Happy Windrush Day

[One Sunny Day]

Today is Windrush Day, a day to honour immigrants, specifically from the Caribbean, who arrived here after WWII and contributed enormously to rebuilding the bombed out mess of London into the great and thriving city it is today. There are plenty of celebrations happening around the capital, so, if you can, get yourself down to one of these and celebrate these wonderful people.
https://londonist.com/london/things-to- ... day-events

[Lee Trundle]

I see One Sunny Day's racist baiting has got a couple of nibbles.

It seems to be his only reasoning in posting on this board now.

He gets the bites that gives him the attention he craves, I suppose.

[wils]

This is a good read about the myths around Windrush. 

https://im1776.com/2022/11/22/the-windrush-myth/

None of the postwar Caribbean immigrants were invited to come to Britain, least of all those aboard the Empire Windrush, a troop transport ship en route from Australia to Britain via Jamaica. Because she was expected to leave Kingston under capacity, her operator advertised heavily in the three weeks before her arrival that they would offer private passage to the United Kingdom for £28 10s – around half the usual price. The novelty of several hundred Jamaicans voyaging across the Atlantic was so great that a Pathé newsreel crew arrived to film the passengers disembarking in Britain– a detail which explains a significant part of the event’s later prominence.

Nobody at the time was particularly happy with the news. The British government was completely unaware of the imminent arrivals until it was too late to stop them. In a debate in Parliament it was noted that there would be no guarantee the Windrush’s passengers would be able to find work, and Labour Prime Minister Clement Attlee suggested redirecting the Windrush to East Africa.

Civil servants from the Colonial Office were dispatched to the Caribbean to orchestrate campaigns explaining that jobs in the UK were scarce, conditions were poor (rationing remained in place until 1954 for food, furniture, fuel, and clothing), and immigrants could not be guaranteed employment or housing (of which there was a chronic shortage).

Nevertheless, neither the British nor colonial governments had any power to prevent Commonwealth migration after the British Nationality Act (1948) formalized the right of all colonial subjects to settle in Britain. The framers intended this as a symbolic gesture against decolonization; they did not expect it to lead to mass migration.

At the heart of the Windrush myth is the claim of a postwar labor shortage. In fact, postwar Britain was a country with a pronounced labor surplus. Accordingly, between 1946 and 1960, 1.5 to 2 million people – 3.2-4.3% of the population – left the country, mostly for the Dominions and the USA. Despite Winston Churchill’s remonstrations – he described emigrants as “rats leaving a sinking ship” and pleaded “we cannot spare you!” – statements often repeated today as evidence of a labor shortage, this emigration was encouraged by both the Conservatives and Labour and fares were heavily subsidized. In the case of Australia, passage was available for just £10, a third of what passengers on the Empire Windrush had paid.

 

[Mike Oxsaw]

OSD would celebrate Bumsrush Day if he/she thought it would get them attention.

You just can't help yourself can you!
Bumrush Day????
Not even a little bit funny,l hope you say that to a West Indian and have your racist teeth knocked out 

Nice to note that you still bark on my command.

And you'll bark again when I so wish.

[Monsieur merde de cheval]

I have family members who are part of or descendants of the 'Windrush generation'.
In my eyes, they are just people,no need to hang labels on them. My problem is with the filth we are importing who mainly end up in the big city's and London being the biggest of them all suggests that there is more filth there than anywhere else.
And yes,Khan is a despicable, lying, self obsessed piece of shit.

Until they start  to take responsibility for their own behaviour they will never have  my respect.
It's that simple.

[Monsieur merde de cheval]

Good luck to the West Indian community, yes, they got a load of stick when they arrived and a lot of that was racist and discriminatory as fuck, thankfully we have moved on from those days.

They also had the same kind of values and outlook on life, I'm not especially religious but many had strong Christain principles of right and wrong and a culture not dissimilar to that of the UK/US/Western Europe/Aus unlike some of the people we now seem to import en masse in Western countries or allow to enter illegally with a culture so different to our own its changing the whole fabric and dynamic of society and not in a good way.


 

I'm not buying it.
The Carribbean community are the main source of the knife culture in London  ...and that's on them.
It's always whiteys fault.
Now they want us to stump up the dough to fund their annual stabfest
Get to fuck

[Sydney_Iron]

Good luck to the West Indian community, yes, they got a load of stick when they arrived and a lot of that was racist and discriminatory as fuck, thankfully we have moved on from those days.

They also had the same kind of values and outlook on life, I'm not especially religious but many had strong Christain principles of right and wrong and a culture not dissimilar to that of the UK/US/Western Europe/Aus unlike some of the people we now seem to import en masse in Western countries or allow to enter illegally with a culture so different to our own its changing the whole fabric and dynamic of society and not in a good way.

 

[Monsieur merde de cheval]

OSD would celebrate Bumsrush Day if he/she thought it would get them attention.

You just can't help yourself can you!
Bumrush Day????
Not even a little bit funny,l hope you say that to a West Indian and have your racist teeth knocked out 

Do me a favour ..those planks struggle to get out of bed in the afternoon 

[Monsieur merde de cheval]

The  "carnage" will get the extra funding required from the traitors .
And when the annual chaos and DEATHS happen..it'LL be whiteys fault .
Or the OB...but fuck those sell outs ...deserve all they get 

[XKhammer]

OSD would celebrate Bumsrush Day if he/she thought it would get them attention.

You just can't help yourself can you!
Bumrush Day????
Not even a little bit funny,l hope you say that to a West Indian and have your racist teeth knocked out 

[Mike Oxsaw]

OSD would celebrate Bumsrush Day if he/she thought it would get them attention.

[only1billybonds]

I have family members who are part of or descendants of the 'Windrush generation'.
In my eyes, they are just people,no need to hang labels on them. My problem is with the filth we are importing who mainly end up in the big city's and London being the biggest of them all suggests that there is more filth there than anywhere else.
And yes,Khan is a despicable, lying, self obsessed piece of shit.

[northbankfrank]

I see One Sunny Day's racist baiting has got a couple of nibbles.

[Fauxstralian]

People who arrived on the Windrush (many of whom had fought in the war) did so in a genuine belief that they should help rebuild Britain as part of the British Empire
In many cases they were met with racism (No Irish No Blacks No Dogs) & hostility 
Topped off by Theresa May attempting to deport many of them decades later as they had arrived as children with their parents without their own documents 

ps London is still the greatest city in the world 

[Far Cough UKunt]

London is becoming a third world shithole brought on largely by that utter cսnt Khan but hey you keep believing it's some thriving metropolis.

[yngwies Cat]

WINDRUSH LINE: Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 June, no service between New Cross Gate and West Croydon / Crystal Palace. There will also be no SOUTHERN services between London Bridge and Crystal Palace / East Croydon (via Forest Hill). For New Cross Gate, use New Cross, and local buses for Penge West, Anerley and Norwood Junction. Replacement buses operate between New Cross Gate and Crystal Palace via Brockley, Honor Oak Park, Forest Hill and Sydenham.

Thank you

[only1billybonds]

The festering, dangerous third world shithole it has become.


There ya go osd, tidied that up for you.

[Takashi Miike]

"the great and thriving city it is today"

could this cսnt be any more detached from reality?