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No disclosure restriction on Windrush victims

(81 Posts)
Ilovecheese Sun 05-Aug-18 16:10:42

Well yes, but businesses different to governments. We should know what our Govt. is doing or has done.

I agree this has received very little coverage compared to the pages and pages trying to turn people against the Labour Party.

Joelsnan Sun 05-Aug-18 16:06:30

trisher
Your post states that the victims compensation would be delayed without the NDA. It does appear that justified claims will be paid, but re-reading your post I feel the NDA is purely there to ensure genuine claims are dealt with expediently without having to confirm genuine against rogue which would delay the process.

Joelsnan Sun 05-Aug-18 16:01:42

NDA's are in common use in business.

trisher Sun 05-Aug-18 15:00:58

No it's a case of keeping quiet what an almighty mess this government made and stopping people talking about it. NDAs are only ever there to protect the offender.

Joelsnan Sun 05-Aug-18 14:44:31

Maybe its a case of protecting those entitled from those tricksters who, at the sniff of compensation become victims, just thinking of those recently charged with the same relating to the Grenfell disaster.

trisher Sun 05-Aug-18 14:40:37

Well as the media debate and pontificate over the possibility of anti-semitism in the Labour Party the government has once again taken another unspeakable decision and is asking victims of the Windrush debacle to sign Non disclosure agreements if they want an early payment. The Home Secretary told a select committee just 3 weeks ago that this wasn't happening, but it seems it is. So a government minister can lie and people who have been treated very badly can be forced to keep silent, or have to wait longer for compensation, and it barely makes the news, whereas discussions within the LP are front page. The possible suffering of some people it seems is more important than the real suffering of others.