The Windrush scandal is yet another example of how poorly Britain treats those to whom it owes a great debt and how twisted our bureaucratic morals are
by Sarah Vine, Mailonline;
As a saga of government and civil service incompetence, of ineptitude bordering on cruelty, of ingratitude, ignorance and failure, the Home Office’s disastrous misjudgment in relation to the children of Windrush arrivals from the Commonwealth countries takes some beating.
That said, it’s not the first time we’ve been here: a decade ago, Gurkha veterans — natives of Nepal who have served alongside British soldiers for almost 200 years, with more than 50,000 dying in service and 13 receiving the Victoria Cross — were forced to take the Labour government of the day to the High Court in order to win the automatic right to settle here.
And now, we’ve let it happen again.
This latest outrage is yet another example not only of how poorly Britain sometimes treats those to whom it owes a great debt, but also of how twisted our bureaucratic morals are.
Because, as both cases prove, it is always those who play by the rules and do the right thing who get punished — while those who act on the sly seem only to get rewarded for it.
Thus, on the one hand, you have women like Sarah O’Connor, who was interviewed in yesterday’s Mail, a hard-working 57-year-old from Dagenham, who followed her mother to Britain aged six in 1966 — and who now finds herself branded an illegal immigrant, despite having been a British taxpayer for the past 30 years.
On the other hand, you have individuals who flush their passports down the toilet and lie about their age in order to claim asylum, or take advantage of our generous welfare system to line their own pockets, or accept everything this country has to offer by way of education and healthcare before espousing extremist views and bringing death and destruction to our streets.
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