Windrush: 'I missed my mum's funeral' - BBC Newsnight

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  • @StaticPlaya
    @StaticPlaya 6 ปีที่แล้ว +67

    This made me cry. You can feel their pain. It is disappointing that you have been in this country for so long and you get treated this way. Sad really sad.

    • @maria610421
      @maria610421 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I know this is a year old, but people need to THINK, the Palestinians was in Palestine all their lives, what is happening to them, THINK. They were born there, look at the injustice been done to them, look what happend to the Native Indians of America, and Canada, and Australia, Look what they did to the people in India, under Gandi, look at the decendants of slaves in America, and what is happeing to them in America. How old is this problem, its very old. Documentary this week October 2019, Archives shows that its 70 years of Racism it started in 1948 Hostility against Blacks in the UK rooted in 70 years in the making. Clement Attley, 1948 Act the presence of Blacks in the UK was a Hostile invasion according to them, On 15th June Attley said they should be sent to Africa to pick peanuts. The also said in the Memo, that they would rather have the German Nazis in the UK than Blacks who just helped them to win the WAR. Without the facts we are lead to believe that its Thresa May former PM, no it is far older than that. 1951 Winston Churchill helped the Conservatives into power, and questions was being asked about having Blacks in certain jobs in the UK namely the Post Office. Without the correct information we act on impulse, my people are dying from lack of knowledge, rings through again. And what Malcolm X said, and Marcus Garvey. The truth will always surface. They want to occupy Black countries like South Africa, and Palestine and else where, Under the NWO where they own and control other peoples Countries. And create global poverty and misery and slavery, like we have emerging again in the 21st Century.

  • @DanDan-pn8js
    @DanDan-pn8js 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    As a black man in the 🇬🇧 I can feel his pain we are simply not welcome even if your born in the uk and fought in the army like me, it doesn’t matter when your black.

  • @sarahjessicafarter7383
    @sarahjessicafarter7383 6 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Heartbreaking. Great man for not allowing this to embitter him and also for sharing his story to publicise this injustice.

  • @766osita
    @766osita 6 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    A case worker who would deny a man the opportunity to attend his mother's funeral has lost all sense of humanity.
    What level of wickedness is this? How can a man live 60yrs in a place and be treated like this? Some people need to face jail time for this unforgivable crime. This is not a case of compensation but a case to prosecute inhuman case workers who have hearts darker than what Hitler possessed and such idiots should be cast in jail away from the society of men and women who still have hearts and Amber Rudd should be the first in that jail.

  • @mikilimakambo4648
    @mikilimakambo4648 6 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    How heartless was that ....omg

  • @dermotrees9873
    @dermotrees9873 6 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    He's a Brit shame on us all :(

    • @lavarball61
      @lavarball61 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      No. Shame on home office

  • @lordsway7190
    @lordsway7190 6 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    How to these people go to sleep knowing they've done this to our common wealth elders

    • @ToonandBBfan
      @ToonandBBfan 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Its wrong that a "refugee" can trespass through the channel tunnel and be allowed to stay. Yet these people who have lived here for years, worked and payed taxes are being treat like this!

  • @eliakimjosephsophia4542
    @eliakimjosephsophia4542 6 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    All of his life bless him. The government keeps the records from when you started work in the UK, all you require is your N.I. number.

  • @hayaglamazonluxe
    @hayaglamazonluxe 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I feel sorry for him and his sister. They need to get sorted out. It's despicable that he missed her funeral.

    • @maria610421
      @maria610421 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Wind Rush, to Fascism, to Nazism, to WAR, everything goes a full cycle, survalance society, spying, as it was in the begining so shall it be in the end. The Scottish want their Independence, as it was under Charles the 1st, who deceived the British people in conspiring with a foreign power against the people, Edward and Mrs Simpson conspired with the Nazis, as did George. History is not taught in schools any more, much like Blacks was denied their History, leaving history to repeate themselves. What is Brexit a distraction leading to Fascism and Nazism, and a divide and rule Civil War, right verses left.

  • @jevansmith8669
    @jevansmith8669 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    so i pay your taxes all these years and you can't let me back into the country wow this is crazy

  • @latoyaburns-conwell5593
    @latoyaburns-conwell5593 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This is heartwrenching 😥....
    I've never heard of this! Of course, I'm in the US, but one thing for certain....the most recent events has me learning a WHOLE lot about my people and the things we're going through, around the WORLD 😓😖

  • @raggadan1653
    @raggadan1653 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Uk is disgusting . My heritage is jamaica and st.kitts am i live in uk . Im 30 and born here and this makes me feel like im nothing to this country !

