In 1991 former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said that Powell had “made a valid argument, if in sometimes regrettable terms.” In 1998 former Prime Minister Edward Heath said that Powell’s remarks on the “economic burden of immigration” had been “not without prescience.” Labour Party MP Michael Foot said that Powell used the quote from the The Aeneid to communicate his own sense of foreboding, not as a prediction of actual bloodshed ( source).įuture historians will wonder why the Left in western nations pushed for open borders in the early 21st century, bringing in people so many utterly opposed to their values. That has been slowly recognised by UK leaders. Multicultural societies tend to be unstable (Switzerland is the exception, not the rule). Powell’s racism motivated his remarks about immigration, but that does not invalidate his insight. In this country in 15 or 20 years’ time the black man will have the whip hand over the white man.” …I have 3 children …I shan’t be satisfied till I have seen them all settled overseas. “A week or two ago I fell into conversation with a constituent, a middle-aged, quite ordinary working man employed in one of our nationalised industries. After a sentence or two about the weather, he suddenly said: “If I had the money to go, I wouldn’t stay in this country. Powell’s speech was explicitly racist, as seen in this excerpt (note its wrong forecast). About the speech, its racism - and why it looks prescient Instead, it contented itself by inventing reasons why such action was not required.Īnd now, feeling abandoned to their fate, some of Britain’s people are beginning to take matters into their own hands. From then to the present, in spite of warnings more numerous than the stars in the sky, no British government has dared taking the “resolute and urgent action” required. He remained a member of Parliament until 1987, but was never again offered a cabinet post. The same Heath, however, later admitted, in private, that Powell might have been “prescient.” The day after he held the speech Heath, as leader of the opposition, took Powell’s post as shadow minister of defense away from him. The reaction, both in Parliament and in the media, can be imagined. The Vlora unloads Albanian refugees to the Italian port of Bari on 8 August 1991. The generation now growing up will see the conclusion to this story.

In 1968 Enoch Powell, a genius British politician, foresaw this - and warned about its effects on Britain. It’s one of history’s largest public policy experiments, made with little or no planning or research about its consequences. Summary: Europe’s leaders have opened their borders to immigrants with radically different cultures.

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