Anne Marie Morris MP (Conservative) - Stay or Go?

krish

Nothing to be sorry about, it's a very different country today (which is why many throwback types get me and others a bit heated), but thanks for listening

Toko Black

You need to realise that after WWII we had immigration from the common wealth to help rebuild and fill job roles - First we had peoples from the Caribbean and later from Pakistan and India, who mainly came to work in the textile industry, hence why there are large populations of Indian and Pakistani people in places like Bradford and Blackburn where the cotton mills and textile works were centered.
Many indigenous people of the UK still held rather colonial beliefs based around the Empire and British superiority. For those people, the idea that essentially lesser human beings perceived through the lens of as 'natives' with all the conantations of not being as civilised and cultured as 'us British', led to considerable prejudice and upset at the idea of those 'natives' being able to live and work amongst the British like 'normal' people.
An example of the attitudes is exemplified by a campaign leaflet for the Tory party in a Birmingham borough for the elections:
"If you want a  for a neighbour, vote Labour" - Peter Griffiths Conservative MP campaign slogan 1964.

Bl4ckGryph0n

I hear the reason, I can never accept that as an excuse though. Many countries have had large migrations including those from their colonial pasts. It's a lot of bollocks in my opinion.

IronGiant

TB wasn't excusing anybody, just offering up an explanation as to our shameful past.  I wish it were as simple as that but unfortunately some people in the UK still think like that (are racist, that is, not think like TB)

Toko Black

It's not meant as an excuse, it's merely a historical interpretation of what happened.
I don't accept people using "that's just how it was" as an excuse either. We should own our actions good or bad for what they were.

Bl4ckGryph0n

Sure. I was simply providing my reaction, nothing personal to Toko Black.