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I have spoken with many of the men and women who served Britain in WWII, especially those who told me they were asked by government departmental officials to remain in the UK and help the mother country. The Week is incorrect.  Did they interview Caribbean men or women who remained here, and ask why? The majority of them on the Empire Windrush were some of those men and women. 


The ship was a troop ship not an immigrant ship,  and so migrants were coming with other ships before 22 June 1948. My friend Allan Wilmot, the nephew of Gary Wilmot the entertainer, arrived on 21 December 1947. So, Windrush Foundation as the charity that developed the idea of a Windrush Generation in 1996. The Week has not spoken me about its Briefing. I will not lie about the history. 


arthur






From: The Black and Asian Studies Association <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Kathleen Chater <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: 24 June 2018 10:50
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Subject: Windrush
 

The publication The Week carries a  summary of the Windrush anniversary in its Briefing column.  As this very well-researched summary shows, the Windrush was not the first ship to bring migrants from the West Indies and did not do so because the government wanted to rebuild the British economy - actually they were horrified -  but there were organisations and government departments that did need migrants.


No government likes to admit it had no idea what was going on. I didn't know, but was not much surprised, to find that it was Tony Blair's New Labour who created a fuss around the Windrush and celebrated its 50th anniversary to promote its multicultural agenda.  I'm not saying there is anything wrong with doing this, just that, as in so many other areas, they manipulated facts to their own advantage.  Just remember, the aim of the journalist is to find out why the lying bastards are lying.  And that applies to the people we agree with.


For those of us who are of the cock-up rather than the conspiracy school of history, this is a really good example of how myths are created around accidents! 


Enjoy


Kathleen


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