Windrush scandal

So that means if, let's say, the National Care Service starts operation tomorrow, as, you know, a- as being, as it's been envisioned, you're gonna have a lot of people from our communities move over to this service because this is something that they're already doing.

And so my, my, my, my question when, when I look at it, I'm like, huh, you know, this is almost like when, uh, the people from, from, from the other Commonwealth, the Caribbean were brought in on the HM Windrush to come set up, um, well, to rebuild Britain after, after, after the Second World War.

Yeah.

And I'm just wondering, with 22% of people in our communities already being in the, in the care service, in the care sector, working for less pay than their NHS counterparts, who someone on band three, for instance, in, in, in, in, who is a care worker earns less than someone who's in the NHS, uh, on the same band.

But it- is this-- Is there, is, is, is there a fear that this is the new or this might, in the wrong hand, turn into the Windrush, where a generation has been brought, although this generation is here already, to set up a service to get it moving, but somewhere along the line, um, they are told, "Go back to where you're from," or should we have hope?

Yeah.

No, thank you for that.

But, but, so, and, and so y-you, to go back to the, to the, um, issue of the National Care Service.

The first was 1948.

So after World War II, we had the Windrush generation come from Jamaica.

And actually, they were not even invited.

It's well known that the Labour MP of Labour Prime Minister of everyone actually tried to divert that Windrush ship away from Britain and towards East Africa.

So we had a wave of immigrants coming from what was called the New Commonwealth, i.e. the former colonies or you can call them the Third World, they came to Britain uninvited and in that same year 1948 we had the British Nationality Act which removed what it meant for someone like myself, an indigenous English person, to hold my status as an English person, they said, under this British Nationality Act, anyone can be British, so you didn't even have to be English, Irish, Scottish or Welsh.

They did this to dilute our sense of identity, the native indigenous people of Britain, to include absolutely anyone.

Welcome to the Proper British History Podcast.

Now let's separate the history we can actually establish from the myth that grew around the Windrush generation.

Picture London in 1948, factories still crackling from wartime production, ration books still stamped, and a nation trying to rebuild its shattered economy while simultaneously looking down at an ocean of ships arriving with people who would become the heart of post-war Britain.

One such ship was the HMT Empire Windrush, which carried more than a thousand West Indian passengers from Jamaica, Trinidad, Bermuda, and beyond to Tilbury on the 21st of June 1948.

That arrival symbolized a deliberate policy decision.

The British Nationality Act of 1948 gave every Commonwealth citizen the right to work in Britain, turning colonial citizenship into a practical passport.

multicultural festivals, but only after decades of struggle and negotiation with local councils and police.

Fast-forward to the 21st century.