Windrush 75: What is it and why do we celebrate it?
It is 75 years since the Empire Windrush arrived at Tilbury Docks.
Stepping off the ocean liner on that day were nearly 500 people from the Caribbean, ready to build a new life in Britain.
Whilst it was not the first nor the largest ship to bring Caribbean people to the UK, it symbolised the wave of migrants who would help rebuild the country in the aftermath of the Second World War.
But what exactly happened and why do we still celebrate this journey today?
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We were never asked.
Why indeed? It was a shipping line opportunity that allowed the bookings that saw the arrival of that so-called Windrush generation and the creation of the myth of coming to "our" call here in the UK. But, of course, it all helps deflect from a different reality that seems available for inspection and consideration.
@CIMAmotor
Жыл бұрын
One of the worst days in British history.
@photoman3579
Жыл бұрын
@@CIMAmotor Allowing them in...youre right !
@DavidSmith-fs5qj
Жыл бұрын
That’s right, the claim that they answered the call is nonsense, there was no call. They came hoping for a better life, they came for themselves.
@stephenjon3502
Жыл бұрын
@@CIMAmotorMust be hard supporting a club which has more black players than white. You weren’t one of those supporters that used to stand in the North bank doing Nazi salutes back in the day were you?
@thomasreed49
9 ай бұрын
It wasn’t racism it’s what happens to you if you force yourself into a country where you’re not wanted that’s not racism
Do we "celebrate" Windrush? I must have missed that memo...
@A1MAMI
Жыл бұрын
exactly cos huuuuuuh???
@user-dz6ly9nw2k
Жыл бұрын
Nope, it's like celebrating Brits who emigrate to Australia for a better life.
@A1MAMI
Жыл бұрын
@@user-dz6ly9nw2k australia?
@CIMAmotor
Жыл бұрын
@@A1MAMI Yes, Australia.
@Buddhavibez
Жыл бұрын
@@user-dz6ly9nw2k what a pathetic comparison
Why indeed do we celebrate it???
The only wind rush I get is after eating beans...
It’s a myth and and an insult to all those actually rebuilding Britain.
Everyone hates it, what is their to celebrate
Celebrate it ? ……. Not me ! This is when the rot set in !
Celebrate them don’t make us laugh. Nobody in Britain that’s indigenous is celebrating the windrush generation, regretting it maybe. I want reparations as one of them burgled my house.
@stevendavis2122
Жыл бұрын
Here here!
We lament we don't celibate
Yes we do, absolutely hate it
This is a lie …the British government did NOT invite these people to come to the UK …the Windrush was heading to the UK from Australia carrying British and Polish people…and because it was short of passengers it advertised for passengers in Jamaica…£48 and £24 per passenger to travel to the UK
@songsmith31a
Жыл бұрын
That sits somewhat uncomfortably with the "celebration" promoted by the likes of the BBC News online.
@Spacemonkeymk1
Жыл бұрын
Complain to Ofcom...
@elkpaz560
Жыл бұрын
@@songsmith31a This is what political correctness means - it was a Soviet thing - tell lies that support the ideology.
@CIMAmotor
Жыл бұрын
@@tao6085 It's a good job people do or we'd be believing fake history.
@Buddhavibez
Жыл бұрын
The Polish refugees who ended up on the Windrush had actually begun their journey back in 1939. When war erupted, Poland was occupied by Nazi and Soviet forces, leaving Poles facing daily cruelty, terror and devastation. But worse was yet to come. In the middle of one February night in 1940, several Polish families in the Soviet-occupied area were woken up by Russian soldiers, given minutes to gather together some possessions, and then packed into cattle trucks for deportation to Siberian labour camps. Thousands more would also be sent away in subsequent weeks and months - around 1.5 million Poles are known to have been deported east between 1940 and 1941.
The vast majority of indigenous people now recognise this event as the beginning of the end for our once peaceful and prosperous country! Import the third world, become the third world!
@Buddhavibez
Жыл бұрын
Didn’t mind using and profiting from the resources of the third world though ay
@user-dz6ly9nw2k
Жыл бұрын
@@Buddhavibez You mean like when othe rempires have done the same thing all over the world for thousands of years? Oh I forgot, only bad when ol' whitey does it. Change the record!
@CIMAmotor
Жыл бұрын
@@Buddhavibez Why would they? What were the natives doing with the resourses?
@Smellybridge99
Жыл бұрын
@@Buddhavibez Spoils of war. I'm sorry your ancestors were weak and cowards.
@Buddhavibez
Жыл бұрын
@@CIMAmotor bit of a stupid question, probably the same thing as what the vultures did with it. Make money for their economy. Jasus who educated you
Who here supports a windrush 2.1, in which we hire a boat, encourage D. Abbot MP, D.Lammy MP, mizzi and all those wonderful people who are responsible for most of the stabbings, shootings and violent robberies to board the boat. We then crowdfund the finance needed to sail the boat to the Caribbean. I'm sure the the locals would love to enriched by these talented people......
