In January 1981 the UK Government passed a new Nationality Act which effectively removed the right to British citizenship from the People of the Commonwealth who had previously been classed as British citizens. The British government did not remove the rights and privileges of White Commonwealth Citizens such as Australians, Canadians and South Africans.

The British Nationality Act of 1981 removed the automatic right of citizenship to people of colour born in Britain. People from the Commonwealth had to make applications and pay fees to become naturalized citizens. They couldn't just register their citizenship anymore. The Home Office did not keep a record of those granted leave to remain or issue any paperwork confirming leave to remain. The British Home Office then harassed, victimize and violated the civil rights of certain Commonwealth Citizens. This discrimination was based on race and national identity.

New changes to immigration law in 2012 required people to have documentation to work, rent a property, or receive benefits. The discrimination against the certain Commonwealth Citizens continues up to today and the present Windrush Compensation Scheme just adds insult to injury, by offering fixed payouts as little as £200.

The Guardian Newspaper Reports Windrush Compensation Scheme is Inadequate

The Windrush Compensation Scheme is supposed to compensate every Commonwealth citizen, who have lived in the UK since 1988, but were wrongly targeted by immigration enforcement. Some Home Office officials have claimed at least 15,000 may have a right to compensation for being wrongly detained, deported, forced out of their job, homes, or losing access to benefits and health services.

Two hundred million pounds will NOT compensate the many thousands Commonwealth citizens, their spouses and their children still living here in the UK and overseas, for the losses they suffered after being wrongly classified as illegal immigrants. Victims of the Windrush scandal still homeless today and many have died.

No legal assistance has been provided for the individuals, who are most likely be in their 60's – 80's to make compensation claim and the people who are least likely to have the skills to fill out the documents will miss out on their share of the compensation. This is discrimination against the vulnerable Windrush claimants, who need compensation the most.

            THE WINDRUSH COMPENSATION SCHEME IS INADEQUATE

The Windrush compensation scheme guidelines state that the victims will receive a £500 if they were blocked from attending university.

The Windrush scheme offers only £500 to the victim was denied NHS healthcare.

The Windrush scheme will pay £200 if the victim was unable to access banking services as a result of the discrimination.

Two hundred million pounds will not compensate for extortionate immigration fees, harassment and intimidation, cruelty and mistreatment of vulnerable men, women and children, loss of earnings, mental trauma and deliberate destruction of the landing documents. The new Home Secretary Sajid Javid, who was the former Managing Director at the Deutsche Bank, is clearly aware that two hundred million is inadequate and Mr Javid is therefore incompetent to decide on compensation. It can't be left to a hostile parties, to decide how they want to resolve the situation and compensate the Windrush Generation. That doesn't make any sense at all. Compensation is a matter for the High Court process and the people who worked in the government who created this hostile environment should be made to give a full and proper account, and to pay damages both restoratively and punitively, under order of a court of law.

This petition will ask the Government to:

1) Increase the grossly inadequate two hundred million pound Windrush Compensation Scheme Payout tenfold, to a total two billion pounds.

2) Provide additional funds for legal assistance for all individuals, applying to scheme, especially those in their 60's – 80's and who do not have the skills to fill out the documents to make compensation claim.

3) Ask that the Home Office requests the former Managing Director at the Deutsche Bank and  current Home Secretary Sajid Javid revise his hopelessly inadequate decision on compensation, with regard to the Windrush Compensation Scheme.

4) The Home Office issues a statement explaining exactly what was agreed between Prime Minister Theresa May and Andrew Holmes and other Caribbean Heads of State in April 2018.

5) The Government addresses the issue of the inadequate Windrush Compensation deal, expediently, simply and plainly, without complicated, confusing and lengthy public consultations documents.

We need 100,000 signatures, to bring this petition into the House of Commons and start to fix Britain's two tiered immigration policy and help make the Windrush Compensation Scheme fair and accessible for everyone.

UK law prohibit discrimination against people of colour, in Education, Employment, Housing, Government benefits and Services and Health Care services. The Prime Minister Theresa May admitted that it was the Commonwealth citizens who built Britain. Every person who has been victimized has the right to take Theresa May, Amber Rudd and all those involved in this terrible scandal to court under the Equality Act 2010 and receive decent compensation. Increasing the compensation tenfold would mean that a person who was denied treatment by the NHS, would receive, £5,000 and not £500.

Common sense will tell us, the Commonwealth, which includes Africa, India and the Caribbean has potentially hundreds of thousands of (undocumented) victims. The Government has also failed to explain to the Windrush Generation that there are no “victims as a group” and under the law, any Commonwealth Citizen who has experienced injustice, or victimization and discrimination must go to court individually, to receive just and adequate compensation (see Equality Act 2010 c. 15, Part 2. Chapter 2. Other Prohibited Conduct; Section 27 (4) Victimization only applies only where the person subjected to a detriment is an individual). The Compensation being offered will not restore many of the recipients back into the position they were in, prior to the government's victimization and discrimination. The Windrush Compensation Scheme, should at the very least, compensate victims in the amount that if the recipient so chose, they would be able to afford legal representation, if they need to take further legal action. 

200 Million Pounds Cannot Compensate all the Heartbreak, Hurt and Loss

Please Sign this Petition

On behalf of the Windrush Generation attending the Hampstead, North Wembley and Chiswick SDA Churches, who would like to ask their MP's to petition Parliament about the compensation situation.  

Thank you for taking the time to read this petition.