Bill Hicks
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Windrush victim and campaigner Sarah O'Connor dies aged 57, by Bill Hicks on Sept 20, 2018 18:59:12 GMT 1, One of the most prominent victims of the Windrush scandal, who spoke in parliament earlier this year to describe the severity of the problems she was facing, has died aged 57.
Sarah OโConnor was found dead at her home on Sunday morning. A postmortem will be held on Friday, but her death has provisionally been attributed to natural causes.
In March, OโConnor told the Guardian she was facing bankruptcy as a result of being classified as an illegal immigrant. At the start of this year, she was so worried about her predicament that she said she was afraid to open the front door for fear that it might be the Home Office coming to to deport her, or bailiffs arriving to remove her possessions.
She moved to Britain 51 years ago, but had struggled to make officials understand she was in the country legally. As a result, OโConnor was unable to take up a new job and was refused unemployment benefits, leaving her without an income. She spent the final year of her life trying to extract herself from a spiral of problems that emerged because of an official decision to categorise her as someone who was in the country illegally.
Although OโConnor went through a naturalisation ceremony at the end of July and was formally recognised as British, her problems continued. In the weeks before she died, her landlord had given her notice to leave and, still struggling to get work, she was having difficulty finding a new home.
One of the most prominent victims of the Windrush scandal, who spoke in parliament earlier this year to describe the severity of the problems she was facing, has died aged 57. Sarah OโConnor was found dead at her home on Sunday morning. A postmortem will be held on Friday, but her death has provisionally been attributed to natural causes. In March, OโConnor told the Guardian she was facing bankruptcy as a result of being classified as an illegal immigrant. At the start of this year, she was so worried about her predicament that she said she was afraid to open the front door for fear that it might be the Home Office coming to to deport her, or bailiffs arriving to remove her possessions. She moved to Britain 51 years ago, but had struggled to make officials understand she was in the country legally. As a result, OโConnor was unable to take up a new job and was refused unemployment benefits, leaving her without an income. She spent the final year of her life trying to extract herself from a spiral of problems that emerged because of an official decision to categorise her as someone who was in the country illegally. Although OโConnor went through a naturalisation ceremony at the end of July and was formally recognised as British, her problems continued. In the weeks before she died, her landlord had given her notice to leave and, still struggling to get work, she was having difficulty finding a new home.
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Guy Denning
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Windrush victim and campaigner Sarah O'Connor dies aged 57, by Guy Denning on Sept 21, 2018 10:18:10 GMT 1, A sad story - It seems the UK establishment wants it all ways. Come and contribute when we need you and when the wind turns (driven by an increasingly hate-filled tabloid media) nobody seems to care. It's a great pity that she couldn't live her days out settled and comfortable before she passed away.
A sad story - It seems the UK establishment wants it all ways. Come and contribute when we need you and when the wind turns (driven by an increasingly hate-filled tabloid media) nobody seems to care. It's a great pity that she couldn't live her days out settled and comfortable before she passed away.
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Windrush victim and campaigner Sarah O'Connor dies aged 57, by Deleted on Sept 21, 2018 12:20:34 GMT 1, A very sad case. I do however think the mass media is a bit two-faced about all this. One minute they are repeatedly demonising foreign migrants who, they say, are taking jobs away from British workers. Brexit was, after all, primarily about stopping foreigners coming in to this country. And then, when the government starts taking action against migrants because the general public consensus is that it should do, the media then starts howling in protest at the poor people that it targets.
A very sad case. I do however think the mass media is a bit two-faced about all this. One minute they are repeatedly demonising foreign migrants who, they say, are taking jobs away from British workers. Brexit was, after all, primarily about stopping foreigners coming in to this country. And then, when the government starts taking action against migrants because the general public consensus is that it should do, the media then starts howling in protest at the poor people that it targets.
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Guy Denning
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Windrush victim and campaigner Sarah O'Connor dies aged 57, by Guy Denning on Sept 22, 2018 12:08:46 GMT 1, I do however think the mass media is a bit two-faced about all this. There's no 'think' about it. The state of UK media, particularly in print, is execrable. Three companies own over 70% of newspaper circulation and about 80% of local press is in the hands of only five companies. It's needless to state which political direction predominates - and the general presentation of news on the subject of migration, refugees etc shows this bias excellently.
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Guy (migrant NOT 'expat') Denning
I do however think the mass media is a bit two-faced about all this. There's no 'think' about it. The state of UK media, particularly in print, is execrable. Three companies own over 70% of newspaper circulation and about 80% of local press is in the hands of only five companies. It's needless to state which political direction predominates - and the general presentation of news on the subject of migration, refugees etc shows this bias excellently.
regards
Guy (migrant NOT 'expat') Denning
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