly is also appointing a Windrush Commissioner who will advocate in Whitehall on behalf of the victims of the scandal.... this latter role demonstrates an understanding of what needs to be done to ensure the Windrush generation are not betrayed again</p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Windrush" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Windrush</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/HomeOffice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HomeOffice</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/oct/24/cooper-reinstates-post-windrush-home-office-change-unit" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/o</span><span class="invisible">ct/24/cooper-reinstates-post-windrush-home-office-change-unit</span></a></p>
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈<p>Now the Tories are gone let's have some movement on this shameful episode of Whiteness. <br>"Reparations" seems to be a word we white folk don't want to say, but it'll be better for everyone if we do say it. <br> Or do we like this shame? </p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/oct/24/cooper-reinstates-post-windrush-home-office-change-unit" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/o</span><span class="invisible">ct/24/cooper-reinstates-post-windrush-home-office-change-unit</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Windrush" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Windrush</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKPOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UKPOL</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UKPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BlackMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BlackMastodon</span></a></p>
Emeritus Prof Christopher May<p>So let me get this right... after Wndrush, the treatment of migrants, delays in processing EU citizens' right to remain &amp; other miss-steps, the Home Office has the time to issue a formal passport to a fictional character, who is not even human (in their functional existence).</p><p>This may look like harmless fun/good publicity to some, but I would think for those impacted by HO delays &amp; inhumanity it will be (another) slap in the face....</p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/HomeOffice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HomeOffice</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/windrush" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>windrush</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Brexit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Brexit</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/oct/22/paddington-bear-given-official-uk-passport" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/film/2024/oct/</span><span class="invisible">22/paddington-bear-given-official-uk-passport</span></a></p>
Kriszta Satori<p><a href="https://journa.host/tags/BBCNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BBCNews</span></a> - Mother fights <a href="https://journa.host/tags/Windrush" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Windrush</span></a> injustice in High Court<br><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y95vd3prxo" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.com/news/articles/c5y95vd3</span><span class="invisible">prxo</span></a></p>
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈<p>See what I mean? They fucking HATE us, and every penny they give out cuts like a blade into them.</p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd9dwlp38j1o" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd9dwl</span><span class="invisible">p38j1o</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKPOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UKPOL</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ukpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ukpolitics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Windrush" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Windrush</span></a></p>
Claire Barnes<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://historians.social/@BHO" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>BHO</span></a></span> I salute the unnamed writer of 'The Historical Roots of the Windrush Scandal', link ☝️ </p><p>This beautifully written report starts with prehistoric settlers &amp; the cultural impact of Roman &amp; Norman invasions before turning to medieval immigration policy. It continues with a thought-provoking study of attitudes &amp; othering over the centuries, through Empire &amp; Orwell to our own time. </p><p>Report suppression story: <a href="https://www.leighday.co.uk/news/news/2024-news/home-office-publishes-critical-report-on-origins-of-windrush-scandal/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">leighday.co.uk/news/news/2024-</span><span class="invisible">news/home-office-publishes-critical-report-on-origins-of-windrush-scandal/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://h-net.social/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a> <a href="https://h-net.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://h-net.social/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> <a href="https://h-net.social/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>racism</span></a> <a href="https://h-net.social/tags/Windrush" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Windrush</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>histodons</span></a></span></p>
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