IS IT BECAUSE WE ARE BLACK?

It has become necessitous to coin a new maxim, the “Real Windrush Generation”. There needs to be a clear distinction made between pre-1962 Citizens of the United Kingdom and Colonies (pre-1962 CUKCs) and those New Commonwealth citizens who entered the UK after the point in time marked by the entry into force of the Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1962. Without this distinction it is not possible to see that we are considering two separate issues.

Perhaps the Guardian should produce an article which explains the distinction between the Real Windrush Generation (the pre-1962 CUKCS) and the definition given by the government for the “Windrush Generation”, which is in fact a misnomer. The reason for this suggestion is elucidated in what follows.

Quotations used are from the following article: 

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jul/18/they-erased-a-bit-of-my-life-windrush-generation-on-home-office-treatment

Four people describe ordeal of having their British citizenship questioned and downgraded

How does one downgrade someone’s citizenship without it being a retrospective abrogation of their rights? Of the four people mentioned in this article, it can be stated with certainty that at least two of them are Real Windrush Generation and British citizens. When it concerns the Real Windrush Generation, everyone seems to forget that the law exists for all citizens and must be obeyed, even by Her Majesty’s Government. At this point, it ought to be clearly stated that the legislation passed by parliament which establishes the right of all pre-1962 CUKCs to British citizenship is the British Nationality Act 1948.

What is said to be the Windrush Scheme has nothing whatsoever to do with the revocation of the rights of the Real Windrush Generation. I have now made six different attempts to communicate with those responsible for this Scheme, but to no avail. The reason for this situation is clear. One thing has nothing to do with the other.

The Windrush Scheme was set up to deal with persons entitled to Indefinite Leave to Remain, which does not apply to pre-1962 CUKCs. As far as can be ascertained, no authority has been given to deal with matters concerning pre-1962 CUKCs. I have been directed and redirected until I have arrived at a dead end. Moreover, I have been informed that the Windrush Scheme is only for the purpose of assisting the “Windrush Generation”. Is it not ironic that the Home Office should introduce a Scheme called “Windrush” which excludes the Real Windrush Generation? Has it anything to do with the fact that the Real Windrush Generation are British citizens and acceptance is being denied?

The Real Windrush Generation have been making representations to the United Kingdom government for more than 40 (forty) years. Every application has fallen on deaf ears as per the wishes of the legislators, clearly stated in the Immigration Act 1971, as amended by the British Nationality Act 1981. Decisions on this matter have been made in secret and without recourse to the relevant legislation since 1973. This has occurred without any form of accountability since the entry into force of the Immigration Act 1971. The legislation instructed those who were to enforce it, that if the Real Windrush Generation attempted to claim their rights, they were to be told to “prove it”. I use the expression “prove it” because it has been used to me so many times by the Home Office and every UK embassy I have visited over the years since 1988. No matter where the application was made the responses were almost always identical.

This action has led to countless unlawful deportations and exclusions and, even worse, the confiscation and wilful destruction of perfectly legitimate and legally obtained passports, which is another reason it is transparently deliberate action on the part of the UK authorities in order to abrogate the rights of the Real Windrush Generation.

With reference to passports, Lydden Lewis needs to be careful as the UK government do not usually return such passports, once confiscated. In fact, as stated, they are usually destroyed. The evidence is destroyed enabling one to be told, “Prove it!” Every time such decision was taken with regard to pre-1962 CUKCs, was the law broken? Incidentally, the point to note is this. The only passports confiscated and destroyed were the ones which confirmed the rights of the Real Windrush Generation. Thereafter, the legitimate owners of said passports were told they were not citizens, even though the passport seized and destroyed demonstrated their right to citizenship.

To demonstrate the point with another example from the above-named Guardian article. Tony Perry was told, “We are sorry to inform you that you are not a British citizen”. Due to the fact that he arrived in Britain, from Jamaica, in 1959, there is no basis in law for him to be given that information. Furthermore, magnanimously awarding anyone in this situation with a visa giving him or her Indefinite Leave to Remain is an abrogation of rights established under the British Nationality Act 1948. Thus, the actions taken in this case is not just ultra vires, it is unlawful. The assumption is that the Home Office know immigration law, but do they?

Why has the Home Office been permitted to operate outside the law for so many years, with such action being taken in secret and without oversight from those responsible for so doing?

One only asks the reader to consider the number of people from the New Commonwealth who lawfully entered the United Kingdom between 1948 and 1962. That is the number of people caught in this limbo, and the number who have been denied their lawfully acquired rights by the United Kingdom government since 1973.

