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Galloway sworn in as the newest Member of Parliament...The next election will be about Muslims, George Galloway said as he was sworn into the Commons as the new MP for Rochdale. The controversial politician said it was “clear” to him that Rishi Sunak had identified “Muslims and Gaza” as the “wedge issue” that he intended to use as his “only hope of re-election”. He vowed to target Angela Rayner’s Ashton-under-Lyne seat, claiming to have “at least 15,000 supporters” in the Greater Manchester constituency – enough to overturn the deputy Labour leader’s majority of about 4,000. At an impromptu press conference...

left residents living in fear Leicester had been upheld a one of the UK's most successful multi-cultural communities in Great Britain But violence erupted in the past few days with 25 police officers being injured and 47 arrests made in the city Riots blamed on a cricket match between India and Pakistan, but Nick Fagge says Leicester is a 'tinderbox' This week 200 Muslim men protested at in Birmingham against Hindu woman linked to extremism in India After the most recent clashes in Leicester, MailOnline sent reporter Nick Fagge inside a city at war Until a few weeks ago Leicester...

@LBC The terror suspect being questioned over the killing of MP Sir David Amess is understood to be named Ali Harbi Ali

Conservative MP Sir David Amess has died after being stabbed at his constituency surgery in Essex. Police said a 25-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder after the attack at a church in Leigh-on-Sea. They said they recovered a knife and were not looking for anyone else in connection with the incident. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said "our hearts are full of shock and sadness" at the loss of "one of the kindest" people in politics. Sir David, 69, had been an MP since 1983 and was married with five children.

David Amess: Killing investigation taken over by counter-terror commanders at Scotland Yard GBNews, Oct 15, 2021 'This is an investigation that has now been taken over by counter terror commanders at Scotland Yard, as they piece together exactly what happened.' GB News Home and Security Editor Mark White with the latest developments following the killing or Sir David Amess MP. Download the GB News App to watch live wherever you are, catch up with all our shows and get the latest news from the GBN family. https://www.gbnews.uk/freegbapp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHuXRAvvqno “David Amess stabbing – latest: Counter-terror police leading probe into death of...

Eric Clapton was visibly intoxicated onstage at a concert in Birmingham on Aug. 5, 1976. But the message he spoke at the mike was clear. As he advocated his support for Enoch Powell, a controversial right-wing British politician well-known for his anti-immigration views, the guitarist took things even further, asking the audience if there were any foreigners present. “I don’t want you here, in the room or in my country,” Clapton said. “Listen to me, man! I think we should vote for Enoch Powell. Enoch’s our man. I think Enoch’s right, I think we should send them all back." His...

Broadcast from London, Dick Cavett questions British politician Enoch Powell on the reports claiming him to be a racist. Featuring British director and author Jonathan Miller. Date aired - May 14th 1971 - Enoch Powell and Jonathan Miller https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7Zfvcb3mWI

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. Video...

Half-a-century ago today, Enoch Powell gave the speech that ended his political ambitions within the British Conservative Party, but ensured that he would be a more consequential figure than any of the hack timeservers who prospered in the Tory cabinets of Edward Heath. It's known to history as "the 'Rivers of Blood' speech", which is a slight misrendering of a characteristically Powellite classical allusion - even then, in the pre-soundbite era, a risky business for a politician seeking to curry favor with the media. To mark the anniversary, BBC Radio, controversially, aired a re-enactment of the speech, read by Ian...

Enoch Powell's address to the General Meeting of the West Midlands Area Conservative Political Centre (commonly called "Rivers of Blood" speech) on 20 April 1968 was a speech criticising Commonwealth immigration, and anti-discrimination legislation that had been proposed in the United Kingdom.

Britain risks "flames" of racial and religious conflict because of a "liberal self-delusion" over the impact of mass immigration, the former head of the equality watchdog Trevor Phillips claims today. In a startling assault on decades of official multiculturalism and diversity policy, the founding chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission argues the UK is being allowed to "sleepwalk to catastrophe" by leaders too "touchy", "smug", "complacent" and "squeamish" to talk about race. Drawing a direct parallel with Enoch Powell’s notorious "rivers of blood" speech, he likens Britain’s politicians, media and educated elite in general to the Emperor Nero...

TOP Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson’s burka outburst could see “rivers of blood” on Britain’s streets. The TV loudmouth caused outrage by claiming Muslim women wear G-strings under their burkas on last Sunday’s show. And hate preacher Anjem Choudary warned Islamic fanatics will “go to war” to protect the honour of their women. He declared: “Clarkson may think he was funny or was telling a joke when he said these things. But this is not funny to everyone. And by making fun or disrespecting the burka and Muslim women he has deeply offended many people...." “"Clarkson has stirred a hornets’ nest...

Immigration: A Plan To Alter The Nation's Soul The government's policy of mass immigration was intended to remodel the social fabric of the nation, says Janet Daley By Janet Daley 13 Feb 2010 So now we know what Labour's immigration policy was really about. The "open door" was not simply held ajar in order to admit a fresh workforce that would help to fill gaps in the growing economy. Nor was it just a gesture of hospitality and goodwill to those who were fleeing from repressive or inhospitable regimes in order to seek a better life. Both of those aims...

Enoch Powell’s ‘rivers of blood’ speech destroyed his career, but was there a message in it for our time? Forty years ago today, in a Birmingham hotel, a leading British politician made a speech which continues to echo down the years. It was Enoch Powell’s famous address on immigration, subsequently labelled the ‘rivers of blood’ speech. The relationship of British - or, indeed, wider European - politics with the question of immigration has never been the same. At the time, Britain was one generation into principally Afro-Caribbean immigration. Powell used unacceptable language and expressions to attack the then unrestricted immigration...

Britons fear race violence - poll Almost two-thirds of people in Britain fear race relations are so poor tensions are likely to spill over into violence, a BBC poll has suggested. Of the 1,000 people asked, 60% said the UK had too many immigrants and half wanted foreigners encouraged to leave. But the proportion of people describing themselves as "racially prejudiced" was down to 20%, compared with 24% in 2005. Equality and Human Rights Commission head Trevor Phillips said the findings were "alarming". Britain's last serious race riots - when violent clashes erupted between white and Asian youths in...

About 60,000 Bhutanese, now in United Nations camps in Nepal, are to be flown to the U.S. over the next five years by direction of the State Department. Nepal wants Bhutan to take them back in. Bhutan says they are economic migrants and will not. To solve the problem, the State Department will bring most of them here. This will help achieve President Bush's social vision of 70,000 refugees for 2007 and help justify staff and salaries at State. The airplane flights will wind up costing millions. One month after the Bhutanese arrive, they will be eligible for federal, state...

Should he have spoken? By Roger ScrutonIn 1968 the products of the postwar baby boom decided to seize the European future and to jettison the European past. In that same year Enoch Powell delivered to the Birmingham Conservatives the speech known forever after as “Rivers of Blood”: a speech that cost him his political career, and which, on one plausible interpretation, made the issue of immigration undiscussable in British politics for close to forty years. It is a speech that raises in its acutest form the question of truth: What place is there for truth in public life, and...