What a wonderful man who gave his entire life to this country. Everyone affected by this deserves an apology and compensation. And most importantly, for this to never be forgotten so it doesn't happen again.
Thank you for introducing us to this wonderful man. One thing that I hate about this country is the complete lack of compassion, empathy and generosity towards people who have suffered because of official errors and incompentence. I'd like all the victims of recent scandals - Windrush, Post Office, contaminated blood products, plus those wrongly convicted of crimes - to be given full recompense of the losses they were caused together with a truly generous amount of compensation, and I'd like it to be done very soon.
Except that some politicians have their own egos to defend, politicians who don't want to be seen as having made a mistake and to have covered it up and delayed justice for decades. They're the ones with the friends in high places, the ones who have wilfully made a bad situation worse and are still continuing to do so.
& Grenfell 💚 those poor people suffered & teresa may p.m at the time , the one who engineered & enforced the racist windrush policy also didnt face those familes in public nor the general public ,.she hid away in no.10. & promised the survivors they would be rehomed within weeks, but some were still in crappy completely unsuitable hotels for years..some were there for 7+ yrs..these tragedys & scandals are deliberate displays of gory tory racism & hatred by the tory gov..& the refusal to have anyone in positions of power & responsability face criminal prosecution.
@@saoirsehaslonglegs2313 I strongly agree. This is definitely another scandal that hasn't been dealt with justly, either towards the victims or towards those responsible. There are probably lots of other examples throughout the country, but with just a few victims or even just one, that don't get much publicity.
Well said. I believe you should treat others how you'd like to be treated yourself. Would the Government like to be treated as they've treated the victims of all of these scandals? I think not.
There isn't a day that goes by when I don't think about the Windrush Scandal and particularly Theresa May who signed off the "hostile environment policy" during her time as Home Secretary. Horrific & Shocking. Thank you for creating this video and bringing more awareness to the plight of these British citizens.
This is an absolute f***ing disgrace! It's also happening to their modern day counterparts, men and women who have come from all over the commonwealth, serving in our forces and getting treated like scum once they are discharged.
Hi - they were given home rule and their own nations my friend. White working class people have never had the special privileges of DEI programmes, race based scholarships and representation via skin colour or religion. If you want to start a history of the oppressed then why not start with the peasants here.
Well done LBD 👏👏👏. A shameful betrayal which, as the gentleman says, they hope will simply peter out as the number of those left alive steadily dwindles. We see the same time and time again in the post office scandal and the 1950s women. Never let them get away with this.
Couldnt agree more. Also with the ending sentiment. My god can we please add the British Empire to the curriculum at schools!! It played a massive part in shaping modern western civilization for gods sake, for good and bad. And we learn absolutely nothing about it! Its ridiculous and infuriating. Spent a whole year on the roman empire yet i dont remember our own empire even being mentioned!
we learn about world wars and internal history, but arguably the most important aspect of british history is strangely absent. Maybe the conservative party don't want any kids to learn about what it truly was so they can hark back to it uncritically. To focus on the history of empire would bring up a lot of ethical questions that would reflect poorly on certain modern policy decisions
idk about you but when I was in Year 8 (2018/19) we did a whole topic on the British Empire and the East India Trading Company that covered it quite well.
@@PBI45 did you!? Can I ask did you go to a private school? Because I can assure you sir that is incredibly rare and you are in a tiny minority to be taught that.
I love this country, and loving this country means stomaching our problems for our country's good and not blindly following the whims of racist politicians.
precisely. Loving your country doesn't mean sweeping all the shit under the jug, it means loving the art, the music, the literature, the invention, the customs and the architecture as well as acknowledging the slavery, exploitation of child labour, atrocious health and callous "self reliance" culture.
@ChucklesMcGurk People, typically populists and fascists, try to claim you can only be a patriot on their terms but in reality you can be a patriot and still be informed and critical. If your patriotism is fair weathered and only survives by thinking the country you love has never and could never be wrong then yes it's foolish. But if your patriotism is unflinching then you can have nuanced beliefs that encompass the entirety of a nation.
Nothing made me more ashamed of the UK than Windrush, not even Partygate. And for all the sympathy Theresa May gets for being ousted - she started it, so good enough for her
Sidney's dignity should be an illustration to all of us about just how easy it is for us to forget our history & slip into casual racism. This government should be ashamed about how it has sought to make immigration a "wedge" issue, instead of dealing with the issues it creates, in a adult & civilised manner.
