Wow the last guy was 91 in this interview but he looks waaayyyyyv younger like 70 jeez lol

I am scanning the internet today to find some video clips for school for Windrush Day 2020 - and to my surprise discovered where the phrase my dad used to sing to me as a small boy, 'I am a mole and I live in a hole!' came from!

The old man brought a tear to my eye

What's been conveniently cut out from this footage is that the people came because they couldn't find work in Jamaica.

@user-xu9ib9cd6d

11 ай бұрын

Read about windrush generation. UK government came to Caribbean after the war to find workers to work in UK. Caribbean immigrants were treated inhumanely, and could not find housing. Signs read no Blacks, no dogs, no Irish. Their contribution to the

@andymac7584

2 ай бұрын

​@@user-xu9ib9cd6d liar.

@user-cx4ll4rj1t

9 күн бұрын

they were never ever invited and the UK government didn't even know they were coming until they basically arrived - it was a military ship which had spare space so they sold cheap tickets to simply make some money - it was never planned. It is all well documented in Parliament where is was agreed this could not happened again. The BBC are liars and have always pushed fake news and this is no different.

@user-cx4ll4rj1t

9 күн бұрын

@@user-xu9ib9cd6d you are talking rubbish, the people asked for help due to chronic unemployment in the west indies. The people on the Windrush were never ever invited. The UK did them a favour and found them work. This is why every person on Windrush ever interviewed will tell you it was hard to find work when they arrived due to racism and attitudes towards non-whites. If they had been invited they would have had jobs waiting for them.

omg the last guy awww

In the 1940s, Jamaica and many of the Caribbean islands had a problem, massive unemployment and very high birth rate, the population was going up by up to 50k a year . A few responded to a daily paper advert to a shop that had cheap tickets and simply turned up in Tilbury for a better way of life and work, not to rebuild Britain as the British were more then capable of doing that themselves .

@user-cx4ll4rj1t

9 күн бұрын

You are correct.and it was never planned to bring Black people to England. During the trip the owners of Empire Windrush noticed the ship was half empty so they came up with a plan t make a little money - they decided when the docked in the West Indies they would offer cheap tickets to anyone who wanted it. It was better to get £10 per person than leave accommodation empty. At no point were these people invited to England and the UK government didn't even know they were coming until they basically docked (hence the paperwork and documentation was very poor). The BBC is always pushing lies.

anyone who says 'boring' or 'crap' will fail their gcses

@sarahaysarah767

3 жыл бұрын

fact..

@allenjenkinson7608

3 жыл бұрын

Spent the war in the Caribbean, well out of range, only came to 'help' Britain once it was safe, when all the shooting and bombing was all over......?

@zivkovicable

3 жыл бұрын

@@allenjenkinson7608 Stupid ignorant bigot. During WW2 over 5000 men from the caribbean served in the RAF alone.

I had the pleasure of interviewing Alford Gardner for a newspaper Windrush anniversary feature in 2018. He is a lovely, lovely man.

@thomasreed49

8 ай бұрын

I’m sure he is but this it’s not a true representation of blacks in Great Britain is what I pull the rose coloured spectacles documentary In London we have knife crime by black Africans out of control we need more documentaries on this subject and the problems. The first words of this documentary he was invited well he wasn’t invited none of them are invited none of them wanted they say this to imply they had a right to be here. Yes the Polish have contributed a lot to Great Britain differences there grafters

@jackmahoney1001

6 ай бұрын

@@thomasreed49leaving besides your blatant racism, this man isn’t even African. The video states several times that he’s Jamaican. Your prejudice is insane. Crime is typically done by people in poor living situations, which are the result of a society that makes these conditions worse for certain people. Before pointing to a group of people and calling them all criminals, maybe look at why they’ve largely been forced into a quality of life that would lead them to have to turn to crime more often. Also yes Jamaicans were invited to England to make up for the labor shortage at the time, you clearly don’t know your own countries history. Besides, nobody needs an invitation to live somewhere.