@Buddhavibez
Жыл бұрын
That’s like saying let’s put the whole of government, church, teachers,coaches and police on a boat, because they commit most of the sexual abuse against kids. See what I did there. It’s a two way st out here
@stonebarrow5165
Жыл бұрын
Now you can always tell an uneducated fool from what they type. The home office in UK & the FBI in USA, says that rape serial killer's child molester's is a majority white crime, committed by WHITE MEN💋💯👍
@Buddhavibez
Жыл бұрын
How about that deputy head who just got done for paying £65,000 to abuse Indian kids. Or those two scumbags who murdered their son, other the other scumbag couple who murdered their child. You either learn to call out evil, regardless of the colour, or your just a racist moron who clearly condones white sex offenders
@Buddhavibez
Жыл бұрын
How many middle aged white male sex predators are caught out online. I’ll wait
@Buddhavibez
Жыл бұрын
And you can check the stats. Most abuse of children, inclu grooming is committed by white males
Don't know anyone who celebrates it, and not even sure why we celebrate someone coming here for their own gain? It's a bit like celebrating people who move to Australia for a better life......utterly pointless. What we could do though is make up some nonense that the Government begged them to come here, maybe that will make people feel gratitude???
We do not.
and we are now giving them money for some reason that escapes me
@alanhargreaves-thevoiceofr2361
Жыл бұрын
..giving them our entire country . . .
@stephenjon3502
Жыл бұрын
@@alanhargreaves-thevoiceofr2361 You can’t colonise over 20% of the world then moan when people want to come to the motherland Alan.
@alanhargreaves-thevoiceofr2361
Жыл бұрын
im sorry friend ...the stories of colonisation are 100 % fantasy . . .-such events never took place ...fake history ! . . . almost as if someone who wantesd to steal our Land made it up to elicit sympathy . . . .hmmm?!!!!
@stephenjon3502
Жыл бұрын
So are you actually saying the UK never colonised other countries? Blimey, I thought the Covid conspiracy lot were delusional, you have taken first place Alan for total nonsense.
*God bless knife crime.* 🙏
Excellent question, why?
Because you know the English resent the foreign invasion, that's why.
@Buddhavibez
Жыл бұрын
So it’s a foreign invasion when it’s people going to England, but regime change when we go to other countries, yeh ok
@krishnan-resurrection714
Жыл бұрын
sunak Traitor pig .
@stephenjon3502
Жыл бұрын
Trouble is - they weren’t foreign but subjects of the United Kingdom. I know that’s probably hard for you to comprehend but there’s no point in having a mind if you can’t change it.
@suburbanyobbo9412
Жыл бұрын
@@stephenjon3502They were foreign. Being a subject does not make one not foreign. Please seek a basic education on the topic.
@stephenjon3502
Жыл бұрын
@@suburbanyobbo9412 Not all yobbo. Some were returning Brits, some were partners of people they married from the Caribbean. The trouble with you stoned Iceland brigade is you see anyone with a brown face and think they are foreigners. That’s the trouble with bigots - can’t think straight.
Should never of happened in the first place leave these people alone for Christ sake!
Why would the government advertise for West Indians to come to the UK when we were encouraging our own to emigrate to Australia ?These were known as " ten pound Poms" because their fares were subsidised by the government and cost a mere ten pounds and was started 2 years before the Windrush docked ! After the war,during which two million homes were destroyed by bombing,we had a dreadful housing problem,so Australia volunteered to take any of our skilled tradesmen who were willing to emigrate. The arrangement suited both countries.The idea that we asked for West Indians,to come here to help rebuild our country is a myth.Why would we do so whilst encouraging people, many with useful building skills, to emigrate ?
Why do we celebrate, guilty conscience? To virtue signal? We know it’s not because Britain cares the diaspora
@CIMAmotor
Жыл бұрын
We don't celebrate, it's as simple as that.
Modern day immigration needs cutting massively not celebrating
Um, as far as I know, we don't. But of course, we're all by now prepared for the mainstream media to us how and why we're racist (as well as bigotted and homophobic, etc. - might as well throw that in), if we don't.
@elkpaz560
Жыл бұрын
Prince William thinks they made us a better people.
@andymac7584
Жыл бұрын
@@elkpaz560 thinks or says?
@krishnan-resurrection714
Жыл бұрын
muslim= multi=culturalism .....
2:00 " ........ as part of a British Government program....." ?
"... ocean liner...." or troop ship?
The end line is 'celebrating the contribution of the afro Carribbean community' Stabbings and drug dealing?
@elkpaz560
Жыл бұрын
A lot were nurses and musicians and some did jobs like postmen and bus driving and lawyers.
@lonalxaia
Жыл бұрын
@@elkpaz560now you have Chinese building up the Caribbean.
@stephenjon3502
Жыл бұрын
Highest knife crime in the UK is in Cleveland-98.5% white. Those that travelled on the Windrush came here for work and nothing else.
@elkpaz560
Жыл бұрын
@@lonalxaia And they would have no interest in pushing an anti-British narrative. Let's hope they make it a nice peaceful and prosperous place to which deportees have no qualms about returning to. And many others wish to join them.
@Sthmohtwenty
5 ай бұрын
And blm ...
Wind rush means fart..
@Sthmohtwenty
5 ай бұрын
Pon u bumbaazzcllllathhhh dupppppy ppl lol
Pmsl. Smh.
Don’t know anyone who celebrates this irrelevant subject. It’s like celebrating someone emigrating to Australia…..pretty pointless. Shame we can’t address the real issue, instead of burying our heads in the sand.
celebrate what? nothing to celebrate
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Жыл бұрын
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Жыл бұрын
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@Buddhavibez
Жыл бұрын
@@tiboregoldberger6817 always one reprobate in the comments, poor human
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Жыл бұрын
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@Buddhavibez
Жыл бұрын
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