The idea of teaching British colonial history is a great one. As a son of Irish immigrants I went to the best Catholic grammar school in Birmingham but in all my years there where I studied history to A level I was taught all about Henry the eighth and absolutely bugger all about the interlinked history of the British empire and Ireland The knowledge of the average British person about the British involvement in Ireland is an absolute joke and the ignorance of the partition of Ireland has been a major factor in the Troubles breaking out and continuing so long. I went to school with west Indian lads and my Mammy, a midwifery Sister for over 25 years in the NHS, had the privilege of working with some wonderful west Indian nurses who went on to become firm family friends. Again I was taught nothing about the West Indies or the Windrush generation. Labour need to watch this chap and implement the requests asap Kieran Kelly
Yes, I hear you and I'm a Black Brummie but you have to acknowledge what Ireland did in the past too! Involvement in Genocides in America,Australia and Africa and that is not taught in Irish schools or colleges just what Britain did and that She is the enemy! Nothing about the rape,scalpings castrations and untold barbaric deeds in the slaughter of Native peoples aforementioned! The Irish portray themselves as hard done by by The British when they were just as bad if not worse! Furthermore,up to today Ireland still has no legislation on racism on the island so it is literally not prohibited to racially abuse or racially attack someone there, an absolute disgrace as racist attacks were up 48% long before the Dublin riots in October/November I think it was, last year!
You Tube, why do you persist on removing my posts? Absolutely pathetic behaviour whilst you allow untold racist and xenophobic dogshit to sully the platform! Pathetic!
The Irish were involved in Genocides in America,Australia and Africa , this nauseating portrayal of the Irish being hard done by by The British when they were equally as barbaric galls my stones!
Couldn't agree with this more. Two of my best mates are half-Irish, went to extremely good schools (we wuz smart kids n shiet), not a WORD on any of this. It was embarrassing. The closest we got to examining any issues of this kind was a limp-wrist debate on whether dropping the A-bombs was justified. That was 70 years ago (at the time)! What about a debate on Vietnam? The Falklands? Iraq? Afghanistan? Thatcherism? It's like we wait for history to be dead and buried before unearthing it again when it's no longer relevant to anyone. It's a terrible disservice to both the people that suffered and to wider society at large.
Yet another case of kicking the can down the road until it rusts away. I know Labour has a big job ahead of them but surely they can do as this gentleman requests.
I've seen some comments say, the past was the past so all the stuff the UK did is now irrelevant. Unbelievable. It's like these people deserve the same treatment, so their perpetrators after time get away with it. And we live in a world that people know know after time it will be forgotten.
this makes me ashamed to be british, not because of the cruelty of the home office and tory party… we know they are evil… but that this has been going in for over 10 years destroying lives and my country as a whole does not give a shit.
Thankyou for the decades of service be it as a pilot or a worker on our public transport , your effort helped make life better for many , i am happy to pay to you the debt of gratitude , you are what makes this place we call home great
Thankyou sir for all you have done for the uk i am disgusted qbout the Windrush scandal and ut should be sorted out straight away with a new government and compensation awarded
Sir, Thankyou for your service, and hearty congratulations upon attainment of your rank. Clearly a credit to you, and to the RAF for seeing your potential. Your wider experience is a matter of the greatest shame upon our country, and especially this shower of clowns we are blessed with to govern us. I wish you a long and fulfilling life, with ample compensation. God bless you. Bob Freestone, One time Petty Officer in Naval uniform and Latterly Lieutenant, 6th Bttn, Royal Anglian Regiment.
Thanks and gratitude are not enough for the windrush generation. You should be honoured AND paid for your service and contribution. Everyone in this country should hold the next government to account on this matter.
The British? Just the British? I'm not aware of any nation in the entire world that behaves differently. Some people might call that a "racist" comment.
@@tommymorrison6478No, bud. They call comments of your type “whataboutism”. You aren’t denying the position, you’re deflecting. Just pipe down and leave the talking to the adults.
@@stephenwakeman3074 Thank you for your crude attempt to patronise. It helps me to immediately assess the calibre of the person attacking me: and treat him accordingly. Goodbye.
Never mind the fact that all those who lied it over others with their generational wealth are the ones who got there by exploiting the lower classes, immigrants, and let’s not forget actual slavery. And if we’re honest, they still are, with a monopolised media trying to tell those being exploited that it’s all their own fault. Gaslighting on a global scale.
Most Brits know nothing about our colonial history! Beyond a large part of the globe/maps having once been coloured red. They, like me, were taught nothing about it at school.
Amen to that, brother: people need to be educated. There are too many trolls on the internet spreading the falsehood that people like this great man Sidney here and my parents did nothing for this country and only took jobs away from 'the British people', forgetting that they are from former British colonies and were British with British passports when they came here. It would suit these trolls that people forget the great contribution the Commonwealth countries have made to the UK, with the Commonwealth Institute in London being turned into a design centre and millenials and Gen Z being suitably distracted by online gaming and shopping to care.
We should be learning about this instead of the freaking Tudors. Who cares how many wives Henry VIII had? It is absolutely irrelevant to anything, whereas these big problems continue to impact people's lives today. Another example, some of my Irish classmates (growing up in London) never properly knew about the severity of the potato famine nor the brutality of the English occupation of Ireland. It wasn't taught at all (even though allegedly it's supposed to be, legislatively!) - they had to find out themselves, much later, either by chance reading or by having the good fortune of half-decent lecturers at uni. But not everyone gets to go to uni, not everyone can afford to, and it certainly shouldn't be left to chance. We should all be properly educated on the cruelty and travesty of colonial history, because otherwise how are we going to make amends for the damages wrought, and build the foundations for a better and fairer future?
