May Day! May Day! Windrush Scandal Victims Also Victims Of Ombudsman Services' Broken Soution. (48)
To: The Leader of the House of Commons / The Business Secretary / The Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government and the Home Secretary:
Ombudsman Services Part 4: The Full English Cover-Up.(48)
48) May Day! May Day! Windrush Scandal Victims Also Victims Of Ombudsman Services' Broken Solution!
Dear Mrs Leadsom, Mr Clark, Mr Brokenshire and Mr Javid,
Action from a department run by you, Mr Javid, will be a welcome change.
When you were the Business Secretary and had, "a close and continuing relationship" with Ombudsman Services we sent your department hundreds of emails in an attempt to alert you to this ADR's, "broken solution." But no one wrote, no one phoned. There was no action on the part of you or your department..
Javid pledges to urgently 'do right' by Windrush generation
New home secretary tries to get on top of problem that led to exit of his predecessor Amber Rudd
The Guardian's Pippa Crerar Deputy political editor wrote:
People protest in solidarity with the Windrush generation outside parliament. Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA
Sajid Javid has vowed to “do right” by the Windrush generation as the government tries to get to grips with the scandal that led to the departure of his predecessor. The home secretary, who was appointed on Monday morning after Amber Rudd stood down, told MPs it “should never have been the case” that immigrants from across the Commonwealth faced problems proving their status. Flanked by the foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, and the Cabinet Office minister, David Lidington, Javid said he was “personally committed” to rectifying the difficulties Commonwealth immigrants have had to deal with and would continue to resolve problems as a “matter of urgency”. It is reassuring that as the new Home Secretary you are, "personally committed" to the resolution of the difficulties faced by Commonwealth immigrants and will deal with them as a, "matter of urgency."
As Business Secretary 2015-16 you would have been aware surely of Ombudsman Services' Broken Solution. Q. Mr Javid, how many of the Windrush generation were to become victims of Ombudsman Services' "Broken Solution?" Q. Mr Javid, we sent you hundreds of emails regarding the plight of British consumers who had become victims Ombudsman Services' "broken solution" but you didn't respond. Why didn't you respond? Q. Mr Javid, was it because a) you were orchestrating a cover-up of the Broken Solution or b) RICS "politically influenced" and "engaged" civil servants not passing on our emails and not passing on data on their monitoring of this scheme's performance in mishandling complaints?
Either way it's still a Double Whammy for those from the Windrush generation.
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Windrush citizens: 'It's like having your world torn apart' – video In his first outing in the role, the home secretary acknowledged that Rudd’s departure after admitting she had “inadvertently” misled MPs over targets for the enforced removal of illegal immigrants was not enough to draw a line under the scandal. Q. Mr Clark, when the government assured consumers that the Ombudsman Services:Property ADR scheme would ensure, "speed" and "fair" redress, were they, "inadvertently" misleading the British public? “Of course, it’s not just about personnel change; it’s also about action, and that’s exactly what you’ll be seeing from my department,” he said. Javid said he had asked to see details of the internal targets. Q. Mr Javid, when (and in contravention of The Ombudsman Association and OFT's requirements) Ombudsman Services failed to produce the data needed by government to monitor the scheme's effectiveness, why didn't ask to see those internal targets? Despite Downing Street saying it had no plans to diverge from current immigration policy, Javid pledged to look “very carefully” at the existing system after he was called upon to deliver a radical rethink. Q. Mr Javid, why didn't you look, "very carefully" at the at the existing Ombudsman Services ADR scheme which according to DJS Research was already, "broken"
“We do need to make sure that … the immigration system behaves more humanely, in a more fair sense … rather than just asking for a piece of paper to prove everything, and I will be looking at it very carefully,” he said. Q. Mr Javid, isn't a government approved and monitored ADR that is, "broken" behaving, "inhumanely" and in an, "unfair sense?" Q. Mr Javid, why should the British public have any confidence in your ability to look at anything closely given your previous track record? He disowned the name of the “hostile environment” strategy, as Rudd had begun to do before she stood down, although not the policy itself. “The phrase ‘hostile’ is not a phrase I’m going to use; it’s a compliant environment. The terminology is, I think, incorrect. It’s a phrase I think is unhelpful and it doesn’t represent our values as a country,” he said. Q. Mr Javid, how would you describe the environment at the BIS Department when you were in charge when it came to consumers' complaints - "farcical," "inept," "colluding," "corrupt" or all four? However, Javid repeated the prime minister’s message that while dealing with all the problems thrown up by the Windrush scandal, it was right for the government to continue to focus on tackling illegal immigration. In response to an urgent question from Labour, he told MPs: “I myself am a second generation migrant. Like the Caribbean Windrush generation, my parents came to this country from the Commonwealth in the 1960s. They too came to help rebuild this country. “So when I heard that people who are outstanding pillars of their community were being impacted simply for not having the right documents to prove their legal status in the UK, I thought it could be my mum, my brother, my uncle – even me. Q. Mr Javid, when Ombudsman Services handed out their Broken Solutions like confetti it could well have been to those outstanding pillars of their communities - so why didn't you intervene and do something about it? “That’s why I am so personally committed and invested to resolving the difficulties faced by the people of the Windrush generation, who have built their lives here and contributed so much.”
The shadow home secretary, Diane Abbott, called on the government to commit to reinstating protections for Commonwealth immigrants that were removed by May in 2014 when she was home secretary.
“The Windrush generation was my parents generation. I believe and most British people believe that they have been treated appallingly. He will be judged not on the statements he makes this afternoon, but by what he does to make the situation right and get justice for them,” she said.
Mr Javid also needs to be judged on his previous performance on how he dealt with people who had been treated appallingly and handing someone a Broken Solution is most definitely, treating them appallingly. Q. Mr Javid, in "For Clarity Attempt 412" we sought to raise the issue of the Ombudsman Services:Property Ombudsman - "Great Myths of the Early 21st Century: The Independence of the Ombudsman." If you have intervened in 2016 wouldn't have prevented nearly 90% of property complainants being dissatisfied with their Broken Solution in 2017? Yvette Cooper, the chairwoman of the home affairs select committee, urged Javid to look again at the broader immigration system, saying it was about the “fair type of country we want to be”.
One of our last attempts to raise the Broken Solution issue with you was about the kind of unjust society we rapidly becoming thanks to your government's awesome ability to turn a blind eye to farcical ombudsman schemes: Or - The Full English Cover-Up. Q. Mr Javid, in Blog 495 we tried asking you: "when people cry for help and take their complaints to Ombudsman Services only to have them maladministered by executives on excessive salaries does this not demonstrate conclusively that private civil justice is a con and dispossesses people both of their right to justice and what little wealth they have?" Meanwhile, the Home Office was said to have launched at least four separate internal inquiries, including how documents relating to the Windrush scandal were leaked to the Guardian. Earlier, Javid said his “most urgent task” was to make sure people caught up in the Windrush debacle were treated with “decency and fairness”, as he arrived at the Home Office on the first day of his new role.
Mr Javid, ensuring justice for individuals in receipt of an Ombudsman Services' Broken Solution was not one of your, "most urgent tasks" when you were Business Secretary otherwise you would have done something about it but you didn't. Whether they were treated with, "decency an fairness" was immaterial otherwise you would have done something about it but you didn't.
Surely, a Business Secretary who didn't know about the Ombudsman Services' Broken Solution shouldn't have been Business Secretary, and one who did know about their appalling Broken Solution but did nothing about it shouldn't have been Business Secretary.
Yours sincerely, Steve Gilbert - Workstock Number - 510458.
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