The people that came over done so AT THE REQUEST of the UK. They were legally entitled to be here.... The people under threat have worked and paid there taxes, so don't be calling them illegal immigrants or scroungers
Yeah, thats why the conservative party is profusely apologising and trying to fix the situation, keep wasting your time though hun. This country was built with help from these people, but you're probably going to ignore that.
So you've just reversed your position, the government was previously destroying documents to try and deport people and now they're doing everything they can to keep them here. That's pretty weird. Also the country is built now, so they can return home. The Caribbean desperately needs their nation building talents!
@@maslinechachona7500than f off back there. We never needed you nor wanted you The truth is, Britain did not invite immigrants from the West Indies to come to this country, nor did they want them. It is suggested that the very first of the ‘Windrush Generation’, those who arrived on the HMT Empire Windrush itself in June 1948, had come in response to advertisements for jobs they had seen in Caribbean newspapers. This is quite untrue. From 1947 onwards, men from the Caribbean had been stowing away on ships to England in the hope of finding work. There was not enough work in Jamaica and Barbados and some of these travellers faced starvation if they remained in their own country. Following the passing of the 1948 British Nationality Act, those living in the islands of the Caribbean who wished to come and live in Britain realised that there was no impediment to their doing so. In the April 6th issue of the Jamaican Daily Gleaner, tickets to Britain were advertised on the Empire Windrush, and hundreds of people bought them with a view to settling in this country. No offers of work were made in the advertisement. The large numbers of West Indian immigrants who flocked to Britain in the 1940s and 1950s were not encouraged to come here. The truth is that they had poor prospects if they remained in their own countries and thought that they might do better in Britain. The idea that we organised or promoted this immigration and that it was advantageous to this country, is a myth that only appeared as late as the 1980s. It has now, for political reasons, become established as historical fact, and those who question it are denounced as racists.
The windrush people should all agree to leave Britain but on one condition that all bridges,hospitals, factories and all buildings they helped build be torn down to look exactly what they looked like in 1948.
Can't throw out Mother she gone died...this would be horrifying to her if she was here to hear what they are saying,but then again might not be surprise either R.i.P mum look down and help us all.
I am sorry but you are "buying" into the Myth ..I quote "In 1948, Empire Windrush, which was en route from Australia to Britain via the Atlantic, docked in Kingston, Jamaica, to pick up servicemen who were on leave. The British Nationality Act 1948, giving the status of citizenship of the United Kingdom and Colonies (CUKC status) to all British subjects connected with the United Kingdom or a British colony, was going through parliament, and some Caribbean migrants decided to embark "ahead of the game". Prior to 1962, the UK had no immigration control for CUKCs, who could settle indefinitely in the UK without restrictions. The ship was far from full, and so an opportunistic advertisement was placed in a Jamaican newspaper, The Daily Gleaner, offering cheap transport on the ship for anybody who wanted to come and work in the UK. Many former servicemen took this opportunity to return to Britain with the hopes of finding better employment, including, in some cases, rejoining the RAF; others decided to make the journey just to see what the "mother country" was like.[33][34] One passenger later recalled that demand for tickets far exceeded the supply, and that there was a long queue to obtain one. Th UK DID NOT have an employment crisis (which is why they allowed $1 tickets to Australia) Sorry but you really need to do your research rather than buy into this myth that is being sold that the windrush generation "built" this country after WW2 it is simply not true.
Also The truth is, Britain did not invite immigrants from the West Indies to come to this country, nor did they want them. It is suggested that the very first of the ‘Windrush Generation’, those who arrived on the HMT Empire Windrush itself in June 1948, had come in response to advertisements for jobs they had seen in Caribbean newspapers. This is quite untrue. From 1947 onwards, men from the Caribbean had been stowing away on ships to England in the hope of finding work. There was not enough work in Jamaica and Barbados and some of these travellers faced starvation if they remained in their own country. Following the passing of the 1948 British Nationality Act, those living in the islands of the Caribbean who wished to come and live in Britain realised that there was no impediment to their doing so. In the April 6th issue of the Jamaican Daily Gleaner, tickets to Britain were advertised on the Empire Windrush, and hundreds of people bought them with a view to settling in this country. No offers of work were made in the advertisement. The large numbers of West Indian immigrants who flocked to Britain in the 1940s and 1950s were not encouraged to come here. The truth is that they had poor prospects if they remained in their own countries and thought that they might do better in Britain. The idea that we organised or promoted this immigration and that it was advantageous to this country, is a myth that only appeared as late as the 1980s. It has now, for political reasons, become established as historical fact, and those who question it are denounced as racists.
They weren't BRITISH subject. That's the part your skating over. Permission was not given, it was only found out when the ship was 1/2 to port what they were carrying- NOT servicemen.
Exactly!!!!! but somehow this whole BS myth has been created .... and what is more as a group of immigrants the Windrush generati0on contributed the LEAST of any group of immigrants ... easy example , where has West Indian food become a major part of UK cusine like Indian food has?? it has not because they were not enterprising like the Indians ... I could go on with hundreds of examples @@leainokuchi9650
I am not saying they were British subjects ...... If you read my comment we are totally in agreement and I am certainly not skating over that part!!!!! are you sure you are replying to the right comment??? @@leainokuchi9650
Some days I honestly feel I've woken up in a parallel universe. To do this to tax-paying members of the Commonwealth is just vile. This government has totally lost the plot.
Have to say I have followed some of your posts on this subject. Wished all white racist people can see what you do. I salute you. That's 50 thousand votes the Tory's have lost at the next election overnight.
😂😂 The truth is, Britain did not invite immigrants from the West Indies to come to this country, nor did they want them. It is suggested that the very first of the ‘Windrush Generation’, those who arrived on the HMT Empire Windrush itself in June 1948, had come in response to advertisements for jobs they had seen in Caribbean newspapers. This is quite untrue. From 1947 onwards, men from the Caribbean had been stowing away on ships to England in the hope of finding work. There was not enough work in Jamaica and Barbados and some of these travellers faced starvation if they remained in their own country. Following the passing of the 1948 British Nationality Act, those living in the islands of the Caribbean who wished to come and live in Britain realised that there was no impediment to their doing so. In the April 6th issue of the Jamaican Daily Gleaner, tickets to Britain were advertised on the Empire Windrush, and hundreds of people bought them with a view to settling in this country. No offers of work were made in the advertisement. The large numbers of West Indian immigrants who flocked to Britain in the 1940s and 1950s were not encouraged to come here. The truth is that they had poor prospects if they remained in their own countries and thought that they might do better in Britain. The idea that we organised or promoted this immigration and that it was advantageous to this country, is a myth that only appeared as late as the 1980s. It has now, for political reasons, become established as historical fact, and those who question it are denounced as racists. Facts are important here.
SO basically, come one/ come all, if you can STAY for a while...you can then protect entitlement? Also not a good plot. Seen the US lately? 40 MILLION illegals here.....12 MILLION just invaded. ANY idea what it's like...going to a Dr.? Those in line HAVE to be served....money OR NOT. So.....services nationwide go to? THOSE THAT INVADE. Hospitals closing due to NON PAYMENT. It's going to get much much worse. Cities can go bankrupt feeding/housing/medical an entire other nation, that never put ONE DIME into it. There are limits, no matter the subject matter.
Its not true to try and make out that Britain asked the Caribbean for help. Its quite the opposite. In the late 1940s in places like Jamaica there was vast unemployment and rapidly rising birth rates. The authorities there were worrying about the possibility of real social unrest. THEY contacted Britain, and Britain felt an obligation to help.
Exactly The truth is, Britain did not invite immigrants from the West Indies to come to this country, nor did they want them. It is suggested that the very first of the ‘Windrush Generation’, those who arrived on the HMT Empire Windrush itself in June 1948, had come in response to advertisements for jobs they had seen in Caribbean newspapers. This is quite untrue. From 1947 onwards, men from the Caribbean had been stowing away on ships to England in the hope of finding work. There was not enough work in Jamaica and Barbados and some of these travellers faced starvation if they remained in their own country. Following the passing of the 1948 British Nationality Act, those living in the islands of the Caribbean who wished to come and live in Britain realised that there was no impediment to their doing so. In the April 6th issue of the Jamaican Daily Gleaner, tickets to Britain were advertised on the Empire Windrush, and hundreds of people bought them with a view to settling in this country. No offers of work were made in the advertisement. The large numbers of West Indian immigrants who flocked to Britain in the 1940s and 1950s were not encouraged to come here. The truth is that they had poor prospects if they remained in their own countries and thought that they might do better in Britain. The idea that we organised or promoted this immigration and that it was advantageous to this country, is a myth that only appeared as late as the 1980s. It has now, for political reasons, become established as historical fact, and those who question it are denounced as racists.
And just to be clear, it was companies like London Transport and some local health authorities that were contacted direct by Barbados government for them to recruit people. The British Government was not involved.
Britain did need help as it had a serious man power shortage due to a number of reasons such as having lost so much man power due to the men killed in WW2 plus the Cold War leading the national service that made Britain short of labour plus post WW2 whole British families were leaving bomb ravaged Britain with its rationing for better lives elsewhere like Australia New Zealand Canada Rhodesia now Zimbabwe and South Africa. To give just 1 small example of thus British exodus In 1946 alone the US armed forces revealed that US military personnel had brought back over 400,000 women spouses to the US to live. This figure doesn’t include any children the women already had or other Britons who emigrated to the US by other routes
They weren't "invited". Not even the British PM knew about HMT Empire Windrush (originally a nazi owned cruise liner) until she was well on her way. The Occidental Observer has an article that goes into detail how it all occurred.