I think Netflix should commission a film about both the Windrush generation & Grenville towers as they did with the Post Office scandle and perhaps something would get done.
If you find it "unbelievable" consider that the fault is with you and your own naivety. Britain is in fact the 19th least corrupt country in the world, on a scale that runs to 178 nations, ie. there are 159 countries more corrupt.
Great piece, thanks. There is nothing British or patriotic about scapegoating or maligning people of a different skin colour or religious faith. We have had decades, even centuries, of immigrants to the UK not least because at one time we militarily conquered and subjugated most other countries across the world. It's past the time for our politicians to start behaving like adults and stop discriminating against minority communities for any reason and spreading hate and discontent. As a nation we are surely better than that and we owe a debt of gratitude to anyone who has come to this country and contributed like this gentleman.
It's important to remember he was a British subject at birth, and arrived to England as a British national. He was born before the British Nationality Act 1948 which redefined British subject as a citizen of the UK. It's almost a quibble but people didn't think of themselves as immigrating to the UK since they'd been British their whole lives. Sure they were coming from an overseas island but it's not like being born on the Isle of Wight meant you weren't British. The only difference in their minds was distance not nationality.
I thank this gentlemen for his service, for his bravery and for the great contribution to our society made by the Windrush generation and their descendants. The Windrush scandal is a national disgrace. To my fellow UK voters: please vote tactically to defeat the Conservative candidate in your area, so we can have a government that will actually fix this.
So many native British people treated the Windrush immigrants with such callous disregard it's shameful. Now we owe them in so many ways and this business should be settled quickly to try and maintain some dignity for all concerned.
As a 71 year old veteran I’m ashamed this hasn’t been sorted and praying that the next government sorts it within their first term in office. Our children need to learn the history of our country, warts and all, nothing brushed under the carpet.
Not even their first term. When there is a genuine will to resolve issues like this it can be done in the first year. Status and rights can be corrected overnight. Basic action to ensure all pensions and benefits are being paid can be completed in months. The rest will take a little longer. I recall Windrush children joining our schools in the 60s and 70s. Then the Pakistanis and Indians who followed in the 70s. Every one of their parents worked and many were involved in civic activities to integrate. Telling both parents and children GB isn't their home is as bad as the old No Black's, No Irish signs used in the 50s and 60s for vacant property.
That the way the game tends to work drag it out till most if not all are dead . They may prosecute the people at the pol and if they do that will take decades . It's an old game .
My aunt once told me that a patient asked her if we still swing on trees! She said yes, and when you pass we sh!t on your head. Ppl still drop the coins in your hand and I reciprocate 😉
Being white and British I'm so ashamed by the way these lovely people are treated, some of them are true heroes all I can say not all Brits would treat you so bad, shame on numerous governments.
Support Justice4Windrush .. please don't feel ashamed, share the momentum to create change. We were poorly educated about colonialism and our national curriculum needs changing to educate future generations to understand that we are all a massive mixture of peoples from around the world. Whatever our colour, ethnicity or belief structure .. we are all human x
Stop it. There’s two sides to this story. There are a lot of dangerous people here who don’t appreciate your shame - they see it as weakness and play on it. We need a system that is fair, consistent and effective.
Democracy's effectiveness heavily relies on the education system that supports it. Without a well-informed public, true democratic participation is compromised. Corporate influence has long tainted politics, with powerful businesses controlling decisions that should serve the people. The societal structures we live in today were crafted by the wealthy, for their benefit, long before any of us were born. Labeling each other only deepens divisions, emphasizing differences instead of our shared humanity. It's crucial to teach young people the realities of how the world works, arming them with knowledge to navigate and challenge these systems. Voting for elite, privately-educated candidates often results in empty promises and continued dissatisfaction. The political system was shaped by the upper class, for their own benefit, and it is primarily them who continue to benefit from it. Immigrants, fleeing from countries devastated by powerful nations, are marginalized and forced to seek refuge in those very same nations responsible for their plight. These flaws highlight the urgent need for systemic change to truly serve all people.
I don’t criticise my country’s colonial, racist, exploitative past and present because I *hate* my country; I do it because I love it and want it to be better than it is. We have so much potential to be a good and loving land, with so many beautiful hearts and souls - and it’s sidelined by corrupting money and sickly power.
Except it’s all we hear about and that’s dangerous. It’s dangerous because the British empire was also the most progressive empire in history and played a large part in giving birth to the modern world. Including the western liberal values underpinning it. It’s dangerous because when faced with a confident but oppressive ideology vs an apologetic and embarrassed country, which do you think is going to win out because one will. Power abhors a vacuum. You will end up destroying our country. You are causing moral confusion all round. Not only among young Muslims but also uneducated people on the right like those expelled from Reform for praising the Blackshirts. Because here’s the thing. If you’re going to label the man who got our country to stand up to fascism a white supremacist, attack his statue and in general misrepresent our history, then don’t be too surprised if there are folks asking which side we should have been on. Thankfully they’re still rare as I find them repugnant but you should understand that the harder the left push the culture war, the harder the right will push back and there is such a thing as unintended consequences.
