Submitted on Friday 27th October 2017
Published on Wednesday 1st November 2017
Current status: Closed
Closed: Tuesday 1st May 2018
Signatures: 153
Windrush Day:June 22 celebrate our immigrant populations contribution to the UK
The fight for a tolerant, respectful society goes on – and a Windrush Day would be the best answer to right wing extremists groups who believe that multiculturalism has failed and that Britain should to return to how it looked in 1950.
We should choose 22 June, the day when the MV Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury in 1948: a powerful and iconic symbol of the rise of modern-day multicultural Britain. The Windrush is not simply a symbol of the 492 Caribbean men and women who arrived on that ship – the first big group of postwar immigrants from the West Indies – but of everyone who came from the Empire; British subjects who saw Britain as their mother country. The seeds of modern migration were sown in these former colonies, from which 2.5 million men and women volunteered to fight fascism during the second world war.
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