It wasn't a mistake. This is the result of a long standing immigration and nationality policy due to Britain's imperial history. Back in the day, many people from the Caribbean came to the UK on their British passports had the same nationality status as someone born in mainland UK. When the British Nationality Act 1948 came into force, people born in the British Empire including people who were born in the UK became -British Subjects: Citizens of the UK and Colonies (CUKC). and had freedom of movement until 1971 -Commonwealth Immigration Act 1971 - it is an act that restricted immigration into the UK from Commonwealth nationals and CUKCs with a connection to a British colony, CUKCs born in mainland UK were given 'right of abode status' on their British passport, while CUKCs connected via a British colony did not have the right of abode in the UK, basically making Caribbean people second class British subjects. In 1981 the CUKC status was re-classed into three types of British citizenship: 1) British Citizen (born or naturalised in the UK or born overseas to a UK-born parent); 2) British Overseas Territories Citizen (born or naturalised in a British overseas territory (e.g. Anguilla, Bermuda, etc) or born overseas to a BOTC parent) and British Overseas Citizen (people who retained British citizenship after independence but without the right to stay in the UK). Windrush generation people who came to the UK lost their CUKC status when the majority of UK colonies in the Caribbean claimed independence from the UK leaving them basically stateless. No provision was made back then to clarify their British status or their right to retain their British citizenship and now this people are told to go back home because Britain is no longer an Empire and forgot that they too settled in other countries. www.gov.uk/types-of-british-nationality
They Need To Accept Responsibility As rulers of the British Kingdom and head of the Commonwealth, the Govt/Sovereign has a moral obligation to deal in good faith and act with integrity in no uncertain way. After all in this social entanglement , we - the black and brown members of the Commonwealth - who have been much maligned, marginalized and disenfranchised, have actually honored our side of the “Windrush Contract” fulfilling its intended purpose of a particular need of the British Populace . With sleigh of hand, there were certain party members in government that tried to reneg on their end of the deal and revoke our citizenship rights by forfeiture
The truth is, Britain did not invite immigrants from the West Indies to come to this country, nor did they want them. It is suggested that the very first of the ‘Windrush Generation’, those who arrived on the HMT Empire Windrush itself in June 1948, had come in response to advertisements for jobs they had seen in Caribbean newspapers. This is quite untrue. From 1947 onwards, men from the Caribbean had been stowing away on ships to England in the hope of finding work. There was not enough work in Jamaica and Barbados and some of these travellers faced starvation if they remained in their own country. Following the passing of the 1948 British Nationality Act, those living in the islands of the Caribbean who wished to come and live in Britain realised that there was no impediment to their doing so. In the April 6th issue of the Jamaican Daily Gleaner, tickets to Britain were advertised on the Empire Windrush, and hundreds of people bought them with a view to settling in this country. No offers of work were made in the advertisement. The large numbers of West Indian immigrants who flocked to Britain in the 1940s and 1950s were not encouraged to come here. The truth is that they had poor prospects if they remained in their own countries and thought that they might do better in Britain. The idea that we organised or promoted this immigration and that it was advantageous to this country, is a myth that only appeared as late as the 1980s. It has now, for political reasons, become established as historical fact, and those who question it are denounced as racists. Facts
They were not invited, they just started turning up but were allowed to stay, some were later invited in 55 onwards by Labour. Yes they helped rebuild the country and deserve British citizenship, but who's fault is it that some of them did not sort out their status?
In what way did they help to rebuild the country, exactly? We maybe could have done with them in 1945, but by 1948 Britain was just about back on an even keel.. We were even paying British citizens to emigrate to Canada and Australia....
@@johno4521 Not only that but when searching for pictures of windrush people, you can find tons of pictures of them arriving or on the boat but no pictures of them with some tools in their hands... Weird that, huh?
The Windrush immigrants were most certainly NOT invited to come to the UK, in fact the complete opposite was happening. The UK governments was trying to dissuade them from coming. They were just the economic migrants of the time Even the Windrush foundation itself documents that to be the case windrushfoundation.com/articles/empire-windrush-british-governments-and-coloured-immigration/
For anyone too lazy to read the link provided: "Empire Windrush that raise alarm Whitehall bells because there were more than 1,020 passengers on board, and the Labour Government took action to dissuade others who were planning to move to the motherland. They sent government personnel to Jamaica and they were obliged to inform potential settlers that there were no jobs for them in Britain and life would not be pleasant."
My father helped rebuild and repair the bridges of London and my mother was a nurse. Our parents were definitely invited by her majesty's request to get Britain back on its feet and we have accomplished that, now we the windrush generation are humiliated and treated with blatant disrespect 😑 . Wow wow wow 🇬🇧 UK, things will never change, that's OK, We got the message LOUD AND CLEAR
They were NOT invited by the Government - what would their rationale for that have been at a time when ex-servicemen were coming home to mass unemployment and the UK Government was actively encouraging citizens to emigrate to Australia and Canada? And how come, from all that newsreel footage from the time, including many interviews with the passengers disembarking, there is not one mention of them being invited here, or their purpose being to 'help rebuild Britain'?
@@johno4521 West Indians had been invited to come to Britain, so they also felt that it was their home too. To be discriminated against was a shock which they had not been prepared for. Some returned to the West Indies, but many remained - despite the difficulties they faced. ( this is on google) BOLD
@@johno4521 After WWII, Britain encouraged immigration from Commonwealth countries. To a large extent this was to help rebuild the country as there was a shortage of labour at the time. Windrush carried 492 migrants who were coming to a country promising prosperity and employment.( all over the internet)
@@johno4521 The Windrush Generation were invited to Britain to help rebuild the economy that had been weakened by World War Two. Some found employment easily, whereas others came up against racism and bigotry. Many immigrants who came to Britain from skilled jobs in the Caribbean could not find the kind of work they specialised in for a variety of reasons. The most common areas that men from the Caribbean found work were manufacturing, construction and public transport. Many women found jobs in the NHS as nurses. Almost all the men who came from the Caribbean to the UK had previously worked in skilled positions and possessed excellent qualifications. However, many found it difficult to find work and initially accepted jobs that they were over-qualified for. Opportunities for promotion and access to better paid jobs with more responsibility were often limited for migrants due to discriminatory attitudes of employers. However, hundreds of thousands of men and women like those featured in the video made a life here in Britain and made a huge contribution to the British economy, not only in the post-war period but across decades of work and employment. HENCE my father a highly skilled mason/builder , My mother a qualified nurse . Both trained by British professionals who lived on the islands in the early 30s.prior to arriving in the UK
What happened to these people was wrong however your initial statement that they were invited over in 1948 by the Government is completely wrong, they were fee paying passengers its ad simple as that, they were never invited by the Government . They came to better their own lives , it's as simple as that.
If these incredibly talented industrious empire building individuals had not travelled to the UK, just how marvelously awesome prosperous would the Caribbean be these days?
They were not 'invited'. They came here on a half full troop ship. I don't blame a single one of them for seeking a better life in the UK. A handful were treated in quite a despicable way and this needed to be addressed but lets not over do it.
They were invited, not by the government but by private speculators. The Windrush was a captured German Cruiseliner which was used to ferry troops back and forth between ports after the war. However, it was not actually operated by the navy but rather through a shipping conglomerate who decided to increase their profits by taking comercial customers on their return trips. The speculators filled places like Jamaica with propoganda about the better life which could be enjoyed if they paid the company to take them to London. There was no democratic choice made, it was purely an choice of the wealthy and powerful. And per the police reports of human trafficking, forced prostitution and murder the British people who never actually got to decide on this question (and never have been allowed a chance to make a democratic choice) paid the price for the profits of the rich.
@@Markus9343 Yes, it was the New Zealand Shipping Company, which at the time was controlled by E & H Isaacs, a company comprising of two J_wish brothers. The J_wish operators were given permission by the British Ministry of Transport, this man was Harry Louis Nathan, another J_w and believed to be a distant relative of the owners of the NZ shipping company. At best, it was brazen nepotistic profiteering - at worse, it was a deliberate attempt to change the ethnic homogeneity of Britain by a certain ethno-religious group, a trend which has been present across Western nations throughout modern history.
The truth is, Britain did not invite immigrants from the West Indies to come to this country, nor did they want them. It is suggested that the very first of the ‘Windrush Generation’, those who arrived on the HMT Empire Windrush itself in June 1948, had come in response to advertisements for jobs they had seen in Caribbean newspapers. This is quite untrue. From 1947 onwards, men from the Caribbean had been stowing away on ships to England in the hope of finding work. There was not enough work in Jamaica and Barbados and some of these travellers faced starvation if they remained in their own country. Following the passing of the 1948 British Nationality Act, those living in the islands of the Caribbean who wished to come and live in Britain realised that there was no impediment to their doing so. In the April 6th issue of the Jamaican Daily Gleaner, tickets to Britain were advertised on the Empire Windrush, and hundreds of people bought them with a view to settling in this country. No offers of work were made in the advertisement. The large numbers of West Indian immigrants who flocked to Britain in the 1940s and 1950s were not encouraged to come here. The truth is that they had poor prospects if they remained in their own countries and thought that they might do better in Britain. The idea that we organised or promoted this immigration and that it was advantageous to this country, is a myth that only appeared as late as the 1980s. It has now, for political reasons, become established as historical fact, and those who question it are denounced as racists.
If some of there people are illegal Immigrants have no passports id etc. Where can they be deported too. The problem is when they want to leave the UK to visit friends and family around the World. They can,t get back into the UK. The same rules apply in Canada and the USA.
What I find difficult to understand is didn't any of these unfortunate people travel out of the U.K since childhood? My parents came from Ghana around 67/68 and as soon as they possibly could do so, they applied for British passports. My relatives who moved to other European countries and the United States did the same. They knew that, once you had that book, no-one could mess with you.
And Africans weren’t asked if they wanted to be transported to the Caribbean in such number that it changed demographics of an entire continent. You also weren’t asked if you wanted to fight WW2. Which from your pov was probably a shame as it met Britain beat the side you share more with ideologically
This is such an intellectual and morally bankrupt argument I have heard in a while and it’s telling how I keep seeing repeated verbatim, likes it’s some kind of mantra that people incapable of thinking for themselves can bleat like sheep. Cringey racism The irony of yet another fan of Orwell not understanding what he was writing about or stood for.
They came here uninvited and we’re not needed as we were getting U,K, citizens to go to Australia as £10 lmmlgrants .As others have stated it was done by a shipping company to fill an empty ship .
Im grateful for everything good in my life but if there was one thing that i could change in my personal history it would be that my parents never made this journey .
We wish that too The truth is, Britain did not invite immigrants from the West Indies to come to this country, nor did they want them. It is suggested that the very first of the ‘Windrush Generation’, those who arrived on the HMT Empire Windrush itself in June 1948, had come in response to advertisements for jobs they had seen in Caribbean newspapers. This is quite untrue. From 1947 onwards, men from the Caribbean had been stowing away on ships to England in the hope of finding work. There was not enough work in Jamaica and Barbados and some of these travellers faced starvation if they remained in their own country. Following the passing of the 1948 British Nationality Act, those living in the islands of the Caribbean who wished to come and live in Britain realised that there was no impediment to their doing so. In the April 6th issue of the Jamaican Daily Gleaner, tickets to Britain were advertised on the Empire Windrush, and hundreds of people bought them with a view to settling in this country. No offers of work were made in the advertisement. The large numbers of West Indian immigrants who flocked to Britain in the 1940s and 1950s were not encouraged to come here. The truth is that they had poor prospects if they remained in their own countries and thought that they might do better in Britain. The idea that we organised or promoted this immigration and that it was advantageous to this country, is a myth that only appeared as late as the 1980s. It has now, for political reasons, become established as historical fact, and those who question it are denounced as racists. It's turned Britain into a toilet!
Do you really there’s so much trouble in shoplifting where They live the co-op has Deciding to pull out of these areas. They are losing too much money. So don’t feel too sorry for them they are quite capable of doing that themselves.
They smell bad. White people dont. I dont know any polish but they seem to be hardworking unlike the drug gang knife culture of these Jamacans......Yardies!!
Sam, you're a fucking moron. The Polish are hard workers (hence the reference to "taking jobs"), and I think it is unlikely that their children and grandchildren will make our crime statistics skyrocket like the Caribbeans.
