There wasn't a labour shortage. The carribean however, had rising unemployment and a rising birth rate. The Windrush was a troop ship operated for the mod by a private company, who saw an opportunity to sell tickets on a half empty troop ship. The people who bought tickets saw an opportunity and took it.
Thankfully the information was correct, well mostly. People was not forced and actually paid to come over. No idea why the bbc and itv put forward the idea they was
Wasn't there a recruitment campaign/scheme in the British West Indies to recruit workers to do menial jobs that were unpopular to many Britons at that time? I'm pretty sure I read something about it. The late 1940's, 1950's and 1960's saw the massive rebuilding of the slum housing, the British merchant navy fleet needed to replace the ships lost in the war, new industries and the modernisation of existing industries, the growth in living standards meant that there was a shortage of employees in many sectors. And the fact that several million British people emigrated to Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada and the USA as well as various other countries, all created a situation where some sectors of the economy were desperate for new employees. That is why people from the British West Indies and from Pakistan, India and the rest of the British Colonial Territories and ex colonies were actually invited to the UK. At the time, many of the inhabitants of the various Islands that made up the British West Indies were patriotic to the 'Mother Country'' and considered themselves to be British subjects both by themselves and by the UK government. And many British subjects from the West Indies, British West Africa, British East Africa, India, Ceylon, Mauritius, Cyprus, Malta, Malaya, Fiji, New Guinea etc fought for the Mother Country alongside the English, Scottish, Welsh, Northern Irish, Australian, Canadian, New Zealanders and the white South Africans, white Rhodesians, white Kenyans etc. So it's incorrect to say that they were not invited here, they were officially British subjects at that time and were invited to help rebuild their 'mother country' The Crown Colony's of Jamaica - Trinidad and Tobago - British Guiana - British Honduras - The Cayman Islands - The Turks and Caicos Islands - The Bahamas - The Windward Islands Group (Barbados/St Lucia/Grenada/St Vincent/Dominica) - The Leeward Islands Group (Antigua & Barbuda/St Kitts, Nevis & Anguilla/Montserrat/The British Virgin Islands) - were the various territories that formed the BWI around the late 1940's.
hey man i really really REALLY appreciate you didn't tell me the date the windrush came and instead just told me that it was 70 years before 2018 - you know when i watch a video about something i really want to spend extra time working out the bloody dates.
@@jonesderbyshire8787 While British people built vast ships, navigated and sailed the world spreading things that they had invented like Railways, the rule of law, medicine.. Sub-Saharan Africans hadn't even invented the wheel! British people built this country over thousands of years, it was already built when you people began arriving in the 1950s with your hands out.
"The Windrush Generation came to rebuild Britain after the war" Stayed well out of range during the war, waited three years to make sure it was safe, the came just in time for a free pair of spectacles on the NHS, what a coincidence you couldn't write that, could you.....?
Its disingenuous to try to conflate the Windrush people with the issues caused by mass immigration today. Those people came here to work and partake of "a better life". I would give them amnesty and naturalise any that wanted it. Only an imbecile, or someone who stood directly benefit, would think that an open boarders policy is a good idea. Or anything to do with the Windrush issue. Who pays for it all? Socially and economically. Those who don't have the money to isolate themselves from the backlash of the wealthy and their virtue signalling? Bill, whilst I largely agree on the principle commonwealth citizens should have the opportunity to live and work in the UK, and apply for citizenship(should they wish), and be given preferential treatment, this cannot be extended to the wider world. We should send aid where we can, but do you leave your front door open? If not, why not? Until you do, whilst living among the peoples you intend to import, you have no valid basis for your virtue signalling.
Rubbish if you did your research they were not 'invited' by the government. The first the Government heard about it was when the Windrush docked here. In fact Hansard records show that within days of their arrival there was an emergency convening of Parliament to discuss not only what to do with these people but to ascertain if they could legally prevent any further immigrants from coming. The passengers were taking advantage of cheap travel to fill empty places on a ship that was coming here anyway. The adverts were placed in Jamaica by the owners of the shipping company, nothing to do with the Government and the incentive to come to Britain was to take advantage of free entry and to try and make a better life for themselves, not to 'help rebuild Britain'...
