Windrush victims

[saaby93]

This is going to be tricky but at what point do you become a victim?
Is victim the right word?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-55300494
I guess we've all been a victim of some wrong doing.

An estimated 500,000 people living in the UK make up the surviving members of the Windrush generation.
x£10k = £5bn?

Wasn't half the ship full of seamen? All the same that makes it one huge boat.

[Seattaken]

I'd suggest the use of the word victim is appropriate given "....many of those affected had lost homes and jobs and had been denied access to healthcare and benefits."

[BlackLabel]

Some of the Windrush cases were horrific. The real victims of this clusterfk deserve every penny.

And it won’t be anywhere near 500,000 compensation claims.

“ The architect of the scheme, Martin Forde QC, who criticised the Home Office on Wednesday during a home affairs committee hearing into Windrush compensation payments, said he was “delighted at the development”. “I hope this will increase the rate of payment,” he said.

The shadow home secretary, Nick Thomas-Symonds, sent a letter to Patel on Sunday, outlining his ongoing concerns with the scheme, pointing out that although 6,300 people have now been given citizenship via the Windrush scheme, only 226 people had so far received compensation totalling £2.1m, representing only 3.5% of those affected by the scandal. He asked whether legal aid would now be available to claimants to help them submit a claim, adding that the outline reforms did not go “anywhere near far enough to deal with the far wider problems in the scheme”.”

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/dec/13/wi...

[Ntv]

Agree it is terrible.

But much less terrible than contaminated blood

And compensation there will only come "after the inquiry" while hundreds continue to die.

The BBC are hideously obsessed by race.

[sgtBerbatov]

Ntv said:

Agree it is terrible.

But much less terrible than contaminated blood

And compensation there will only come "after the inquiry" while hundreds continue to die.

The BBC are hideously obsessed by race.

Race obsession works both ways. And this isn't a question of race really is it? It's a case of a group of people, promised a better life by the leaders of the commonwealth, who gave the country the best years of their youth doing all sorts of st jobs the indigenous population couldn't be arsed to do, to be then be told after 50 years to GTFO of the country and go back to where they come from even though they have every right to be in this country. All because some dopey prat at the home office destroyed their documents and tried to cover it up to save their own worthless ass.

PH is hideously obsessed by race, and whataboutisms.

[bitchstewie]

sgtBerbatov said:

Race obsession works both ways. And this isn't a question of race really is it? It's a case of a group of people, promised a better life by the leaders of the commonwealth, who gave the country the best years of their youth doing all sorts of st jobs the indigenous population couldn't be arsed to do, to be then be told after 50 years to GTFO of the country and go back to where they come from even though they have every right to be in this country. All because some dopey prat at the home office destroyed their documents and tried to cover it up to save their own worthless ass.

PH is hideously obsessed by race, and whataboutisms.

Nail on head.