English have screwed themselves over a guilt complex since the 50s. Uk was once great but now a defeated mixed race bunch of mongrols. Eastern europe is the new white. English are a bit too slow to realize this. Thats why their football fans get beaten up ... sins of their forefathers from the 80s.
Your government (assuming your're a Brit) has apologised to them wether you like it or not. So keep believing the delusion that is haunting you're little brain.
They were brought here due to a labor shortage after the war. You've got to remember the cities were smashed up and 300,000 of our working age men died in the war.
@@PrinceMonty153 absolute nonsense check your facts we had over a million soldiers return from the war , the windrush arrivals paid for there own passage and they were entitled to come as they were part of the empire .THEY WERE NOT BROUGHT HERE !
@@PrinceMonty153 WRONG!!!!!! "Empire Windrush that raise alarm Whitehall bells because there were more than 1,020 passengers on board, and the Labour Government took action to dissuade others who were planning to move to the motherland. They sent government personnel to Jamaica and they were obliged to inform potential settlers that there were no jobs for them in Britain and life would not be pleasant." That's from the windrush foundation website themselves
If you were not born in England and did not apply for citizenship in time you quite rightly remained a Jamaican citizen and not entitled to stay forever. Born in England of foreign parents you were a foreigner. Simple.
1971 is the pivotal year when Edward Heath (PM) and under Reginald Maudling (Home Secretary). This is not a recent mistake but going back many years. There should haven been a task force to establish at that time to sort out individuals and their status.
it is unbelievable you have a generation of people who came over and helped to build this country who children and grandchildren are helping to make this country a better place to live in being deported because of a home office mistake. Honestly it is shameful that no one in the home office or government took in consideration this generation of people when making policy decisions.
MrGoalissimo Actually, the caseworkers did. They warned against destroying the only documents they had for these people. Their management overruled them.
MrGoalissimo Government did take them into consideration. It was a deliberate attempt to remove black people from Britain. These are old people now with no value to the government since most are now pensioners.
i was generalising a bit too much i should have been more specific when pointing my accusation to the home office. I am hearing that even members of the civil service warned the government about the policy.
This is one of the lies we are constantly being told. The truth is the company that owned the Windrush advertised cheap passages to Britain to fill an otherwise half empty ship. The British Government never invited them they just showed up.
That is the point and quite rightly pointed out. However now every advert every TV show has to have black people. Jay Blades, Andie Peters, Angelica Bell, Andie Oliver. Jacqui Jospeh, Anisley Harriot, and a whole rafter of black people. The black men are really creepy they always like Ainsley have to hug females. They particualrly love Indian women like Anita Rani, Sangeeta Myskar, Sangeeta Kandola, Naga Muchetty, Razzia Iqbal, Nina Kanola Nina Hossian, Getta Pendse, actually there is a lot of Browmwomen on TV. Its like its Black men and Indain women. The only black women they show are light skinned black women. I was just watching all the dentist adverts and they are all Indian women and the same with GPs. WHen they want t real consultant that the only time they will show an Indian male. In all the 50 years I have never ever met a black medic. Yet they are always shown in professional capacities! The Indian males are all shown as old, infirmed, sick with a turban and running a corner shop. The Indian women always as hot sexy young karma sutra goddesses. They say how conquerors work is by assimilating the women stealing the cuisine. The Curry is the national dish!
paul stanley I’m not ashamed of being white English and Germany holding Dual nationality I’m excited 🤣🤣🤣it’s shame on so called Caribbean they don’t want to admit they came from Africa 🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Not all Caribbeans have African roots. There are white Caribbeans and Asian Caribbeans too. There are also Amerindian Caribbeans in some island and there are Jewish and Lebanese Syrian Caribbeans.
@@docker5468 Nope. They lied in their own video. they claimed they were invited here but the windrush foundation website says the COMPLETE opposite. Maybe do some research before you believe everything you're told in the media. "Empire Windrush that raise alarm Whitehall bells because there were more than 1,020 passengers on board, and the Labour Government took action to dissuade others who were planning to move to the motherland. They sent government personnel to Jamaica and they were obliged to inform potential settlers that there were no jobs for them in Britain and life would not be pleasant."
IInvited to the UK.? The berths on the SS Windrush are reported to have been offered at a bargain price by the shipping line to fill the berths aboard that ship bound for Britain. These passengers took the trip to improve their prospects, no more, no less.
The truth is, Britain did not invite immigrants from the West Indies to come to this country, nor did they want them. It is suggested that the very first of the ‘Windrush Generation’, those who arrived on the HMT Empire Windrush itself in June 1948, had come in response to advertisements for jobs they had seen in Caribbean newspapers. This is quite untrue. From 1947 onwards, men from the Caribbean had been stowing away on ships to England in the hope of finding work. There was not enough work in Jamaica and Barbados and some of these travellers faced starvation if they remained in their own country. Following the passing of the 1948 British Nationality Act, those living in the islands of the Caribbean who wished to come and live in Britain realised that there was no impediment to their doing so. In the April 6th issue of the Jamaican Daily Gleaner, tickets to Britain were advertised on the Empire Windrush, and hundreds of people bought them with a view to settling in this country. No offers of work were made in the advertisement. The large numbers of West Indian immigrants who flocked to Britain in the 1940s and 1950s were not encouraged to come here. The truth is that they had poor prospects if they remained in their own countries and thought that they might do better in Britain. The idea that we organised or promoted this immigration and that it was advantageous to this country, is a myth that only appeared as late as the 1980s. It has now, for political reasons, become established as historical fact, and those who question it are denounced as racists.
After the Second World War, The UK was destroyed. On top of that they had labour shortages because much of the British manpower population died in the war. Seeking to fill the labour shortages the British government invited people from their colonies in the Caribbean to work and rebuild the mainland UK
@@pickle5944 wrong on every level . We were paying our people to go to Australia. We had huge unemployment after the war and the windrush people were not invited here at all. That is a lie . They simply turned up and the labour government of the time rushed through legislation to let them stay here and in effect opened the floodgates . Research it . That's the real windrush scandal .
They were being deported at the same time as other immigrants from the middle east and eastern Europe were being let in illegally and given homes and jobs, the biggest irony of this was that all of these people were Christians all of these people spoke English now of these people were former enemies of this country but all of these peoples ancestors/parents had volunteered and fought and died for this country during the first and second world war and all of these peoples come from commonwealth countries and it is ironic that now we have left the E.U. The European Union the U.K. will now have to go back to the British Common Wealth in order to do business and gain economies after they have deported them and treated them like this in this racist and disgraceful way in front of the whole world. Further, before all this happened they were complaining that there were just far too many Indian and Pakistani people living here in the U.K. and that they wanted to reduce their numbers however now that they have left Europe the U.K. has signed a business treaty with India a commonwealth country for Goods from India however India would not accept the deal unless the U.K. allows more Indians to come to The U.K. So what actually happened here is that they kicked one group of immigrants out from here because they had rights to be here in the U.K. who the U.K. was also morally obligated to, for another group of immigrants who did not have any rights who the U.K. were not obligated to and whom at any time they could ask to leave that's what just happened and so what that says is you cannot trust the British for you can even die for them but still not belong or really be their friend the world has changed and moved on in a really weird way these last few decades and now we are all living in a new century it is not a nice place to be. Further, this move was also to try and preserve the U.K. for white people because of the failing White British and white western European Birth rate white people are becoming a dying people in that there are more old peoples in their group than there are young people to take their place and so will become overrun by other darker peoples of the world and therefore may become extinct if they do not do something. However, that Idea all came to an end when they then started fresh wars in the middle east to course economic confusion by destroying their state leadership in wars driven by the west from within their countries and this then made a huge migration from the middle east and Africa of dark-skinned peoples into The U.K and Europe who were then excepted as cheap labour one might say that they sold their soul for money?
they didn't sort out their paperwork. Bureaucracy is irritating, but there you are. Presumably plenty of people managed to sort it out before it got to this stage.
Perhaps delve more deeply and realise like many parts of the world media channels are largely propaganda. The Windrush generation invited themselves with no work or place to live in Britain
@@NoahBodze British people shouldn’t have ever shipped them to the West Indies where they lived several centuries as Crown subjects, spoke English, English names, British passports, etc.
@@petergriffin3194 You understand that black slavery in the Caribbean was an exponentially higher standard of living than anything they'd find in Africa, right stupid?
Black people were the first wave of immigration and have been the most integrated, socially, economically and most important culturally. You’ll see blacks in pubs, eating English breakfasts and so on yet they were the ones to be deported, utter shame and this was all for the sake of bringing immigration numbers down
Not only new, but some were dressed really flash and rather better than your average working class Brit. Sure makes me wonder where they got the money from to buy the gear and if they were earning money to buy flash clothing, then what were they coming here for? I can never understand why they would leave a lovely climate of carribean islands to come to an inner city dump in cold, wet Britain.
@@laaibahshahriar3473 That's a complete lie - why are you lying? From the Windrush Foundation's own website: "Empire Windrush that raise alarm Whitehall bells because there were more than 1,020 passengers on board, and the Labour Government took action to dissuade others who were planning to move to the motherland. They sent government personnel to Jamaica and they were obliged to inform potential settlers that there were no jobs for them in Britain and life would not be pleasant."
Imagine your ancestors being enslaved by Brits who invaded your country, then being shipped against their will to the Caribbean, another area invaded by Europeans, then coming to the UK with your parents to work on request of the government, growing up here, and then being told years later to "go home" to a country more foreign to you than the soil you grew up on. This is beyond disgusting, Theresa May never should have been allowed to get away with a simple apology. If I were her I would feel so much shame that I don't think I could bear to live another day, much less continue to play into the hands of xenophobes. I am frankly disgusted she ever became prime minister at all.
Imagine your African ancestors being captured and enslaved by other Africans then sold as slaves to Arabic counties ..oh wait that is still going on today.
You really should look into the salve trade history. In the 18oo's the British navy was dispatched to STOP the slave trade to the Americas & to the Arabic countries. Slavery was abolished in the U.K in the 10th. century. Although we had 6 yr. old boys in the tin mines in Cornwall, up chimneys,& in cotton mills. Get over yourselves. Dublin was a slave trade city where Brits. were sold as slaves to the Arabs etc. St. Patrick of Ireland was sold as a slave. By the way, the Arabic slavers castrated their male slaves.
@Ryan Stringer And the windrush generation were nt invited - they just turned up. It was nt until the 1950s that London transport recruited from Jamaica.
they were not invited, a privately owned shipping conglomerate who had a contract to ferry troops decided to make more money by selling berths on their ships for the return journey. It was purely a money making scheme by wealthy speculators. Stop acting like it was some democratic desicion which was reneged on maliciously you cretin.
@Ryan Stringer The British were the ones responsible for slavery in the first place, and don’t deserve credit for ending it. They ended it after years of black people revolting and resisting. And even after they ended it, they left behind racial tensions and more.
We can’t keep our border secure from new arrivals. So what’s the next step? Bully those to old and poor to put up a fight and deport OAPS. we should get all game of thrones with May!!!!! Shame Shame Shame!!!