@@johno4521 It is true. Do your research. The same thing happened in America. They needed workers in the North so they went down South asking for Black laborers to come up and fill jobs and that was during the Great migration. Anyways, the UK gov't was DESPERATE for laborers after WW2. So, they used Black Caribbean servicemen. Before them, they used displaced Europeans, but it was not enough to fill the labor vacancies. So the UK gov't opened up immigration including their colonies and had a SHIP GO to the Caribbean and pick some( often Black servicemen) and take them to the UK to fill jobs( they offered cheap transport and were recruiting people through ads) to help rebuild the post-war UK. They didn't even tell the British people they were doing that. There is a great documentary about the actual Black Caribbean servicemen who were recruited to come to the UK as part of the Windrush generation on RUclips. You are speaking of when more and more Caribbeans came over, in which, THEN the gov't started to have issues with Black migration but they started it in the first place. But in the beginning, they desperately needed Black servicemen after WW2.
Actually they weren't. And the ship operating company had to offer cheap trips to fill the Empire Windrush to avoid making a loss on the return trip. There were even stowaways on board.
Homework anyone?
Me
yep
How did you know? 😦😂
yep lmao
Yes
There wasn't a labour shortage.
The carribean however, had rising unemployment and a rising birth rate.
The Windrush was a troop ship operated for the mod by a private company, who saw an opportunity to sell tickets on a half empty troop ship.
The people who bought tickets saw an opportunity and took it.
Simon Webb talks about this on History Debumked
Thankfully the information was correct, well mostly. People was not forced and actually paid to come over. No idea why the bbc and itv put forward the idea they was
Who else thought that 0:27 was some sort of signal.
ummm pretty sure that was 100 seconds...
i'm with u on that one!
No it was 2 minutes
@@rishei4748 but do the last 20 seconds of 'subscribe here' and 'Donald Trump' really count as info on the Windrush?
Rishei woah how’d I get that so far off lmao
Ooooo wait nope it is 100 cause after 100 seconds it’s just like sayin subscribe and stuff
To be clear... they were never invited here...!
Wasn't there a recruitment campaign/scheme in the British West Indies to recruit workers to do menial jobs that were unpopular to many Britons at that time? I'm pretty sure I read something about it.
The late 1940's, 1950's and 1960's saw the massive rebuilding of the slum housing, the British merchant navy fleet needed to replace the ships lost in the war, new industries and the modernisation of existing industries, the growth in living standards meant that there was a shortage of employees in many sectors.
And the fact that several million British people emigrated to Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada and the USA as well as various other countries, all created a situation where some sectors of the economy were desperate for new employees.
That is why people from the British West Indies and from Pakistan, India and the rest of the British Colonial Territories and ex colonies were actually invited to the UK.
At the time, many of the inhabitants of the various Islands that made up the British West Indies were patriotic to the 'Mother Country'' and considered themselves to be British subjects both by themselves and by the UK government.
And many British subjects from the West Indies, British West Africa, British East Africa, India, Ceylon, Mauritius, Cyprus, Malta, Malaya, Fiji, New Guinea etc fought for the Mother Country alongside the English, Scottish, Welsh, Northern Irish, Australian, Canadian, New Zealanders and the white South Africans, white Rhodesians, white Kenyans etc.
So it's incorrect to say that they were not invited here, they were officially British subjects at that time and were invited to help rebuild their 'mother country'
The Crown Colony's of Jamaica - Trinidad and Tobago - British Guiana - British Honduras - The Cayman Islands - The Turks and Caicos Islands - The Bahamas - The Windward Islands Group (Barbados/St Lucia/Grenada/St Vincent/Dominica) - The Leeward Islands Group (Antigua & Barbuda/St Kitts, Nevis & Anguilla/Montserrat/The British Virgin Islands) - were the various territories that formed the BWI around the late 1940's.
hey man i really really REALLY appreciate you didn't tell me the date the windrush came
and instead just told me that it was 70 years before 2018 -
you know when i watch a video about something i really want to spend extra time working out the bloody dates.
0:26
Matthew hi
Research?
Gosh such tricky arithmetic for you 😆
Lol! It shouldn't have taken you more than half a second to work that out in your head!🤦
The British people were never asked.
Asked of what... Caribbean people built this country remember that!! And you will remember and pay
@@jonesderbyshire8787 While British people built vast ships, navigated and sailed the world spreading things that they had invented like Railways, the rule of law, medicine.. Sub-Saharan Africans hadn't even invented the wheel! British people built this country over thousands of years, it was already built when you people began arriving in the 1950s with your hands out.