We owe these people who came here after WW2 not just our thanks, but also the right to live decently, safely and with security in the UK with no questions over their status as British citizens. As a country in the 21st century, we can and should be better than our past which is frankly of little credit to us much of the time. We are more than capable of building a worthwhile multinational country that will be home to those we brought here, invited here and permitted to settle here in addition to ourselves. It's about time we built that country.
God bless this man. God bless British citizens inside and outside the UK and everyone who will remind the others what is wrong. And damn the bastards who want us to shut up and ‘get over it’.
Yes you are correct Mr Sidney but it is never taught in schools. If it was there would be much less racism and more understanding of what the people from the colonies did for the UK. Education is the key to everything. I hope you live well beyond 90 and continue to enjoy life.
We should be taking care of our own people, these are our own people. Our government should be ashamed and the next government needs to sort this out right away
German here. I just learned of this checking out Led by Donkeys. This is absolutely horrible and deeply racist! I really hope people receive the compensation they deserve. The perpetrators of this horrible unlawful racist agenda getting away scot free... It breaks the heart.
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What a wonderful man who gave his entire life to this country. Everyone affected by this deserves an apology and compensation. And most importantly, for this to never be forgotten so it doesn't happen again.
I agree but I think your sentiment could even be improved if you changed "this country" to "his country" in the first sentence.
Thank you for introducing us to this wonderful man.
One thing that I hate about this country is the complete lack of compassion, empathy and generosity towards people who have suffered because of official errors and incompentence. I'd like all the victims of recent scandals - Windrush, Post Office, contaminated blood products, plus those wrongly convicted of crimes - to be given full recompense of the losses they were caused together with a truly generous amount of compensation, and I'd like it to be done very soon.
Except that some politicians have their own egos to defend, politicians who don't want to be seen as having made a mistake and to have covered it up and delayed justice for decades. They're the ones with the friends in high places, the ones who have wilfully made a bad situation worse and are still continuing to do so.
& Grenfell 💚 those poor people suffered & teresa may p.m at the time , the one who engineered & enforced the racist windrush policy also didnt face those familes in public nor the general public ,.she hid away in no.10. & promised the survivors they would be rehomed within weeks, but some were still in crappy completely unsuitable hotels for years..some were there for 7+ yrs..these tragedys & scandals are deliberate displays of gory tory racism & hatred by the tory gov..& the refusal to have anyone in positions of power & responsability face criminal prosecution.
@@saoirsehaslonglegs2313 I strongly agree. This is definitely another scandal that hasn't been dealt with justly, either towards the victims or towards those responsible. There are probably lots of other examples throughout the country, but with just a few victims or even just one, that don't get much publicity.
Well said. I believe you should treat others how you'd like to be treated yourself.
Would the Government like to be treated as they've treated the victims of all of these scandals? I think not.
There isn't a day that goes by when I don't think about the Windrush Scandal and particularly Theresa May who signed off the "hostile environment policy" during her time as Home Secretary. Horrific & Shocking. Thank you for creating this video and bringing more awareness to the plight of these British citizens.
She was the main instigator,along with Cameron who hid behind her,of this shameful episode ,such a devout Xtian too /sarc.
This is an absolute f***ing disgrace! It's also happening to their modern day counterparts, men and women who have come from all over the commonwealth, serving in our forces and getting treated like scum once they are discharged.
Hi - they were given home rule and their own nations my friend. White working class people have never had the special privileges of DEI programmes, race based scholarships and representation via skin colour or religion. If you want to start a history of the oppressed then why not start with the peasants here.
Well done LBD 👏👏👏. A shameful betrayal which, as the gentleman says, they hope will simply peter out as the number of those left alive steadily dwindles.
We see the same time and time again in the post office scandal and the 1950s women.
Never let them get away with this.
Couldnt agree more. Also with the ending sentiment. My god can we please add the British Empire to the curriculum at schools!! It played a massive part in shaping modern western civilization for gods sake, for good and bad. And we learn absolutely nothing about it! Its ridiculous and infuriating. Spent a whole year on the roman empire yet i dont remember our own empire even being mentioned!
Need to shut all the anti anglo rubbish down. Anglos are the victims as we are being replaced.
we learn about world wars and internal history, but arguably the most important aspect of british history is strangely absent. Maybe the conservative party don't want any kids to learn about what it truly was so they can hark back to it uncritically. To focus on the history of empire would bring up a lot of ethical questions that would reflect poorly on certain modern policy decisions
idk about you but when I was in Year 8 (2018/19) we did a whole topic on the British Empire and the East India Trading Company that covered it quite well.