The truth is, Britain did not invite immigrants from the West Indies to come to this country, nor did they want them. It is suggested that the very first of the ‘Windrush Generation’, those who arrived on the HMT Empire Windrush itself in June 1948, had come in response to advertisements for jobs they had seen in Caribbean newspapers. This is quite untrue. From 1947 onwards, men from the Caribbean had been stowing away on ships to England in the hope of finding work. There was not enough work in Jamaica and Barbados and some of these travellers faced starvation if they remained in their own country. Following the passing of the 1948 British Nationality Act, those living in the islands of the Caribbean who wished to come and live in Britain realised that there was no impediment to their doing so. In the April 6th issue of the Jamaican Daily Gleaner, tickets to Britain were advertised on the Empire Windrush, and hundreds of people bought them with a view to settling in this country. No offers of work were made in the advertisement. The large numbers of West Indian immigrants who flocked to Britain in the 1940s and 1950s were not encouraged to come here. The truth is that they had poor prospects if they remained in their own countries and thought that they might do better in Britain. The idea that we organised or promoted this immigration and that it was advantageous to this country, is a myth that only appeared as late as the 1980s. It has now, for political reasons, become established as historical fact, and those who question it are denounced as racists.
@@Nocturnal808 I praise you for contributing but your doing it for yourself really, ain’t you. There’s plenty of blacks doing nothing for this country but harm. You know like rioting, killing, knife crime, single parents claiming benefits. All proportionally much, much higher amongst blacks.
@@EvanEvans9 have u ever experienced living in a third world country? If u have a family would you rather get paid less than a call center agent or take the one that pays 4 times more to provide for your kids……..
They were selected for a public apology because the financial crime behind it is now irreversible. The British Government apology is an insult to victims and false as most of the UK economy and IT company scams. People like you are easily fooled by fake emotional gestures and therefore you need protection
BdaMonkey “for some reason” 🤨 they did it on purpose, they destroyed the paper trail so they could kick elderly Caribbean’s out of the country. Basically “thanks for helping us rebuild Britain all those decades, now fck off”.
I don't understand why proof of a national Insurance Number would not suffice or why these second generation migrants do not have or can't produce a UK passport. If someone has a national insurance number and the right to work in the UK I don't see how their status can be questioned. It did make me laugh however, when a second generation migrant holidaying in Jamaica and denied back into the UK for 2 years was asked if he was going to claim compensation. He had my sympathy which was however undermined when he stated he was owed housing benefit because he was on benefits at the time. The irony of needing to be available to work to claim JSA but spending weeks in Jamaica was lost on him. Also why are Indian and Pakistani migrants and second generation migrants not having issues?
they proberbley made sure the paper work was in order. if you put papers down and don't act on them this is what happens. try living in another country and not doing all the paper work you would be kicked out directly.
Why are nuanced opinions lost in the crowd? Two things can be true at the same time. British Home office truly made a grave error AND May is NOT a Racist! for being tough on illegal immigration.
sidharth97 Exactly. I want illegal immigrants out, sorry but I would tell them that Britain is getting too crowded, and whilst I admire they want to live here, its too crowded and they don't have the paperwork. Seriously its not racist. So long as they don't go after people who have every right to live here, I'm fine with it. Maybe get those extremists out that come out and in of our country too.
There was no “Jamaica” in the 50s it was still a British colony. These people were taken from their homeland (Africa) and sold and used to build the U.K. from the colony. As many or more white people from other European countries are in the U.K. these people have even more of a right to be there point blank they were looking for a way not to pay pensions
"Massive contribution" to British society by "Windrush generation"? So nothing to do with unlawful drugs, knife offences, hostility and lawlessness on British streets then?
"Racist assumes all black people are criminals. More at 11..."
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Wow......these are a people who have had a great impact on our music. I could never consider music without these dudes. Ska, blue beat, reggae etc....There would be no Music without these people they helped with the Bob Marley era. Can't forget Boy George - Culture Club and UB40.
But why they invited Jamaica and the rest of the Caribbean countries to the UK for what and they should have help them at the beginning until the end…smh
They weren't invited, that's why. You've been lied to This is from the Windrush Foundation's OWN WEBSITE: "Empire Windrush that raise alarm Whitehall bells because there were more than 1,020 passengers on board, and the Labour Government took action to dissuade others who were planning to move to the motherland. They sent government personnel to Jamaica and they were obliged to inform potential settlers that there were no jobs for them in Britain and life would not be pleasant."
The median of 18 reasonably representative samples gives us an IQ of 80 for Jamaica. This is also consistent with Samms-Vaughan (2005 ), one of the more recent and methodologically robust studies, which shows an average IQ of about 81.3 Mar 2013
Head of State in Jamaica = still in 2023 His Majesty King Charles III - so either he "fixes" Jamaica, reverses the devastation of Windrush.... OR... jamaica should tell the BRF to take a hike, and reclaim its Jamaican sovereignty. Deeply shameful.
Typical Brits considers nationality based on ethnicity and race. Obtaining a passport or being joined with them in marriage cannot erase this latent attribute. Not for the offspring of such union. Race relationship is by the reason of tolerance, and not for the immigrant to claim ownership.
Typical blacks base nationality on who is paying the lost in welfare. But congrats, you and your ilk are successfully destroying western nations. At least be happy at that.
What irritates me is that everyone is silent on the salient point THEY ARE BRITISH BY ENSLAVEMENT THEIR DATE OF BIRTH IS THE KEY AND CLUE therefore applying for citizenship was not a requirement when the law change a simple EXEMPTION should have sufficed had the Dreaded Discrimination by Race not surfaced
What we need to do is promote Theresa May, yes promote her to the level of her own incompetence, shall we say, erm Prime Minter, now for Boris Johnson ....
No denying that this is an institutional race thing. My parents, (Indians) came from Africa via common wealth immigration in the 70s. My parents have always had fully British passports. If the wave from Africa was black instead of Indian, I'm not confident the home office would've made it as simple for us. Conservative MPs may not think of race in the same hierarchical way now, but the system they work within built by there predecessors, certainly promotes that attitude.
The people that came over done so AT THE REQUEST of the UK. They were legally entitled to be here.... The people under threat have worked and paid there taxes, so don't be calling them illegal immigrants or scroungers
And now we're requesting them to leave.
No, now "you're" destroying documents and trying to ILLEGALLY deport them. Doesn't work like that hun.
Yeah, thats why the conservative party is profusely apologising and trying to fix the situation, keep wasting your time though hun. This country was built with help from these people, but you're probably going to ignore that.
So you've just reversed your position, the government was previously destroying documents to try and deport people and now they're doing everything they can to keep them here. That's pretty weird. Also the country is built now, so they can return home. The Caribbean desperately needs their nation building talents!
Yup, because they got caught. They're British citizens now been here since they were children, this is their home and all they know.
That is why I never cutoff my contact with my home country despite having british passport. U never know what gonna happen
medhanie zeweldi For a lot of people affected, this IS their country.
medhanie zeweldi well done! So should every one with the head on their shoulders
medhanie zeweldi me too home 🏡 is always the best
@@maslinechachona7500 if home is the best then go home?
@@maslinechachona7500than f off back there. We never needed you nor wanted you
The truth is, Britain did not invite immigrants from the West Indies to come to this country, nor did they want them. It is suggested that the very first of the ‘Windrush Generation’, those who arrived on the HMT Empire Windrush itself in June 1948, had come in response to advertisements for jobs they had seen in Caribbean newspapers. This is quite untrue. From 1947 onwards, men from the Caribbean had been stowing away on ships to England in the hope of finding work. There was not enough work in Jamaica and Barbados and some of these travellers faced starvation if they remained in their own country. Following the passing of the 1948 British Nationality Act, those living in the islands of the Caribbean who wished to come and live in Britain realised that there was no impediment to their doing so. In the April 6th issue of the Jamaican Daily Gleaner, tickets to Britain were advertised on the Empire Windrush, and hundreds of people bought them with a view to settling in this country. No offers of work were made in the advertisement.
The large numbers of West Indian immigrants who flocked to Britain in the 1940s and 1950s were not encouraged to come here. The truth is that they had poor prospects if they remained in their own countries and thought that they might do better in Britain. The idea that we organised or promoted this immigration and that it was advantageous to this country, is a myth that only appeared as late as the 1980s. It has now, for political reasons, become established as historical fact, and those who question it are denounced as racists.
The windrush people should all agree to leave Britain but on one condition that all bridges,hospitals, factories and all buildings they helped build be torn down to look exactly what they looked like in 1948.
Can't throw out Mother she gone died...this would be horrifying to her if she was here to hear what they are saying,but then again might not be surprise either R.i.P mum look down and help us all.
no need to do all that. the NHS would just collapse!
Well said !
@Mike Oxbigger You're deluded.
@Mike Oxbigger Your government surely went out of their way to bring people like my grandparents over to this dusty place
I am sorry but you are "buying" into the Myth ..I quote "In 1948, Empire Windrush, which was en route from Australia to Britain via the Atlantic, docked in Kingston, Jamaica, to pick up servicemen who were on leave. The British Nationality Act 1948, giving the status of citizenship of the United Kingdom and Colonies (CUKC status) to all British subjects connected with the United Kingdom or a British colony, was going through parliament, and some Caribbean migrants decided to embark "ahead of the game". Prior to 1962, the UK had no immigration control for CUKCs, who could settle indefinitely in the UK without restrictions.
The ship was far from full, and so an opportunistic advertisement was placed in a Jamaican newspaper, The Daily Gleaner, offering cheap transport on the ship for anybody who wanted to come and work in the UK. Many former servicemen took this opportunity to return to Britain with the hopes of finding better employment, including, in some cases, rejoining the RAF; others decided to make the journey just to see what the "mother country" was like.[33][34] One passenger later recalled that demand for tickets far exceeded the supply, and that there was a long queue to obtain one.
Th UK DID NOT have an employment crisis (which is why they allowed $1 tickets to Australia) Sorry but you really need to do your research rather than buy into this myth that is being sold that the windrush generation "built" this country after WW2 it is simply not true.
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The truth is, Britain did not invite immigrants from the West Indies to come to this country, nor did they want them. It is suggested that the very first of the ‘Windrush Generation’, those who arrived on the HMT Empire Windrush itself in June 1948, had come in response to advertisements for jobs they had seen in Caribbean newspapers. This is quite untrue. From 1947 onwards, men from the Caribbean had been stowing away on ships to England in the hope of finding work. There was not enough work in Jamaica and Barbados and some of these travellers faced starvation if they remained in their own country. Following the passing of the 1948 British Nationality Act, those living in the islands of the Caribbean who wished to come and live in Britain realised that there was no impediment to their doing so. In the April 6th issue of the Jamaican Daily Gleaner, tickets to Britain were advertised on the Empire Windrush, and hundreds of people bought them with a view to settling in this country. No offers of work were made in the advertisement.
