A Tory MEP said this about the Windrush scandal and these are the only 8 responses you need
Here’s what Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan had to say about the whole Windrush affair, the scandal which even the Daily Mail thought was outrageous.
Here's an unpopular opinion on the #Windrush affair. You could say, the system worked. A newspaper unearthed a scandal (well done @ameliagentleman). Pundits & politicians unanimously decried the injustice. Ministers listened and changed policy. That's what's meant to happen, no?
— Daniel Hannan (@DanielJHannan) April 16, 2018
And here are the only 8 replies you need.
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Couldn’t you apply that formula to any wrongdoing? Is your view on Watergate that it was all okay because in the end Nixon resigned? Surely these things are not supposed to happen in the first place?
— Tom Miles (@tgemiles) April 16, 2018
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No, you blown egg diorama, the system is designed purposely to make *access to justice* really arduous. That’s why it takes a massive media outcry to fix it, and why many people fall through the cracks when we don’t happen to be looking.
— iucounu (@iucounu) April 16, 2018
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Yeah the UK Gov should always wait for the media to uncover wrongs done by the UK Gov before acting 🙄
WTactualF is wrong with you?
Do you not get that the UK Gov shouldn’t be deporting Windrush Generation in the first place— Sarah #FBPE (@SarahLeeNotCake) April 16, 2018
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Why don’t you ask Albert Thompson about this? The man who has been asked to pay £54,000 for his cancer treatment? Or Michael Braithwaite? Who lost his teaching assistant job because of this. Why not ask them if “the system worked”? pic.twitter.com/jBjX0IAQtX
— Martin Belam (@MartinBelam) April 17, 2018
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You could say, this tweet worked. Pundits and politicians decried it. Everyone then moved on and forgot about it. That’s what’s meant to happen, no? pic.twitter.com/n3FKxxWvaV
— Henry Mance (@henrymance) April 17, 2018
To conclude …
No. What’s meant to happen is that a system is designed where this cannot and will not happen.
— HullRePublic (@HullRePublic) April 16, 2018
And where in this imperfect world does such a flawless system exist?
— Daniel Hannan (@DanielJHannan) April 16, 2018
You don’t need perfection. The system doesn’t need to be flawless to avoid this sort of shameful episode. Competent. Decent. Reasonable.
All of those would be fine.
— Adam Porte (@AdamPorte) April 16, 2018