@@PBI45 did you!? Can I ask did you go to a private school? Because I can assure you sir that is incredibly rare and you are in a tiny minority to be taught that.
@@midnightwolfee2128 no just a normal state school, it was a bit of a surprise but yeah, they taught us that for about 3 months
Very powerful, thank you. Please make an updated video on the latest disgraceful events on the Stephen Lawrence situation.
Thank you, Mr Macfarlane, to you and to all those who gave so much to the UK
I love this country, and loving this country means stomaching our problems for our country's good and not blindly following the whims of racist politicians.
Abolish Monarchy. End caste system. Return to Europe. Start to love this country.
@@uksubversion If that is for the best, then God as my witness I'll fight to the death for it.
precisely. Loving your country doesn't mean sweeping all the shit under the jug, it means loving the art, the music, the literature, the invention, the customs and the architecture as well as acknowledging the slavery, exploitation of child labour, atrocious health and callous "self reliance" culture.
you can start by going back where you came from "mooohammed"
@@pass-the-juice England is my home
Thank you for your service. 🇯🇲 is forever in my heart.❤
Phenomenal, whole heartedly agree. It's been long enough for the country to step back from it's past and tell it from both sides.
Thank you for your service sir. It is a shameful situation which should never have happened 😢. Government needs to put this right. Now.
I salute you Sir. A true patriot and a good man.
@ChucklesMcGurkA fool? Maybe, but even if so that fool did so in the belief it kept us safe in our beds. Hero.
@ChucklesMcGurk "A patriot is the worst fool there is"
Except for the fool who thinks that patriotism must be someone's only motivation.
@ChucklesMcGurk People, typically populists and fascists, try to claim you can only be a patriot on their terms but in reality you can be a patriot and still be informed and critical. If your patriotism is fair weathered and only survives by thinking the country you love has never and could never be wrong then yes it's foolish. But if your patriotism is unflinching then you can have nuanced beliefs that encompass the entirety of a nation.
@ChucklesMcGurkThat’s the Brexit loons Chuck.
Algorithm. Thank you Sidney for telling your story, and LBD for platforming it.
Nothing made me more ashamed of the UK than Windrush, not even Partygate. And for all the sympathy Theresa May gets for being ousted - she started it, so good enough for her
She was a nasty piece of work just like all the Tories over the last 14 years.
She deserves nothing but contempt for her role in the Windrush affair,a nasty rascist not to mention an utterly incompetant PM too.
Im also here for the bot. More people need to see LBD.❤
Sidney's dignity should be an illustration to all of us about just how easy it is for us to forget our history & slip into casual racism. This government should be ashamed about how it has sought to make immigration a "wedge" issue, instead of dealing with the issues it creates, in a adult & civilised manner.
You can expect no more from a fascist racist bunch like the Tories and Reform. God help us from what lies head
The idea of teaching British colonial history is a great one. As a son of Irish immigrants I went to the best Catholic grammar school in Birmingham but in all my years there where I studied history to A level I was taught all about Henry the eighth and absolutely bugger all about the interlinked history of the British empire and Ireland
The knowledge of the average British person about the British involvement in Ireland is an absolute joke and the ignorance of the partition of Ireland has been a major factor in the Troubles breaking out and continuing so long. I went to school with west Indian lads and my Mammy, a midwifery Sister for over 25 years in the NHS, had the privilege of working with some wonderful west Indian nurses who went on to become firm family friends. Again I was taught nothing about the West Indies or the Windrush generation.
Labour need to watch this chap and implement the requests asap
Kieran Kelly
Yes, I hear you and I'm a Black Brummie but you have to acknowledge what Ireland did in the past too!
Involvement in Genocides in America,Australia and Africa and that is not taught in Irish schools or colleges just what Britain did and that She is the enemy!
Nothing about the rape,scalpings castrations and untold barbaric deeds in the slaughter of Native peoples aforementioned!
The Irish portray themselves as hard done by by The British when they were just as bad if not worse!
Furthermore,up to today Ireland still has no legislation on racism on the island so it is literally not prohibited to racially abuse or racially attack someone there, an absolute disgrace as racist attacks were up 48% long before the Dublin riots in October/November I think it was, last year!
You Tube, why do you persist on removing my posts? Absolutely pathetic behaviour whilst you allow untold racist and xenophobic dogshit to sully the platform!
Pathetic!
The Irish were involved in Genocides in America,Australia and Africa , this nauseating portrayal of the Irish being hard done by by The British when they were equally as barbaric galls my stones!
Couldn't agree with this more. Two of my best mates are half-Irish, went to extremely good schools (we wuz smart kids n shiet), not a WORD on any of this. It was embarrassing. The closest we got to examining any issues of this kind was a limp-wrist debate on whether dropping the A-bombs was justified. That was 70 years ago (at the time)! What about a debate on Vietnam? The Falklands? Iraq? Afghanistan? Thatcherism? It's like we wait for history to be dead and buried before unearthing it again when it's no longer relevant to anyone. It's a terrible disservice to both the people that suffered and to wider society at large.
