Comments by "C Dean" (@cdean2789) on "Windrush: 75 years on, why are victims dying waiting for compensation? - BBC Newsnight" video.

  1. They were asked to come to rebuild our country
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  2. We begged them to come.
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  3. Immigrants worked mainly in areas of great labour shortage, such as on buses and in hospitals, and settled in areas of cheaper housing in cities such as London and Birmingham. They experienced frequent racial discrimination and violence; landlords would refuse to let rooms to black and Irish tenants; and 'colour bars’ operated in some workplaces. In 1959 there were serious race riots in Notting Hill, West London, when a black man named Kelso Cochrane, a 32-year-old Antiguan immigrant, was murdered.
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  4. Use them then abuse them. We begged them to come and rebuild Britain
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  5. This is a total disgrace.
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  6. It's sad that there is still so much racism in our country.
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  7. Around 6,000 West Indians served with the Royal Air Force and the Royal Canadian Air Force, in roles from fighter pilots to bomb aimers, air gunners to ground staff and administration. Thousands of West Indian seamen made their contributions in one of the Second World War�s most dangerous services, the Merchant Navy - one-third of all merchant seamen were to die during the war. One thousand volunteers for army service were formed into the Caribbean Regiment, which went overseas in 1944 and saw service in the Middle East and Italy. In addition, West Indians served in the Royal Engineers as highly skilled technicians. Upwards of 40,000 West Indians opted to join the various branches of the civilian war effort in the United States. 236 Caribbean volunteers were killed or reported missing during the Second World War; 265 were wounded. Caribbean air force personnel received 103 decorations.
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  8.  @Wodens-Wolf  we had a massive shortage of workers to rebuild.
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  9. No. They legged it
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  10. KEY FACTS: Reasons why people from the Commonwealth came to the UK after World War Two: the UK had a severe labour shortage after World War Two, especially in the transport network and the newly created National Health Service large areas of the main cities had been destroyed by aerial bombing and a programme of rebuilding began, needing workers the British government actively invited people from the Commonwealth to come and work the economy of the Caribbean islands, seriously underdeveloped by Britain, was in crisis with high levels of unemployment the violent partition of India and Pakistan and the civil war in Cyprus caused many to escape and seek a better life in the UK many had previously been stationed in the UK as members of the armed forces during the war and had had good experiences
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  11. 😂
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