Enoch Powell: Well He Did Have A Point!

[trt]

And maybe now, people will agree with his speech!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2736019/Enoch-Powell-RIGHT-warn-against-immigration-claims-former-Tory-defence-minister-Gerald-Howarth.html

[jno]

the first postwar immigrants from the Caribbean were brought here by the health minister to work in the NHS.

The health minister was Enoch Powell.

[baza]

Yes he did, but not one politician wil ever admit it he was right.

[agchristie]

Funny you should mention Enoch, I was looking at home for a book and I stumbled across a book covering a General Election which was hand signed by him!

Equally strange how a controversial speech at the time suddenly, through events, takes on greater relevance.

[janbee]

I recall how he was condemned an ridiculed for his speech. It's ALL come true though. His speech today would be more acceptable. Most of us would agree with him nowadays.

[Svejk]

thank goodness we're free to discuss it. Under the last regime it would have been verboten. It was like a Kafkaesque nightmare that we've now woken up from. Yet, unbelievably, some people seem prepared to vote Labour at the next election. They either have short memories or just like being told what to do and what to think.

[Obiter]

Enoch did Britain one great favour. By resigning from the Tory party he caused the downfall of the odious Ted Heath. I know we had to put up with Wilson and Callaghan for a bit, but he paved the way for the Blessed Margaret.

[ChillDoubt]

Too right Obiter.
She'd have had some properly tough anti-jihadi legislation whipped through the House and in place months ago.

[douglas9401]

Yeah, like 'shoot them in the back as they're running away' or Belgrano strategy.
She's dead, get over it.

[Booldawg]

so is the UKs backbone.

[ChillDoubt]

Yeah, like 'shoot them in the back as they're running away'.
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Absolutely! Better that than having our heads hacked off on a Lawrence of Arabia type film set.

[TWR]

You are supposed to have Freedom of speech here in the UK! Have You? as soon as you start on about something that is OBVIOUS, the Rights Brigade steps in, " Wake up the UK" We are getting walked upon, start opening your mouth with your feet!

[grasscarp]

I was working at the BBC in the sixties and was in the studio where this now famous speech was being edited for news programmes.

[trt]

## I was working at the BBC in the sixties and was in the studio where this now famous speech was being edited for news programmes. ##

Was there much left out grasscarp?

[grasscarp]

Trt - I can't remember as we are going back nearly 50 years! I loved my work so much I did overtime as a news typist, which was not my main job with them. Started after leaving school and left ten years later as a (pregnant) studio manager in radio.