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Enoch Powell's 'Rivers of Blood' speech (April 20th 1968)
The Telegraph ^ | November 6th, 2007 | Enoch Powell

Posted on 10/11/2012 2:22:58 PM PDT by yank in the UK

Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. We must be mad, literally mad, as a nation to be permitting the annual inflow of some 50,000 dependants, who are for the most part the material of the future growth of the immigrant-descended population. It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; History; Miscellaneous; Society
KEYWORDS: britain; immigration; society
This speech is brilliant, he was britains Goldwater.
1 posted on 10/11/2012 2:23:29 PM PDT by yank in the UK
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To: yank in the UK

BUMP.

Enoch Powell, Geert Wilders, and a few other brave souls have been prophets warning their peoples of invasions and have been vilified for it.

I hope the West wakes up before it’s too late.


2 posted on 10/11/2012 2:27:35 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn ( White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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3 posted on 10/11/2012 2:29:22 PM PDT by dfwgator (I'm voting for Ryan and that other guy.)
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To: SharpRightTurn

“I hope the West wakes up before it’s too late.”

It was too late 15 years ago.


4 posted on 10/11/2012 2:34:31 PM PDT by yank in the UK ( A liberal mocking Christianity. I asked "why don't you mock Islam?" he replied "Muslims are violent)
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To: yank in the UK
In 15 or 20 years, on present trends, there will be in this country three and a half million Commonwealth immigrants and their descendants. That is not my figure. That is the official figure given to parliament by the spokesman of the Registrar General's Office.

There is no comparable official figure for the year 2000, but it must be in the region of five to seven million, approximately one-tenth of the whole population,

Do his projections meet reality? Seems he may even have estimated a bit low.

5 posted on 10/11/2012 2:43:10 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: yank in the UK

Great catch, yank.


6 posted on 10/11/2012 3:04:30 PM PDT by Slyfox
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7 posted on 10/12/2012 5:02:39 AM PDT by bcsco (Bourbon gets better with age...I age better with Bourbon.)
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To: SharpRightTurn

Well, he wasn’t talking about muslims per se. But anyway, a very brave speech. Probably making that speech cost Powell his political career. A lot of people think he would have become Prime Minister if he hadnt had made it, thats for sure.


8 posted on 10/12/2012 6:21:51 AM PDT by Vanders9
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Its always a bit difficult to pin the figures down, but it seems he is about right


9 posted on 10/12/2012 6:29:43 AM PDT by Vanders9
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