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The sectarian nightmare predicted by Enoch Powell is here – but Tommy Robinson is not the answer
The Telegraph ^ | 16 May 2026 | Simon Heffer

Posted on 05/16/2026 1:41:12 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

In a disturbing snapshot of today’s Britain, the Henry Jackson Society published figures after this month’s local elections suggesting that more than 570 of new councillors were what it classed as “sectarian-style” candidates.

The criteria used to define this were the emphases those candidates had, in their campaigns, put on issues of “Muslim communal grievance” and “transnational Muslim causes”. The Green Party, illustrating how it has stopped focusing on the environment or ecology, accounted for 350 of those councillors.

What this has to do with local government is unclear; what it has to do with a complete failure of certain large Muslim communities to integrate into the British way of life is distressingly obvious. That, in turn, has provided a new opening for the far-Right agitator Tommy Robinson, whose Unite the Kingdom march in Westminster today is likely to be joined by many voters fed up with the government policies that have led to – or, at the least, failed to discourage – widespread segregation.

Two miles away, activists taking part in the annual pro-Palestine “Nakba Day” demonstration – known for its often-hateful slogans and chants – will gather in Kensington and march towards Pall Mall.

In the space of eight days, the ugly extremes of the modern-day United Kingdom will have been on display for all to see.

Powell’s prophecies

Fifty-eight years ago, Enoch Powell was sent to political outer darkness by the liberal establishment – which then included the leadership of all main political parties – for a speech predicting there would be civil strife if immigration (then much lower than today) were not restricted, because of the problems this presented to integration.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; European Union; Politics/Elections; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: axelspringer; eussr; fakenews; fourthreich; mega; redtorygraph; riversofblood; simonheffer; simonhuffer; tommyrobinson
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1 posted on 05/16/2026 1:41:12 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Britain is finished. At this point it’s nothing but rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.


2 posted on 05/16/2026 1:41:52 PM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/05/16/enoch-powell-rivers-of-blood-tommy-robinson/


3 posted on 05/16/2026 1:43:12 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Restore Britain. A new party just won its first 10 elections. Absolutely devoted to removing the invaders of the Great Replacement. It split from the Reform party because it was not consistent enough about the cure needed.


4 posted on 05/16/2026 1:49:47 PM PDT by Nateman (Democrats did not strive for fraud friendly voting merely to continue honest elections.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

“Nigel Farage, leader of the radical-Right Reform party...”


5 posted on 05/16/2026 2:16:37 PM PDT by Mr. Blond
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To: dfwgator

but Tommy Robinson is not the answer”

Now they are scared.


6 posted on 05/16/2026 2:16:43 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: MinorityRepublican

“Sectarian nightmare”?

C of E vs. Methodists?


7 posted on 05/16/2026 2:25:31 PM PDT by x
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To: MinorityRepublican

Tommy Robison may not be the answer, but what he most certainly is, is the spark to brring about change, for his message resonates with vast nuymbers of the population.


8 posted on 05/16/2026 2:30:16 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: MinorityRepublican

Another lib-lab-con UK deep-state apologist speaks.....


9 posted on 05/16/2026 2:33:43 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: MinorityRepublican

The answer is mass deportation....that includes lots of legal immigrants as well as illegals.


10 posted on 05/16/2026 2:40:11 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: MinorityRepublican

I translate this screed to “Trust the same people that created the problem to fix it even though they are unrepentant reptiles.”

Peak stupidity.


11 posted on 05/16/2026 2:41:01 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck ( Neocons in love with the Ukraine War hate how long the Iran War is taking.......... )
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To: MinorityRepublican

The Telegraph is the establishment mouthpiece of GB.
Although there was virtually noting about Tommy Robinson in the article, there would certainly not be anything positive about him or the British patriot march today..


12 posted on 05/16/2026 2:52:54 PM PDT by A strike (Drool Britannia)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Robinson is the answer they’re just afraid to ask the question


13 posted on 05/16/2026 3:51:33 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (There will be a celebration in January 2025, either with champagne or with “hardware)
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To: MinorityRepublican

The communists need to be thrown out. No one except Tommy Robinson has the stones to do it. So what is the choice? Perhaps a transgender Conservative Party member?


14 posted on 05/16/2026 3:59:12 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MinorityRepublican
Because he (Tommy Robinson) does not have the proper public school accent.

Yes, it is that simple.

Even our "elites" who see that there actually is a problem are unwilling to pick up a chair and start swinging.

They want to discreetly murmur a genteel protest while they nibble their caviar on toast points.

In the mean time the people are being killed, children are being raped and the trash of the planet are running amok.

When effete limp wristed efforts to block a housing center for rapists and murderer is thwarted they just shrug. It is not in THEIR neighborhood after all.

When the people who's neighborhood it actually is have had enough and burn it to the ground the pantywaists collapse on their fainting couches and have to be revived with burnt feathers.

< "That is NOT who we are." They twitter in distress.

News flash bucko, you threaten people's families and cut off all other manner that they have to defend them and that is bloody well who we are.

At some point it is not just going to be buildings that burn.

Sod off you wankers.

15 posted on 05/16/2026 4:32:39 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (The tree accused of killed Sonny Bono was planted.)
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To: Robert DeLong

Exactly, and he has the energy of ten men!


16 posted on 05/16/2026 4:40:50 PM PDT by Nexx9 (hah)
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To: MinorityRepublican

O Rly, Simon? /massive eyeeroll


17 posted on 05/16/2026 4:52:04 PM PDT by sauropod
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To: wildcard_redneck
...unrepentant reptiles.

I like it

The reptiles brought in immigrant invaders to tear down the current system, assuming they could leash them under the new totalitarianism rising from the ashes. Anyone who believes anything else about the left is stupid.

18 posted on 05/16/2026 6:57:09 PM PDT by Rinnwald
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