@@jonesderbyshire8787 Haha was Britain in kit form in 1948? You utter fool.
@@EvanEvans9 “indigenous British people” that’s what we are. We need to claim that title
@@enzedbrit what does the Saxon in Anglo Saxon mean?
Who were the Angles? As in Anglo?
good job
yep
who allowed this migration?
Britain did, then changed its mind before the ship docked
My great grandad is top left no cap
What time
oh really cool (and i like your pdp btw lol)
Big respect to your great grandfather
Can someone please give me a resume of the video
Haha no u had to work
This is how my family came to England
Get out, you aren’t welcome.
Ik
What a bunch of lies
Of course
Nul mitroglou nul!!!
MAIS OUI C'EST CLAIR
La Congolexicomatisation!
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soy de acuerdo
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You've been ripped off: ruclips.net/video/rx94XhDUTFk/видео.html
Feel free to report them.
"The Windrush Generation came to rebuild Britain after the war"
Stayed well out of range during the war, waited three years to make sure it was safe, the came just in time for a free pair of spectacles on the NHS, what a coincidence you couldn't write that, could you.....?
96 seconds… this is fraud
😂
Hide ya monies!
Jamaican people have a better hairline than me
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Llce
600th like! :D
Good video
Yes
MDRRRRRRRRR TROP DROLE
UK should have open boarders because of their history. #UK-for-all
Bill you mean because of all the lands they colonized around the world?..if so I agree
Its disingenuous to try to conflate the Windrush people with the issues caused by mass immigration today. Those people came here to work and partake of "a better life". I would give them amnesty and naturalise any that wanted it.
Only an imbecile, or someone who stood directly benefit, would think that an open boarders policy is a good idea. Or anything to do with the Windrush issue. Who pays for it all? Socially and economically. Those who don't have the money to isolate themselves from the backlash of the wealthy and their virtue signalling?
Bill, whilst I largely agree on the principle commonwealth citizens should have the opportunity to live and work in the UK, and apply for citizenship(should they wish), and be given preferential treatment, this cannot be extended to the wider world. We should send aid where we can, but do you leave your front door open? If not, why not? Until you do, whilst living among the peoples you intend to import, you have no valid basis for your virtue signalling.
Learn to spell Bill
There shouldn't be borders
@@diasporaafortiori5180 Ok and you shouldn’t have a lock on your door
British was BEGGING them to come over because they desperately needed labor.
Rubbish if you did your research they were not 'invited' by the government. The first the Government heard about it was when the Windrush docked here.
In fact Hansard records show that within days of their arrival there was an emergency convening of Parliament to discuss not only what to do with these people but to ascertain if they could legally prevent any further immigrants from coming.
The passengers were taking advantage of cheap travel to fill empty places on a ship that was coming here anyway. The adverts were placed in Jamaica by the owners of the shipping company, nothing to do with the Government and the incentive to come to Britain was to take advantage of free entry and to try and make a better life for themselves, not to 'help rebuild Britain'...
@@johno4521 It is true. Do your research. The same thing happened in America. They needed workers in the North so they went down South asking for Black laborers to come up and fill jobs and that was during the Great migration. Anyways, the UK gov't was DESPERATE for laborers after WW2. So, they used Black Caribbean servicemen. Before them, they used displaced Europeans, but it was not enough to fill the labor vacancies. So the UK gov't opened up immigration including their colonies and had a SHIP GO to the Caribbean and pick some( often Black servicemen) and take them to the UK to fill jobs( they offered cheap transport and were recruiting people through ads) to help rebuild the post-war UK. They didn't even tell the British people they were doing that. There is a great documentary about the actual Black Caribbean servicemen who were recruited to come to the UK as part of the Windrush generation on RUclips. You are speaking of when more and more Caribbeans came over, in which, THEN the gov't started to have issues with Black migration but they started it in the first place. But in the beginning, they desperately needed Black servicemen after WW2.
@@peacehappyb237 well said mate
Actually they weren't. And the ship operating company had to offer cheap trips to fill the Empire Windrush to avoid making a loss on the return trip. There were even stowaways on board.
@@williamrutter4058 go do your homework you scruff