Surely it can be seen that what has taken place is a grave abuse of power which has affected a large number of people? How many? It is impossible to calculate because the number is greatly affected by the date of Independence of each New Commonwealth state.

Most of the people affected are dead, that is the only known factor. It would appear, probably much to the joy of the UK government, as it seems the method by which the “Windrush Generation” may be denied their rights to compensation is a current preoccupation.

This purgatory, which is in effect worse than slavery, must be ended. It is even more important that the condition in which the people referred to above died, becomes public knowledge.

If the government of the United Kingdom wishes to disavow any statement made in this communication, I respectfully request that they state upon which legislation they rely.

No more decisions about the Real Windrush Generation made in secret by people who know us not, and who have been instructed to deny rights given in legislation by the parliament of the United Kingdom.

Just one last question! Is it because we are black?

WHY I HAVE NO NATIONALITY AND NO IDENTITY!

Have you ever wondered what were the motivating factors which caused #Windrush? Take a look at the video below and you will realise what causes the UK government to behave the way they do? Pandering to the lowest common denominator TO GET RIGHT-WING VOTE.

THAT IS WHAT LED TO #WINDRUSH

The nastiest piece of immigration legislation ever passed by a United Kingdom government was the Enoch Powell Immigration Act of 1971, which came into effect on the day the United Kingdom joined the European Economic Community.

Say goodbye to old friends and welcome the new!

The passing of this legislation was the performance of one of the most pernicious and dishonest acts perpetrated by one group of UK citizens upon another group of UK citizens. Those who conceived that act of deception were no more UK citizens than YOU OR I.

As a result of the coming into force of this act, legitimate UK citizens were made into immigrants. Even today, when one speaks of “immigration”, one is generally speaking of “coloured” immigration from the New Commonwealth.

Here is the problem!

I discovered in 1988 that the UK did not consider me to be a UK citizen. I wanted to apply for a UK passport, but was told that I had to apply for UK citizenship.

It was one of the most devastating and degrading discoveries I have ever made in my life. Shocked to the core does not cover it! 

Born a UK citizen! Brought up a UK citizen! 

What I still find unbearable is the fact that my brother and my mother both died under this condition without knowing. My mother having, quite literally, worked herself to death!

I say to ALL in authority in the UK. Do you have any idea how degrading it is to be denied your NATIONALITY? To find you are suddenly a NON-PERSON? Belonging NOWHERE!

Just imagine! Living in the UK since the age of eight and never once considered myself as being anything but BRITISH!

THE MOST IMPORTANT DECISION I MADE AT THIS TIME WAS: “NEVER LET THEM TAKE YOUR DIGNITY!”

That is why I decided not to go back to Jamaica. I would have lost my DIGNITY! Once you have lost your DIGNITY, what else is there to lose.

The result of this piece of legislation should be considered to have been an atrocious misuse of power. The United Kingdom had reclassified legitimate UK citizens as “immigrants”.

WHEN IT COMES TO THE ISSUE OF COMPENSATION. How do you compensate someone whose RIGHTS YOU HAVE ABROGATED FOR 45 YEARS? Furthermore, excluded for 21 years FROM THE COUNTRY WHERE HE IS A CITIZEN.

The UK then proceeded to tell those they had deceived and whose rights they had abrogated that they were not UK citizens and that to obtain a UK passport they must apply for citizenship. Is that not the perfect definition of a confidence trick? This is what the UK government has done, through the Home Office, to mostly people of “colour” born in the New commonwealth. 

This was very clever as it forced those affected into applying for passports from the countries of their birth. Thus, confusing the issue of citizenship and enabling the UK to begin deporting legitimate UK citizens to the countries of their birth. This deportation of UK citizens began in 1973. NOT LATER!

In taking out these passports we walked straight into the trap. On the face of it, we were no longer citizens of the UK. Our newly acquired immigrant status enabled the UK to carry out the “administrative” part of the confidence trick.

After travelling abroad using the Jamaican passport, I realised that upon re-entry into the UK they had put a stamp in my passport, “Given leave to enter the United Kingdom for an indefinite period”.

I decided to investigate and discovered that this stamp meant that although I was allowed to stay in the UK, if I left for a period of time exceeding two years, ALL my rights to enter the UK were lost.

So, from being an #Windrush “child” born a UK citizen, entering the UK as a citizen, I have not been able to re-enter the UK since 1997.

