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jazzy_daveAmelia Gentleman "The Windrush Betrayal: Exposing the Hostile Environment" (Guardian Faber Publishing)
This shocking book has made me ashamed of being a British citizen.
Amelia Gentleman's account of the 'hostile environment' and its impact on the Windrush generation is an outstanding piece of investigative journalism. It will change forever my perception of the society I have lived in for over sixty years. I was saddened, shocked, and sickened by what I read. The behaviours of Ministers and home office officials which led to and perpetuated this scandal were simply not consistent with the values of the society I thought I was living in.
It shows the Tory government’s hidden agenda which smacks of a system of institutional racism from politicians to civil servants, knowing people who are directly affected by this and the runaround they have been given and impossible actions required of them to prove that our Brits citizens.
This book is a must-read, especially for those who believed that we live in a fair, open, and caring society that has made steady progress in addressing the racial discrimination which was clearly present when I was born here all those years ago. The silent majority needs to understand and make its voice heard.
This shocking book has made me ashamed of being a British citizen.
Amelia Gentleman's account of the 'hostile environment' and its impact on the Windrush generation is an outstanding piece of investigative journalism. It will change forever my perception of the society I have lived in for over sixty years. I was saddened, shocked, and sickened by what I read. The behaviours of Ministers and home office officials which led to and perpetuated this scandal were simply not consistent with the values of the society I thought I was living in.
It shows the Tory government’s hidden agenda which smacks of a system of institutional racism from politicians to civil servants, knowing people who are directly affected by this and the runaround they have been given and impossible actions required of them to prove that our Brits citizens.
This book is a must-read, especially for those who believed that we live in a fair, open, and caring society that has made steady progress in addressing the racial discrimination which was clearly present when I was born here all those years ago. The silent majority needs to understand and make its voice heard.
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