  • @marciarennalls5105
    @marciarennalls5105 6 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    the tories should lose the next election over this scandal. We don't want their half hearted apology. They're just sorry they were caught. Black people - DO NOT VOTE TORY. THEY DO NOT ACCEPT US. NEVER HAVE NEVER WILL. VOTE LABOUR.

  • @bless485
    @bless485 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I'm so sorry that I live in a country that could do this to you feel ashamed

    • @Rebelz173
      @Rebelz173 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      BARBARA FRANCIS not really. They should be shipped back to where they came from

  • @MrDamodee
    @MrDamodee 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    One year on and this whole ordeal is sickening and makes me feel ashamed for my country. These people are British, they are our fellow citizens and they are treated as second class. Being white British if I was treated like this I don't know how I would feel.

    • @thomasreed49
      @thomasreed49 ปีที่แล้ว

      Unfortunately where ever black Africans turn up they are never wanted even the Windrush generation Jamaica didn’t want them they had No work for them so they came over here in town nobody Wanted them over here. It must be horrible not to have a country society that Your ancestors have created that you can call it your Home Fast tracking you into somebody else’s society instead of creating your own it doesn’t work. What a lovely man and sister nobody be treated like this. I know the pain of losing their mother will never go I hope things are a little better for them now. 🙏🏻🙏🏻

  • @gororo14
    @gororo14 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Government is definitely racist, but the lesson here is be in touch with your identity, even if I lived here 60 years I’ll never call myself an English man. Don’t believe the hype about being born here etc. Black British are the most marginalised group in UK. Teach your kids their culture, send them on holidays to The Caribbean, Africa not Spain or Europe. The Asians came here the same time as us, their children speak their language, eat their food and keep their culture and so should we as black people.

  • @martintunnicliffe8934
    @martintunnicliffe8934 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    What gets me is that Theresa May has not been called to account over this. Amber Rudd yes, but who was Home Secretary before her? May will go down as the PM who failed to deliver Brexit - not as the Home Secretary who created this mess.

  • @GEANAJO
    @GEANAJO 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wow heartbreaking. I pray he finds comfort in knowing his mom is his personal guardian angel 👼

  • @essieboo8971
    @essieboo8971 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I have no sympathy for May after this.

  • @stevewatson7648
    @stevewatson7648 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I don't understand how the hell these people live in England all these years I don't have the papers, right?

    • @chuckemeade
      @chuckemeade 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      The papers should have been automatic. The moment the slavers took their ancestors out of Africa they became British because they took everything else from them.

  • @truthhurtz19
    @truthhurtz19 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Am heart broken for him

  • @sorryicantcomprehendtheflu7634
    @sorryicantcomprehendtheflu7634 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Just not right.... inhumane to treat people this way. They secretly wrecking peoples lives.
    I hope any people effected get justice.
    Heartbreaking... this makes me so upset!!

  • @brownlawgirl
    @brownlawgirl 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    We have had enough of their wickedness its time for divine vengeance. Will call for that day and night until it is manifest. The pit these demons have dug for us they will fall in it. Fact.

    • @hotties3v3n
      @hotties3v3n 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Amen!!! We must remember Joel 3 vs 4 Gods gonna cut them down!!

  • @travisdavis4317
    @travisdavis4317 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I don’t get this why didn’t you apply for a British passport in 93?? You been in Uk so long and using visa wow. Only in England.

  • @bluebell3441
    @bluebell3441 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    No one gets treated right here.
    Nothing is fair or equal.
    It's who shouts loudest and who the government fear. That get everything.
    Poor man.

  • @London_miss234
    @London_miss234 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    He’s a British citizen if in the U.K. before July, 1962. Please get proper citizenship in the U.K., and U.K. passport.

  • @samslim6493
    @samslim6493 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Just get GP . records. Don't ask them stupid question

  • @martialart5452
    @martialart5452 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    i suffered the same . Came tot ht UK in 1966 and in 2018 they asked me for proof of my residence before 1973
    Who keeps records that far back.
    I had to write to my local MP for help. Eventually I go my passport after a residency of 51 years in the UK

  • @OldglenSea-cw4ps
    @OldglenSea-cw4ps 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Arrh.....poor Junior. I feel another huge compensation claim coming!

