Look just be honest. All at Westminster are at fault. They are all utter fools.
However, the documentation wasn't needed for citizens in 2009/2010. Nobody lost their job, their driving licence, their home, their liberty, or their freedom to come and go from this country. It was Tezza's subsequent changing of the rules (2012/2014?) which brought Commonwealth citizens into the category of immigrants who needed checking up on which put them firmly in the firing line. By which time of course any help those documents could have given were gone.
Tezza's policy was racist, pure and simple, and not only that but a money making scheme out of black people.
Be honest, Tezza's smug rebuttal simply doesn't wash.