David Lammy’s Windrush speech went viral because it was so devastating
Labour MP David Lammy’s attack on the government’s treatment of the Windrush generation has gone viral because it was so devastating.
The government has apologised after many immigrants who arrived from the Commonwealth decades ago as children have been told they are here illegally.
Lammy, the Labour MP for Tottenham, said it was a ‘national day of shame’ for the government and said prime minister and former Home Secretary Theresa May was to blame for a climate of far-right rhetoric.
Absolute fury from @DavidLammy over #windrush here pic.twitter.com/Ywqf77gCDb
— Alan White (@aljwhite) April 16, 2018
When my parents came here they arrived as British citizens. This has come about because of the hostile environments policy begun by Theresa May. If you lie down with dogs then you get fleas. This is where so much anti-immigrant rhetoric gets us #Windrush pic.twitter.com/qTF3Va5dq9
— David Lammy (@DavidLammy) April 16, 2018
There’s a longer version of the speech here.
When my parents came here they arrived as British citizens. This has come about because of the hostile environments policy begun by Theresa May. If you lie down with dogs then you get fleas. This is where so much anti-immigrant rhetoric gets us #Windrush pic.twitter.com/qTF3Va5dq9
— David Lammy (@DavidLammy) April 16, 2018
Don't be too hard on Theresa May for the ‘hostile environment' cruelty to Windrush and other immigrants. The real culprit is the woman who brought in the policies as Home Secretary between 2010 and 2016.
— David Schneider (@davidschneider) April 16, 2018
This is just brilliant and heartfelt rhetoric from @DavidLammy. My grandparents came here too. If we’re not British, I don’t know what we are.
— Victoria Coren M. (@VictoriaCoren) April 16, 2018
Just imagine, for a moment, that @DavidLammy was the leader of the opposition.
— Eddie Marsan #FBPE (@eddiemarsan) April 16, 2018