    • @marshallgrender9829
      @marshallgrender9829 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Well, if I had spent all my life in a country working and paying taxes to benefit the country that chucked me out, I'd certainly want compensation for a) the mortgage I had almost paid off; b) the taxes I'd paid to enable midwives to smack your @rse into existence etc. To think that you think you have the right to kick me out to be homeless in a country where I don't know anyone; without access to my british bank account, investments, my children, grandchildren and partner.... Sounds like a policy designed by Hitler /Idi Amin mate.

    • @JamesCM86
      @JamesCM86 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Well deserved. Hope he cleans them out

  • @andrewr2422
    @andrewr2422 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Shame on the government

  • @clebertsonc7988
    @clebertsonc7988 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Very wicked the home office they don't care about you when your black.. wicked wicked wicked wicked wicked wicked wicked wicked

  • @forevrrich
    @forevrrich 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Diabolical! What a cruel trick.

  • @geoffreylee5199
    @geoffreylee5199 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Regretfully, if not a citizen, either through birth or If not born a country, keep all your migration stuff. This is a terrible story, Buddy was law abiding .

  • @rufdymond
    @rufdymond 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Well the truth is people don't care...we are low hanging fruit, easy pickings. Most people wouldn't shed a tear if we were all kicked out of the country...that's the harsh truth.

  • @antonydouglas855
    @antonydouglas855 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I am from Birmingham, United Kingdom. I look like I am from Birmingham....

  • @maebell7515
    @maebell7515 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    God sees and he knows,he sees your tears.

  • @mms8477
    @mms8477 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    schindlers list

  • @ed9709
    @ed9709 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is the craziest thing I have heard. All these years and nobody thought of applying for citizianship. How was he educated, employed, married, received medical care...etc. etc..

    • @sunofshangoihate45thihated85
      @sunofshangoihate45thihated85 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      ed did you even listen to the entire video?
      He applied but was only given indefinite permission to reside in the U.K

  • @LawrenceBishton
    @LawrenceBishton 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

    What is this to do with the job center windrush scheme

  • @brandonmwangi892
    @brandonmwangi892 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Life is hard 🙏🏾

  • @Happey67
    @Happey67 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What is really going on?

  • @keithbawden7940
    @keithbawden7940 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    It is time for the Queen to create Teresa, as 'Baroness May' - then she can no longer be PM!

  • @atom6277
    @atom6277 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Gerald Francis, The world is watching this, sooner or later our time will come, their future generations wil have one he'll of a weight to carry!!!!!!

  • @agododenis6831
    @agododenis6831 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    East or west. No place is better than Jamaica

    • @anshulaich6026
      @anshulaich6026 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      That doesn't even rhyme. Surely it should be "East or west, Jamaica is the best"?

    • @leobunny1561
      @leobunny1561 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      What Jamaica? The country has the highest femicide (female killings) murder rate in the world !!

  • @wj3755
    @wj3755 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Why didnt he have a British passport understanding?

  • @authenticunique412
    @authenticunique412 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Kinda quick to say or deny Jamaica but I understand... 15 months old hard word for UK.. Then again by birth u r Jamaican even tho u say u r an Englishman

    • @chuckemeade
      @chuckemeade 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Jamaica hasn't been inviting with open arms either so what's your point.

  • @brandondenver4331
    @brandondenver4331 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Heads. Must. Roll.

  • @akanibaone7082
    @akanibaone7082 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It's impossible for light and darkness to coexist, so it is impossible for love and hate to coexist in a human heart. To hate because of colour is a heart full of darkness, bitterness and evil. And these MPS run a country. Lord have mercy on the citizens.

  • @Catchmydrift0
    @Catchmydrift0 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    They should have asked them self long before, not after 50 years, oops I dont have a passport!!!. After 50 years? Ignorance. Never left london.

  • @JJ-te2pi
    @JJ-te2pi 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Fucking disgrace. My mum is Polish. I hope she doesn’t have to experience such a thing once we brexit. Terrible.

  • @donovantaylor3137
    @donovantaylor3137 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    it is because of his BLACK SKIN..full stop

    • @alexander92179
      @alexander92179 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Can happen to anyone who didn't apply for citizenship when they arrived.

    • @johno4521
      @johno4521 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      People from the west Indies & Caribbean were not the only nationalities affected by this ruling. They were not even the largest group affected. That goes to the Canadians. Why do we never hear about them?
      Because it doesn't suit the agenda.

