Clive Myrie: Windrush made me ‘ashamed’ of Britain

“I am ashamed of Britain because of the Windrush scandal. No question about it.”
Clive Marie reveals the scathing reply he wrote to an internet troll on #TimesRadio
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[@omoz189]

Brilliantly said Clive , you was spot on my brother 😎 🙏

[@CG-vu2eb]

Well said Clive 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@memofromessex]

I know people within the civil service and this is very much an example of Hanlon's Razor - 'Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.' Basically the team there were the weren't even the B-team, they were worst of the civil service and they thought they could no damage and oh...

[@mariafrancis5758]

@memofromessex. What are you tryingto say?

[@lutiyerethemaster2902]

​@mariafrancis5758 Yeah I did not understand that at all

[@Manyome9728]

Great video Clive 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@pakpala1]

So British people were living on a boat across the pond. Now they are trying to stop people coming on a boat.

[@kwabenakwarteng9374]

Thanks mate❤❤❤❤😂😂 from the guard 😢😢😢😢😊🎉❤ cheers for the support

[@afiyabilal6688]

Small minds will have an issue with his comments. 10 donkeys is not equivalent to one horse.

[@davidrobertsemail]

This was a failure government. bureaucratic Incompetence. Where’s the racism? The only thing we should take from this is the government is terrible at running things and should do much much less.

[@mariacrouch7109]

THE WINDRUSH SCANDAL IS ABSOLUTLY DISGUSTING AND THERISSA MAY WHO BEGAN THIS HOSTLE ENVIROMENT MAY HAVE APPOLIGISED BUT THE DAMAGE HAS BEEN DONE AND CONTINUES TO BE DONE SO WORDS MEAN NOTHING FROM THERISSA MAY AND OTHERS WITH THE SAME MENTALITY

[@Horizon344]

IMMIGRATION REFERENDUM required

[@TJBeyonder2814]

Clive is the best bbc reporter ❤

[@user-ju6ud4go6b]

It gave people from the Caribbean work because they came here. They are only small islands so how would their populations have coped with the amount of population now if there is nowhere to emigrate to. Ok point the finger but i expect some were glad they came here in the end. Dont forget there were gangs called the Yardies which were a blot on the Carribean community. Even now in the Caribbean there is a good percentage of the world’s wealthy there probably in the best villas whilst the working class folk live in rather more humble surroundings. Anything to say about that Clive? and you havent done do badly i must say so you took advantage of the opportunities your parents and this country gave you here.

[@lov5334]

Where does sugar come from? Where does a lot of your coffee come from What in England do you grow that can support this country everything in Britain is imported from other countries

[@user-ju6ud4go6b]

@@lov5334 -how much employment do coffee and sugar plantations actually provide? Wheat barley various vegetable & fruit crops here and then the meat, dairy and fish industries and we do export some items.

[@susanwestern6434]

Peckham scandal?......

[@frakismaximus3052]

Drop the self righteousness and put things in proper historical perspective.

[@niknoks7638]

You’ll get over it Clive! 😉

[@Coldcasereview]

​@@KeithBrighouse-zg2qvAre you serious?

[@johnvaleanbaily246]

So would you if you know anything about British history.

[@curlyproductions7104]

Please change the title, inaccurate as it indicates the opposite of what he said. ‘Windrush’ (the arrival of Black Caribbean people) didn’t make him ashamed , the ‘Windrush Scandal’ did!

[@MerryOlSoulGigglesmith]

I am ashamed of you. We're all still waiting on any sort of proof. It's nowhere to be found. Oh and there's the door, goodbye.

[@rossa23]

What a bizarre comment.

[@rossa23]

@@ciararespect4296 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣

[@rossa23]

@@ciararespect4296 what an insightful and educated comment… 🤡

[@mariafrancis5758]

​@@ciararespect4296very true. But this country seems to rely heavily on workers from overseas. Always has and always will😂.

[@gr12751]

Clive has been given a great life by the BBC and the UK. Too late to complain now.

[@GusinLanzarote]

Bet the Africans arriving on boats here in the Canaries risking their lives to escape from Senegal (as 99% Black nations as so impoverished, corrupt & violent Black folk are willing to RISK THEIR LIVES to escape to white ones) would LOVE to swap places with privileged over paid diversity hire Clive

[@mattmcc72]

I must of missed something. Everything I've seen tells me that the Windrush Scandal was 100% bureaucratic ineptitude combined with a sitting home office minister not bothering to understand what they were signing off on. Which later got made into a "scandal" for purely political reasons. Why Clive are you ashamed of the whole country for this? It was a room full of people in Whitehall who cocked this up, not the nation. I do understand where you are coming from and like you, due to similar experiences, I too pity the people who hated me, because while I also was born in the UK, I was the child of a refugee. My childhood was always that of the outsider, the one who could be abused.

[@Coldcasereview]

The scandal was deporting people from their home, made to feel as though they were not wanted and just ignored. Blaming it all on some minister not being fully on top of their brief is disingenuous. Actually it's worse than that.

[@fitzy7800]

Ostrich.

[@mattmcc72]

@@fitzy7800Really? Am I? I'm talking about the direct source of what happened, everyone responding is talking about the ripple effects of that source event. Did you know about the source event, or are you the Ostrich? Do you trust what the opposition parties are saying, or do you understand that it was a current opposition party who signed off on the destruction of documents that started all of this, when they were the government?

[@mariacrouch7109]

VERY WELL SAID CLIVE 💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯

[@garysuplee5092]

Babble On Babylon.

[@darrenbayliss3194]

You're still here 🙄

[@julianshepherd2038]

Yes, i thought we were better than this. Im white af. Even in a crowd of Scotsmen i look pale and sick.

[@dougieranger]

Better than what?

[@Coldcasereview]

​@@KeithBrighouse-zg2qvmyth of black victimhood? You have a cheek mate.

[@johnvaleanbaily246]

Me too.

[@SueUTube]

Changed for the worst. And now they get insulted for it.

[@Marcus1954s]

The only problem with WIndrush was not sending them all back.

[@GusinLanzarote]

If Black/ muslim immigration numbers had been limited to 50,000 MAXIMUM imagine what a lovely place Britain would be today. Yes of course not every last one is bad but overall we would be better off with less of them- they have their own indigenous homelands in Africa where its 99% Black- so should white Europeans have theirs.

[@chazj2425]

You lot are filthy, thankfully they came to look after your elderly that you chuck in homes like unwanted dogs 👍.

[@danmayberry1185]

The boats are smaller now, but the xenophobia survives.

[@lovelybitofbugle219]

Real brits are proud of Britain...

[@colinharbinson8284]

they thought the character of Britain would change, and they were right.........for the better?, i don't think so.

[@KJ-js7pi]

Not ashamed enough to vote with his feet and emigrate elsewhere

[@golagiswatchingyou2966]

if only the UK deported more people

[@Coldcasereview]

Ignorant comment.

[@Gabcikovo]

Deported where exactly and why

[@Gabcikovo]

And whom exactly

[@mariafrancis5758]

​@@KeithBrighouse-zg2qv knock it on the head, you're like a broken record

[@chazj2425]

Yes and if only all the countries around the world with brits in would close their borders to brits too. Brits are everywhere and disliked by most people

[@afiyabilal6688]

You mean he is educated. What happened to you?

[@maxwellmc9734]

Victim

[@benmacdui9328]

Now he speaks with a posh accent and works for the BBC 😂😂😂

[@mariafrancis5758]

@benmacdui9328 nothing 'posh' about his accent🤦🏼‍♀️