>Acknowledging that the subject was “a matter of legitimate public interest” and that “openness and transparency” were important, the request was nevertheless rejected on the grounds that the Home Office’s response to the Windrush scandal included “sensitive issues involving the development of policies”. Publication of the document could “inhibit discussions and the ability of ministers to take free and frank advice”.
They do come out with the most outrageous excuses in order to hide the shite they are up to. They don’t release because if they do it will inhibit racist discussion with the racist advice they want, and they can’t have that.
In other words:
Report was made up so they would not be so burdened by the baggage they carry around and they don’t trust it because they be so burdened by the baggage they carry around.
>The report also cites a letter from the prime minister of the Federation of the West Indies, Sir Grantley Adams, to the Conservative prime minister Harold Macmillan. Sir Grantley protested that “Britain has begun to take steps which are no different in kind to the basis on which the system of apartheid in South Africa is based” by introducing the 1962 Commonwealth Immigrants Act.
British political parties are racist, never! Next you’ll be telling me water is wet and the government wants to help us out……
If people were living in Britain for 30 years could they not apply for citizenship. ??
Also led to 30 years of Guardian headlines.
>The 52-page analysis by an unnamed historian, which has been seen by the Guardian, describes how “the British Empire depended on racist ideology in order to function”, and sets out how this affected the laws passed in the postwar period.
lol.
Hilarious.
Yes the UK is just so racist…
A third of kids are from a non-British background in the UK.
And the cabinet is very non-white last time I looked.
What planet are these people on?
Oops didn’t see this was already posted
> Exclusive: legislation has been designed to reduce the UK’s non-white population, according to leaked government paper
> The origins of the Windrush scandal lay in 30 years of racist immigration legislation designed to reduce the UK’s non-white population, according to a leaked government report.
>The stark conclusion was set out in a Home Office commissioned paper that officials have repeatedly tried to suppress over the past year.
>The 52-page analysis by an unnamed historian, which has been seen by the Guardian, describes how “the British Empire depended on racist ideology in order to function”, and sets out how this affected the laws passed in the postwar period.
> It concludes that the origins of the “deep-rooted racism of the Windrush scandal” lie in the fact that “during the period 1950-1981, every single piece of immigration or citizenship legislation was designed at least in part to reduce the number of people with black or brown skin who were permitted to live and work in the UK”.
>It finds that the scandal was caused by a failure to recognise that changes to British immigration law over the past 70 years had a more negative impact on black people than on other racial and ethnic groups.
>“As a result, the experiences of Britain’s black communities of the Home Office, of the law, and of life in the UK have been fundamentally different from those of white communities,” the report states. “Major immigration legislation in 1962, 1968 and 1971 was designed to reduce the proportion of people living in the United Kingdom who did not have white skin.”
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> Wendy Williams, the independent inspector advising the Home Office on what changes to make after Windrush, said in March that she was “disappointed” the report had not been published a year after officials had signed off on it. It has been made available to staff internally, but requests for it to be made public have been repeatedly rejected.
>A freedom of information request about the document was refused. Acknowledging that the subject was “a matter of legitimate public interest” and that “openness and transparency” were important, the request was nevertheless rejected on the grounds that the Home Office’s response to the Windrush scandal included “sensitive issues involving the development of policies”. Publication of the document could “inhibit discussions and the ability of ministers to take free and frank advice
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>Acknowledging that the subject was “a matter of legitimate public interest” and that “openness and transparency” were important, the request was nevertheless rejected on the grounds that the Home Office’s response to the Windrush scandal included “sensitive issues involving the development of policies”. Publication of the document could “inhibit discussions and the ability of ministers to take free and frank advice”.
They do come out with the most outrageous excuses in order to hide the shite they are up to. They don’t release because if they do it will inhibit racist discussion with the racist advice they want, and they can’t have that.
In other words:
Report was made up so they would not be so burdened by the baggage they carry around and they don’t trust it because they be so burdened by the baggage they carry around.
>The report also cites a letter from the prime minister of the Federation of the West Indies, Sir Grantley Adams, to the Conservative prime minister Harold Macmillan. Sir Grantley protested that “Britain has begun to take steps which are no different in kind to the basis on which the system of apartheid in South Africa is based” by introducing the 1962 Commonwealth Immigrants Act.
British political parties are racist, never! Next you’ll be telling me water is wet and the government wants to help us out……
If people were living in Britain for 30 years could they not apply for citizenship. ??
Also led to 30 years of Guardian headlines.
>The 52-page analysis by an unnamed historian, which has been seen by the Guardian, describes how “the British Empire depended on racist ideology in order to function”, and sets out how this affected the laws passed in the postwar period.
lol.
Hilarious.
Yes the UK is just so racist…
A third of kids are from a non-British background in the UK.
And the cabinet is very non-white last time I looked.
What planet are these people on?
Oops didn’t see this was already posted
> Exclusive: legislation has been designed to reduce the UK’s non-white population, according to leaked government paper
> The origins of the Windrush scandal lay in 30 years of racist immigration legislation designed to reduce the UK’s non-white population, according to a leaked government report.
>The stark conclusion was set out in a Home Office commissioned paper that officials have repeatedly tried to suppress over the past year.
>The 52-page analysis by an unnamed historian, which has been seen by the Guardian, describes how “the British Empire depended on racist ideology in order to function”, and sets out how this affected the laws passed in the postwar period.
> It concludes that the origins of the “deep-rooted racism of the Windrush scandal” lie in the fact that “during the period 1950-1981, every single piece of immigration or citizenship legislation was designed at least in part to reduce the number of people with black or brown skin who were permitted to live and work in the UK”.
>It finds that the scandal was caused by a failure to recognise that changes to British immigration law over the past 70 years had a more negative impact on black people than on other racial and ethnic groups.
>“As a result, the experiences of Britain’s black communities of the Home Office, of the law, and of life in the UK have been fundamentally different from those of white communities,” the report states. “Major immigration legislation in 1962, 1968 and 1971 was designed to reduce the proportion of people living in the United Kingdom who did not have white skin.”
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> Wendy Williams, the independent inspector advising the Home Office on what changes to make after Windrush, said in March that she was “disappointed” the report had not been published a year after officials had signed off on it. It has been made available to staff internally, but requests for it to be made public have been repeatedly rejected.
>A freedom of information request about the document was refused. Acknowledging that the subject was “a matter of legitimate public interest” and that “openness and transparency” were important, the request was nevertheless rejected on the grounds that the Home Office’s response to the Windrush scandal included “sensitive issues involving the development of policies”. Publication of the document could “inhibit discussions and the ability of ministers to take free and frank advice
Anyone have the actual document?