[Margaret Pilkington]

Barrie, the Windrush came from the carribean(I'm sure you know that) and brought immigrants who were(at that time needed) to fill job vacancies caused by the loss of young men in the war......these people integrated quite well......many of them were Christians and had little or no difficulty with religious/cultural issues. I'm sure that some of them were met with hostility...but many of them weren't because they did jobs where they were valued....and they were seen as being necessary, rather than taking jobs that the indigent population needed.

The scenario today with immigrants is very different....it was something that was wilfully done to change the fabric of life in Britain.......it didn't make us multicultural(but it did make many Brits feel resentful) because it was done far too fast and without any thought for the consequences.
We have always been a country of 'mixed breeds' but the mixxing was done over centuries rather than decades.