  • @deansiephillips437
    @deansiephillips437 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    😢😢😢 x ✨️

  • @jaswinderkaursaggu9054
    @jaswinderkaursaggu9054 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    My mom and dad cme . Dad wrk. And my sisters were all on my moms passport. Wht nonsense thy did. Horrible system. Whn there country. Thy need us to build there country. Thy said all cme😑

  • @bennettstephenson9090
    @bennettstephenson9090 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    you can't be a English man. because you did not born their . you are a jamaican by birth

    • @rudeboywil6089
      @rudeboywil6089 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Everyone born in Jamaica before 1962 was born as a British citizen .

    • @bennettstephenson9090
      @bennettstephenson9090 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@rudeboywil6089 thank you bro.for this information i definitely never think of that before made this comment

    • @alexander92179
      @alexander92179 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      British, not English

  • @jaswinderkaursaggu9054
    @jaswinderkaursaggu9054 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    🙏👍

  • @binyoung7297
    @binyoung7297 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    While I feel sorry for what happened, he could have applied for British citizenship one year after receiving indefinite leave to remain in 1993. Why did he not do it? Whose fault is it really? It's easy to blame the government, but sometimes it is the individual's fault.

    • @TheFashionLiaison
      @TheFashionLiaison 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Bin Young if the HO would not stamp his Jamaican passport with the ILR stamp based on the letter they sent, then what makes you think they would have given him a British passport??

    • @binyoung7297
      @binyoung7297 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      TheFashionLiaison: Watch this video again. It states that in 1993, he received ILR, and if you read the letter from the Home Office at 0:57, it says "Your passport, which is enclosed, has been STAMPED to show this". Presumably, this refers to his Jamaican passport. Based on his circumstances, he would have then been eligible to apply for British citizenship sometime in 1994, 1 year after receiving ILR. See this: www.gov.uk/becoming-a-british-citizen
      The problem is that he did not BOTHER. And the video implies that 16 years later, in 2009, he wanted to have another ILR stamp on his (renewed) Jamaican passport. The HO rightfully asked for proof that he had been able to MAINTAIN his ILR status since 1993, by having remained in the United Kingdom. That seems to be the problem. And they then blamed the HO for putting the onus on the applicant (OF COURSE IT IS THE ONUS OF THE APPLICANT TO SHOW THEY HAVE BEEN ABLE TO MAINTAIN THE ILR STATUS!!)
      The bottom line is he could have avoided all this by taking advantage of the eligibility to apply for British citizenship at the earliest opportunity, in the 1990s. He did not, and is now bitching about the government.

    • @TheFashionLiaison
      @TheFashionLiaison 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      hmm..given that he arrived in the UK on a British passport seen as Jamaica was still a British colony with all residents deemed British, perhaps he just assumed that he was British anyway with no need for a 'new' passport? I mean I know loads of people born in Britain as we know it today who don't have passports but no one is trying to deport them. My point is...back in 1958, When this man arrived, Jamaica was considered British territory just as much as Yorkshire or the Midlands. People trying to blame these victims are failing to understand that.
      The sole blame is for the HO and the ingrates who put these laws in place without knowledge of the history of immigration from the Commonwealth. Also, from my understanding the very fact that he was present in the country from 1958 to 1971 makes him a British citizen as the 1971 Nationality Act stated that all commonwealth Citizens resident in the country at the time were British. The only proof was required was the letter which was given to him in 1993. This took into the consideration that he was in the country before 1971. Asking him to prove his residency in 2009 was a racist and inhumane act.
      The Human rights acts states that you can not apply laws retrospectively and so the link you posted above should not apply to Windrush Children or other Children from the commonwealth who arrived to join parents and were settled in the UK before 1971. Teresa May and her Cronies need to write a new a clause in their act which protects such people from having to go through such horrendous and distressing times.
      Shame on you Britain. First you go ravaging in Africa and take people against their will to work on your sugar plantations in the Caribbean. Fast Forward, after getting their asses kicked in two world wars, they go back to the Caribbean and convince the descendents of the people they stole to come and build up their war ravaged country . Today they are covertly trying to kick out their children and in some cases the same people who came at your their request to help and contribute. I was very proud to be British before but I am very ashamed now. Absolutely disgraceful!

  • @victorburger7008
    @victorburger7008 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    why did he buy a Jamacan passport and not an EU passport.

  • @ciaronsmith4995
    @ciaronsmith4995 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    UK needs to crack down on immigration big-time. A great country but lets face it, it doesn't need more people.