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Yet another case of kicking the can down the road until it rusts away. I know Labour has a big job ahead of them but surely they can do as this gentleman requests.
Algorithm positivity, love this channel and the work you all do.
100% agree with sentiments expressed. Time to get the donkeys out so issues such as Windrush can be properly dealt with.
I've seen some comments say, the past was the past so all the stuff the UK did is now irrelevant. Unbelievable. It's like these people deserve the same treatment, so their perpetrators after time get away with it. And we live in a world that people know know after time it will be forgotten.
I'm so sorry this is happening to this gentleman, I thank him for his service . Its truly disgusting behaviour by the UK government ....just vile
Thank you for everything you have done. You deserve better.
Why hasn't this channel have more subscribers?
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Because it's not the only place to access their videos - they're available across social media outlets.
@@kenj9181 That's an argument to state there should be more subscribers!
this makes me ashamed to be british, not because of the cruelty of the home office and tory party… we know they are evil… but that this has been going in for over 10 years destroying lives and my country as a whole does not give a shit.
Think you're missing an extra 0 there friend, but definitely agree
don't be ashamed, help fight for justice x
@@chavzone your cofligrating the issues relating to my fellow citizens for which i have agency to history where i have non.
It goes above government, it's the Establishment who make the decisions...
Yep. I don't expect any better from our governments but the collective shrug from the public is a disgrace.
First of all, thank you for your service. Secondly, I hope Labour have the decency to quickly resolve this injustice.
Thankyou for the decades of service be it as a pilot or a worker on our public transport , your effort helped make life better for many , i am happy to pay to you the debt of gratitude , you are what makes this place we call home great
This man is a hero of the British people. So many despicable things done by the Tories.
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Thankyou sir for all you have done for the uk i am disgusted qbout the Windrush scandal and ut should be sorted out straight away with a new government and compensation awarded
Sir, Thankyou for your service, and hearty congratulations upon attainment of your rank. Clearly a credit to you, and to the RAF for seeing your potential.
Your wider experience is a matter of the greatest shame upon our country, and especially this shower of clowns we are blessed with to govern us.
I wish you a long and fulfilling life, with ample compensation.
God bless you.
Bob Freestone,
One time Petty Officer in Naval uniform and
Latterly Lieutenant, 6th Bttn, Royal Anglian Regiment.
Just a positive comment for the algorithm
I agree wholeheartedly.
Nothing about the Gentleman's service......?Great stuff!
@@HarryFlowerrs why so negative? Do you need a hug?
@@Rachel_M_ Why couldn't you have been positive about the Gentleman's service?
@@HarryFlowerrs is it a legal requirement to?
Or do we live in a free country?
Why are you so authoritarian?
Thanks and gratitude are not enough for the windrush generation. You should be honoured AND paid for your service and contribution. Everyone in this country should hold the next government to account
on this matter.
Thank you LBD and Squadron Leader McFarlane for reminding me that the Windrush scandal is far from over.
The British love to talk about our colonial history except the bits we don’t love to talk about.
The British? Just the British? I'm not aware of any nation in the entire world that behaves differently. Some people might call that a "racist" comment.
@@tommymorrison6478No, bud. They call comments of your type “whataboutism”. You aren’t denying the position, you’re deflecting. Just pipe down and leave the talking to the adults.
@@stephenwakeman3074 Thank you for your crude attempt to patronise. It helps me to immediately assess the calibre of the person attacking me: and treat him accordingly. Goodbye.
Never mind the fact that all those who lied it over others with their generational wealth are the ones who got there by exploiting the lower classes, immigrants, and let’s not forget actual slavery. And if we’re honest, they still are, with a monopolised media trying to tell those being exploited that it’s all their own fault. Gaslighting on a global scale.
Most Brits know nothing about our colonial history! Beyond a large part of the globe/maps having once been coloured red. They, like me, were taught nothing about it at school.
Amen to that, brother: people need to be educated. There are too many trolls on the internet spreading the falsehood that people like this great man Sidney here and my parents did nothing for this country and only took jobs away from 'the British people', forgetting that they are from former British colonies and were British with British passports when they came here. It would suit these trolls that people forget the great contribution the Commonwealth countries have made to the UK, with the Commonwealth Institute in London being turned into a design centre and millenials and Gen Z being suitably distracted by online gaming and shopping to care.
Teach this history in schools!
Thank you for your service
We should be learning about this instead of the freaking Tudors. Who cares how many wives Henry VIII had? It is absolutely irrelevant to anything, whereas these big problems continue to impact people's lives today.
Another example, some of my Irish classmates (growing up in London) never properly knew about the severity of the potato famine nor the brutality of the English occupation of Ireland. It wasn't taught at all (even though allegedly it's supposed to be, legislatively!) - they had to find out themselves, much later, either by chance reading or by having the good fortune of half-decent lecturers at uni.