The introduction of Indefinite Leave to Stay, is one of the most abhorrent and nasty concepts ever invented by the United Kingdom government in order to steal the rights of legitimate citizens and which has been used by successive UK governments up until the deliberate overuse of it by Theresa May. It is not the use of Indefinite Leave to Stay which has caused the trouble, it was its overuse, as it had been in use for decades. Ask any Jamaican, as THEY were the main targets.

Anyone in doubt as to the extent to which this Act was RACIALLY MOTIVATED should read this:

http://ow.ly/lUmn30kfu9S

WHEN DISCUSSING IT IN CABINET THEY ADMITTED IT WAS RACISM.

The Immigration Act 1971 actually states clearly the intention:

"An Act to amend and replace the present immigration
laws, to make certain related changes in the citizenship
law and enable help to be given to those wishing
to return abroad, and for purposes connected therewith."

THE POINT BEING, IF THEY COULD TAKE MY CITIZENSHIP, THEY CAN TAKE THIS FROM ANY UK CITIZEN, BORN IN UK OR NOT, MOREOVER, RETROSPECTIVELY.

They did this to US to please VERY LITTLE ENGLISH PEOPLE, watch the full length video below:

NOW TELL ME IT WAS NOT RACISM!

100% ENGLISH

NO SUCH THING!

WHEN ONE HAS SOMETHING TO SAY, SHOUT OUT LOUD!

When one has nothing to say, one should remain silent! However, when one has something to say, one should shout it from the rooftops. IN TIME THEY WILL HAVE TO PAY ATTENTION!

Define the term #Windrush. I SHALL GIVE MY DEFINITION AND IF I AM WRONG, SOMEONE SHOULD TELL ME IN WHAT WAY!

I tweeted yesterday that the @ukhomeoffice was in CRISIS. It is true, but they do not know it yet. Either that or they ARE HIDING IT FOR AS LONG AS IS POSSIBLE, WITH A VIEW TO COVERING IT UP.

What they are defining as #Windrush, in fact, concerns the entire NEW COMMONWEALTH.

The rights given to New Commonwealth citizens were different, depending on many issues. Primarily, it is dependent on which country they came from. The East African Asians v The United Kingdom case, which went to the ECHR in 1973, is the perfect example. The British government had changed the law to prevent legitimate UK citizens from entering the UK. The only thing relevant here is that the UK government lost and the reason for that defeat, which I shall not discuss here.

If there were any challenge to UK immigration legislation to ANY LEGAL JURISDICTION not controlled by the UK, they would LOSE on the basis of RACISM, among many other forms of discrimination.

SINCE THE 1960s, THE UK GOVERNMENT HAVE BEEN LUMPING EVERYONE TOGETHER AND ENACTING LEGISLATION, EACH TIME TAKING RIGHTS FROM PEOPLE. THE PEOPLE NEVER KNOW THESE RIGHTS HAVE BEEN TAKEN UNTIL THEY CONFRONT THE MIGHT OF THE UK HOME OFFICE. HOW MANY INCORRECT DECISIONS HAVE BEEN MADE? HOW WOULD THEY KNOW? 

THE HOME OFFICE HAVE BEEN MAKING ARBITRARY DECISIONS FOR AS LONG AS THEY HAVE EXISTED, BUT IN PARTICULAR SINCE THE END OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR, WHICH IS WHEN THE SUBJECT OF IMMIGRATION CAME TO THE FOREFRONT OF POLITICAL DISCUSSION. 

THE HOME OFFICE OWES IT TO THE PEOPLE TO EXPLAIN EACH DECISION, SO THAT IT MAY BECOME CLEAR AS TO WHICH LEGISLATION IS BEING APPLIED OR ENFORCED.

IN A NUTSHELL, THEY HAVE NO IDEA WHOSE RIGHTS THEY HAVE BREACHED AND, IT APPEARS, NO WAY OF MAKING CORRECT LEGAL DECISIONS WHICH CAN BE EXPLAINED IN PUBLIC.

So many people have been denied their rights that the UK government and the UK Home Office, do not know who, what, why, when, where or how.

Hubert Howard spent thirteen years being hounded by the Home Office. Last week he went to the Home Office accompanied by a Guardian newspaper reporter. THIS IS IMPORTANT! What was the legal basis on which 13 years of harassment of a UK citizen was brought to an end? There are many UK citizens in exactly this position who need to know the legal basis for this decision. What is more, we need to know the legal basis for every decision being made by the Home Office. 

EVERY TIME THEY ARE CHALLENGED, THEY RELENT WITHOUT EXPLANATION, WHY ARE THEY PERMITTED TO DO THIS?