The large numbers of West Indian immigrants who flocked to Britain in the 1940s and 1950s were not encouraged to come here. The truth is that they had poor prospects if they remained in their own countries and thought that they might do better in Britain. The idea that we organised or promoted this immigration and that it was advantageous to this country, is a myth that only appeared as late as the 1980s. It has now, for political reasons, become established as historical fact, and those who question it are denounced as racists.
They weren't BRITISH subject. That's the part your skating over. Permission was not given, it was only found out when the ship was 1/2 to port what they were carrying- NOT servicemen.
Exactly!!!!! but somehow this whole BS myth has been created .... and what is more as a group of immigrants the Windrush generati0on contributed the LEAST of any group of immigrants ... easy example , where has West Indian food become a major part of UK cusine like Indian food has?? it has not because they were not enterprising like the Indians ... I could go on with hundreds of examples @@leainokuchi9650
I am not saying they were British subjects ...... If you read my comment we are totally in agreement and I am certainly not skating over that part!!!!! are you sure you are replying to the right comment??? @@leainokuchi9650
Some days I honestly feel I've woken up in a parallel universe. To do this to tax-paying members of the Commonwealth is just vile. This government has totally lost the plot.
Have to say I have followed some of your posts on this subject. Wished all white racist people can see what you do. I salute you. That's 50 thousand votes the Tory's have lost at the next election overnight.
@@Tonystime_ they did also deport lots of white people if it makes you feel any better
Many were criminals and required deportation. When you invite yourself to a country you don't have a moral right to stay.
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The truth is, Britain did not invite immigrants from the West Indies to come to this country, nor did they want them. It is suggested that the very first of the ‘Windrush Generation’, those who arrived on the HMT Empire Windrush itself in June 1948, had come in response to advertisements for jobs they had seen in Caribbean newspapers. This is quite untrue. From 1947 onwards, men from the Caribbean had been stowing away on ships to England in the hope of finding work. There was not enough work in Jamaica and Barbados and some of these travellers faced starvation if they remained in their own country. Following the passing of the 1948 British Nationality Act, those living in the islands of the Caribbean who wished to come and live in Britain realised that there was no impediment to their doing so. In the April 6th issue of the Jamaican Daily Gleaner, tickets to Britain were advertised on the Empire Windrush, and hundreds of people bought them with a view to settling in this country. No offers of work were made in the advertisement.
The large numbers of West Indian immigrants who flocked to Britain in the 1940s and 1950s were not encouraged to come here. The truth is that they had poor prospects if they remained in their own countries and thought that they might do better in Britain. The idea that we organised or promoted this immigration and that it was advantageous to this country, is a myth that only appeared as late as the 1980s. It has now, for political reasons, become established as historical fact, and those who question it are denounced as racists.
Facts are important here.
SO basically, come one/ come all, if you can STAY for a while...you can then protect entitlement? Also not a good plot. Seen the US lately? 40 MILLION illegals here.....12 MILLION just invaded. ANY idea what it's like...going to a Dr.? Those in line HAVE to be served....money OR NOT. So.....services nationwide go to? THOSE THAT INVADE. Hospitals closing due to NON PAYMENT. It's going to get much much worse. Cities can go bankrupt feeding/housing/medical an entire other nation, that never put ONE DIME into it. There are limits, no matter the subject matter.
Its not true to try and make out that Britain asked the Caribbean for help. Its quite the opposite. In the late 1940s in places like Jamaica there was vast unemployment and rapidly rising birth rates. The authorities there were worrying about the possibility of real social unrest. THEY contacted Britain, and Britain felt an obligation to help.
Exactly
The truth is, Britain did not invite immigrants from the West Indies to come to this country, nor did they want them. It is suggested that the very first of the ‘Windrush Generation’, those who arrived on the HMT Empire Windrush itself in June 1948, had come in response to advertisements for jobs they had seen in Caribbean newspapers. This is quite untrue. From 1947 onwards, men from the Caribbean had been stowing away on ships to England in the hope of finding work. There was not enough work in Jamaica and Barbados and some of these travellers faced starvation if they remained in their own country. Following the passing of the 1948 British Nationality Act, those living in the islands of the Caribbean who wished to come and live in Britain realised that there was no impediment to their doing so. In the April 6th issue of the Jamaican Daily Gleaner, tickets to Britain were advertised on the Empire Windrush, and hundreds of people bought them with a view to settling in this country. No offers of work were made in the advertisement.
The large numbers of West Indian immigrants who flocked to Britain in the 1940s and 1950s were not encouraged to come here. The truth is that they had poor prospects if they remained in their own countries and thought that they might do better in Britain. The idea that we organised or promoted this immigration and that it was advantageous to this country, is a myth that only appeared as late as the 1980s. It has now, for political reasons, become established as historical fact, and those who question it are denounced as racists.
And just to be clear, it was companies like London Transport and some local health authorities that were contacted direct by Barbados government for them to recruit people. The British Government was not involved.
Britain did need help as it had a serious man power shortage due to a number of reasons such as having lost so much man power due to the men killed in WW2 plus the Cold War leading the national service that made Britain short of labour plus post WW2 whole British families were leaving bomb ravaged Britain with its rationing for better lives elsewhere like Australia New Zealand Canada Rhodesia now Zimbabwe and South Africa. To give just 1 small example of thus British exodus In 1946 alone the US armed forces revealed that US military personnel had brought back over 400,000 women spouses to the US to live. This figure doesn’t include any children the women already had or other Britons who emigrated to the US by other routes
thats it in a nutshell ...THEY owe US ..not the other way round. . . . . .!!
@@travis9062856 RUBBISH
The Windrush passengers were not invited. The govt. of the time had no idea they were coming. Get over yourselves & stop spreading lies.
You are correct. Their citizenship was not Britian ect. NOR were they invited.
They weren't "invited". Not even the British PM knew about HMT Empire Windrush (originally a nazi owned cruise liner) until she was well on her way. The Occidental Observer has an article that goes into detail how it all occurred.
It wasn't a mistake. This is the result of a long standing immigration and nationality policy due to Britain's imperial history. Back in the day, many people from the Caribbean came to the UK on their British passports had the same nationality status as someone born in mainland UK. When the British Nationality Act 1948 came into force, people born in the British Empire including people who were born in the UK became -British Subjects: Citizens of the UK and Colonies (CUKC). and had freedom of movement until 1971 -Commonwealth Immigration Act 1971 - it is an act that restricted immigration into the UK from Commonwealth nationals and CUKCs with a connection to a British colony, CUKCs born in mainland UK were given 'right of abode status' on their British passport, while CUKCs connected via a British colony did not have the right of abode in the UK, basically making Caribbean people second class British subjects. In 1981 the CUKC status was re-classed into three types of British citizenship: 1) British Citizen (born or naturalised in the UK or born overseas to a UK-born parent); 2) British Overseas Territories Citizen (born or naturalised in a British overseas territory (e.g. Anguilla, Bermuda, etc) or born overseas to a BOTC parent) and British Overseas Citizen (people who retained British citizenship after independence but without the right to stay in the UK). Windrush generation people who came to the UK lost their CUKC status when the majority of UK colonies in the Caribbean claimed independence from the UK leaving them basically stateless. No provision was made back then to clarify their British status or their right to retain their British citizenship and now this people are told to go back home because Britain is no longer an Empire and forgot that they too settled in other countries.
www.gov.uk/types-of-british-nationality
They Need To Accept Responsibility
As rulers of the British Kingdom
and head of the Commonwealth,
the Govt/Sovereign has a moral
obligation to deal in good faith and act with integrity in no uncertain way.
After all in this social entanglement , we - the black and brown members of the Commonwealth - who have been much maligned, marginalized and disenfranchised, have actually honored our side of the “Windrush Contract” fulfilling its intended purpose of a particular need of the British Populace .
With sleigh of hand, there were certain party members in government that tried to reneg on
their end of the deal and revoke
our citizenship rights by forfeiture
The truth is, Britain did not invite immigrants from the West Indies to come to this country, nor did they want them. It is suggested that the very first of the ‘Windrush Generation’, those who arrived on the HMT Empire Windrush itself in June 1948, had come in response to advertisements for jobs they had seen in Caribbean newspapers. This is quite untrue. From 1947 onwards, men from the Caribbean had been stowing away on ships to England in the hope of finding work. There was not enough work in Jamaica and Barbados and some of these travellers faced starvation if they remained in their own country. Following the passing of the 1948 British Nationality Act, those living in the islands of the Caribbean who wished to come and live in Britain realised that there was no impediment to their doing so. In the April 6th issue of the Jamaican Daily Gleaner, tickets to Britain were advertised on the Empire Windrush, and hundreds of people bought them with a view to settling in this country. No offers of work were made in the advertisement.
The large numbers of West Indian immigrants who flocked to Britain in the 1940s and 1950s were not encouraged to come here. The truth is that they had poor prospects if they remained in their own countries and thought that they might do better in Britain. The idea that we organised or promoted this immigration and that it was advantageous to this country, is a myth that only appeared as late as the 1980s. It has now, for political reasons, become established as historical fact, and those who question it are denounced as racists.
Facts
The wicked-ist thing is||| the UK got rich off Jamaica
Exactly
How ?
@Fenrir Moon 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 ,how can u be so stupid , say some more stuff please🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@winstonsmith4156 Shut up racist!
@@winstonsmith4156slavery. Do your research. Also, Jamaicans were British subjects up until 1962, then after, part of the commonwealth.
They were not invited, they just started turning up but were allowed to stay, some were later invited in 55 onwards by Labour. Yes they helped rebuild the country and deserve British citizenship, but who's fault is it that some of them did not sort out their status?
Some one who knows their history, well done.
In what way did they help to rebuild the country, exactly? We maybe could have done with them in 1945, but by 1948 Britain was just about back on an even keel.. We were even paying British citizens to emigrate to Canada and Australia....
they did nothing to help ...everything to hinder ..-steal our jobs ..take our housing etc etc ..they have destroyed our Home Land .
@@johno4521 Not only that but when searching for pictures of windrush people, you can find tons of pictures of them arriving or on the boat but no pictures of them with some tools in their hands...
Weird that, huh?
The Windrush immigrants were most certainly NOT invited to come to the UK, in fact the complete opposite was happening. The UK governments was trying to dissuade them from coming. They were just the economic migrants of the time
Even the Windrush foundation itself documents that to be the case
windrushfoundation.com/articles/empire-windrush-british-governments-and-coloured-immigration/
That sounds like too much facts for this video and the people in the comments!
For anyone too lazy to read the link provided:
"Empire Windrush that raise alarm Whitehall bells because there were more than 1,020 passengers on board, and the Labour Government took action to dissuade others who were planning to move to the motherland. They sent government personnel to Jamaica and they were obliged to inform potential settlers that there were no jobs for them in Britain and life would not be pleasant."