But not everyone gets to go to uni, not everyone can afford to, and it certainly shouldn't be left to chance. We should all be properly educated on the cruelty and travesty of colonial history, because otherwise how are we going to make amends for the damages wrought, and build the foundations for a better and fairer future?
I couldn't agree more! We need to change the curriculum .. potato famine being one ... x
Love this channel, keep on going
I think Netflix should commission a film about both the Windrush generation & Grenville towers as they did with the Post Office scandle and perhaps something would get done.
Windrush and it's consequences have been a disaster for this country.
Thank you for your service Squadron Leader
Corruption in this country is unbelievable.
With him arriving, it certainly spiralled out of Ctrl 🚨
If you find it "unbelievable" consider that the fault is with you and your own naivety. Britain is in fact the 19th least corrupt country in the world, on a scale that runs to 178 nations, ie. there are 159 countries more corrupt.
@@spaliverpool71Please stay away from plug sockets.
Rubbish 🗑
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Just like the country. 🗑
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Great video
We do need better schools and education.
Are you listening Starmer? Get it sorted!
Well said, sir. Windrush is a National disgrace. You are owed so much better and so much more.
I have high hopes for Starmer; I hope his is better than the last few we have had.
Great content as usual.
Great piece, thanks. There is nothing British or patriotic about scapegoating or maligning people of a different skin colour or religious faith. We have had decades, even centuries, of immigrants to the UK not least because at one time we militarily conquered and subjugated most other countries across the world. It's past the time for our politicians to start behaving like adults and stop discriminating against minority communities for any reason and spreading hate and discontent. As a nation we are surely better than that and we owe a debt of gratitude to anyone who has come to this country and contributed like this gentleman.
Articulate and eloquent, spot on
It's important to remember he was a British subject at birth, and arrived to England as a British national. He was born before the British Nationality Act 1948 which redefined British subject as a citizen of the UK. It's almost a quibble but people didn't think of themselves as immigrating to the UK since they'd been British their whole lives. Sure they were coming from an overseas island but it's not like being born on the Isle of Wight meant you weren't British. The only difference in their minds was distance not nationality.
Thank you sir for your service 🙏🏽🇬🇧🇮🇳
This absolutely sickens me. Good enough to fight for this country and this is how the people of the country treated you 😢
Not "the people" - just some of them. Most are decent, caring human beings with a social conscience - the rest are Tory/Reform/BNP fanboys...
@@kenj9181 sorry I meant to say "some of the people".
I thank this gentlemen for his service, for his bravery and for the great contribution to our society made by the Windrush generation and their descendants. The Windrush scandal is a national disgrace. To my fellow UK voters: please vote tactically to defeat the Conservative candidate in your area, so we can have a government that will actually fix this.
Lovely man. Great video. Here’s hoping……
So many native British people treated the Windrush immigrants with such callous disregard it's shameful. Now we owe them in so many ways and this business should be settled quickly to try and maintain some dignity for all concerned.
As a 71 year old veteran I’m ashamed this hasn’t been sorted and praying that the next government sorts it within their first term in office. Our children need to learn the history of our country, warts and all, nothing brushed under the carpet.
Not even their first term. When there is a genuine will to resolve issues like this it can be done in the first year. Status and rights can be corrected overnight. Basic action to ensure all pensions and benefits are being paid can be completed in months. The rest will take a little longer.
I recall Windrush children joining our schools in the 60s and 70s. Then the Pakistanis and Indians who followed in the 70s. Every one of their parents worked and many were involved in civic activities to integrate. Telling both parents and children GB isn't their home is as bad as the old No Black's, No Irish signs used in the 50s and 60s for vacant property.
Great content as always LBD. Thank you.
That the way the game tends to work drag it out till most if not all are dead . They may prosecute the people at the pol and if they do that will take decades . It's an old game .
You guys are doing great work.
My aunt once told me that a patient asked her if we still swing on trees! She said yes, and when you pass we sh!t on your head. Ppl still drop the coins in your hand and I reciprocate 😉
Ether that or that point is beyond the remit of this equity .
Good video.
Being white and British I'm so ashamed by the way these lovely people are treated, some of them are true heroes all I can say not all Brits would treat you so bad, shame on numerous governments.
Support Justice4Windrush .. please don't feel ashamed, share the momentum to create change. We were poorly educated about colonialism and our national curriculum needs changing to educate future generations to understand that we are all a massive mixture of peoples from around the world. Whatever our colour, ethnicity or belief structure .. we are all human x
@@katemcfarlane3911lol you people are incorriable though, we’ve seen this for four centries.. you’ll never change
Stop it. There’s two sides to this story. There are a lot of dangerous people here who don’t appreciate your shame - they see it as weakness and play on it. We need a system that is fair, consistent and effective.
Thank you, Sir, and thank you Led By Donkeys for making this video.
thank you, great video
Democracy's effectiveness heavily relies on the education system that supports it. Without a well-informed public, true democratic participation is compromised. Corporate influence has long tainted politics, with powerful businesses controlling decisions that should serve the people. The societal structures we live in today were crafted by the wealthy, for their benefit, long before any of us were born.