  • @blairboyd3379
    @blairboyd3379 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hi Dan Robinson I got a comment from you saying that you cannot believe that you are living in England so long, and been treated like that.Well I must tell you that you are the ones who must know about your ordeals, with those British leadership.I wrote a comment about the way they are treating the black people in England, and there was one lady cured me out saying that I don't know what am saying.I told her,I know what am saying, because I spent a little time there but I did not like there to live.I told her my father went to England in 1957 before she was born, and my ex wife living there, and still living there from 1963 and all her children were born there.She is the only one still living in England, everybody else left long, and living in the united States.Some times she visited the united States, and then go back to England.I could not see why some of those worthless Jamaican that is living in England so long, not even want to visit their own birth place.Something is automatically wrong with some of them from the rual parts of Jamaica, and they think that the country is like how they left it according to some of them mentality.Some of them is a big fools they would traced you all day, and they does not know how to looked about their paperwork so they can travel to other countries.That is to show you how stupid majority of them is,then they are trying to argued with a more sensible person more than them.I told the lady who was arguing with me talking her bullshit about how she is educated, and I cannot read.That is to show you how stupid she was talking her bullshit,I am living in the USA as a retired citizen,I can travel anywhere I want to in the world.Not like some of those worthless Jamaican who left Jamaica over several decades, living into a country and being fighting to stay there.Because they does not have any form of ambition at all,then some of those mother fuckers​ come arguing with me.All of those worthless mother fuckers Jamaicans​, England should have thrown them fuck out.Anyone of those worthless mother fuckers can now challenged me, because I am okay, and I am not scared of none of those fucking stupid ass idoits.So they can reply, and if England want a man to arrested​ those fuckers, they can just hired me.I would be gladly do it as an expolice officer, they can go now fuck themselves.Sending their abnoxious comments to me,I was not the one who is trying to put out those no good mother fuckers Jamaicans out of England so why are they trying to arguing with me for. When you see no good people who does not have any form of ambition,or shamed about themselves.Then you cannot argued with those kind of wastes,their antecedents is far below mideocre.

  • @crazytwiggy7020
    @crazytwiggy7020 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    here we go compensation time.
    utter bs.
    im sure i woudnt get any money from their place of origin.
    free loafers

    • @TheFashionLiaison
      @TheFashionLiaison 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      rekin ball and I’m sure you wouldn’t be able to get benefits and nhs care had people like me, my parents and their generation not worked for years and paid taxes to help subsidise broken Britain. Freeloader!

  • @davidedbrooke9324
    @davidedbrooke9324 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Well it sounds all reasonable.we all keep records if you don’t that’s kinda silly. I’ll bet they are all coming forward with their so called stories and will be having their hands out.

    • @yeah2011bb
      @yeah2011bb 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      David, don't be ridiculous!

    • @davidedbrooke9324
      @davidedbrooke9324 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      T Harris you wait and see. Had to give up his job? What rubbish.

    • @summersevening
      @summersevening 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Actually our own govt doesn’t keep records. Under May they destroyed landing cards despite objections that these were the only records available for some of their arrival. And it was on after that that May’s Home Office brought in the policy to force the Windrush gen to meet new criteria to retain their rights. You couldn’t make it up. But sure let’s not focus on the May govt’s role, let’s attack the victims.

    • @davidedbrooke9324
      @davidedbrooke9324 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      summersevening The records were destroyed on labours watch. Ever heard of facts?

    • @davidedbrooke9324
      @davidedbrooke9324 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Documentary Vine so she is right! Labour started it their fault

  • @davidedbrooke9324
    @davidedbrooke9324 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Here we go, how soon before their hands are out for compensation?

    • @up4itgal
      @up4itgal 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      David Edbrooke and they deserve every penny. The government have been totally stupid over this. All they had to do was check tax records and see how long you've been paying tax for. But what they did was, threaten settled people with deportation, deny them health care and denied them benefits. Some people have been sacked. Would you be able to live on nothing? It's a disgrace. Luckily for me, my parents arrived after Windrush in the sixties. I was born in London so this does not apply to me but I would be hopping mad if it did.

    • @davidedbrooke9324
      @davidedbrooke9324 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      up4atgal Bullshit.

    • @Komodo1312
      @Komodo1312 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You're the one bullshitting. Go back to the hole you came from

    • @davidedbrooke9324
      @davidedbrooke9324 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Komodo lol sadly you are occupying it!

    • @guleiro
      @guleiro 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      David Edbrooke
      Let me guess :you're white, English and you've voted for Brexit right?...