Stella Creasy: ..., but let me give him some advice: whether the term is “hostile” or “compliant”, it is deeds not words that matter in this place. Three families who came to my surgery at the weekend have Windrush generation family members who have been deported from this country, so he has to be aware that there is a serious issue with deportation. He has told us how many people have called the...
Stella Creasy: ...of State for the Home Department, what information his Department holds on the number of people scheduled for removal to Nigeria and Ghana on 28 March 2017 who were eligible for assistance under the Windrush scheme.
Stella Creasy: ...is a Government who cannot organise a tailback on the M20. They are presiding over a shortage of nurses while stockpiling fridges. They are alienating our EU citizen neighbours while deporting our Windrush families. They are a Government obsessed with what stickers are on the Speaker’s wife’s car while ignoring pleas for help with issues such as knife crime. The roll call goes on and...
Stella Creasy: ..., the UK has always been unwelcoming and always regretted it. Indeed, it was the same with the Huguenots, the wave of refugees that brought both my family and Nigel Farage’s family here. When the Windrush generation came, they were met with “no blacks, no Irish, no dogs”. Now we rightly honour their contribution to our communities. We have demonised those who have come from Europe...
Stella Creasy: ...when wrongs come to light, they will be righted. The challenge she faces is that the track record of recent decades is not good. It is not just about the Horizon scandal, but the nuclear veterans, Windrush, the Women Against State Pension Inequality Campaign, the infected blood scandal and Grenfell. Time and again, it is the compensation schemes that become the story and a source of...