So @BBCMarkEaston thinks that after the Rivers of Blood speech in 1968 immigration was 'barely discussed' over three decades.
@JCWI_UK was founded in 1967, so let's have a look through the archives and see what we weren't doing during that 30 years, because it wasn't an issue.
@JCWI_UK was founded in 1967, so let's have a look through the archives and see what we weren't doing during that 30 years, because it wasn't an issue.
In 1969 (after as Mark says UK politicians were being accused of 'playing the race card'), those politicians make it harder for brown British citizens and their dependants to enter the UK. We have to go abroad to make people aware of their plight. 
Then in 1970 we have East African Asians with British passports being refused entry to the UK, thousands are stranded in Uganda, and those who make it here are refused entry and have to wander around the word. The ECHR describes this racism as a 'special affront to human dignity'
1971 - a lot happening for something people were too scared to speak about no?
The deeply racist 1971 Immigration comes in. It's designed to stop primarily black and brown British citizens and former subjects of Empire from exercising their rights to enter the UK.
The deeply racist 1971 Immigration comes in. It's designed to stop primarily black and brown British citizens and former subjects of Empire from exercising their rights to enter the UK.
1973, we are faced with large-scale targeting of Black and Asian communities.
1975 - politicians, no doubt cowed by accusations of racism are... oh they're discriminating against women who've had the temerity to fall in love with a foreigner.
1976 - a totally normal year in which those adjudicating immigration appeals are merely making racially prejudiced remarks. Presumably because they're not allowed to talk about immigration in any other context and have been driven underground to the appeals tribunal.
1977 - The Government is forcing refugees back into conscription in the Rhodesian army.
1978 - We are now one decade into the Great Silence on Immigration. Tumbleweed.
Also arbitrary imprisonment.
Also arbitrary imprisonment.
1979 - Things are definitely getting better now everyone's used to just rolling over to the anti-racists. We're just carrying out virginity tests on foreign fiancees of British citizens.
It's not abandoned for another three years.
It's not abandoned for another three years.
1980 - The British Nationality Act passes, excluding primarily black and brown populations in the colonies from British citizenship.
1981 - the government brings the first stage of immigration checking into our NHS. Relations between NHS staff and ethnic minority communities worsen as a result.
1982 - Home Office failing to disclose key information in people's cases. I mean I can see how that's not news.
1984 - In a non-ironic move the Government try and fail to exclude immigrants from having data protection rights. (Sadly they finally succeeded last year).
1985 - Inflammatory press reporting on immigrants (shurely shome mishtake eh Mark?) causes a rise in racist attacks.
1986 - JCWI's office is set on fire by some massive racists who clearly felt that the lamestream media wasn't being inflammatory enough.
1987 - The government and politicians continue to feel restricted in what they can do about immigration, merely using prolonged detention, summary removal and new legislation to target refugees and asylum seekers.
1988 - rules passed to make it harder for families to avoid separation by immigration rules. a new decade of not being allowed to talk about immigration begins.
1989- The police target ethnic minorities, who turn out to have every right to be in the UK.
1991 - the UK insists on the international right to not care about children if they're foreign.
1993 - Let's detain more and more people with no proper safeguards says the Home Office.
1994 - They do so.
1998 - the Human Rights Act is passed and we all then live in a utopia.
Though if you want to find out what actually happened, our 50th anniversary annual review has a lot more that I skipped over. jcwi.org.uk/Handlers/Downl…
Though if you want to find out what actually happened, our 50th anniversary annual review has a lot more that I skipped over. jcwi.org.uk/Handlers/Downl…
And full credit to @Charlopeel who put all of this together a few years back from our archives.
@Charlopeel Would everyone that is here please support @GypsyTravellers by responding to the Government consultation aimed at targeting Roma and gypsy communities with seizure of their homes and property?
Takes a minute.
Takes a minute.