Labeling each other only deepens divisions, emphasizing differences instead of our shared humanity. It's crucial to teach young people the realities of how the world works, arming them with knowledge to navigate and challenge these systems. Voting for elite, privately-educated candidates often results in empty promises and continued dissatisfaction.
The political system was shaped by the upper class, for their own benefit, and it is primarily them who continue to benefit from it. Immigrants, fleeing from countries devastated by powerful nations, are marginalized and forced to seek refuge in those very same nations responsible for their plight. These flaws highlight the urgent need for systemic change to truly serve all people.
A truly tragic and scandalous history...
Makes me hopeful to see resistance to the abnormal, cancerous growth of xenophobia in this country.
Never forget.
I don’t criticise my country’s colonial, racist, exploitative past and present because I *hate* my country; I do it because I love it and want it to be better than it is. We have so much potential to be a good and loving land, with so many beautiful hearts and souls - and it’s sidelined by corrupting money and sickly power.
great comment x
You sound very confused
@@noramartin96 you sound like you didn’t understand what I said; that’s most probably the problem.
past? your country is a blemish to humanity contemporarily
Except it’s all we hear about and that’s dangerous. It’s dangerous because the British empire was also the most progressive empire in history and played a large part in giving birth to the modern world. Including the western liberal values underpinning it. It’s dangerous because when faced with a confident but oppressive ideology vs an apologetic and embarrassed country, which do you think is going to win out because one will. Power abhors a vacuum. You will end up destroying our country. You are causing moral confusion all round. Not only among young Muslims but also uneducated people on the right like those expelled from Reform for praising the Blackshirts. Because here’s the thing. If you’re going to label the man who got our country to stand up to fascism a white supremacist, attack his statue and in general misrepresent our history, then don’t be too surprised if there are folks asking which side we should have been on. Thankfully they’re still rare as I find them repugnant but you should understand that the harder the left push the culture war, the harder the right will push back and there is such a thing as unintended consequences.
I am so sorry for how you have been treated. It is a national disgrace.
I agree wholeheartedly.
We owe these people who came here after WW2 not just our thanks, but also the right to live decently, safely and with security in the UK with no questions over their status as British citizens. As a country in the 21st century, we can and should be better than our past which is frankly of little credit to us much of the time. We are more than capable of building a worthwhile multinational country that will be home to those we brought here, invited here and permitted to settle here in addition to ourselves. It's about time we built that country.
What a great man despite our government.
Thank you Sidney
God bless this man. God bless British citizens inside and outside the UK and everyone who will remind the others what is wrong.
And damn the bastards who want us to shut up and ‘get over it’.
Yes you are correct Mr Sidney but it is never taught in schools. If it was there would be much less racism and more understanding of what the people from the colonies did for the UK. Education is the key to everything. I hope you live well beyond 90 and continue to enjoy life.
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What a great gentleman. Shame on us that such a video needs to be made, shame on us all.
Sad reflection of U.K.’s small minded people.
Brilliant. .
Scandalous that these people have still not had their compensation.
Excellent!
“bUt iVe nEvER sEeN aNY raCisM”
The Windrush Betrayal by Amelia Gentleman is a fascinating (if not bleak) book into the plight of this underlooked demographic of our society.
What betrayal ⁉️
Don't belong 🏴☠️
@@spaliverpool71They’ve done more for this country than you’ve ever done. As a scouser you’re an immigrant as well.
@@spaliverpool71 I' m still wondering where you belong Mr Emoji man?Well where do you belong?
@@noramartin96 Ethnic European
Need to go to Specsavers 🤡
Top man.
We should be taking care of our own people, these are our own people. Our government should be ashamed and the next government needs to sort this out right away
Jamaica should welcome him back
@@spaliverpool71You’re disgusting. Congrats.
@@spaliverpool71You can feck off back to Italy
@@spaliverpool71 Will Jamaica want you ?
@@noramartin96 I have already visited Ha Ha
I’m so sorry you were treated this way by these so called leaders .. I do believe in Karma perhaps not in this life but in another 🤞
God bless you .!
It is to our country's great shame that we have allowed these people to be treated so poorly.
German here. I just learned of this checking out Led by Donkeys. This is absolutely horrible and deeply racist! I really hope people receive the compensation they deserve. The perpetrators of this horrible unlawful racist agenda getting away scot free... It breaks the heart.
Amazing
🫵😀 in a world of illusion, Babylon has nothing to offer but confusion.. #windrush #jammtown
I’m so ashamed how you have been treated. We must stand by you and when a new govt returns be forceful in telling them this stops.
I am ex RAF and I am only sorry that I never served with the Sqn Ldr.
Love this man ❤
For the Algorithm Gods.
Damn right
This policy is a national shame, as is the tory Nasti Party in general. Vote tactically.