I apologize in advance for an ungodly long post with a list of references. Britain's "need" to import third worlders from their former colonies has roots that date back over 100 years. It is useful to know why they made the deal with the devil.
The Rape Gang Report makes it clear that importing cheap labor from its former colonies resulted in millions of foreigners with hostile attitudes, incompatible culture, and no intention of assimilation. This permanent population of foreigners became an extremely dangerous reservoir of criminal behavior and because of their reliance on the welfare state, a solid voting block for Labour.
So why did Britain need to import these dangerous foreigners? The simplistic explanation is that the British birth rate fell below the replacement rate in 1971. The actual roots of the stagnation of the birth rate goes back much further to two major events in the early and mid 20th century.
The first event was the Lost Generation of ~700k young men from the UK that were killed in WWI. The second was a large scale and long term program of the UK government to ship "orphans" from the British Isles to Australia and Canada where those agrarian economies needed more children for farm work.
It began in the 1920s with orphans of soldiers who were killed in WWI and whose widowed mothers were encouraged to give them up "for a better life" and to enhance their chances of remarrying.
From 1940-44, children were evacuated to Canada and Australia to move them temporarily out of harm's way during the Blitz. Their parents agreed because of the danger, and the children were fed lies about an idyllic life in Australia or Canada.
Children as young as four were sent to Australia, often to charity-run orphanages where they faced mistreatment, forced labor, and abuse.
Many of these children were not actually orphans but had living parents who were misled about the migration program.
The Australian government formally apologized to former child migrants in 2009, acknowledging the abuse and mistreatment they suffered.
The program to export British children accelerated from 1947-50. Many weren't orphans but merely children of unwed mothers who were coerced to give them up for adoption.
The obvious question is why Westminster was so hellbent to ship British children overseas? The underlying reason was because that population of children made the financial arithmetic equations unsolvable. Specifically, the equations that Labour PM Clement Attlee Health Minister Aneurin "Nye" Bevan was attempting to use get parliament to establish the National Health Service. Getting rid of children, incmuding unborn children, made the cost of the NHS seem affordable.
Britain got the NHS in 1948. The deportation of their children and then the mass importation of third world populations from different cultures is the price they are still paying 78 years later.
Books:
"The Forgotten Children: Fairbridge Farm School and Its Betrayal of Britain's Child Migrants to Australia" by David Hill (2007) - This book exposed the abuse at Fairbridge Farm School and prompted government investigations.
"The Little Immigrants" by Kenneth Bagnell (1980) - Documents child migration to Canada but provides context for the broader child migration schemes.
"Innocents Abroad: Story of British Child Evacuees in Australia, 1940-45" by Edward Stokes (1994) - Covers the earlier wartime evacuation of children to Australia.
"The Absurd and the Brave: CORB, The True Account of the British Government's World War II Evacuation of Children Overseas" by Michael Fethney (1990) - Details the wartime evacuation program that preceded the post-war migration schemes.
Articles and Reports:
"Lost Children of the Empire" (1989 documentary that aired in Australia) - Prompted thousands of former child migrants to come forward with their stories.
The New York Times article "Australian Apologies to British Migrant Children Open Imperial Wounds" (2009) - Covers the Australian government's apology to former child migrants.
The Independent's "The shameful secret of Britain's lost children" by Mary Braid - Documents the experiences of child migrants shipped abroad after the war.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/the-shameful-secret-of-britain-s-lost-children-tens-of-thousands-of-child-migrants-were-sent-abroad-after-the-war-now-they-are-trying-to-piece-together-lives-shattered-in-the-name-of-the-empire-mary-braid-reports-1484622.htmlQuote:
But after the Second World War, ministers, aided by respected charities including Barnardos, the Salvation Army and the Catholic Church, did exactly that, emptying the nation's orphanages of a generation of children, some as young as four, who were shipped to Australia, Canada and other outposts of the empire.
The children were told their parents were dead. In fact, many of them, destitute after the war, were very much alive and believed their children were in temporary care. When some sought to reclaim their children from the orphanages, they were told they had been adopted.
Many of the child migrants - who remember their 'new start' being smoothed with stories of exotic fruits, delicious sweets and 'kangaroos who would take you to school' - now claim that they suffered years of neglect, beatings and sexual abuse by the religious orders and charities that were supposed to care for them. British solicitors are trying to formulate a claim for 40 child migrants sent to Australia. Most are now in their fourties and are still British citizens. Legal action is already under way in Australia. John Hennessey, 55, a child migrant, says: 'We were only children and we were betrayed and abandoned by the British government.'
