“Mi sento tradito dalla Gran Bretagna”: la vittima dello scandalo Windrush ritorna finalmente nel Regno Unito dopo 27 anni in Polonia
“I feel betrayed by Britain”: Windrush scandal victim finally returns to UK after 27 years in Poland
di coffeewalnut08
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On which passport did he travel to Poland for work in 1997??
Virtually everyone caught up in the windrush “scandal” never applied for the British passport they were entitled too instead choosing to renew a Carribbean island passport..and that’s why they got caught up in re-entry issues and right to work issues..
Gosh, the UK just cannot do anything right at the moment. We can’t deport the people who shouldn’t be here, and the people who have a very legitimate claim to be here (such as this fellow) has an absolute nightmare.
I don’t get it, where is the logic in refusing an established English teacher, yet wanton muslim men from small boats with no idea about who they are, where they are from, their criminal history or ideological allegiance, out comes the red carpet.
You couldn’t make it up.
The windrush generation is incredible small, how can their still be stories? My grandparents died decades ago. Black Caribbean’s are one of smallest minority populations in the UK.
In laws are Jamaican, this was not a problem if you got your paperwork in order.
feels so betrayed he fought to come back… must be a grift available
My best friend had some family members caught up in this. I don’t know the ins and outs but from what I understand, her aunt was born in Jamaica and came here as a baby and was given ILR. She’s never left the country and so never got a passport. When she was supposed to start dialysis, she was told that she wasn’t eligible for NHS care. I believe this was around the time of May’s hostile environment stuff.
It all kinda snowballed, but she had to prove that she’d been in the country since 1960 or 1970 something. Home office had destroyed landing slips this generation had when they first came over and a bunch of other documentation that would’ve proved her right to be here.
I’m not entirely sure how it got sorted in the end, but the family ended up having to pay privately for her to receive dialysis for a couple of years which was not cheap.
It’s honestly disgraceful that this happened in the first place. I’m not surprised but the victim blaming comments are also really sad.
You’d think the nation that birthed Alan Turing and has strict laws around data retention practices would also know not to destroy data that had not been digitised and that it could or would later need to rely on. But it would also be able to keep track of who should and shouldn’t be here.
Why comeback if you are betrayed? You dont have to
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This guy should have sorted out his UK passport back when he first needed an adult passport – why did he choose to get a Jamaican one but not a UK one back in 1971?
I do have a little bit of sympathy – legally he was in the clear – but only a little bit, if you know you can’t get a British passport and you know the rules of ILR, why would you use a different passport to travel to Poland and then overstay and work there illegally for 2 years? That is some crazy level of “I’m sure it’ll be fine” thinking.
(That last part is mentioned in the Guardian article on the same thing https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/aug/18/windrush-victim-allowed-return-uk-28-years-george-lee – “Throughout his time in Poland he was undocumented” i.e. illegal)
The comments is a reminder of why I feel deep disgust towards a lot of you.
Zero integrity.