Quote Originally Posted by The Bedlington Terrier View Post
One thing we don't put on the curriculum is our despicable colonial, imperialist past.

Huge fortunes were made via asset stripping, slavery and just about every other nefarious activity we could dream up. I'm pretty sure the Greeks and Romans beat us to it on just about every front though outwood?

If these contemporary kids need something to really get excited about it's the Tory attitude towards the Caribbean people brought in to bolster our post-war economy and take up the jobs we did not have the manpower to do ourselves.

One word: WINDRUSH. Now that is a scandal worth getting into a lather about.
The treatment of the Windrush generation by the UK government is disgraceful.
The people of the Windrush generation were invited to come to UK shortly after the end of world war two. They came here to work and assist the British economy grow after those war years.
After some sixty to seventy years the Home Office, who presumably had been instructed by their political masters, decided that those people and their descendants had no right to remain in Britain. This was and still is a national shame that we as a country cannot recognise the work those people have done in helping the British economy grow and that they be automatically granted British citizenship. Most of these people came form countries in the Caribbean and were at that time part of the British Empire as it was then called. They have spent most of their lives living and working in the UK, which include paying their taxes.
I firmly believe that there is deep rooted racism within our government, which came to the fore in the Brexit campaign. This is not only in some of our members of parliament but also within the civil service.
I would like to see the government take a stand to change their policy and support these people, demanding that the home office withdraws all their threats of deportation permanently.