you look very well sir" and wish you many more happy years

@omalone1169

4 жыл бұрын

The scandals of today are rooted in the secrets of yesterday In leaving aside 2019 spare a thought for 1999, the year Sister Souljah published her "The Coldest Winter". Channel 4 hosted "A Blagger's Guide To Black History." It was also the year the BBC aired the documentary, "Playing The Race Card" detailing policy that was to impact upon us. It revealed that in The 1950s a Secret Civil Service Committee was established and that it "made the case for controls." Its complete title "Working party to report on the growing social and economic problems ariising from the influx into the United Kingdom of Coloured Workers from other commonwealth countries" (August 3 1955) In Unwanted: The Secret Windrush Files (2019), David Olusoga exposed the makings of the "hostile environment." In May 1947 The kingston Governor sent a telegram to the colonial office in Whitehall warning of the arrival. The Secretary of State was urged to do "everything possible to prevent the occurence." Even Pm Attlee referred to it as an incursion even suggesting they be diverted to east Africa to pick "ground-nuts." (By contrast an April 1947 document revealed how EVWs were warmly welcomed in the thousands.) Immediately upon arrival Mps wrote the PM weary this influx would "impair the harmony, strength and cohesion" and sought to "control immigration" In January 7 1955, The Spectator reported on "The Jamaican Flood." Ten days later British pathe aired "Our Jamaican Problem." This came within the context of the 1948s British National Act, and 1951 when Churchill lead the Conservatives back before raising immigration questions to his cabinet in 1952. They set up this working party and further claimed these immigrants were coming to steal dole money (State Assistance.) In June 1953 officials were informed to conduct a Secret race survey to gather statistics to evaluate this claim. It was only two weeks after Queen Elizabeth, Head of the Commonwealth had come to the throne. In 1956 health minister Enoch Powell visited Barbados to invite workers to the NHS but "the hospitality was soon replaced by hostility." In 1952 the McWarren-Walter Act restricted access to the Farm Work Programme in the USA. In 1954 Constantine Leary highlighted exclusion in "The Colour Bar." In 1957 immigrants continued to be met by the White Defence league culminating in the 1958 Notting Hill clashes. 1962 Commonwealth Immigrants Act of Harold Mcmillan looked to control immigration on the basis of employment prospects. Rab Butler opined "the great merit of this scheme is that it can be presented as making no distinction on grounds of race or colour although in practice" this discretion would be applied. He continued "We must recognise that although the scheme purports to relatively solely to employment and be non-discriminatory, it's aim is entirely social and it's restrictive effect, is intended to, and would in fact, operate on coloured people almost exclusively." In 1962 Jamaica and Trinidad were granted independence, as was Barbados in 1966. In 1965 Race Relations Act was passed (amended in 2000, the year Damiola Taylor was stabbed.) In 1967 CARD petitioned to have the Minstrel Show (1958-78) pulled from air. In the 70s it was just one of the shows provoking race alongside Mind Your Mouth and Love Thy Neighbour. In 1968 the emergency commonwealth immigrants act was passed to curb British passport holding Kenyans. It was amended when the 1971 Immigration Act "marked the end of black immigration for settlement" demanding people be burdened to prove that they are British: "but in the meantime, life went on." In 2014 Lunar House formalised the hostile environment. "...yet here we are fighting to breathe, just to prove that we have the right to breathe." "...after 51 years they're going to grant me something you were legally entitled to."

@misst.e.a.187

4 жыл бұрын

@@omalone1169 Wow, thank you for this interesting and thought-provoking post.

Great story. Thanks 😊 BBC

No proof thePoles told the truth at all. The polish woman is ungrateful to the country that saved her family how dare she insult Churchill!

Regardless where I was born in Europe I am so proud of my African heritage I wouldn't want to be anything else, but African.

@radubradu

3 жыл бұрын

Hope you go and stay there and be proud all day long

@MrRed-tf7bv

2 жыл бұрын

💀

WE WERE NEVER ASKED.

K vuen bideo

I’m here for homework 😭

Great story Great handling of this BBC!

@AlanWattResistance

6 жыл бұрын

Typical woman.

@johno4521

2 жыл бұрын

Pity it's not true.....

@alexkulka8578

Жыл бұрын

What's not true??

I think, "the [very] victim's of "Wind-rush" and their family's"; should - "be -exempt; from ALL (possABLE-)_ Tax-es!!" Also too: = "as much Investment, as possABLE": - Including/Involving: - "Mentorship and business_ support -etc.!!" -M.K.S.