ONE LOOK AT THE STAMP IN HUBERT HOWARD’S PASSPORT AND I KNEW HE WAS A LEGITIMATE #Windrush “child”. YET THE GOVERNMENT DID NOT KNOW OR…? THIRTEEN YEARS!

UK GOVERNMENT STOP HIDING THE TRUTH. THEY WILL NOT, UNLESS FORCED TO DO SO. THAT WILL NOT HAPPEN BECAUSE BOTH MAJOR UK PARTIES ARE JUST AS GUILTY AS EACH OTHER. For example, the East African Asians' case mentioned above took place under Jim Callaghan’s Labour government.

It is really interesting that the UK government has termed THIS crisis #Windrush Generation. Those pesky Jamaicans getting the blame again! LOL!

If the United Kingdom government defines the term #Windrush generation, they will open up a can of worms which they will not know how to close. What they currently define as “Windrush Generation” is in fact nothing to do with the Windrush Generation.

THE TRUTH IS THAT WHEN THE EMPIRE WINDRUSH SET SAIL WITH THOSE 400 JAMAICANS, THE UK GOVERNMENT DID NOT KNOW THEY WERE COMING AND DID NOT HAVE THE POWER TO STOP THEM.

THAT IS WHY WE ARE THE #WINDRUSH GENERATION.

This act by approximately FOUR HUNDRED Jamaicans (one for every year of slavery) is what led to the #Windrush generation. Those people who came on that first ship were not poor people. They were all able to pay their fare WITHIN THREE DAYS and they were not employed by anyone when they came. THEY WERE FREE MEN!

This is so important! It was not possible to be treated correctly as a citizen in any of the colonies. However, if you made it to the Motherland, you could be “FREE”. Get it! In the Motherland you had to be treated exactly the same as any other UK citizen. It was true in law, but in no other respect.

The following is from my blog which is looking at the entire issue of the Real Windrush Generation and certain other relevant aspects of immigration into the UK immediately after WW II., in order to try to explain how the current situation has arisen from the perspective of Jamaican born UK citizens. https://tinyurl.com/yat6ayml


"The story of how West Indians began to migrate to the UK as everyone knows began in 1948 with the Empire Windrush. However, what is little known is how significant was the landing of the Windrush in Tilbury Docks. Jamaicans are extremely adventurous and as no-one had taken up the United Kingdom on their offer of citizenship to 800 million people. That is what they had done! The Jamaicans who came over on this ship, did so without asking for permission from the UK government, or anyone else. They did not have to. They felt like coming, so they did. They were UK citizens. They had to be treated exactly the same as any person born in the UK. They were subjects of the United Kingdom and Colonies."

Here is an article from the Evening Standard: Monday, June 21, 1948, the day the Empire Windrush landed in the UK.

However, trust me! All was not as it seemed in this article.

Anyway, the terms under which the #Windrush Generation entered the United Kingdom can be clearly seen. From that moment the UK began to fix what became the “immigration problem”.

The interesting thing is this! We, the #Windrush generation, were lucky! The UK were only weeks away from passing a Nationality Act, which maintained the rights under which the adventurers on the Empire Windrush entered as citizens of the United Kingdom and Colonies. If the voyage had taken place six months earlier, the nationality Act would have been completely different as these rights would not have been maintained, and we would not have had those rights. The Act is dated 30th July 1948 and came into force 1^st January 1949.

So, it is clear the #Windrush Generation is a totally different and separate issue to the "immigration problem". The UK government has deliberately propagandised in order to blur the definitions.

The Jamaicans who came to the UK on that ship were simply availing themselves of rights being put into legislation at the time they arrived.

THE ONLY WAY TO TAKE AWAY THE RIGHTS GIVEN UNDER THIS LEGISLATION WAS TO WAIT UNTIL WE ALL DIED. I am not going to tell the UK government any more. It is time they examined their own legislation.  

THE UK GOVERNMENT HAS CONFLATED MANY ISSUES AND GIVEN THE TOTAL A NAME ASSOCIATED WITH JAMAICANS, #WINDRUSH SCANDAL. 

THE TRUTH IS THAT WHEN THE EMPIRE WINDRUSH SET SAIL WITH THOSE 400 JAMAICANS, THE UK GOVERNMENT DID NOT KNOW THEY WERE COMING AND DID NOT HAVE THE POWER TO STOP THEM FROM COMING.

THAT IS WHY WE ARE THE #WINDRUSH GENERATION.

They have given the job to fix it to one of us; what a consolation.

THE HOME OFFICE IS IN CRISIS!