My father helped rebuild and repair the bridges of London and my mother was a nurse. Our parents were definitely invited by her majesty's request to get Britain back on its feet and we have accomplished that, now we the windrush generation are humiliated and treated with blatant disrespect 😑 . Wow wow wow 🇬🇧 UK, things will never change, that's OK, We got the message LOUD AND CLEAR
They were NOT invited by the Government - what would their rationale for that have been at a time when ex-servicemen were coming home to mass unemployment and the UK Government was actively encouraging citizens to emigrate to Australia and Canada?
And how come, from all that newsreel footage from the time, including many interviews with the passengers disembarking, there is not one mention of them being invited here, or their purpose being to 'help rebuild Britain'?
@@johno4521 West Indians had been invited to come to Britain, so they also felt that it was their home too. To be discriminated against was a shock which they had not been prepared for. Some returned to the West Indies, but many remained - despite the difficulties they faced. ( this is on google) BOLD
My people were used for CHEAP LABOUR to rebuild Britain after the war.
@@johno4521 After WWII, Britain encouraged immigration from Commonwealth countries. To a large extent this was to help rebuild the country as there was a shortage of labour at the time. Windrush carried 492 migrants who were coming to a country promising prosperity and employment.( all over the internet)
@@johno4521 The Windrush Generation were invited to Britain to help rebuild the economy that had been weakened by World War Two. Some found employment easily, whereas others came up against racism and bigotry. Many immigrants who came to Britain from skilled jobs in the Caribbean could not find the kind of work they specialised in for a variety of reasons.
The most common areas that men from the Caribbean found work were manufacturing, construction and public transport. Many women found jobs in the NHS as nurses. Almost all the men who came from the Caribbean to the UK had previously worked in skilled positions and possessed excellent qualifications. However, many found it difficult to find work and initially accepted jobs that they were over-qualified for.
Opportunities for promotion and access to better paid jobs with more responsibility were often limited for migrants due to discriminatory attitudes of employers.
However, hundreds of thousands of men and women like those featured in the video made a life here in Britain and made a huge contribution to the British economy, not only in the post-war period but across decades of work and employment. HENCE my father a highly skilled mason/builder , My mother a qualified nurse . Both trained by British professionals who lived on the islands in the early 30s.prior to arriving in the UK
THEY WERE NOT INVITED OVER, THEY WERE THE FIRST ECONOMIC MIGRANTS
What happened to these people was wrong however your initial statement that they were invited over in 1948 by the Government is completely wrong, they were fee paying passengers its ad simple as that, they were never invited by the Government . They came to better their own lives , it's as simple as that.
If these incredibly talented industrious empire building individuals had not travelled to the UK, just how marvelously awesome prosperous would the Caribbean be these days?
and how much lower would Britain's crime rate be. 99% lower.
They were not 'invited'. They came here on a half full troop ship. I don't blame a single one of them for seeking a better life in the UK. A handful were treated in quite a despicable way and this needed to be addressed but lets not over do it.
They were invited, not by the government but by private speculators. The Windrush was a captured German Cruiseliner which was used to ferry troops back and forth between ports after the war. However, it was not actually operated by the navy but rather through a shipping conglomerate who decided to increase their profits by taking comercial customers on their return trips. The speculators filled places like Jamaica with propoganda about the better life which could be enjoyed if they paid the company to take them to London. There was no democratic choice made, it was purely an choice of the wealthy and powerful. And per the police reports of human trafficking, forced prostitution and murder the British people who never actually got to decide on this question (and never have been allowed a chance to make a democratic choice) paid the price for the profits of the rich.
@@Markus9343 Yes, it was the New Zealand Shipping Company, which at the time was controlled by E & H Isaacs, a company comprising of two J_wish brothers. The J_wish operators were given permission by the British Ministry of Transport, this man was Harry Louis Nathan, another J_w and believed to be a distant relative of the owners of the NZ shipping company. At best, it was brazen nepotistic profiteering - at worse, it was a deliberate attempt to change the ethnic homogeneity of Britain by a certain ethno-religious group, a trend which has been present across Western nations throughout modern history.
The truth is, Britain did not invite immigrants from the West Indies to come to this country, nor did they want them. It is suggested that the very first of the ‘Windrush Generation’, those who arrived on the HMT Empire Windrush itself in June 1948, had come in response to advertisements for jobs they had seen in Caribbean newspapers. This is quite untrue. From 1947 onwards, men from the Caribbean had been stowing away on ships to England in the hope of finding work. There was not enough work in Jamaica and Barbados and some of these travellers faced starvation if they remained in their own country. Following the passing of the 1948 British Nationality Act, those living in the islands of the Caribbean who wished to come and live in Britain realised that there was no impediment to their doing so. In the April 6th issue of the Jamaican Daily Gleaner, tickets to Britain were advertised on the Empire Windrush, and hundreds of people bought them with a view to settling in this country. No offers of work were made in the advertisement.
The large numbers of West Indian immigrants who flocked to Britain in the 1940s and 1950s were not encouraged to come here. The truth is that they had poor prospects if they remained in their own countries and thought that they might do better in Britain. The idea that we organised or promoted this immigration and that it was advantageous to this country, is a myth that only appeared as late as the 1980s. It has now, for political reasons, become established as historical fact, and those who question it are denounced as racists.
Don't try to diminish their suffering by claiming "a handful" were inconvenienced. This impacted entire generations!
What about the ones invited to fight in WW2 for Britain??
If some of there people are illegal Immigrants have no passports id etc. Where can they be deported too. The problem is when they want to leave the UK to visit friends and family around the World. They can,t get back into the UK. The same rules apply in Canada and the USA.
What I find difficult to understand is didn't any of these unfortunate people travel out of the U.K since childhood?
My parents came from Ghana around 67/68 and as soon as they possibly could do so, they applied for British passports.
My relatives who moved to other European countries and the United States did the same.
They knew that, once you had that book, no-one could mess with you.
You absolutely can have citizenship revoked.
We were never asked. That's the real windrush scandal .
@AngloGirl85UK so by that definition that will be the entire political class .
The British government was against mass migration.
"They were invited over by the British Government" is false
And Africans weren’t asked if they wanted to be transported to the Caribbean in such number that it changed demographics of an entire continent.
You also weren’t asked if you wanted to fight WW2. Which from your pov was probably a shame as it met Britain beat the side you share more with ideologically
This is such an intellectual and morally bankrupt argument I have heard in a while and it’s telling how I keep seeing repeated verbatim, likes it’s some kind of mantra that people incapable of thinking for themselves can bleat like sheep. Cringey racism
The irony of yet another fan of Orwell not understanding what he was writing about or stood for.
And more to the point they were never asked to come
Are British Citizens no longer British Citizens?
@Messenger Charles yup especially the working class unfortunately the windrush generation are getting the worse of it. So sad...
@Messenger Charles pathetic answer
@Messenger Charles ok mate I bow to your superior knowledge 😂😂😂😂
special academys for sport ...No wonder all British sport teams are represented by blacks. . . ..where is our schemes etc .. ????
They're not British citizens.
They came here uninvited and we’re not needed as we were getting U,K, citizens to go to Australia as £10 lmmlgrants .As others have stated it was done by a shipping company to fill an empty ship .
Just a slight untruth that gets stated as fact, They were not invited in 1948 by the then Labour government
I have the answer. Send them all back then real British people can have their jobs fixed.
If u was born in the 50,s , under British rulership, then you are British, even if you was born aboard, u can claim technically.
Im grateful for everything good in my life but if there was one thing that i could change in my personal history it would be that my parents never made this journey .
There is something you can do. Go back to the wonderful country of your parents birth.
Most white British wish they hadn’t made that Journey so we are with you on that one.
We wish that too
The truth is, Britain did not invite immigrants from the West Indies to come to this country, nor did they want them. It is suggested that the very first of the ‘Windrush Generation’, those who arrived on the HMT Empire Windrush itself in June 1948, had come in response to advertisements for jobs they had seen in Caribbean newspapers. This is quite untrue. From 1947 onwards, men from the Caribbean had been stowing away on ships to England in the hope of finding work. There was not enough work in Jamaica and Barbados and some of these travellers faced starvation if they remained in their own country. Following the passing of the 1948 British Nationality Act, those living in the islands of the Caribbean who wished to come and live in Britain realised that there was no impediment to their doing so. In the April 6th issue of the Jamaican Daily Gleaner, tickets to Britain were advertised on the Empire Windrush, and hundreds of people bought them with a view to settling in this country. No offers of work were made in the advertisement.
The large numbers of West Indian immigrants who flocked to Britain in the 1940s and 1950s were not encouraged to come here. The truth is that they had poor prospects if they remained in their own countries and thought that they might do better in Britain. The idea that we organised or promoted this immigration and that it was advantageous to this country, is a myth that only appeared as late as the 1980s. It has now, for political reasons, become established as historical fact, and those who question it are denounced as racists. It's turned Britain into a toilet!
Completely understand
You can always leave.
Your parents weren't asked to come here by the UK.
In fact, you were told to stay.
What about the ones who already got kicked out? Can you imagine the fear and anxiety. Humans eh?
I feel shame, anger and dismay for these betrayed people
You do realise they were in fact illigal immigrants???
Foolish
Typical oppressor mentality use and then victimize and blame
Do you really there’s so much trouble in shoplifting where They live the co-op has Deciding to pull out of these areas. They are losing too much money. So don’t feel too sorry for them they are quite capable of doing that themselves.
the real Betrayed is the Native-British .......!!!
They are british.
Throw out the millions of polish people that are taking jobs instead.
They smell bad. White people dont. I dont know any polish but they seem to be hardworking unlike the drug gang knife culture of these Jamacans......Yardies!!
Sam, you're a fucking moron. The Polish are hard workers (hence the reference to "taking jobs"), and I think it is unlikely that their children and grandchildren will make our crime statistics skyrocket like the Caribbeans.
English have screwed themselves over a guilt complex since the 50s. Uk was once great but now a defeated mixed race bunch of mongrols. Eastern europe is the new white. English are a bit too slow to realize this. Thats why their football fans get beaten up ... sins of their forefathers from the 80s.
Good old Slavs. God bless Eastern Europe.
Adder Pluco you've said that in another post! Yaaawn! 😳😴
They were not invited they were economic migrants due to Caribbean unemployment
Your government (assuming your're a Brit) has apologised to them wether you like it or not. So keep believing the delusion that is haunting you're little brain.
They were brought here due to a labor shortage after the war. You've got to remember the cities were smashed up and 300,000 of our working age men died in the war.
@@PrinceMonty153 absolute nonsense check your facts we had over a million soldiers return from the war , the windrush arrivals paid for there own passage and they were entitled to come as they were part of the empire .THEY WERE NOT BROUGHT HERE !
..and ironically their presence created unemployment for native citizens . . . . . . . . ..!
@@PrinceMonty153 WRONG!!!!!!
"Empire Windrush that raise alarm Whitehall bells because there were more than 1,020 passengers on board, and the Labour Government took action to dissuade others who were planning to move to the motherland. They sent government personnel to Jamaica and they were obliged to inform potential settlers that there were no jobs for them in Britain and life would not be pleasant."
