If you arrived here during the war years, escaping from Nazi Germany, you were welcome then and you are welcome now.
If you arrived
here from the West Indies with the promise of work, especially if you were on
the Empire Windrush in 1948, and the ships that followed, you were welcome then
and you are welcome now.
If you arrived
here after the war, If you came here from Poland to work, as your country was
taken over by the Soviets, you were welcome then and you are welcome now.
If you arrived
here from India and Pakistan in the 1950s as a result of your countries being
partitioned, you were welcome then and you are welcome now.
If you arrived
here in the 60s and 70s, Asian refugees from East Africa, you were welcome then
and you are welcome now.
If you arrived
here in the 80s and 90s from Somalia, escaping your civil war, you were welcome
then and you are welcome now.
If you arrived
here in the 2000s as a result of your country joining the European Union, you
were welcome then and you are welcome now.
If you arrived
from India, Pakistan and Nigeria, as part of the Boriswave, replacing European workers
who left because of Brexit, you were welcome then and you are welcome now.
If you arrived
here from Hong Kong because of the Chinese takeover, you were welcome then and
you are welcome now.
If you arrived here from Ukraine because of the Russian war, you were welcome then and you are welcome now.
If you arrived
here from the Commonwealth, from the United States, from South and Central
America, from the Middle East, from the Far East…. and anywhere else… you were
welcome then and you are welcome now.
We love our multicultural and multinational nation.
Thank you for being part of it.
