There are many depressing/enraging things about the Windrush debacle but one that's stuck with me is the threshold you need to clear to be an "acceptable" enough immigrant that the public will support you. You need to have come over very young, been expressly invited over by the government, done years of work for the country, paid your taxes, had a British spouse and children ideally, not been back to your country of origin in 50 years or have any firm connection to it, be suffering from a disease the NHS won't treat, represented the nation in cricket perhaps ... and then, if you're lucky, the public will be outraged when they eventually find out that you've been treated brutally by the Home Office for months/years. I knew all of this, but the reminder is bitter.