That's from the windrush foundation website themselves
If you were not born in England and did not apply for citizenship in time you quite rightly remained a Jamaican citizen and not entitled to stay forever. Born in England of foreign parents you were a foreigner. Simple.
Get rekt, racist
Hello, did you have this vidéo in french please :)
Non
1971 is the pivotal year when Edward Heath (PM) and under Reginald Maudling (Home Secretary). This is not a recent mistake but going back many years. There should haven been a task force to establish at that time to sort out individuals and their status.
Nothing is ever a 'mistake' in government, rather it is planned that way.
@@slovakbobar2821 too many chefs spoil the broth
I wonder if it's as simple as who they might be most likely to vote for?
it is unbelievable you have a generation of people who came over and helped to build this country who children and grandchildren are helping to make this country a better place to live in being deported because of a home office mistake. Honestly it is shameful that no one in the home office or government took in consideration this generation of people when making policy decisions.
MrGoalissimo Actually, the caseworkers did. They warned against destroying the only documents they had for these people. Their management overruled them.
MrGoalissimo Government did take them into consideration. It was a deliberate attempt to remove black people from Britain. These are old people now with no value to the government since most are now pensioners.
If they're too stupid to get citizenship, they're probably not worth having in the first place.
i was generalising a bit too much i should have been more specific when pointing my accusation to the home office. I am hearing that even members of the civil service warned the government about the policy.
AugustusPugin They never thought they had to. That's the point.
Ch4 is more concerned about conflating Windrush to Brexit than the actual human rights of the Windrush Generation.
This is one of the lies we are constantly being told. The truth is the company that owned the Windrush advertised cheap passages to Britain to fill an otherwise half empty ship. The British Government never invited them they just showed up.
THEY ARE NOT BRITS .
The whole world is discussing this, Britain has lost it’s credibility. The whole world is laughing at us.
Being denied health care is very british. Welcome to uk
They were never invited in the first place.
they are lazy too
how come they don't have a passport or any identification?
They were never invited. They just arrived.
That is the point and quite rightly pointed out. However now every advert every TV show has to have black people. Jay Blades, Andie Peters, Angelica Bell, Andie Oliver. Jacqui Jospeh, Anisley Harriot, and a whole rafter of black people. The black men are really creepy they always like Ainsley have to hug females. They particualrly love Indian women like Anita Rani, Sangeeta Myskar, Sangeeta Kandola, Naga Muchetty, Razzia Iqbal, Nina Kanola Nina Hossian, Getta Pendse, actually there is a lot of Browmwomen on TV. Its like its Black men and Indain women. The only black women they show are light skinned black women. I was just watching all the dentist adverts and they are all Indian women and the same with GPs. WHen they want t real consultant that the only time they will show an Indian male. In all the 50 years I have never ever met a black medic. Yet they are always shown in professional capacities! The Indian males are all shown as old, infirmed, sick with a turban and running a corner shop. The Indian women always as hot sexy young karma sutra goddesses. They say how conquerors work is by assimilating the women stealing the cuisine. The Curry is the national dish!
They were the generation that help put Britain back to what it is today and that's the thanks they get. Shame on the government.👎
Ashamed to be British 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
Crying in your kidneys and mashed peas? Oh that is sad. Someone get this person some edible food.
paul stanley I’m not ashamed of being white English and Germany holding Dual nationality I’m excited 🤣🤣🤣it’s shame on so called Caribbean they don’t want to admit they came from Africa 🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
You were on a Nigerian video making racist comments Paul Stanley.
You wrote : "Ello, wey dey come people ...."
Not all Caribbeans have African roots. There are white Caribbeans and Asian Caribbeans too. There are also Amerindian Caribbeans in some island and there are Jewish and Lebanese Syrian Caribbeans.
so very unbiased channel 4
Aren’t they just reporting the facts ?
@@docker5468 Nope.
They lied in their own video.
they claimed they were invited here but the windrush foundation website says the COMPLETE opposite.
Maybe do some research before you believe everything you're told in the media.
"Empire Windrush that raise alarm Whitehall bells because there were more than 1,020 passengers on board, and the Labour Government took action to dissuade others who were planning to move to the motherland. They sent government personnel to Jamaica and they were obliged to inform potential settlers that there were no jobs for them in Britain and life would not be pleasant."
The only mistake was not taking notice of enoch Powell
Ha ha , how you so stupid ?
Agree
export the lot of them
IInvited to the UK.? The berths on the SS Windrush are reported to have been offered at a bargain price by
the shipping line to fill the berths aboard that ship bound for Britain. These passengers took the trip to
improve their prospects, no more, no less.
The truth is, Britain did not invite immigrants from the West Indies to come to this country, nor did they want them. It is suggested that the very first of the ‘Windrush Generation’, those who arrived on the HMT Empire Windrush itself in June 1948, had come in response to advertisements for jobs they had seen in Caribbean newspapers. This is quite untrue. From 1947 onwards, men from the Caribbean had been stowing away on ships to England in the hope of finding work. There was not enough work in Jamaica and Barbados and some of these travellers faced starvation if they remained in their own country. Following the passing of the 1948 British Nationality Act, those living in the islands of the Caribbean who wished to come and live in Britain realised that there was no impediment to their doing so. In the April 6th issue of the Jamaican Daily Gleaner, tickets to Britain were advertised on the Empire Windrush, and hundreds of people bought them with a view to settling in this country. No offers of work were made in the advertisement.
The large numbers of West Indian immigrants who flocked to Britain in the 1940s and 1950s were not encouraged to come here. The truth is that they had poor prospects if they remained in their own countries and thought that they might do better in Britain. The idea that we organised or promoted this immigration and that it was advantageous to this country, is a myth that only appeared as late as the 1980s. It has now, for political reasons, become established as historical fact, and those who question it are denounced as racists.
What did the windrush gen rebuild? Genuine question.
After the Second World War, The UK was destroyed. On top of that they had labour shortages because much of the British manpower population died in the war. Seeking to fill the labour shortages the British government invited people from their colonies in the Caribbean to work and rebuild the mainland UK
@@pickle5944 wrong on every level . We were paying our people to go to Australia. We had huge unemployment after the war and the windrush people were not invited here at all. That is a lie . They simply turned up and the labour government of the time rushed through legislation to let them stay here and in effect opened the floodgates . Research it . That's the real windrush scandal .
@@winstonsmith4156 And they STILL haven't answered your question!
@@winstonsmith4156 You're just a racist trying to diminish the contribution of BLACK immigrants! They did more for the UK than you ever will!
@@pickle5944what did they rebuild ( construction).
They were not invited, check out the facts
They were being deported at the same time as other immigrants from the middle east and eastern Europe were being let in illegally and given homes and jobs, the biggest irony of this was that all of these people were Christians all of these people spoke English now of these people were former enemies of this country but all of these peoples ancestors/parents had volunteered and fought and died for this country during the first and second world war and all of these peoples come from commonwealth countries and it is ironic that now we have left the E.U. The European Union the U.K. will now have to go back to the British Common Wealth in order to do business and gain economies after they have deported them and treated them like this in this racist and disgraceful way in front of the whole world. Further, before all this happened they were complaining that there were just far too many Indian and Pakistani people living here in the U.K. and that they wanted to reduce their numbers however now that they have left Europe the U.K. has signed a business treaty with India a commonwealth country for Goods from India however India would not accept the deal unless the U.K. allows more Indians to come to The U.K. So what actually happened here is that they kicked one group of immigrants out from here because they had rights to be here in the U.K. who the U.K. was also morally obligated to, for another group of immigrants who did not have any rights who the U.K. were not obligated to and whom at any time they could ask to leave that's what just happened and so what that says is you cannot trust the British for you can even die for them but still not belong or really be their friend the world has changed and moved on in a really weird way these last few decades and now we are all living in a new century it is not a nice place to be. Further, this move was also to try and preserve the U.K. for white people because of the failing White British and white western European Birth rate white people are becoming a dying people in that there are more old peoples in their group than there are young people to take their place and so will become overrun by other darker peoples of the world and therefore may become extinct if they do not do something. However, that Idea all came to an end when they then started fresh wars in the middle east to course economic confusion by destroying their state leadership in wars driven by the west from within their countries and this then made a huge migration from the middle east and Africa of dark-skinned peoples into The U.K and Europe who were then excepted as cheap labour one might say that they sold their soul for money?
they didn't sort out their paperwork. Bureaucracy is irritating, but there you are. Presumably plenty of people managed to sort it out before it got to this stage.
Ian Sumter They didn't know they had to.
if the paper not correct must be deported , at that time people of the country should of decided the decision
Thanks for shedding light on a painful and dark chapter in British history. And for highlighting the human side of the story.
They were not invited. Illegal immigrants. Please check your facts!
Perhaps delve more deeply and realise like many parts of the world media channels are largely propaganda. The Windrush generation invited themselves with no work or place to live in Britain
They. Weren’t. Invited.
@@NoahBodze British people shouldn’t have ever shipped them to the West Indies where they lived several centuries as Crown subjects, spoke English, English names, British passports, etc.
@@petergriffin3194 You understand that black slavery in the Caribbean was an exponentially higher standard of living than anything they'd find in Africa, right stupid?
FFS. Not that I agree with either, but how come they aren't targeting the asians before the Carribeans???
Because Asians and CaucASIANS are the same people.
Because blacks are the easy target
Black people were the first wave of immigration and have been the most integrated, socially, economically and most important culturally. You’ll see blacks in pubs, eating English breakfasts and so on yet they were the ones to be deported, utter shame and this was all for the sake of bringing immigration numbers down
Cetus Couldn't agree more; I can't figure it out at all. There are plenty that they could've targeted who have refused to integrate. Balmy!
Pancho Chiekrie nor Eastern Europeans....
Almost everything you say here is wrong or a lie.
Even worse...when these people came to Britain from Jamaica, Jamaica was British, it was a British island, like the Falkland Islands...
That's right. Everyone was legally British.
Weird because you'd need a visa to live in the Falklands with a British passport.
Stop lying
All them suits the black fellows are wearing look new? There was a really pride back then in all creeds and colours that's sadly missing today.
Not only new, but some were dressed really flash and rather better than your average working class Brit.
Sure makes me wonder where they got the money from to buy the gear and if they were earning money to buy flash clothing, then what were they coming here for?
I can never understand why they would leave a lovely climate of carribean islands to come to an inner city dump in cold, wet Britain.
@@laaibahshahriar3473 That's a complete lie - why are you lying?
From the Windrush Foundation's own website:
"Empire Windrush that raise alarm Whitehall bells because there were more than 1,020 passengers on board, and the Labour Government took action to dissuade others who were planning to move to the motherland. They sent government personnel to Jamaica and they were obliged to inform potential settlers that there were no jobs for them in Britain and life would not be pleasant."
Things like that would be avoidable if The UK had proper IDs like Germany and Spain have
They weren't invited, and how could just a few low skilled people rebuild anything in an employment pool of 30,000000
They weren't all unskilled stupid. Then again, a racist like you can't comprehend that black people can be educated, competent professionals.
