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Not gonna lie I feel so bad for the future history students that are going to have to study this period in British politics. We've had four chancellors in the past 4 months. Three PMs in a year. I'm this much of a nerd and I could not tell you who's in the cabinet right now, nor am I gonna learn since they'll all be different in a week anyway.
They're gonna have to learn so many names 🤭
#british politics#crim speaks#boris johnson#liz truss#rishi sunak#kwasi kwateng#sajid javid#jeremy hunt#thérèse coffey#jacob rees mogg#uk politics
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rip sajid javid
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Black nurses have shared their experiences of racism in the workplace, as the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) commemorates the 75th anniversary of Windrush at its annual conference this week.
In June 2018, the then home secretary, Sajid Javid, commissioned the Windrush Lessons Learned review – a report reflecting on the causes of the Windrush injustices. The independent review was in response to mounting evidence that members of the Windrush generation were losing jobs, homes and access to benefits, as well as being denied NHS treatment, detained, and forcibly deported to countries they left as children.
The findings, alongside the testimonies of black British citizens affected by the hostile environment, are truly anguishing.
Wendy Williams, the HM inspector of constabularyappointed as the independent reviewer, has examined the key legislative, policy and operational decisions that led to the Windrush injustices, and spoken to those who suffered grave and catastrophic consequences from becoming entangled in the government’s hostile immigration policies.
Williams’ review draws a stark conclusion: the UK’s treatment of the Windrush generation, and approach to immigration more broadly, was caused by institutional failures to understand race and racism. Their failures conform to certain aspects of Lord Macpherson’s definition of institutional racism, enshrined in the Macpherson report into the murder of Stephen Lawrence, published in 1999.
Macpherson defined institutional racism as: “The collective failure of an organisation to provide an appropriate and professional service to people because of their colour, culture, or ethnic origin. It can be seen or detected in processes, attitudes and behaviour which amount to discrimination through unwitting prejudice, ignorance, thoughtlessness and racist stereotyping which disadvantage minority ethnic people.”
The Windrush Lessons Learned review pulls no punches in describing the failure of ministers and officials to understand the nature of racism in Britain. It shows how the government’s hostile environment immigration policies had devastating impacts on the lives and families of black citizens within the UK.
The fact that black British people who had spent much of their lives in Britain, working and paying taxes, were accidental victims of the government’s immigration policies, perfectly illustrates how the coalition and Conservative governments not only failed to adhere to existing race relations legislation, but also showed a complete lack of understanding about “indirect discrimination” – a concept accepted in legislation as far back as the 1976 Race Relations Act.
Neither that lesson of “unintended discrimination”, nor the definition of “institutional racism” from the Macpherson report, seem to have been learned by Britain’s policymakers and politicians. Not only is intent irrelevant for assessing whether policies are racially discriminatory, but race equality laws (including the 2000 Race Relations Amendment Act and the public sector equality duty) appear to have made little difference to immigration and citizenship policies affecting people from different ethnic groups.
This reveals a shocking lack of understanding of what racism is – namely that it’s not solely about intent. In April 2018, the dramatic apology by the then prime minister, Theresa May, showed a failure to understand this lesson, when she insisted it wasn’t her government’s intent to disproportionately affect people from the Caribbean in the operation of hostile environment immigration policy.
For policymakers and politicians to learn the profound lessons of the Windrush review, they must not only “right the wrongs” suffered by the Windrush generation (as well as those from other ethnic minority groups), but they must also understand how and why immigration and citizenship policies, and Home Office culture, have repeatedly discriminated against black and ethnic minority citizens over the decades.
The Windrush generation are owed a full apology – an apology that is based on understanding that their treatment wasn’t an accidental misfortune, but the result of institutional failure to understand the role of race and racism in Britain.
#Black nurses question how much has changed 75 years after Windrush#windrush#british immigration#british racism#Nurses of the Windrush#Black Nurses in UK#english racism#immigration iies#The Windrush review is unequivocal: institutional racism played its part#sajid javid
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Javid and Sunak both resign.
Feels like a big deal- certainly entertainment for the middle classes.
But what will fundamentally change?
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Finally
Some actual good news coming out of Downing Street this evening.
#UK politics#resignations#sajid javid#health secretary#rishi sunak#chancellor of the exchequer#no confidence#boris johnson#alexander boris de pfeffel johnson#fuck boris#i'm sure bozo will try to hold on as long as possible#but this could be the moment we are all waiting for
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101 Things You Should Know About the UK Tory Government
Thing 76
In Thing 67 I quoted Jeremy Corbyn who had written about the Tory plan to destroy the NHS.
“How to destroy the NHS:
Step 1. Run it into the ground with austerity
Step 2. Exploit the crisis to empower the private sector
Step 3. Abolish the principle of universal health care." (Corbyn:Twitter: 03/01/2)
I then gave some examples of how Steps1 and 2 were already being implemented but stated that we had not yet reached Step 3.
“No politician has yet come forward to openly advocate the abolition of the principle of universal health care, free at the point of use. We will have to wait and see if Corbyn is the dangerous socialist portrayed by the right-wing press, or a man with more forward vision than all of the Tory Party put together.”
This position has now changed. The senior Tory politician Sajid Javid is today calling for a two-tiered system, where the better off pay for NHS treatment, thereby ending the principle of treatment free at the point of use.
“Patients should be charged for visits to the doctor and to accident and emergency, Savid Javid has said, with the Conservative former health secretary labelling the current NHS system as “unsustainable” (LBC: 21/01.23)
Mr Corbyn has been proved right after all!
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please say boris is next
#lina lore#uk#uk politics#rishi sunak#sajid javid#spn#destiel#i'm so sorry for this it is my instant reaction to any news now
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Hahahaha sharks circling shit's going down NO Tory leader ever survives a confidence vote even if they 'win'
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can one of them just call a general election already please. the circus is running out of clowns.
#british politics#crim speaks#liz truss#jeremy hunt#boris johnson#kwasi kwarteng#thérèse coffey#rishi sunak#sajid javid#uk politics#what a week.
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end of united kingdom
#may be my magnum opus. and i'm in bed with tonsillitis rn#my own personal november 5th#uk politics#ukpol#boris johnson#sajid javid#rishi sunak#michael gove
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Clownfall 2/9
#uk politics#clownfall#boris johnson#rishi sunak#sajid javid#nadine dorries#tory scum#conservative party#shit post#coping mechanism#once upon a time#memes
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One of you should do like a ranking of cabinet resignations this year. Just for the hell of it (though maybe just a top ten).
i don't know if i can rank them all being as there were over 60 with boris johnson alone iirc... but i have to say my favourite flavour of resignation has to be when some random MP you have never heard of resigns as a trade envoy or as a junior minister and they feel the need to announce it even though everyone else is like 'i have literally never heard of you in my life'.
that being said, my favourite resignation this year has to be nadhim zahawi being appointed as chancellor only to resign 24 hours later using official treasury stationary
obviously the sajid javid/rishi sunak combo is something to be grateful for just for bringing down johnson.
javid in particular was funny like... the man who resigned in 2020 because he didn't agree with the government, only to rejoin that same government a year later and then resign because he didn't agree with... that same government
honourable mention to michael gove who, amongst the mass resignations in july, still managed to be the only minister to get sacked.
- dominique
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