In 1948, Empire Windrush brought one of the first large groups of postwar West Indian immigrants to the United Kingdom, carrying 1,027 passengers and two stowaways on a voyage from Jamaica to London. 802 of these passengers gave their last country of residence as somewhere in the Caribbean: of these, 693 intended to settle in the United Kingdom.[1] British Caribbean people who came to the United Kingdom in the period after World War II, including those who came on later ships, are sometimes referred to as the Windrush generation 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 someone came up with the idea of offering cut price tickets to avoid an empty ship sailing back to Britain. An advertisement was put in a Jamaican newspaper, The Daily Gleaner, offering cheap transport on the ship for anybody who wanted to go and work in the UK. There is a common misconception that there was an invitation for help with the rebuilding of Britain. There was never such an invitation. 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. There was no invitation. The arrival of Empire Windrush was a notable news event. Even when the ship was in the English Channel, the Evening Standard dispatched an aircraft to photograph her from the air, printing the story on the newspaper's front page. The ship docked at the Port of Tilbury, near London, on 21 June 1948 and the 1,027 passengers began disembarking the next day. This was covered by newspaper reporters and by Pathé News newsreel cameras.[37] The name Windrush, as a result, come to be used as shorthand for West Indian migration,[50] and by extension for the beginning of modern British multiracial society. The purpose of Windrush's voyage had been to transport service personnel. The additional arrival of civilian, West Indian immigrants was not expected by the British government, and not welcome. George Isaacs, the Minister of Labour, stated in Parliament that there would be no encouragement for others to follow their example. Three days before the ship arrived, Arthur Creech Jones, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, wrote a Cabinet memorandum noting that the Jamaican Government could not legally prevent people from departing, and the British government could not legally prevent them from landing. However, he stated that the government was opposed to this immigration, and all possible steps would be taken by the Colonial Office and the Jamaican Government to discourage it.[51] Despite this, the first legislation controlling immigration was not passed until 1962.

@lynnecromack4933

Жыл бұрын

Quite right. I am suprised that the BBC has got this so wrong.

@winstonsmith4156

Жыл бұрын

And our country has been going down hill ever since. Multi culturalism and diversity are poisen. Never mind apologising to them for no valid reason. They should be apologising to us .

@terrymullins9772

11 ай бұрын

Yep, unemployment was very high in Jamaica and they came here to get work and better themselves, it was nothing to do with helping Britain, they were helping themselves,and now the whole episode has been twisted by the MSM to suit their disastrous multicultural agenda

@user-xu9ib9cd6d

2 ай бұрын

​@@winstonsmith4156 Rubbish. Who drives the buses to take u to work? Not British. Who looks after your mum in care home? Not british .who looked after Kate Middleton in hospital? Filipino nurses .who looked after Boris in hospital? Not British. Stop eating it multicultural restaurants? Eat your blunt food

Why are they sellibritin our distrocon

yo

Objectifying anyone genitalia all the while only level

They have been treated disgustingly by UK government, but the notion that the Government actively invited them here to 'fill a labour shortage' is incorrect. Why would they do this when the Government were, at the time, encouraging UK citizens to emigrate to Australia ? The reason was purely financial on behalf of the shipping company. The Empire Windrush was returning from Australia and had put in to Jamaica to pick up UK troops on leave. As the ship was half empty, they advertised half price passage to the UK for native Jamaicans to 'start a new life in the UK' - a marketing ploy on behalf of the shipping company. So, yes, the West Indians saw this as rebuilding a country, but it was done without the knowledge or approval of the UK Government. All this information is easily available online.

@alexkulka8578

Жыл бұрын

I agree with you, Britain never invited Jamaicans because there was a shortage of workers. However this information is very difficult to find online. The contemporary narrative has been manipulated, making young people believe that the windrush generation came here to help rebuild britan.

@thomasreed49

10 ай бұрын

@@alexkulka8578 I also agree it wasn’t right to allow them over here Government didn’t want them the people didn’t want them it wasn’t fair they should’ve gone to Africa to help rebuild it so they had somewhere to call their own and what they had created that way they would gain something they’ve never had respect. Although in television adverts television plays advertising trying to promote how good it is to be black in reality nobody in Britain or Europe. has respect for them It’s a shame the majority of them are really good people I worked with them they are so Likable.

