Was Windrush the Foundation of our Society?
The HMT Empire Windrush was a ship that, in 1948, ferried one of the first mass importations of labour from the Caribbean to the UK. It carried 1027 people. In 2018 the Windrush became iconic of the “Windrush Scandal” in which people of Caribbean heritage who had arrived in the UK before 1973 were threatened with deportation and even deported if they were not UK Citizens. The original scandal was due to Amber Rudd, the Conservative Home Secretary at the time, falsely denying any knowledge of what was happening. There has since been a compensation scheme for those affected.
Some people took the view that if migrants could not be bothered to become British Citizens they must expect deportation, others took the view that people who had lived in the country for 50 years deserved better treatment. In the 1971 census 7,529 people from the Caribbean living in the UK did not have British passports. In total there were 167,030 people of Caribbean heritage in the UK (of whom an undetermined number were returning white colonists). Only 32 per cent of Jamaican-born residents in 1961 remained resident in 2011 (ONS). In theory the ‘Windrush Scandal’ should only have affected about 3000 people from the Caribbean.
The current voter base of the Labour Party is about 50% humanities graduates and 50% migrants (Labour only won 20% of the possible vote). This has resulted in Keir Starmer retelling English history so that it was the migrants who created modern Britain:
The Caribbean migrants were brought to Britain in the 1960s for the same reason as most other migrants: to keep down wage rates. See:
Very few migrants arrived from the Caribbean. In 1951 they were only 0.01% of the population. Even by 1971 they were only about 0.4%. In 1971 99.6% of the population were not Caribbean migrants. Yet, according to Starmer the 0.4% were the foundation of UK society.
(See ‘sources’ below for the origin of this data)
Some people may object that Caribbean workers occupied jobs in the NHS and transport but even today there are only about 4000 Caribbean staff out of 1.5 million in the NHS. The NHS imported and continues to import staff from all around the world to keep down wages.
In the 1960s there were proportionately slightly more Caribbean staff in the NHS than today. “By late 1965, there were as many as 5000 Jamaican women staffing British hospitals, and by 1977, 12% of all student nurses and midwives in Britain were recruited overseas, with 66% of those from the Caribbean.” (People’s History). Again, 5000 staff from the Caribbean were a small number compared with the total of 719,000 NHS staff in 1970 (1.4%).
The Trade Unions were alert to the use of imported labour to control wages. As an example the Transport and General Workers Union in Bristol forced the Bristol bus company to refuse to employ migrant workers. In 1955 the Passenger Group of the TGWU had passed a resolution that "coloured" workers should not be employed as bus crews. The reaction to this is now celebrated as the 1963 “Bristol Bus Boycott” which stopped such racism.
Caribbean people were not the foundation of modern Britain. This is a lie and an insult to all the other people in Britain. Two thirds of black British people now come from Africa, not the Caribbean. The Caribbean migrant population is just another migrant voting block for Labour.
Labour was once the party of English working people but now it is fully Internationalist. It does not care for British working people whatever their origin:
The New Civil War in Britain
We often hear about Britain being multiply divided. Britain is portrayed as experiencing many random events and divisions that are destabilising it. This is a lie. Britain is in the middle of an undeclared Civil War between two factions. There is only one major division.
The Conservatives are probably worse. Do not vote for Internationalists.
Sources
Commonwealth migrants arriving before 1971, England and Wales, 2011 Census https://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/commentaries/commonwealth-citizens-arriving-before-1971/
2011 Census analysis: Immigration Patterns of Non-UK Born Populations in England and Wales in 2011 https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/internationalmigration/articles/
Ethnic change and diversity in England, 1981–2001 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/227718438_Ethnic_change_and_diversity_in_England_1981-2001
Black and Minority Ethnic Groups https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Ethnic-group-composition-of-the-population-in-1991-percentages_tbl1_331941517
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_African-Caribbean_people
Those who landed from Empire Windrush landed in 1948. No one asked them to come. When they did land the government was aghast.
The UK was growing at a rate of about 5% per annum in the first half of the 1960s. There was no possibility of labour shortages crashing the economy and Britain would soon suffer an excess of labour and mass unemployment post baby boom and deindustrialisation.
I also entirely disagree with "ignorant racism" argument. The British people did not want immigration from the West Indies or from any other far flung place. They expressed their views on this repeatedly and robustly culminating in the late 1960s with huge popular support for Powell post speech in Birmingham. Why the majority felt that way mattered not. Their views ought to have been enacted. And as often turns out to be the case, the majority were right - or more right than left wing internationalists. Immigration once started is not just very difficult to stop but expands and without an off button one will eventually lose the country in much the same way that Savill Town in Dewsbury at close to 80% muslim, with life revolving around the Makazi Masjid Mosque, cannot seriously be described as English - other than it lies within the borders of what is referred to as England. One could take the position that this is an extreme and cannot happen elsewhere but only if one is poor with numbers. White British will be a minority in schools in less than a decade and there is a population explosion to the south of Europe which will really manifest in the next 10 -20 years.