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Punjabi and the Windrush Scandal
Britain had long for decades had a kind of dual attitude towards racism. It officially was anti-racist, but unofficially, it was racist in terms of legislation. My husband's grandfather was the first to come here, and he settled in Taunton. And then other generations followed. With my story, it was my dad was a newly qualified doctor. The NHS was crying out after the Second World War Didn't have enough doctors. So he was asking for the Commonwealth doctors to come over and staff this sort of freshly baked idea of the NHS. He didn't make any money from his new job - which is what Punjabi's do because they don't sell their wares