@rasempress9724

3 ай бұрын

the UK had a severe labour shortage after World War Two, especially in the transport network and the newly created National Health Service. …large areas of the main cities had been destroyed by aerial bombing and a programme of rebuilding began, needing workers…. Some of those who came were returning servicemen from the Second World War recruited from Britain's colonies in the Caribbean……

@andymac7584

2 ай бұрын

​@@rasempress9724 utter nonsense.

@rasempress9724

2 ай бұрын

@@andymac7584 well, present ur ‘sensible’ info rebutting my ‘nonsensical’

The only reason I'm watching this is because I'm in year6 having to write a conversation between the two people for my homework 😥😫

@nicolejones9335

3 жыл бұрын

Sadik please see if you can remember something from one man okay?

@user-xu9ib9cd6d

2 ай бұрын

U all never appreciate foreigners who built UK and Buckingham palace.

The myth continues...

@terrymullins9772

11 ай бұрын

Yep, utter nonsense

The virtue-signaling of the left is nauseating.

Maybe if the blacks were Polish they would not gave had problems. Just like all of the other immigrants now in contrast to how Ukrainians are treated.

I'm sick and tired of Windrush. It's was wrong and has been over-hyped by the media and polticians. When will Westminster debate the grooming gangs?

@tahliah6691

6 жыл бұрын

JAMES WHITELEY shut up skunk

@jameswhiteley6843

6 жыл бұрын

No.

@user-dv3kq3rm4h

4 жыл бұрын

You're sick and tired of what exactly? Never having capitalised on your privilege?

@Curlytwins890

4 жыл бұрын

JAMES WHITELEY This scandal should be put in history book. Example of how the people invited to this country to rebuild it after a war, were treated.The came here invited by the government, records of how they came were not kept , which was not their fault.They and their parents worked paid contributions build theirs families here but majority of them were not given British documents. At some point of their life they were deported without a reason or not let back in to the country after travelling. This is example of how families were separated without given chance to defend themselves without committed any crime. How would any white British person feel if we was denied a right to be eith him family in this situation. Yesx fir sure he will search for his rights but not only, for sure media will be involved, for sure British person wont just accept only an apology from the responsible for this,but he will ask for appropriate compensation. And not even compensation would be enough to cancel all the years of sorrow from having to be deported without this being your fault.

@Curlytwins890

4 жыл бұрын

JAMES WHITELEY there are videos at the time of their arrival where we can here that this people were considered British but not given a passport.This for them was declared as their mother land.Why records were not kept how they came. They rebuild the country after a war, as as heroes and veterans in wars are remembered they should also be remembered, or just because of their skin colour they dont deserve it.

The point being this this effected something like 60 people and those people will get millions from it anyway. Why such a scene?

FIRST YOOOO

Black culture is vibrant , lively and exciting

So ein scheiss

@alexkulka8578

Жыл бұрын

Hast Recht. Alles eine große Lüge

Without Blacks, world would be boring. Boring food, boring music. We make the world a more exciting place. Hot music ,spicy food, vibrant culture. Then we do not crack and age very well.

@drhfuhruhurr4253

Жыл бұрын

Yup. And "Without blacks" the murder rate in London would be cut by 60% 😢

@terrymullins9772

11 ай бұрын

Tat

@NoahBodze

10 ай бұрын

You’re stupid savages, but you don’t understand this because you’re so genetically stupid.

@andymac7584

2 ай бұрын

A lot less murdery though.

@user-xu9ib9cd6d

2 ай бұрын

@@andymac7584look at the mass shootings in USA? Who ?

The problem with them is that they never left.

@infinitecanadian

2 жыл бұрын

@@AdrianAJojko But this isn't about them.

The English people never asked them to come.

@kifacorea

2 ай бұрын

Colonized countries didn't ask the British Empire to come either.

@MusclesNOTtattoos

2 ай бұрын

@@kifacorea There was barely anything in these regions when the British Empire started exploring them.

We must secure the existance of our people and a future for white children.

Incredibly boring.