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Windrush Day:June 22 celebrate our immigrant populations contribution to the UK
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153 signatures
What the petition asks
The fight for a tolerant, respectful society goes on – and a Windrush Day would be the best answer to right wing extremists groups who believe that multiculturalism has failed and that Britain should to return to how it looked in 1950.
We should choose 22 June, the day when the MV Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury in 1948: a powerful and iconic symbol of the rise of modern-day multicultural Britain. The Windrush is not simply a symbol of the 492 Caribbean men and women who arrived on that ship – the first big group of postwar immigrants from the West Indies – but of everyone who came from the Empire; British subjects who saw Britain as their mother country. The seeds of modern migration were sown in these former colonies, from which 2.5 million men and women volunteered to fight fascism during the second world war.
Timeline
| 1 Nov 2017 | Petition opened for signatures |
| 1 May 2018 | Closed to new signatures |
Key facts
Signatures
153
Status
Closed
Opened
1 Nov 2017
Closed
1 May 2018
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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.