Posted on 07/27/2021 10:11:58 PM PDT by RandFan
Enoch Powell delivered one of the most controversial speeches in British political history in 1968 warning of the dangers of mass migration.
Here is a short compilation of clips from the speech and the story behind it.
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Link is for text of the 'Rivers of Blood' speech
His supporters claimed that the large public following[7][8] which Powell attracted helped the Conservatives to win the 1970 general election,[9]:568 and perhaps cost them the February 1974 general election,[9]:710–2 when Powell turned his back on the Conservatives by endorsing a vote for Labour, which returned as a minority government in early March following a hung parliament.
It was in Algiers that the beginning of Powell's distrust of the United States began. After socially mixing with senior American officers that he met and exploring their cultural views of the world, he became convinced that one of America's war aims was to destroy the British Empire. Writing home on 16 February 1943, Powell stated: "I see growing on the horizon the greater peril than Germany or Japan ever were... our terrible enemy, America".
Call me racist. I do not care. White run nations work, The rest don’t, It is not magical soil that has domesticated the white nations. It is generations of violence and reformation that created civilization.
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Enoch Powell was right.
You have the right of it, sir. Powell's speech needs to read in both he Senate and Congress. It needs to be read in our universities and our high schools.
For these dangerous and divisive elements the legislation proposed in the Race Relations Bill is the very pabulum they need to flourish. Here is the means of showing that the immigrant communities can organise to consolidate their members, to agitate and campaign against their fellow citizens, and to overawe and dominate the rest with the legal weapons which the ignorant and the ill-informed have provided. As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding; like the Roman, I seem to see "the River Tiber foaming with much blood."
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