Imagine your ancestors being enslaved by Brits who invaded your country, then being shipped against their will to the Caribbean, another area invaded by Europeans, then coming to the UK with your parents to work on request of the government, growing up here, and then being told years later to "go home" to a country more foreign to you than the soil you grew up on. This is beyond disgusting, Theresa May never should have been allowed to get away with a simple apology. If I were her I would feel so much shame that I don't think I could bear to live another day, much less continue to play into the hands of xenophobes. I am frankly disgusted she ever became prime minister at all.
Imagine your African ancestors being captured and enslaved by other Africans then sold as slaves to Arabic counties ..oh wait that is still going on today.
You really should look into the salve trade history. In the 18oo's the British navy was dispatched to STOP the slave trade to the Americas & to the Arabic countries. Slavery was abolished in the U.K in the 10th. century. Although we had 6 yr. old boys in the tin mines in Cornwall, up chimneys,& in cotton mills. Get over yourselves. Dublin was a slave trade city where Brits. were sold as slaves to the Arabs etc. St. Patrick of Ireland was sold as a slave. By the way, the Arabic slavers castrated their male slaves.
@Ryan Stringer And the windrush generation were nt invited - they just turned up. It was nt until the 1950s that London transport recruited from Jamaica.
they were not invited, a privately owned shipping conglomerate who had a contract to ferry troops decided to make more money by selling berths on their ships for the return journey. It was purely a money making scheme by wealthy speculators. Stop acting like it was some democratic desicion which was reneged on maliciously you cretin.
@Ryan Stringer The British were the ones responsible for slavery in the first place, and don’t deserve credit for ending it. They ended it after years of black people revolting and resisting. And even after they ended it, they left behind racial tensions and more.
They were not invited in 1948 they turned up here to get away from the turmoil in Jamaica
We can’t keep our border secure from new arrivals. So what’s the next step? Bully those to old and poor to put up a fight and deport OAPS.
we should get all game of thrones with May!!!!!
Shame
Shame
Shame!!!
Maybe it’s their behaviour that’s causing this treatment.
The truth is, Britain did not invite immigrants from the West Indies to come to this country, nor did they want them. It is suggested that the very first of the ‘Windrush Generation’, those who arrived on the HMT Empire Windrush itself in June 1948, had come in response to advertisements for jobs they had seen in Caribbean newspapers. This is quite untrue. From 1947 onwards, men from the Caribbean had been stowing away on ships to England in the hope of finding work. There was not enough work in Jamaica and Barbados and some of these travellers faced starvation if they remained in their own country. Following the passing of the 1948 British Nationality Act, those living in the islands of the Caribbean who wished to come and live in Britain realised that there was no impediment to their doing so. In the April 6th issue of the Jamaican Daily Gleaner, tickets to Britain were advertised on the Empire Windrush, and hundreds of people bought them with a view to settling in this country. No offers of work were made in the advertisement.
The large numbers of West Indian immigrants who flocked to Britain in the 1940s and 1950s were not encouraged to come here. The truth is that they had poor prospects if they remained in their own countries and thought that they might do better in Britain. The idea that we organised or promoted this immigration and that it was advantageous to this country, is a myth that only appeared as late as the 1980s. It has now, for political reasons, become established as historical fact, and those who question it are denounced as racists.
The only shame is their grandchildren hate us ans Britain is a Dustbin now.
It’s incredibly hard to immigrate to the UK,, even for educated medical industry workers like me ,it’s a nightmare system that I just gave up.
They only want the type of immigrant that causes instability.
@jack_in_the_green what if I’m there already and contributing more than you are to your own country, mind u my this vid is about 4-5 yrs old
@@Nocturnal808 I praise you for contributing but your doing it for yourself really, ain’t you.
There’s plenty of blacks doing nothing for this country but harm. You know like rioting, killing, knife crime, single parents claiming benefits. All proportionally much, much higher amongst blacks.
@@Nocturnal808so you didn't give up then. Why not use your experience and education in the medical industry to improve your own country?
@@EvanEvans9 have u ever experienced living in a third world country? If u have a family would you rather get paid less than a call center agent or take the one that pays 4 times more to provide for your kids……..
The only wind rush I get is after eating beans
Government ineptitude. Home office threw out their only documentation for some reason or other. Shocking stuff.
A common mistake is to think someone is extremely stupid when the Prime Minister's husband's $1.3trillion business is thriving
Patrician Cloud Is this business even related to this?
They were selected for a public apology because the financial crime behind it is now irreversible. The British Government apology is an insult to victims and false as most of the UK economy and IT company scams. People like you are easily fooled by fake emotional gestures and therefore you need protection
BdaMonkey “for some reason” 🤨 they did it on purpose, they destroyed the paper trail so they could kick elderly Caribbean’s out of the country. Basically “thanks for helping us rebuild Britain all those decades, now fck off”.
You are on the right track but you have to focus more on that
I don't understand why proof of a national Insurance Number would not suffice or why these second generation migrants do not have or can't produce a UK passport. If someone has a national insurance number and the right to work in the UK I don't see how their status can be questioned.
It did make me laugh however, when a second generation migrant holidaying in Jamaica and denied back into the UK for 2 years was asked if he was going to claim compensation. He had my sympathy which was however undermined when he stated he was owed housing benefit because he was on benefits at the time. The irony of needing to be available to work to claim JSA but spending weeks in Jamaica was lost on him.
Also why are Indian and Pakistani migrants and second generation migrants not having issues?
they proberbley made sure the paper work was in order. if you put papers down and don't act on them this is what happens. try living in another country and not doing all the paper work you would be kicked out directly.
Freeze offshore accounts in the Caribbean islands see who looses most
agent x Oh yes!
A lot of those accounts belong to us Americans. Mess with our money and you Brits will get what's coming to you. Ungrateful people....
Grr English people😤
Why are nuanced opinions lost in the crowd?
Two things can be true at the same time. British Home office truly made a grave error AND May is NOT a Racist! for being tough on illegal immigration.
sidharth97 Exactly. I want illegal immigrants out, sorry but I would tell them that Britain is getting too crowded, and whilst I admire they want to live here, its too crowded and they don't have the paperwork. Seriously its not racist. So long as they don't go after people who have every right to live here, I'm fine with it. Maybe get those extremists out that come out and in of our country too.
Pwede pala na walang passport ang mga bata noong araw. .nag-iiba talaga ang mga laws and policies habang tumatagal..paano na sila?
There was no “Jamaica” in the 50s it was still a British colony. These people were taken from their homeland (Africa) and sold and used to build the U.K. from the colony. As many or more white people from other European countries are in the U.K. these people have even more of a right to be there point blank they were looking for a way not to pay pensions
Their ancestors were taken*
@@Morganbmoney😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Why are you lying?
"Massive contribution" to British society by "Windrush generation"? So nothing to do with unlawful drugs, knife offences, hostility and lawlessness on British streets then?
HYUKLDER1 NO!
the legal status of drugs is really a question for parliament, don't you think?
HYUKLDER1 stfu
"Racist assumes all black people are criminals. More at 11..."
Wow......these are a people who have had a great impact on our music. I could never consider
music without these dudes. Ska, blue beat, reggae etc....There would be no Music without these people
they helped with the Bob Marley era. Can't forget Boy George - Culture Club and UB40.
I think I'd take low crime over reggae, thanks.
This girl is Jewish, Israel deports Palestinian’s 24:7.. why doesn’t she condemn that ??
Cos Nazi's never condemn Nazi's and Jews never condemn Jews and the British never condemn their mass murder of innocent people
Adam Platell we always hear about how racist western immigration is but never Israel’s I wonder why
Palestinians bomb Israel, Windrush built Britain. Big difference.
But why they invited Jamaica and the rest of the Caribbean countries to the UK for what and they should have help them at the beginning until the end…smh
They weren't invited, that's why.
You've been lied to
This is from the Windrush Foundation's OWN WEBSITE:
"Empire Windrush that raise alarm Whitehall bells because there were more than 1,020 passengers on board, and the Labour Government took action to dissuade others who were planning to move to the motherland. They sent government personnel to Jamaica and they were obliged to inform potential settlers that there were no jobs for them in Britain and life would not be pleasant."
Too much waffle and dishonesty. May and her cronies have blood on their hands! People died for God's sake!
Why?
They weren't invited.
A boat full of black *MEN* coming to our shores.
Where have we seen that before?
Who else is watching this in english lesson haha xD
Me 😢
..Better Late than Never .....lol.
Qui est la pour le cours d anglais ?
“The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.” George Orwell
Nothing as true as that in today's UK
The median of 18 reasonably representative samples gives us an IQ of 80 for Jamaica. This is also consistent with Samms-Vaughan (2005 ), one of the more recent and methodologically robust studies, which shows an average IQ of about 81.3 Mar 2013
Utterly disgraceful
Isn’t it interesting that British Law is now retroactive.?
Head of State in Jamaica = still in 2023 His Majesty King Charles III - so either he "fixes" Jamaica, reverses the devastation of Windrush.... OR... jamaica should tell the BRF to take a hike, and reclaim its Jamaican sovereignty. Deeply shameful.
The Windrush Generation was pretty dumb.
Good explanation
Typical Brits considers nationality based on ethnicity and race. Obtaining a passport or being joined with them in marriage cannot erase this latent attribute. Not for the offspring of such union. Race relationship is by the reason of tolerance, and not for the immigrant to claim ownership.
Typical blacks base nationality on who is paying the lost in welfare.
But congrats, you and your ilk are successfully destroying western nations. At least be happy at that.
They are old they don't need them any more,they want them out.
Need?
We NEVER needed them.
They were told they weren't invited to come to the UK and they came anyway.
Who wanted them to come?
Churchhill?
No one
Jews
@@liability443 Churchill was a Labour PM, was he?
You need to learn your history, kid.
What irritates me is that everyone is silent on the salient point THEY ARE BRITISH BY ENSLAVEMENT THEIR DATE OF BIRTH IS THE KEY AND CLUE therefore applying for citizenship was not a requirement when the law change a simple EXEMPTION should have sufficed had the Dreaded Discrimination by Race not surfaced
Where is the source video from?
How many children ,then ? For example is not proof of anything .
What we need to do is promote Theresa May, yes promote her to the level of her own incompetence, shall we say, erm Prime Minter, now for Boris Johnson ....
No denying that this is an institutional race thing. My parents, (Indians) came from Africa via common wealth immigration in the 70s. My parents have always had fully British passports. If the wave from Africa was black instead of Indian, I'm not confident the home office would've made it as simple for us. Conservative MPs may not think of race in the same hierarchical way now, but the system they work within built by there predecessors, certainly promotes that attitude.
Deport, deport, deport.
@shane@kinson8933, you are a wicked wicked dare I say a person. I am glad my parents left in the early 70 and relocated to 🇨🇦. Thank God for that.
@@jacquelineforde3251 Bye girl!
@@shaneatkinson8933 , you are irrelevant. I will pray for your soul.
I am home in the sunshine.
They’re not Brits !
You can't make it up