'We have the power to change the system' Lord Simon Woolley says growing up in Leicester taught him we are stronger together OpBlackVote brolezholloway
Lord Simon Woolley says growing up in Leicester taught him we are stronger together.IT BEGAN with a car crash. Simon Woolley was a young apprentice mechanic, working out what to do with his life, having grown up on a nearby rough estate in Leicester called St Matthews.
As Ugandan Asians faced the threat of expulsion, Leicester council had taken out an advert in a Ugandan paper warning them against coming to the city by claiming there was no housing, schools or healthcare for them. One of the Asian mechanics came over to him and said “Simon, if you want to be a car mechanic learn this trade properly. Bring your toolkit and come over to the other side.”
After enrolling as a mature student at Middlesex University to study Spanish, Woolley learnt of the anti-imperialist struggles of South America, and connected this to the conversations he heard in his local barber shop in Leicester talking about the trials and tribulations in the Caribbean.
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